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Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #45 –
Quote from: Baggers on
Break-out game for SPS and H... both played with focus, authority and impact.

Thought SOJ was important... did some very good things at critical moments.

Gibbons continues to grow.

Polson the only real passenger.

Paddy Dow showed important stuff also... kicking improved but needs more.

ZF was also great and showed some fancy and effective weaving and footy smarts.

Forwards attacked the player approaching with the ball, demanding they be used.

Notice BB kept his addresses short...

Now to back it up.

Lachie o'Brien was a passenger today too.


"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #46 –
Quote from: PaulP on
I see. What is the Hawks W/L record down there ? Pretty good I believe.

Never mind. I found it. Played 60. W/D/L is 46/1/13. Won quite a few of their recent ones.

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #47 –
Quote from: jeza on
The disposal efficiency was a feature today.

Samo 35 disposals at almost 90% efficiency.

Walsh 26 at 92%

SOS 18 at 89%

Fisher 28 at 86%

I can't remember the last time we saw numbers like that.

H - 20 disposals and 4 goals. Absolutely brilliant. He's gone well past Curnow this year. Shame we couldn't see both at their best. That would be scarey.

Kreuzer's influence is immense. Lobbe in particular is so immobile by comparison. Countless times there today K just made the chase or applied the pressure where it would have been a walk into the F50 for the opposition. English might have looked good on the stats sheet but had little influence.

Agree on Harry, looked better than a lot of the other KP forwards in the league today, Dogs made a mistake in not playing the taller Trengove and Harry showed that he both a skilled and smart player and he played in front and was unstoppable. You have to wonder if Harry and Mcgovern as a combo works better than a Trio with Charlie thrown in, we seem to have more open space down forward and even Levi seemed to know what he was doing when he got a run down there.
Gibbons was ok today and used the ball better and credit to Jack who added something to the team.


Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #48 –
Top 5 in the AFL Fantasy :
Harry Mac
Sammy W
SPS
Murphy
Fisher

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #49 –
Low tackling game - 60-42 in favour of the Dogs.

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #50 –
Go blues! Congrats to all for a fine win.

Big change today was the extra possession and attempts to clear to a free player rather than the hack kick forward. We went back to hacking in the third quarter and turned the ball over. Result of more spread and run in the midfield and Is hard to do but we did it. As a result, we hit targets in the forward line.

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #52 –
Quote from: PaulP on
Low tackling game - 60-42 in favour of the Dogs.

Wasnt a high standard game but the Dogs were doing most of the chasing.....

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #53 –
Speechless.
Finals, then 4 in a row!

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #54 –
Quote from: Barbs on
Well we did have more of the ball  ;)

Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
Wasnt a high standard game but the Dogs were doing most of the chasing.....

Yes, no doubt, but for a victorious side to only have 42 tackles (minus 18 on the Dogs) does seems a bit skewiff IMO.

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #55 –
Quote from: PaulP on
Yes, no doubt, but for a victorious side to only have 42 tackles (minus 18 on the Dogs) does seems a bit skewiff IMO.

If you are controlling the ball, no need to tackle?
Finals, then 4 in a row!

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #56 –
two games out of the 8 folks...one game, if we'd held on last week.
Finals, then 4 in a row!

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #57 –
I think today showed (and not for the first time) that LOB and Polson aren't ready for the big time.

Gibbons remains a maybe.

SOJ was good - looked like a wise head....takes the smart option almost always and he's a big lad these days (I was surprised).

Levi too looked pretty good - stood up when needed.

Samo the stand out - always had it in him, just needed to want it enough.

Great team win.

Kudos too to Harry - could have kicked 7 or 8. He will soon.

Charlie who? (joking)

Finals, then 4 in a row!

Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd : Carlton vs. Western Bulldogs

Reply #59 –
Quote from: flyboy77 on
I think today showed (and not for the first time) that LOB and Polson aren't ready for the big time.

Gibbons remains a maybe.

SOJ was good - looked like a wise head....takes the smart option almost always and he's a big lad these days (I was surprised).

Levi too looked pretty good - stood up when needed.

Samo the stand out - always had it in him, just needed to want it enough.

Great team win.

Kudos too to Harry - could have kicked 7 or 8. He will soon.

Charlie who? (joking)

....and thats why our team has struggled. Not because our players can't play, but because they are not ready to compete at the highest level yet.

We have 28 players 22 and under on our list.
17 players 23 and over.
Of that 17, it includes Kreuzer, Lobbe, Phillips and Casboult. You can only play max 2 at a time in the team, so 15 23 and over. Take into account Doc been missing for 2 years, and we are down to 14 players who are 23 and over that we can pick each week. Obviously we'll get some other injuries in there as well, so its certainly not unrealistic to suggest we can have a team that has as many players under 23 that it has over 23 in it.

....and people want to blame the coach. They are a bunch of kids still learning the game and/or the speed of AFL football....of course they are still learning their teammates too.


As a collective, we just need to be patient and let our kids come on.