Effes wrote:
jimmae wrote:
Carrazzo's tagging role is over-hyped. Plays his best football shutting down the guys who do their best work finishing off the clearances. Every time we've put him on someone who goes right into it for the contested work, he's failed miserably.
Still a role to play if his kicking is around the standard he displayed last night, both in play and at goal.
Bower and Jamison were again fairly average in defence, but you won't see us drop those two AND Davies.
Might be Davies for Houlihan.
Interestingly Stanton had the most possessions of any scum player (although Carrots limited Stanton's hurt factor - Stanton getting lots of cheapies) but Carrots had the most clangers of any player on the ground (6 out of 20 possession) quite a few from unpressured kicks inside 50 which went straight to the opposition. Made up for it somewhat with 4 score assists.
Yeah it really was his last quarter that saved his neck, which is probably where I'm most referring to his disposal.
He still drew Stanton to play a lot more football behind centre because he was dangerous pushing up to half-forward, and the forward line was open enough for him to be damaging by hand and foot coming in.
The Saints tried to do the same thing to Stanton last week (Stanton had 10 R50s), but they made the mistake of not closing him down enough in their zone. I'm really not sold on Carrazzo's abilities in the slightest, and feel the only way you'll get him to do a proper defensive job is to put him on a man at either end of the ground and tell him to stop said player. Sags off otherwise.
At a glance over the stats that have been done post-match, Carrazzo is actually down for 8 turnovers, but only 4 critical errors (which are roughly the same as clangers). Our mob actually 'won' both of those categories on the night, which combined with all the umpiring could have just as easily made for a much worse night's viewing.