Ready for tomorrow. I'll be at the game. I really want to dent their finals aspirations!
Really looking forward to this, a real test under Teague. Kruzer out, big hole , will miss his second efforts, we play taller with him. Go Blues
Nice goal Cripps after the Crows got 2 ,
Awesome skills by SPF results in Goal to Kennedy
Usual one sided umpiring.
Crows are capitilising on every opportunity.
4 goals from 7 inside 50's.
We are all over them, but have 4.4 (including a poster to Gibbons)
We gave them a bit of a start and a couple of easy ones, but we have controlled the game. We just need to translate it to the scoreboard.
Kennedy potentially done this early is not great for rotations and may cost us in the 4th quarter if the game is tight.
We need to put the foot on the throat now and skip away to a lead, then they might drop their bundle giving us an easy win. We can;t afford to go goal for goal with them for the whole game.
Good start. Jones probably needs to take tex.
Midfield holding their own and excellent forward pressure. Tweek our defense to stop easy out the back opportunities and it's game on.
Pleasantly surprised to see Ellie giving us a couple of deserved frees. Keep em coming.
Go Blues
PS. I think Eddie Mc is a closet Carlton Supporter ????
20 tackles to 1 our way in forward 50 tackles! :o
Great pressure.
Whenever they're in trouble they pull a free from nowhere. FMD every week we get this crap.
11 shots to 5
Just like that >:D
Keep it up boys.
Blues looking sharp - brilliant work before by Settlefield,
Levi looking excellent!
We've had many more frees than them Prof. Take off your navy blue glasses and put on the ones that help you see clearly. ;)
It's not how many it's where and when.
Philips misses an easy one, those are the ones the good teams nail. Extra scoreboard pressure is gold
Cripps has had at least 3 from stoppages which could be overlooked. Yet its got the ball forward and given us a shot on goal.
We haven't been hard done by.
I agree, but they've had some shockers go their way!
McKay playing very selfish footy today, scoring, but could have created goals for us a couple of times if he just played team football and not for himself!
Missing some real chances to put them to the sword.
3 quick behinds , could have made huge difference in the context of this game. Worried about Harry, doesn't seem to have the energy ATM
McKay doesn't deal well with physical harassment, he gets distracted and starts worrying about his own possessions, needs to learn to be a bit sacrificial and do some early work to create for team mates.
I realise that you have to selfish to be a forward, but team selfish, team greedy, is a much better way to be!
OK, that one was a bit iffy.
Footy gods helped us out though.
16 points up at half time, take that every day of the week.
When we had procession, it would have been a good idea to slow it down with less than 1 minute to go.
A bit iffy? Josh Jenkins gets more nothing free kicks each week than our forwards get in a season.
Ditto.
Just the a very good 1/2 of footy from our boys.
How silky were the pick ups and dance moves by Samo and Setters ????
Our presence around the ball is dominant despite our youth etc. Tidy up this gettable set shots and we may just get over the line.
Go Blues
We're going well and it's probably our effort that's causing it.... but they're awful.
No intensity at all.
Pyke might be joining the lines of the unemployed shortly.
Crows playing with little enthusiasm. We've seen plenty of that in recent years. Let's hope they can keep it up. :)
Boys on ABC radio saying that Brent Stanton has had a big influence since becoming midfield coach.
Great tussle start of the quarter, first goal important here
Liking De Luca, reminds me a little of Fraser Murphy, angry ant. awesome goal to Levi
What a classic. Casboult has gone from someone who used to kill me with his kicking for goal, to someone who can't miss.
Goal to Philips , nice grab in the pocket
Gave him a pump up pre-game commenting on his marking and goal kicking.
2 big grabs inside 50 for 1.1 now.
Gee Harry, lack of intensity really showing here
Simmo, nice goal, settling things down a little
A lot of people owe Plowman an apology.
Great effort to take that grab.
Laser guided kick to an open Simmo for the set shot goal.
If i'm the crows, i'm panicking now.
McKay one minute good, the next minute awful.
If Big H takes a mark inside F50 he should be having a shot!
Definitely off the boil today.
Umpires?
????
They worked him over a bit early and he's not responded well, the silly thing is he's getting the hard football, but he's panicking and looking for easy goals!
Really, team wise, we should be another 2 or 3 goals up if not for a few silly things our team has done!
Keep up the pressure without giving panic free kicks and we've got this.
Go Blues
De Luca GOAL great start
Cripps is untaggable.
That the stupidity of the mindless tagging tactics which we put up with for years under Malthouse when our small bodies couldn't stop the big bodies! It's good to see a Carlton player handing some out!
MacKay needs to stop the Hollywood crap but FMD, Talia can do whatever he likes... That last contest just shoved him under the ball. Hard to mark it with your arms held.
This umpiring is crooked, deadset crooked.
Gift goal to Crows , free looked soft to start with?????
When the first comment about the umpires being against us came today, the free kick count was 11-6 in our favour.
Now the free kick count is 16 - 25.
So its been 5 - 19 since then. :o
Falling asleep at times, simple mistakes creeping in
Thinking Levi has had a great game, takes strong kicks it out on full????
That none paid mark to Dow earlier was a disgrace, that and the umps are doing the best to bring the Crows into it!
4th q has been all Crows. Come on boys.
HTF is that not holding the ball? Seriously?????
How about holding the ball umps?
McKay injured ?
Jesus Cripps.
Goal Setters awesome
Well done Setterfield. Might be enough.
Setterfield.
Da Dada Da Daaaa
Not a great kick, but he's already had 35 possies, 17 clearances, so he's on today.
Best game I have seen Setters play, has been consistent all day
My heart is in my throat at the moment.
Game over
Gibbooooooooo.
Problem of being a crappy side for so long. 22pts in front at the 25 min mark and you're still nervous...haha.
I'm about to cry????
I can't believe it!
Well done Blues. Well done Teague. What a difference a new coach makes.
It aint over till the final siren and we have been crap for way too long.
Has to be game over now. Crows have kicked 9 goals in nearly 4 q. They won't be kicking 5 in a few minutes.
Great effort by all concerned.
Blues over crows.....
Da da....
Just curious if anyone knows the crowd size today ?
Wow. What a result.
2019 Predictor, Pyke on a pike before dinner Monday!
True, love to be nervous every week then
Will lock this now guys - move to the post game thread.