Carrazzo is playing OK. Like most of our midfield rotation, he's doing defensive roles. His job on Swallow was successful and he kept Swallow to 20 possies.
At some stage hopefully Mick will realise you cant keep tagging all the opposition players and be a successful team.
Gibbs on Ziebell was a farce. Sorry but Ziebell hasnt been that good.

Hopefully against GC we'll tag Ablett with Carrazzo, O'Meara with Curnow and let the others actually run a proper midfield combination.
At the moment Murphy and Judd are our only midfielders with a mindset of winning the ball.
Not only does it limit our ball winning, it gives the opposition the upper hand in the midfield structure. If Cachia cant contribute with purely tagging, drop him and bring in Graham.
Put Simpson back to the attacking wing as he has rediscovered his form and confidence after having his jaw smashed last year. Some of his marks were ultra courageous Fridaty night. It will also release Scotland back to his defensive wing role.
We have to see if he can cut it still as he's struggling minding a man. Perform or make way for someone else time for Scotland.

My team, bring in Robbo and Graham. Forget the bullshit forward tag for Robinson and place him, Graham and Gibbs into an offensive midfield rotation.
I forward tag (Armfield), 2 midfield tags (Ablett, O'Meara) and actually go out to win the ball.

Lets be honest, if North had kicked half straight when they dominated the game, they would have beaten us easily.
We cant expect to win many games winning 290 possessions. Once again we won the contested possessions but got smashed at the uncontested. Release some of the tags.

Carrazzo is playing OK. Like most of our midfield rotation, he's doing defensive roles. His job on Swallow was successful and he kept Swallow to 20 possies.
At some stage hopefully Mick will realise you cant keep tagging all the opposition players and be a successful team.
Gibbs on Ziebell was a farce. Sorry but Ziebell hasnt been that good.

Hopefully against GC we'll tag Ablett with Carrazzo, O'Meara with Curnow and let the others actually run a proper midfield combination.
At the moment Murphy and Judd are our only midfielders with a mindset of winning the ball.
Not only does it limit our ball winning, it gives the opposition the upper hand in the midfield structure. If Cachia cant contribute with purely tagging, drop him and bring in Graham.
Put Simpson back to the attacking wing as he has rediscovered his form and confidence after having his jaw smashed last year. Some of his marks were ultra courageous Fridaty night. It will also release Scotland back to his defensive wing role.
We have to see if he can cut it still as he's struggling minding a man. Perform or make way for someone else time for Scotland.

My team, bring in Robbo and Graham. Forget the bullshit forward tag for Robinson and place him, Graham and Gibbs into an offensive midfield rotation.
I forward tag (Armfield), 2 midfield tags (Ablett, O'Meara) and actually go out to win the ball.

Lets be honest, if North had kicked half straight when they dominated the game, they would have beaten us easily.
We cant expect to win many games winning 290 possessions. Once again we won the contested possessions but got smashed at the uncontested. Release some of the tags.

are they really tags or is mm trying to instil a man on man mindset?

weve only really known how to run one way so maybe still too hard for our players to grasp when to run forward v when to run back & theyre playing safe as a consequence.

just a theory

Carrazzo is playing OK. Like most of our midfield rotation, he's doing defensive roles. His job on Swallow was successful and he kept Swallow to 20 possies.
At some stage hopefully Mick will realise you cant keep tagging all the opposition players and be a successful team.
Gibbs on Ziebell was a farce. Sorry but Ziebell hasnt been that good.

Hopefully against GC we'll tag Ablett with Carrazzo, O'Meara with Curnow and let the others actually run a proper midfield combination.
At the moment Murphy and Judd are our only midfielders with a mindset of winning the ball.
Not only does it limit our ball winning, it gives the opposition the upper hand in the midfield structure. If Cachia cant contribute with purely tagging, drop him and bring in Graham.
Put Simpson back to the attacking wing as he has rediscovered his form and confidence after having his jaw smashed last year. Some of his marks were ultra courageous Fridaty night. It will also release Scotland back to his defensive wing role.
We have to see if he can cut it still as he's struggling minding a man. Perform or make way for someone else time for Scotland.

My team, bring in Robbo and Graham. Forget the bullshit forward tag for Robinson and place him, Graham and Gibbs into an offensive midfield rotation.
I forward tag (Armfield), 2 midfield tags (Ablett, O'Meara) and actually go out to win the ball.

Lets be honest, if North had kicked half straight when they dominated the game, they would have beaten us easily.
We cant expect to win many games winning 290 possessions. Once again we won the contested possessions but got smashed at the uncontested. Release some of the tags.

BV if we kicked straight late it would've been a massacre. We did kick more pts than North.

O'Meara is the other danger

He is the next Judd

GC will be scary now.

Agree. Lyon went through the same thing with Freo last year.

Turned a bunch of flaky front runners into one of the best defensive units in the AFL.

Didn't happen straight away. Had them 6-7 after 13 rounds. Only hit the 100 point mark in one game, and at times looked like they'd completely forgotten how to score....

are they really tags or is mm trying to instil a man on man mindset?

weve only really known how to run one way so maybe still too hard for our players to grasp when to run forward v when to run back & theyre playing safe as a consequence.

just a theory

This could be a loss or a win

50:50

Gold Coast will win a flag before Carlton's next flag I am afraid to say.....

That's the way I see it as well... if sacrificing 2013 means we're a better team 2014, I'm all for it.

Kinda hard to accept when your starved of success and want to play finals but it needs to be done.

Five years of downhill skiing takes a lot of reprogramming.

are they really tags or is mm trying to instil a man on man mindset?

weve only really known how to run one way so maybe still too hard for our players to grasp when to run forward v when to run back & theyre playing safe as a consequence.

just a theory

A massacre? 1 more scoring shot?

At half time we had 22 inside 50s for 9 scoring shots. North had 15 scoring shots to our 9 and they had 5 out on the full. All gettable shots!
They had 10 marks inside 50 to our 3 and they had the ball in their forward half 58% of the time.
I thought our efforts in the 3rd quarter were excellent and our forward structure worked very well but we were lucky to still be in the game.
You wont win many games with 22 inside 50s in the first half.

A massacre? 1 more scoring shot?

At half time we had 22 inside 50s for 9 scoring shots. North had 15 scoring shots to our 9 and they had 5 out on the full. All gettable shots!
They had 10 marks inside 50 to our 3 and they had the ball in their forward half 58% of the time.
I thought our efforts in the 3rd quarter were excellent and our forward structure worked very well but we were lucky to still be in the game.
You wont win many games with 22 inside 50s in the first half.

Yes, you've overwhelmed me with your theorising and statistical data there.
How could I argue.