Oh yeh, take that P
Last time we met Carlton turned up at quarter time and won the next 3 by 4pts. Deplorable kicking by both teams a total of 37pts between them, compared to the year before where nobody could miss in the shoot out.
TJ, Power and Black thought how easy is this and smashed us in the guts, with TJ and Black kicking 5 between them.
Brown was the difference up forward kicking 6, with Carlos playing a great game when moved onto him.
We were beaten by 4 players that night, if only we had of arrived at the TD early and not given away a 37pts lead.
Key Stats:
Disposals - Carlton 405 to Brisbane 342
Bounces - Carlton 14 to Brisbane 36
Errors - Carlton 105 to Brisbane 81
Disposal per scoring shot - Carlton 33.8 to Brisbane 19
That my friends sums up why we lost. Lack of run and carry and too bloody slow to move the ball on resulting in numbers back for Brisbane forcing us to have shots from tough angles, of course a few sitters missed also. Turnovers again killed us, simply because we played too much of a indirect game.
Individual Stats:
Carlton - Scotland (39p, 10m, 10r50, 8err), Murphy (33p, 11i50, 10err), Stevens (26p, 11err), Fev (10p, 5m, 5g, 5pts), Waite (25p, 9r50, 9err), Carrazzo (21p, 9err)
Brisbane - Johnstone (34p, 9t, 3g, 6cle BOG), Power (33p, 6t), Black (29p, 2g, 6cle), Brown (14p, 7m, 6g, 3pts)
What does it tell you? Yes meat was on special again at Princes Park on Monday. Butchers had a field day at TD. Fev will kick a bag if the service is quick and efficient.
Changes:
Blues
In - Armfield, Walker, Thornton, Houlihan, Hammer, Cloke
Out - Bentick, Hadley, Chief, Carlos, ACKLAND, Betts
Lions
In - Hanley, Hawksley, Dalziell, Moody, COPELAND
Out - Harding, Clark, Drummond, Selwood, Notting
Last time we won against Brisbane in the home and away season is Round 8 2001, the game that I like to say won Brisbane 3 Premierships, now they owe us a favour so let Fev kick 10 you pricks!!!
Now for my take on tonights game. As i said in the pre-match thread, stop 4 players and we win. Quite easy really isn't it? NOT when they are Travis Johnstone, Luke Power, Simon Black and Jonathon Brown
If I was coach I'd be starting Bower on Brown, Jamo on Bradshaw (T-Bird if Jamo doesn't play), Gibbs on TJ, Murphy vs Power (Head to Head) and Carrots vs Black. I'm expecting Sherman to get Judd around the ground and Adcock to get Stevens.
Defensively we need to increase the disposals per goal for Brisbane, against North the goals came to easy as the midfield were stuffed and couldn't pressure North. If the same happens this week we will be down by 6 goals again early and Brown/Bradshaw will have 6-8 between them by half time. We were smashed against North by Grant and Harvey up forward so our smaller defenders need to lift this week.
The Brisbane defence I don't rate at all, in saying that we must find options other than Fev and use them. Hoops played HFF in the Bullies last week so I'd expect him to be a lead up target but also crumbing packs this week, I get the feeling the Houligan will cut lose tonight and kick 3-4. If we can isolate Cloke/Kreuzer/Hammer up forward in the square we need to make sure we have the crumbers in support, I'm sick of watching the ball get swept away with no pressure lately.
AFL is so simple really, no pressure and you lose momentum and get smashed in a hurry, our second quarter especially is very poor pressure wise, like I say every week, if we are in touch at half time <12pts we will win, unfortunately we always play crap in the second so I'm not getting my hopes up. I'm tipping Fev to kick 7 tonight and the Blues to come from 3 goals down late in the 3rd to win by 4pts.
My man JR will kick 2-2.
