Re: Post Game Pondering: AFL 2020 Rd 9: Carlton vs Hawthorn
Reply #68 –
No need to apologise. We’re all in this together (the shared pain of being a Blues supporter, not COVID).
Those frauds spoilt my Friday pizza night. Again.
“Gibberish” is a word I’d use to describe the last 3 quarters. Clarkson wrote the script on how to beat Carlton. I think Teague *is* developing his own playbook and style, but he’s yet to learn to tweak it to counteract particular strengths of other clubs. Hawks cut us up (as usual) with gut running & long passing. When they switched play on some occasions last night you could see 3 or 4 knackered blue boys out of position jogging across to try and catch their men.
As others have said, lack of on field leadership and remains our Achilles heel.
Makes it hard to provide leadership when the two captains were two of the offenders, Doc in particular got taken down town a few times by his man. As for Cripps trying to show boat and use that blistering speed and those dancing feet of his all the time, embarrassing. And dont gimme any of that "he's trying to do it all himself" rubbish. Real leadership is when you win the footy then bring others into the game by getting it out quick. Crippa will be right disappointed with his game last night.