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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
How can a group of young men possibly have their total concentration on playing football at this time....especially when a look into the stands will reinforce that these are not normal times.

Stop it before it starts
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Madness at the shops this morning but by about 1.00pm it had died down to a normal Sunday.
I suspect a lot of folks got a bit jittery after some of the restrictions that are being advised over the last few days and took the opportunity to stock up.

Surprisingly the only items I was looking for that were completely sold out at my particular Woolworths was pump soap.
Yesterday it was canned tomatoes.
They still had a couple of multi-packs of toilet paper.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Carlton vs Brisbane Practice Match
Quote from: Gointocarlton on
But Lods, there was not even a glimpse (to me) that we can fight when the 4 points are up for grabs. Read my post carefully, we are making the same mistakes over and over and over. Not being able to compete for 4 qtrs is a real worry. For example, Setterfield had a bread and butter shot from from around 30m out directly in front at the Royal Parade end. He sprayed it badly. This is an end where they train this week in week out and have shot after shot. You tell me there is no intensity or pressure in these games and yet he simply misses. Just plain UNACCEPTABLE. Excuses keep getting made year after year, I am effin sick of it. I say again, Its not the loss per se', its the way we lost, same as every other loss for the last 5 years. If we were trying something totally different and we lost, I would get it. But it was a full dress rehearsel for round 1, David Teagues words pre,match on FOX not mine. Well if thats the dress rehearsal, we're forked.

It might very well be that what we're seeing is an indication of how our season will pan out.
I sincerely hope not.
But the way I look at it is this....It's a long season. Players know that in the next few weeks they're  going to have to switch up to another level. Experienced players like Kreuzer, Simpson and Murphy have been around long enough to know that they need to pace themselves at this time of year so they can see the season through. Even Cripps seemed to dial it down a gear as the game went on. It doesn't require a massive drop in effort but this is nowhere near the level of attack on player and ball we'll see in round 1.
These matches are really just a run, a bit like a racehorse racing at different distances before settling into the main focus of a campaign. While it's nice to say they should be a '100% all the time' in these games or 'you play as you train' it's now a bit cliché. Training loads and intensity are much more sophisticated than they were back in the days. We have no idea of the training loads in the days leading up to these games but I suspect there will now be a bit of a freshening up as we head towards the Richmond game. Skill errors by players are likely to  hurt their chances of  selection, so those who don't execute will be lucky to play unless they bring  other attributes.
We'll find out in a few days if what we've seen is what we'll get.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Carlton vs Brisbane Practice Match
Some of us are a little (greatly) concerned after the practice games.
Others are a "wait until the proper stuff starts" type of supporter.
I've always been in the latter camp.
There's nothing wrong with either train of thought...it's just different.

I remember when we used to win, or go very well, in the pre-seasons only to fall in a heap once the season proper started.
It's chalk and cheese.
Have  a look at the results in some of the other practice games and tell me that's a true indication of the relative strengths of some sides.

We won't know which way it goes until the first shots are fired in 'anger'....and for me that's the main difference between practice games and regular season games.
There's no anger., no intensity and very little pressure in these games.
It will increase dramatically when 4 points are on the line.
Some clubs will thrive under those conditions, others will falter.
That's when we'll be able to see where we really stand.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Just a positive one...Coles at Wynnum Plaza today.
Walked into empty shelves and just as I was about to go to the next aisle out came a trolley of TP.
No mad rush. Folks just stood back while the store people unloaded.
After they'd finished people helped themselves and just about everyone only took a single packet despite a store limit of 4.
Maybe it's calming down a bit.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
The irony is that the 'dills that went troppo' for the toilet paper actually made it so that sane people who would just purchase on a needs basis were left struggling to find some if they hadn't made a recent purchase.
They were able to say 'Who is silly now?"...well it's still you, you silly rabid folks!
Makes you wonder how things would go in a real apocalyptic situation....seeing this is just the "pre-season"

There's also now the stigma many will feel now when they actually get around to making a legitimate purchase.
The judgemental glances we'll receive at the checkouts for our 8 rolls of double length Quilton.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Some folks are taking the piss on e-bay for sure...  ;D
I suspect in most cases it's just a bit of Aussie humour.
Quilton seems to be the brand of choice.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Carlton vs Freo in Freo Practice Match
Quote from: capcom on
But isn't a practice game the ideal time to use and test tactics?  I sure would have thought so

It's a time for a whole lot of different things.
You try some new roles, tactics and matchups without giving too much away.
The side against Richmond (Rnd 1)will be different to the side that played Freo
I suspect the last practice game before Round 1 will be closest to our starting line up but even then we'll probably try a few different things in terms of game time and tactics.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Carlton vs Freo in Freo Practice Match
Quote from: DJC on
So can we write it off after Round 1?  ;)

I’m not too concerned about the players or their skills.  Our list is better than it was last season, injuries heal and skills execution can be up and down.  What concerned me most about the Freo game was the apparent lack of positive action from the coaching box.  Of course, that could be down to fitness and conditioning restrictions limiting Teague’s capacity to address Freo’s tactics and favourable matchups. 

I reckon the club will be desperate for a better showing next game so that the membership momentum continues.  If so, we may see more proactive coaching and fewer players having their game time limited. 

I guess the unknown here is how Teague is using these games.
It may be that he persists with a match-up or tactic in practice game for a bit longer than he would in a regular season game simply because he wants to see if it turns around or how the individual player responds.
The practice games have no real consequences for doing so.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Carlton vs Freo in Freo Practice Match
It's a bizarre old world when
-after a promising back-end to last season
- a good hitout where we more than matched Collingwood
-a game far from home with some of our major movers and our key position forwards all on  the sideline
... we're now hopeless and looking to finish in a worse position than last year.

Too much stock is being put on one game.
These games provide an opportunity for fringe players to play themselves into the side.
It also provides an opportunity for some to play themselves out...and that's probably what happened for a few on the weekend
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Carlton vs Freo in Freo Practice Match
I think it's probably the case that these games aren't really there for the supporter.
They're there for experimentation, fine tuning  structures and perhaps to give the fringe contingent a bit of a hit-out alongside senior players
They're just designed to shake the cobwebs out.
Therefore results are pretty meaningless.
 
They're affected by a lot of factors
-Intensity of training in the week leading up to the match
-players being given different assignments to normal
-players missing that affect structures and support (Players who would normally attract a second or third string opponent are suddenly faced with a more difficult opponent if key players are missing.)
-players being managed in respect of time on the ground
-experimentation with tactics and set-ups
...and a whole lot of other variables.

Skills seem to have been an issue yesterday....
Senior players have a history of just cruising and getting through unscathed.
Fringe players, keen to impress may be over anxious, and make errors.

We'll field a much better team in terms of personnel and tactics come Round 1
If some of the issues are still evident then we will have real problems to worry about.





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