Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney
Reply #207 –
Jeza...second year blues implies a pretty good first year and I wouldn't have said his debut year was that good. My point is that we seem to be recruiting blokes who can't kick properly. We seem to get slaughtered when we turn it over...which happens a lot.
There's no easy answers and I appreciate that, but like most, the frustration seems to be just never ending and we are almost totally reliant on Cripps at the moment and that's not healthy for him or the team. Even Nic Newman...I was rapt to get him in as I thought his long, penetrating kicking would be handy...but even his disposal is all over the shop. I know we miss Williamson but the fact is he's played about 15 games all up and we don't have anyone in the backline who you'd back in to run with it and hit a target up the field. Then we have midfielders who can't hit a target.
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Although, there is merit in what LP is saying. How can you judge how well blokes hit targets by foot, when the only options they have are difficult ones, and more often than not they are put under extreme pressure from the receive??
We have been cooking teamates all season with poor choices of disposal which simply creates a chain of crappy disposals. How many times has anyone stated we chose the right option there?? I think I saw one occasion where Cripps pulled his kick short which resulted in a kick to a leading forward on saturday. Beyond that, it was always to contests, or on top of someones head forcing them to take a contest or halve a contest.