Carlton Supporters Club

So, what did Voss & Co sprinkle over the players at Q time ?

GC can't win away from home and are coached by a bloke who won't be there next season..don't think he had tell them much apart from kick straight and it's over.

GC can't win away from home and are coached by a bloke who won't be there next season..don't think he had tell them much apart from kick straight and it's over.

Gold Coast have had three wins away (one over Richmond) and three at home this season, including two wins over teams in the eight.  What happened in previous seasons is irrelevant.

Gold Coast are ranked third for clearances (we're 10th), third for stoppage clearances (we're 8th), and 12th for centre clerarances (we're 17th).  Rowell is ranked third for clearances, Anderson is 8th, Miller is 11th and Witts is 38th.  Our best are Cripps (12th) and Cerra (53rd).  Despite that, we won the clearances 45 to 33, and set the world record for scores from centre clearances.  I don't think Miller's absence had much to do with our dominance.  Double teaming Witts with Pitto and De Koning was an important factor but so was the manic desire to move the ball forward.

We now have a backline with run and defensive grunt, although I'm not sure that we can use Kemp against the power forwards (his games last season were all against much bigger opponents).  Martin adds another dimension to our forward line and, at the very least, draws a decent defender as well as improving our defensive pressure inside our forward 50.  Cuningham and Fogarty give us more effort and impact than the blokes who were playing earlier in the season.  In other words, Vossy is now fielding a team that is more capable of executing his gameplan.

While the first quarter was a bit of an arm wrestle, it was inevitable that we'd break the shackles and get reward for effort.  That in itself became more of a factor as the game went on.

Of course, that all means nothing if we can't string more wins together against top eight teams in the second half of the season.

I started to fall in love with Boyd last year.
But my favourite player of the 21st century is still Simon Wiggins, so I have a type.
I like a battler.

I started to fall in love with Boyd last year.
But my favourite player of the 21st century is still Simon Wiggins, so I have a type.
I like a battler.

I have the Henry the 8th approach, they either produce or they get the blade...
Hard not like Wiggins though ....something simple and Mr Bean like about him that even when he stuffed up you could forgive him....😉

Eb, theoretically what’s not to like about your man Boyd ?
He has a defensive mindset as shown by his two efforts on the weekend, one out against kpf, he is willing to run hard and kicks ok.
My major knock on him is that he has been overzealous in the past and given away frees for crude tackles.
In a team which some 😎 decry the lack of a defensive small backman he’s worthy of a game, not 100% he’ll make it but he’s got some good tools.