HELLAS BLUE wrote:
Effes wrote:
HELLAS BLUE wrote:
So you're saying Carrazzo is a selfish player that rather than doing the team thing, focuses on trying to make himself look better? Wow.

He was selfish last night because 19 of his 26 posssessions were uncontested when it has been shown time and time again he lacks the ability to hurt the opposition when he has the ball in space. So why would he have so many uncontested possessions? The disappointing thing is he played the team role very well last week, holding Harvey for most of the game. So you really have to ask what would make someone who clearly would know he has massive limitations go and chase the cheap footy. The footy world knows he's not the man you want getting handball receives and kicking inside 50 yet so often that's what he did last night. He could have played a more team based role but decided not to, to the detriment of the team.
This is one of the funniest posts I've read today. When he has the ball in space he hurts the opposition more often that not. He sacrifices his natural game every week to stop the oppositions best ball mover and does it successfully. Do the names Dal Santo, Harvey, Hurn, Davey, Mitchell Pavlich etc. etc. mean anything to you? To get those uncontested possessions he must gut run ONCE he has made sure his opponent hasn't won the ball. Do you understand this? It's not hard to comprehend. it's called ACCOUNTABLE FOOTBALL, something that's a huge weakness in our side. You want to criticise a player for gut running to space to provide an option for his teammates? I've read it all now. I can just hear Brett Ratten saying
"Carrots, we want you to stop your man but under no circumstances are you to try and run off him and hurt him going the other way. When he win the ball back I want you to run away from any position that you may be able to provide an option for us to kick to." His 69% efficiency was 10% above that of the team's in total and no worse than any other mid.
Fair dinkum, THINK, THEN POST.
For some reason you seem unable to deal with any criticism of Carrazzo. I don't understand why you are getting so fired up about it. If my argument was a blanket I hate Carrots post then fair enough but I mentioned in my previous post that he has a role to play (such as on Harvey last week). It's when he goes and gets uncontested possessions that he loses value. I'm not sure why that is so hard to understand...when you have the limitations that he has you should be giving the ball off to players who can deliver the ball inside 50 instead of doing it yourself.
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When he has the ball in space he hurts the opposition more often that not.
is incredible. As Jimmae he tries to pinpoint a pass to someone inside 50 when he simply does not have the ability to do it often enough. He has shown time and time again that he can't do it yet so often he tries to do it - that is selfish footy and not knowing your limitations.
Why do you think no one goes near him when he has the ball in space - the opposition couldn't give a flying @#$%&! if Carrots is the one kicking inside 50 - he gets no attention at all when he has it in space...have you asked yourself why? Compare that to a Gibbs or Murphy who will hurt the opposition.