Port milking a few frees.
SOJ playing some kind of game.
Hand up those who doubted Pittonet's importance to this team at the start of the year?? (My hand is up!!)
Good to see Zachery F getting amongst it. Loving it.
Hand up those who doubted Pittonet's importance to this team at the start of the year?? (My hand is up!!)
Mine ain't :)
Good to see Zachery F getting amongst it. Loving it.
Yep. We seem to be playing more like a team this week.
The man-love for Durds continues to grow. He's one of those small forwards who can turn nothing into something.
Walsh stepping up 16 in the first quarter. 23 disposals to half time.
Saad playing well, six good quarters in a row now.
Port short of one KPP, if we play smart football we should be able to leverage that for the 4-qtrs,
Hand up those who doubted Pittonet's importance to this team at the start of the year?? (My hand is up!!)
Given we have almost no other ruck, he is every important, even more so as he gets better. TDK is a 2nd ruck, around the ground, kick a goal type. Not a first ruck due to his size, and actually needs to do more around the ground to keep his place.
Mine ain't :)
Nor mine. Last week and this week underline his importance/impact/influence.
Hope we go on with the game now rather than shut up shop and just win by 25 to 30, as Carlton would do in days gone by.
Let's not go overboard, Pitto is important but Port have both 1st-choice rucks out so we should be controlling in much the same way Witts did last week.
Port's onballers are being smashed by Hewett and Walsh, Cerra better this week after a poor on last week, is age catching up with Boak?
Nor mine. Last week and this week underline his importance/impact/influence.
He's just solid ... and it's obvious
Let's not go overboard, Pitto is important but Port have both 1st-choice rucks out so we should be controlling in much the same way Witts did last week.
Port's onballers are being smashed by Hewett and Walsh, Cerra better this week after a poor on last week, is age catching up with Boak?
Importantly, he's competitive with the better rucks even if he is not the best of them.
Hope we go on with the game now rather than shut up shop and just win by 25 to 30, as Carlton would do in days gone by.
Exactly what I was thinking. We have been scarred over the past coupla decades and can be forgiven for waiting for the bad qtr that lets Port back in. We need to go on with this and record a huge win. Can't remember the last time we had our foot on an oppositions throat... and kept it there. 80pt win would be acceptable.
He's just solid ... and it's obvious
Yes, people do not respect the physicality of the ruck, that is why you need seasoned bodies to compete for 4-qtrs. TDK, Mirkov will be bit players for another 2 or 3 seasons. I think to be a finals threat we need one extra mature body, perhaps a 6 to 10 game a year type player.
You look at Nthmond, Nankervis most weeks, Soldo others, the bit players get to fill in the gaps. It makes a huge difference having two heavy seasoned bodies.
Hope we go on with the game now rather than shut up shop and just win by 25 to 30, as Carlton would do in days gone by.
Actually, I hope we don't run ourselves into the ground, we've the Freo road trip with only a 6 day break.
We need to win this with control and then try to steal one on those big road trips. Be professional about it, a bit like Melbourne Storm. We can play goal for goal for the next 1/2, we do not have to smash ourselves physically.
Aliir Aliir is one out, he can't keep bouncing back and forth between McKay, SoJ and Charlie, all we have to do is be smart with our ball use, and then spot up Owies, Durdin and Fisher on the odd occasion as they are all getting off the hook forward of the ball.
I would like to see Martin play out the game and not fade.
Quite surprising the score line, because we were far from clean!
And he's only 25 LP.
I think Curnow has been a bit fumbly this afternoon.
He's missed a fair bit of football and will get better with a few more games under his belt. ;D
Why in FRAKS name do we persist with Williams kicking out?? FRAKS me
We might need to change our fitness guru ::)
We might need to change our fitness guru ::)
Seem to be flagging again.
We might need to change our fitness guru ::)
Yep agree we look stuffed. No run at all
Gotta clean up our 3rd quarters
Seriously Carlton. You just knew this would happen.
How Russell survived the cull is beyond me...
Don't rate him...
Even when they are winning they can be such a disappointing club.
Just absolutely packing their dacks at the moment
How many times can we keep doing the same thing
SCORING end ???
I HOPE....
Just can’t kill any opposition. No matter how crap they are we find a way to give them hope.
Let off by Gray fortunately . We are out on our feet.
Setterfield.
Nah.
Setterfield.
Nah.
More Russell Nah imo.
When the going gets tough...our guys get lost. :(
Teams are finding ways to break our composure, we are missing a Plan B, but this is typical of things under a new coach.
You can't have it all on day one!
The coach and group haven't dealt with this enough before, and it's yet to be addressed.
When the going gets tough...our guys get lost. :(
We can't run out the game Lods. Have we gone electric but the batteries don't last?
Plain outright bludgers.
Setterfield no clue. Not afl standard
This is a farken train wreck
Just pathetic. Watching them run over the top
Not fit enough......
There is the problem with Pitto, being beaten in the ruck by Powell-Pepper.
We just fk up and fk up and fk up and continue to fk up.
We just fk up and fk up and fk up and continue to fk up.
That happens when you are not fit and fatigued.
All set up for a Robbie grey match winning goal.
Same old, same old. Turn up the heat on our boys and we fill our durps.
Only we could turn an 8 goal lead into... dust.
A feckin' farce. No glory in that one, at home to the bottom team.
We held on - four points. Credit to Port for their fight.
Can't win next week, today will be too costly.
Our blokes looked shot and distraught!
Thank fk for that.
How bad is it when you don't feel comfortable with a 50pts lead. Our club has driven us to that. Only good thing is again we got caught along way from from but managed to get there.
Please give setterfield the ar5e
Sorry this thread is so late. But we made it. I'll leave it open, but the post game thread is up and running.
I do apologize: I forgot all about it.