Re: AFL Rd 5 2022 Post Game Carlton vs Port Adelaide
Reply #91 –
You must have behind the lady with the big hat 🤣 PP comes through hard in the FP , think it was Newnes who froze and watched him spin around and handpass to Boak I think it was and goaled.
Weitering had a handpass smothered which was PP again, another Carlton player(can't remember who) didn't get involved when he should have and pretended to follow his man when he should have chased PP because Weitering was off balance and PP snapped a goal.
In a separate incident Setterfield dropped a sitter on the wing because either he is a lousy mark or he thought he was going to get hit and imo it's the latter because he has form for doing it previously.
PP did have a run in the ruck and we were lucky he didn't kick another goal when a lazy Pittonet couldn't be bothered picking him up. Imo PP had a real influence after half time as did Butters and it was their contested footy and our lack of contesting/chasing that contributed. Losing intensity is a pretty way of saying we played bruise free non contested footy.
Did the same with Hawthorn after half time too..imho .
Re : Parks..very ordinary player imho and his lack of nous will cost us games...same with Setterfield whose disposal and brain lapses with regards attack on the footy will cost us also.
No, I was sitting next to the lady who kept calling out "Man up!" 
Powell-Pepper had 10 effective disposals for the game, kicked two goals and had one goal assist and I suppose that's OK for a forward and part time ruck. The handball smother that resulted in a goal should have been a free to Weitering for high contact. Newnes was on the far side of his opponent and couldn't get near to Powell-Pepper. Weitering was out of the contest. The goal assist was to Boak when Powell-Pepper gave Newnes the slip, effectively using Weitering as a screen. His other goal came from lurking at the back of the contest and Hewett was too far away to tackle or smother. As I said in another post, Powell-Pepper's strength makes him a difficult match up for our smaller defenders but he was ineffective around the ground and it was Burton, Butters, Byrne-Jones, Houston and Boak who kept Port in the game.
Setterfield did drop a mark on the wing not too far from my seat. No-one was in cooee and he recovered and delivered the ball to a teammate. Everyone drops marks they would normally take.
Bruise free footy is not having 25 more contested possessions than the opposition, nor is it losing the tackle count by three but having 6 more tackles inside 50.
We only won the contested possessions against Hawthorn by 10 and had 11 more tackles and twice as many tackles inside 50.
It's not lack of intensity that is letting our opposition get back into games. It's a breakdown in our system transitioning out of defence and, perhaps, overconfidence in the ability of our forwards to score from pretty average forward 50 entries. Remember too that our second and third tall defenders have played 30 games between them. In fact, Port's players averaged 24 more games than ours and their average age is 12 months older.
Despite his inexperience and less than brilliant games last season, Parks put in a good defensive effort and made some telling spoils. His form in the magoos has been excellent and I think that he is a credit to our development coaches. He may not be as dependable as Plowman, but he does get to contests and makes a good fist of it when he gets there.
The bottom line is that we're 4-1 with a new coach, brand new game plan and without some of our better players on the park. Not to mention the hangover of some inept coaching and a culture where losing was the norm. We've now beaten one of last year's grand finalists, a preliminary finalist and two of our long term nemises, and played some brilliant footy on the way. Of course there's room for improvement but there's plenty of potential to do so.
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