Carlton Supporters Club

Sooo, does this mean under Ratten we were too attacking and now under MM we are too defensive?
Can't we just play bl**dy football.
Boys today... see ball get ball... let the boys play.

Under MM they seem in two minds as to what to do with the ball, hence making the wrong decision a fair bit of the time. I can't remember a time when we have kicked it straight to an opposition player. Not just an over kick or a kick just wide of our player but primary school stuff of passing straight to them. Jeez if we hit up our forwards as well as we lace out oppo players they would be talking up or kicking skills.

Why can't we have two or three stay at home forwards ALL THE TIME 

I am not 100% sure how AFL define their Clangers stat however I googled it and Ted Hopkins of Champion Data defines it as a Turnover or mistake. I was staggered to learn that in 2014, Carlton had the fewest total number of Clangers of any Club. You read it correctly, the fewest. 912 for the year to be exact. PA made the most with 1151. So far this year, we have the 4th fewest. So it seems though that we get scored heavily against us from our TO's (or clangers) which means its all about where, who and how we turn it over perhaps.

I am not 100% sure how AFL define their Clangers stat however I googled it and Ted Hopkins of Champion Data defines it as a Turnover or mistake. I was staggered to learn that in 2014, Carlton had the fewest total number of Clangers of any Club. You read it correctly, the fewest. 912 for the year to be exact. PA made the most with 1151. So far this year, we have the 4th fewest. So it seems though that we get scored heavily against us from our TO's (or clangers) which means its all about where, who and how we turn it over perhaps.

One of the problems MadBlueBoy has brought to our attention that I agree with is our running. You can turn the ball over as every club does here and there. If your not prepared to run back hard to defend you will lose on the scoreboard every time. No matter where it is you turn the ball over. Sydney, Hawthorn, Adelaide and Fremantle turn the ball over many times too. However they run back to cover space and place so much pressure on the ball carrier, that they eventually get the ball back into their hands.

Apply pressure with tackles and helping your team mates at all times. Run in numbers. This will have the other side under pressure to begin with. They will cough the ball up more often. Once you turn the ball over, all should be running back hard to pressure the other side. Some of the times they will double back if they can't see a free player forward, and you nail them as they don't expect to have players coming back hard behind them. Running into a wall of players. Something like this needs to be employed to be proactive. Not reactive during a game. If the work rate is low to medium, skill errors occur due to lack of confidence in the entire side. They don't have belief in the forwards to grab what they should. Before we get a list of players with real talent by foot, we need an elevated work rate. Plain and simple.

You can't change the skill level of what you have, therefore you need to find a way to make them work. Plug holes with players at the end of the season.

Hence DontgoJuddy it becomes easier to build a strong group around a side that can work hard both ways. It doesn't need huge levels of skill and talent. Just pure hard work. Something we haven't had for years. When we execute this style of play in the first quarter, its funny how we establish a lead on the scoreboard so fast. The ball enters the forward 50m without defenders being ready, and we manage to score.

Got my tickets, looking forward to watching the boys do us proud on Anzac Day. And being in the company of Kiwis makes the event even more significant, for historical reasons... and for them to witness proper football.

Oi! I think that was me If not, it wouldn't be Brettie, he wouldn't dare be seen frequenting an unofficial fan site while strutting through the Medallion club or MCC

So Buttifant is a dud.

I am not 100% sure how AFL define their Clangers stat however I googled it and Ted Hopkins of Champion Data defines it as a Turnover or mistake. I was staggered to learn that in 2014, Carlton had the fewest total number of Clangers of any Club. You read it correctly, the fewest. 912 for the year to be exact. PA made the most with 1151. So far this year, we have the 4th fewest. So it seems though that we get scored heavily against us from our TO's (or clangers) which means its all about where, who and how we turn it over perhaps.

I don't think we are lessed skilled than other teams, we just have an extra degree of difficulty in our execution.

Compare our ball use with that of our opponents.  When we get possession, particularly in a clearance or contested situation, the ball is thrown onto the boot and it's a 50-50 proposition whether it goes to our advantage.  This was particularly evident against Essendon where we won the clearances but turned the ball over before the second or third possession.

Most, if not all, other teams use a string of handpasses to get the ball to a runner in the clear.  This results in a balanced kick not under pressure or a couple of bounces and a measured kick. 

Our reluctance to handpass creatively means that our disposal by foot is under pressure and misdirected as a result.

 

The team that owns the corridor invariably wins the game = fact.

Yet our "game plan" seems to be predicated on ball movement that uses the outer part of the ground yet we surrender the corridor to the opposition.  Any surprise that the best performed clubs of the last decade (Geelong, Swans and Hawks) own the corridor, and the current worst club (US) avoids it???

Even perennial hacks like St Kilda are developing a central corridor ball movement gameplan... my question to this club is, why the F aren't we?

cue crickets chirrrping.