buzzaaaah wrote:
Very different viewpoint from King and Dermie who talked up Carlton's effort and future to Roos who called this a comprehensive defeat.
What did we do to this bloke?
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Roos is correct.
We played two decent quarters of footy.
Last week we played four. Tonight was a backward step.
When we missed all those goals and then the Swans kicked a couple we panicked and forgot how we had stayed with them in the first half and just started bombing it to a contest again.
Our skills are not good enough under pressure. Simmo is a great warrior etc but his first two kicks were OOBOTF. Kerr is going to be OK but Levi is more reliable in front of goal. He, Wright, Silvagni, Curnow and Kerridge all missed absolute sitters from set shots. The swans looked dangerous every timne they went forward and we didn't. With 36 seconds to go and the ball and a turnover on our HB line I just knew they were going to get another goal.
Swans are bullies. They have amassed a group of mids who all look the same, nuggety hard runners who break tackles. They always make sure they give the opposition player a bit extra before he gets up. Our boys are more whippets than bull terriers and that is something we need to address in the gym.
They also bully the umpires. I have never seen so many players as I did tonight telling the umpires they had missed an obvios free (to themselves) or appealing for one after the event. The commentators laughed off the 'coffee with Gil' line as harmless banter and taken in isolation, it probably is but they just go on and on, intimidating the umpires at every opportunity.
The umpires are flogs of the first order. I am going to stay on this hobby horse of mine until someone from the press snooping throught TC reads it or one of you mentions it to someone who will bring it up. The distance for a mark is 15 metres. The Swans tactic several times at the kickout after a point was to pass it to someone less than twen metres from the end of the square and then clear it from there. It gives them extra time to set up the next kick. Now the ten yard square is called that for a reason. If the ball is kicked and travels less than the length of the ten yard square, it can not be a mark. It's a blatant tactic designed to assure that nobody can intercept the kick because the man on the mark for the kickout is too close to cover the angle. In the last quarter, Sydney got a goal, the lead up to which included a mark paid between the kicker and the man on the mark!
It is time to seriously look at whether Kreuzer can ruck all day and especially against whom. He was slaughtered again tonight by a ruckman not generally thought of as in the top echelon. Despite that, I think we won the clearances and despite that, Swans scored 6-2 from stoppages compared to our 2-5.
Cripps will end up crippled before the year is out.
There are definite signs we are improving and like all tough climbs, there are slips along the way. Tonight was one, not a serous one but Roos was correct.
I think Kingy and Dermott are correct as well inasmuch as there are positive signs.