Re: Post Game Analysis: AFL 2021 Rd 5: Carlton vs Port Adelaide
Reply #122 –
I was at the game again last night.
We were never really in the hunt, and Port took their foot off the gas in the last quarter because they had nothing to worry about. 28 points might as well have been 58....
Forget the skill errors, the obvious lack of cohesion when we are moving forward with the ball, three big blokes in the forward line flying against one another, butchered delivery into the forward line, and numerous other sins - that stuff can be worked on.
But the biggest disappointment, and most distressing, was the ABSOLUTE LACK OF HEART, EFFORT AND PASSION THROWN UP BY SO MANY IN NAVY BLUE.
Examples :
- Pittonet has Lycett pinning him to the ground for at least 30 seconds, and NO ONE, NOT ONE thought about helping him
- Tackling! Newnes effort on Amon, and subsequent lack of chasing effort, was only one example. Employ someone from Melbourne Storm FFS and teach them how to do it.
- Chasing - on at least 5 occasions I can remember last night, the effort to chase, corral and harrass was abysmal (have a look at Georgiades goal in the 2nd quarter - OMG SPS....). I have seen Auskickers chase harder than some of those efforts last night.
- Crippa, please stop trying to do it all on your own. You end up looking stupid, and the others around you have no idea what you are doing (I don't doubt his heart, but he needs to become a leader!). And go and get a bunch of balls and practice goal kicking, and don't stop until you are getting 9 out of 10.
I don't care so much about possessions, give me heart and effort any day. Put the footage of the weak-hearted efforts on the big screen in the Training Room and rip into them. The lot of them are sitting on big fat salaries, and they dish up that crap. Stuff the modern 'there, there' psychology - tear strips off them.
I am so tired of 'we just weren't good enoughs' and 'it was only 4 goals'. We were plain and simple embarrassed last night, and I saw far too many examples of blokes who looked like they didn't care all that much.
If that doesn't turn around and soon, 2021 and beyond is looking bleak.
Solid post. I think it was Jordan Lewis that showed a clip of Levi and Gov standing around like stale bottles of piss in the PA fwd line. Going to the wrong spots, not looking for a man, just being totally useless. Pretty sure there was a goal scored.