Re: AFL Rd 3 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Reply #46 –
Watched the North v Dockers game today. North were good early but you can see they're a relatively young side still. Turnovers and butchered the ball when they had Freo right under the pump early in the second quarter and then couldn't go on with it.
Apart from Larkey, they don't have any tall forwards and they don't really have any key defenders either. They've recruited a stack of talented midfielders over the last few seasons but no key position players that I can think of.
If we get plenty of the ball and use it well, Charlie and Harry should have a very Good Friday.
Fisher got plenty of the ball but doesn't kick it more than 30m and got caught on his wrong side plenty of times.
North played Larkey and Coleman-Jones as key forwards and back up rucks, and Corr, Pink and K Dawson as key defenders. None of them made much of an impression.
Larkey and Coleman-Jones will trouble Kemp with their considerable size advantage, and Larkey's ability. Freo went with two tall key defenders and we should do the same.