sinbagger wrote:
A lot of talk about our lack of pace and slow midfield but that’s irrelevant to what happened. The swans players were just harder at the ball and first to the ball on the inside. Everything flowed from there.
The Carlton players simply weren’t committed enough, and because they were second to the ball they constantly gave away frees and became tentative. To the extent that by the middle of the third quarter the awns players became overconfident and arrogant and started running through the Carlton players, they just ran where they wanted whether or not there was a Carlton player in front of them or not. And we let them, it was pathetic to see.
it's slow all over the ground, and it's a thing. not to credit it, is pretty dumb.
swans were first to the ball, bcos we couldn't catch them. they moved the ball from back to front with ease all night long (what did they have 24 bounces to our zero? let that sink in for a bit mate). Sure we weren't committed and the few times we did catch them, no one could stick or finish a tackle. so that's a big, big issue too.
but pressure, perceived pressure, our ball movement, our run and carry and our spread from stoppage and surge forward with ball in hand - all of it non existent and that comes off the back off being too slow and plodding. we haven't had 4 quarters of pressure footy and turnover since the round pittonet returned.
we're a 1 trick pony, and good teams have figured us out, and elite teams will put us to the sword like cats and swans. lets not forget if the cats don't lose danger and are down a midfield runner (ironically how we start every game), they beat us by more than the swans did last night. those late 4 goals really papered over what was a worse performance than last night.
our close games have masked so much of our tactical problems with 2 rucks/ 3 key forwards.
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