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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by DJC -Watch the last 5 or 10 minutes again, Lever ended up with leather toxicity syndrome, closely related to COVID apparently, nobody wanted to go near him except our kickers!
Are you sure about that LP?
Lever marked McGovern's kick in from fullback, marked Hewett's kick at CHB, and spoiled Harry's kick into the forward pocket, all in the first 10 minutes of the last quarter. After that he and Durdin competed for a ground ball which Durdin knocked forward for a stoppage. Finally, Lever gathered a loose ball between wing and half forward and got a hand pass away. That was his only touch in the last ten minutes.
I thought May and McDonald were their most effective defenders in the last quarter but it was the tackle pressure when we were trying to work the ball up the ground that set up Melbourne's opportunities and denied ours, that and some strange free kicks.
Edit: Just listening to David King explain how we set up to drag Lever away from the contest and force May to do the bulk of the defensive work by himself. That certainly gels with what I saw.