Blue Vain wrote:
bondiblue wrote:
Navy Blue Horse wrote:
I've gone off Plowman big time. Reckon he brings nothing in terms of team play, run, creativity. Often beats an opponent which is great but needs to do more than that.
...and often is beaten by an opponent because....he lets them...when he's not aggressive, desperate enough to snuff out an opportunity. Does his job, and just stands around or jogs off. Would like him to use some of that god given athleticism to go hard and create another opportunity.
I like him, but he nods off way too much in marking contests. Is too casual. Not focussed on being switched on for 120 minutes. There's times to laugh and times to be serious. I wish he could be totally switched on throughout a footy match...Just the way it looks to me.
I know he can run lines and be the next hit up. He can run hard for over 100 metres, continuously creating an option, but I rarely see that these days.
Both he and Marchbank are amazing physical specimens who can run. Both have played the wings, but when playing defense, first thing is to snuff out their opponent.
Come on boys, lift.
I don't see it.
Plowman was beaten once in a one on one which is unusual. The other times on a lead, SOS wouldn't have stopped it with the delivery.
The other one on one contests, Plowman won, as he usually does. The only player Ive seen get hold of him recently is Membrey. Other than that, he wins his spot. There not too many Carlton players other than Weitering at the moment that we can almost guarantee he'll beat his opponents.
As for needing to do more than beat his man. I disagree. Doc and Simmo play the creative roles. We need someone who can shut down the oppositions best small/mid forward whilst the others can run off the lesser players. That's what Plowman does. Fritsch kicked 1 goal and had no goal assists. I'd take that every week.
I'd be far more worried about Samo who gets the ball but gets far too easily beaten by his man. The back mans primary job is to beat his opponent. His defensive craft is almost non existent.
Its not the end of the world. We only lost by a point.
Problem is, we lost after giving a head start of 42 points.
Fritsch scored 1 goal 4. We lost by 1 point.
Hence, I, like others look to areas we can improve in. Its just 1% here and 1% there.
I'm not far more worried by anyone in particular....other than Murphy playing an inside role.
Everyone needs to lift. Everyone is on notice from the supporters in 2020.
There's no way anyone, including SOS, could have stopped that first goal to Fritsch.
By no means was it Plowman's fault.
I'm not questioning the contests Plowman wins. I question the ones he loses.
Fritsch and Membey have similar attributes in size and marking ability.
I think he should be muscling up on those types more to put them off their line.
Its not just Fritsch and Membrey either. He gets beaten in the air too much for my liking.
I also believe, and Ive seen him do it in the past, is run to provide options when we have possessions.
The game is quick today, and its not left to Gorliias to make a run, give an option out.
Plowman, Jones, Weitering should all be running to create options when we have the ball, not just Simmo Doch and Sammo.
When they have the ball, we defend. When we have the ball, we become a nightmare with plenty of options.
Every backman's primary job is to beat his opponent, but what I'm saying is there's a team game to play after their opponent is beaten, and Plow is capable of creativity. He is an athlete.
Even in the 70's Full Backs like David Dench and Geoff Southby ran the ball after they beat their opponent. They were athletic KP's not gorillas who can't run.
Even Christou in the 90's was running off the backline to create options. Weitering had a shot at goal on Saturday.
Like I said, I'm glad to have Plow, but I'd like to see him and every Carlton player take some angry pills for the game, to attack the ball and man, with physical and athletic presence, just a bit more than the last 2 weeks.
Thank god Fritsch only kicked 1 goal 4 behinds, but then again, it wouldn't have made a difference to the final score.
Sammo had a mare of a day because that first mistake is the one we all remember. He made up for it in the end, but we all still remember his couple of early mistakes. I saw a few from Plow too. Maybe I'm being picky, but all those 1%ers will see us winning games with the list we have.
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Absolute stupidity.
) but it didn’t help the performance. And it’s particularly difficult without a VFL comp to work through a deficiency or find some form.
