Score sources

Kick in
Sydney: 12
Carlton: 6

Stoppage!!!
Sydney: 51
Carlton: 13

Turnover
Sydney: 54
Carlton: 46

Defensive half
Sydney: 36
Carlton: 27

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Like someone said earlier, our list very one dimensional. tall, slow, physical players are voss' choice and 1-wood. and when they're not very physical you get last night - can't tackle, and elite, fast teams will tear us to shreds every time.


for the love of god, stop with 2 rucks/ 3 key forwards. it does not work, you cannot create pressure and F50 turnover. TDK was invisible, and pitto was mauled in the ruck by grundy. walsh couldn't break his tag and that was game over. cripps has been invisible for 3 weeks now, not sure how injured he is, but surely he has to be.

speaking of injuries ... walsh looked really hobbled by the end of the game last night, and he usually breaks through tags without skipping a beat. if the club announces he's done his back again, i don't think it's hyperbole to call our season shot. i guess we wait until tuesday.

we're dead last in the afll at allowing scores from stoppage.

Didn't see the game, so we copped a touch up ? We haven't really had one for a while.
It stings a bit today, but hey, it's May.
So cop the kick in the arse and get on with it !

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Well this can't be right, I'm reliably informed it was all McGovern's fault

Injuries and a tough run caught up with us

I was really disappointed with the non selection of Binns and Cowan
Cowan has a real crack Fantasia is cook another dumb recruiting lazy decision
Binns simply plays over Hollands who needs to play 2 s for a while
Sometimes you simply have to reward someone
42 possessions in the twos should be enough

It wouldn’t have made any difference tonight however

Suggesting Cripps has been quiet for 3 weeks is foolish.
Had 35 touches against Melbourne

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With Grundy soundly beating Pittonet Sydney simply shepherded him away from the ruck contest, and he wasn't able to get his hands on the ball.

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Da Pois did that as well and it changed the game... the concerning part for me is the lack of a plan B from the coaches box

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We just have way too many players who are giving us basically nothing at the moment.

With our injuries, we don’t have that luxury. Actually we shouldn’t have that luxury in the best of times.

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Embarrassing
I keep saying the same thing, slow, dumb and selfish.
WE keep getting drawn into the contest then it comes out where their runners are waiting, good bye.
We keep taking the wrong option which wrecks momentum.
Our forwards don't separate and our smalls take up space, chicken or the egg.

Biggest problem is our coaching staff, no idea how to combat the opposition, NFI

I forgot, panic merchants

Pretty evident last night that we are crying out for some run in the team. Cerra, Doherty and Saad make a difference but we should be targeting a pacy midfielder with both inside and outside abilities. The midfield is too one paced. Not sure Hayward is the player we should be targeting.

I turned the TV off during the 2nd quarter. It was pretty obvious what was about to happen.

omfg. And this from a guy who made a living diving clumsily into opponents any which way he could.


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Carlton should envy two things about Sydney.
(1) Player availability. They’ve had 17 players play ever game this season. They’ve got the luxury of picking very close to their best team and playing a guy like Parker in the twos. We’re 10+ on the injury list every week, without fail.
(2) Speed. Warner embarrassed us. Lizard too quick for us too. How many times were these blokes running away from multiple Carlton players? Austin needs to find some quick players in the off season. It also doesn’t help when our fastest player in Saad is out plus Cottrell our best runner and Cerra one of only two mids who can move quicker than a glacial pace, but that leads us back to point 1.

The papers went with "a new tag nemesis has emerged"

Fair enough he's hugging Walsh as if he was practicing for his first formal

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I'm worried about port's midfield in a couple of weeks. Young, fast, dynamic. The opposite of ours

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Exactly. We took Cripps out of the middle and setup exactly the same way with Kennedy replacing Cripps in the same config, who was then also shepherded. The ball was hit into the open space all night and they were away all night. It was frustrating to watch as we didn’t try to change up.

What I will add, as I will need to review, but I felt Carroll changed or added something when he was thrown in there. I hate to keep harping on this, but we cannot keep having Hewett and Cripps in there together. Too slow and good teams kill us on the break.

Pros:

Strong start.
I liked the move of Williams forward.
Newman, Williams, Pittonet.
Kennedy, Boyd and Charlie were okay.
Elijah continues to improve.
Carroll found some ball when he came on.

Cons:

Sydney shut down our guns, and we couldn't shut down theirs. It's like Keays all over again, every time Heeney plays against us. At least Blakey didn't torch us.
Midfield smashed.
Defence porous once Weiters went off.
Couldn't move the ball out of defence. Kept getting trapped deep in the back pocket.
Exposed for pace again.
Outtackled.
Obviously injuries are making it really difficult. But way too many passengers. Fantasia, Owies, Durdin, Hewett, TDK, Oli.
Another good player hurt.