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Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #120 –
I think this one may be a little kok-teaser win for us. After that business as usual for a few weeks!
Reality always wins in the end.

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #121 –
Quote from: madbluboy on
We can't lose this game, we just can't.


Hold my beer
2017-16th
2018-Wooden Spoon
2019-16th
2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #122 –
Quote from: Gointocarlton on
Hold my beer

lol.......you gotta laugh, otherwise you'll cry.

FWIW, i've said a few times this year that we were no chance of winning (Tigers, Lions (and port i think)) but was confident we'd beat GC.

Dare i say it, but i reckon we've got this one in the bag.
Less confident than i have been, but i think we will come to play and get the job done.

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #123 –
Ok the question this week would be, could a first up DeKoning give us any less than Levi?

Possible team

Plowman      Jones       Stocker
Docherty      Weitering   Saad
Newnes        Cripps        Murphy
Fogarty        McGovern   Silvagni
DeKoning    McKay       Betts
Pitonett       Walsh       Williams
Gibbons   SPS   Curnow   Cunningham

In:  DeKoning   Silvagni
Out  Casboult   Cottrell (Medical Sub)
 

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #124 –
Quote from: Gointocarlton on
Hold my beer
Its not that we are great but Essendon are very average IMHO and coached by a rookie.
We should win easy, they are soft, play an outside game and if we can make it more contested they will fold up.
Saad to be BOG and Harry to kick a bag vs a very ordinary backline...only injuries to key players, poor selections and a woeful performance from the coaching box  would cost us this game IMHO.

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #125 –
Farken ticketing is a joke, made the rookie error of trying to change my seats then ticket allocation was exhausted.
2017-16th
2018-Wooden Spoon
2019-16th
2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #126 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
Its not that we are great but Essendon are very average IMHO and coached by a rookie (so are we).
We should win easy, they are soft (so are we) play an outside game (so do we)and if we can make it more contested (doub it) they will fold up.
Saad (they will make it very difficult for him) to be BOG and Harry to kick a bag (so far one week on, one week off for H, this is off week) vs a very ordinary backline...only injuries to key players, poor selections (we are elite at this) and a woeful performance from the coaching box (pretty good at this)  would cost us this game IMHO.
2017-16th
2018-Wooden Spoon
2019-16th
2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #127 –
Quote from: Gointocarlton on
Farken ticketing is a joke, made the rookie error of trying to change my seats then ticket allocation was exhausted.
Somehow I tried and managed to jag tix for free, yay me
2017-16th
2018-Wooden Spoon
2019-16th
2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #128 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
Its not that we are great but Essendon are very average IMHO and coached by a rookie.
We should win easy, they are soft, play an outside game and if we can make it more contested they will fold up.
Saad to be BOG and Harry to kick a bag vs a very ordinary backline...only injuries to key players, poor selections and a woeful performance from the coaching box  would cost us this game IMHO.

Their list appeared average but there 2021 form is far from average. Got within a few points of Sydney in Sydney when they were flying and should have beats the Hawks - lost by a point. Smashed Saints and beat Pies in the biggest H & A game of the year. With a few umpiring decisions had of gone there way they could have been 4-2!

Yet we promise the world and have yet to beat any team of note this year. We couldn't get within 3 goals in any of our losses and in some of those games we scored late junk goals or margin would have been worse.  

I'm nowhere near as confident as some on here - Their speed across the ground could really trouble us if there is no rain and being their home game they will get the crowd support as well. 

If we don't bring close to our best they will get us.

  

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #130 –
Quote from: shawny on
Their list appeared average but there 2021 form is far from average. Got within a few points of Sydney in Sydney when they were flying and should have beats the Hawks - lost by a point. Smashed Saints and beat Pies in the biggest H & A game of the year. With a few umpiring decisions had of gone there way they could have been 4-2!
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I'm nowhere near as confident as some on here - Their speed across the ground could really trouble us if there is no rain and being their home game they will get the crowd support as well. 

If we don't bring close to our best they will get us.

Generally agree. We pipped them by 1 point last year, so they have some extra motivation.

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #131 –
They are coming off a shorter week having potential blockbuster fatigue after Anzac day. Get the jump on them early and shunt take the for if the had all game

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #132 –
Quote from: Macca37 on
I understand your frustration with our side and your wanting to make changes.

But to me the side you have selected just exposes how weak our list is.  For example, Pittonet is the one and only ruckman in your side. Who relieves him?  If we use McGovern, who goes to CHF?

Setterfield and Dow are average at best with ball disposal and like O'Brien can go missing for periods of time during the game.  If they were all to go missing at the same time as Cuningham then we would be in real trouble.

We are so short of KPPs and a ruckman that picking a side with what is available is just changing deck chairs.......

 

No I'd use McGovern and/or Kennedy as 2nd ruck/relief ruck. Cripps to play mostly forward to allow kids to be given time and exposed to the top level. All about opportunities ala Darcy Parish at Essendon.

McGovern, to me, does his best work either in defence or with a greater role. Ie, not as the 3rd or 4th banana. I think he needs added focus and responsibility as a focal point. I'd be going with more runners and crumbers so I'd certainly consider Owies or Honey. This happened with McGovern through injury at the start of last year and he was relief pinch hitting ruck. with the two main tall forwards as Gov and JSOS. I think one genuine key forward in McKay with a rotation of smalls and medium types - Kennedy, Silvagni, McGovern as an example. Casboult is getting in the way and offers zero right now. Hoping that changes with him though.

Who says we lose with picking the Cuninghams, Stockers, Dows, Setterfields, Honeys, Owies, etc? Other teams can do it.

We are falling off the pace and it's obvious.

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #133 –
Yes, i agree Brackets needs to be given more responsibility....

KPD role (3rd tall?), with a bit of rucking, bit of KPF.....put the heat on him to stand up for his team mates and the Club.
Finals, then 4 in a row!

Re: Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

Reply #134 –
Well said, Pratty and FB77. Giving Brackets more responsibility could well be the making of him.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17