Ready this week. :)
So, Crippa is playing and there are no late changes on either side. Jordan Boyd's our med sub.
PItt doing well at the start. It's pretty obvious that our game plan is to keep the ball in the contest. Rather than trying to switch, we're deliberately going back down the line after intercepting in D50. That's helping Weitering who's dominating.
Jinxed him.
PCL
8 weeks minimum i think
who is our sub?
Disaster! Pitt has gone knee on knee in a ruck contest against Bam-Bam and may be done for the night. Fingers crossed.
Can we get kreuzer in the mid season draft?
Yep, just saw it.
Based on the out, and the sub, we've lost this match.
Unless TDK has a blinder.
Can I just say, Darcy had no eyes for the footy in that ruck contest and ran jumped straight at pittonet with the knee up and we have been penalised for less all season.
Boyd for Pitto🤪
I hope not
Really in a sport that's trying to reduce injuries why do we have two guys running straight at each other clashing knees?
Charlie doing Charlie 💪
Because the AFL prefers history over logic.
Same reason we don't go to a conference system to get a fair draw.....history says we don't need it. Logic says we do.
I'm getting a man-crush on Hewitt. He's the sort of hard-nut defensive mid we haven't had for a while.
H 🦵
We are jinxed
Our 3 talls up forward has become 1.
OK, so million dollar question is, who gives TDK a chopout in the ruck now?
*as i see Harry on the bench with a leg injury*
1. Pitto - gone
2. TDK - ruck #1
3. SOJ - not playing
4. Mirkov - not playing
5. Harry - injured?/key forward #1
6. Young - key back #1
7. Charlie - key forward #2
8. Weitering - key back #2
9. *daylight*
10. Gov - not playing
11. Cripps - ??
12. Setterfield ? - taller, but not aggressive enough
13. Cottrell - will at least give a contest and won't die wondering
14. Parks - ??
Early stages, but TDK's doing ok.
In the game he was #1 ruck, he was spent by the 3rd quarter.....and he had SOJ as backup.
Considering the mayhem, taking a 4 point lead into quarter time is a pretty fair effort.
Pitt isn't done yet. He's taped up like the Mummy, but maybe it'll keep him in the game.
Pittonet is going to replace Harry up forward if he goes on i reckon. He's done some damage but not enough to keep him off.
Nice to get a few frees
🤞🏼Hope H and Pitto are good to go
He's a tough bast@rd and maybe he gets out there and pushes his weight around for 5 minutes at a time, but he won't be jumping at centre bounces, and therefor is ruck influence will be almost non-existant.
Maybe sit pitto in the goal square, and let harry/charlie ruck for a little bit?
Pitto subbed out
The large centre circle and centre line were introduced to prevent PCL injuries and have largely been successful.
Young needs to go into the ruck when Lobb goes in.
Having seen Pitt maimed by Darcy, I have no desire to see Charlie or H going against Darcy. Same with Cripps.
There have been 6 separate occasions where players have slipped at vital times!!! WTF!!
Someone has to....who?
FWIW, i'd be doing exactly what TDK did at the last centre bounce.....sidestep the flying darcy.
Usually its when there is a softer part of the ground to the rest of the ground.
Like there has been rain, but the sun has dried one side better than the other or that the sprinklers have been on one side more than an another.
Defense shaky
We're gone!
Was hoping being setterfields 50th he may play a decent game. I was wrong.
2 out of there 3 goals came from his stuff ups
I'm not a fan but Voss said he has been good this season.
A missed tackle nearly gave them another. His not up to the level.
he's not the issue.
Cripps just got don't argued to the ground.
Young just got blown over.
Its happening all over the ground.
edit....docherty just fell over
The slipping is killing us
Yeah your right again the problem is Cripps. How dumb of me
Nobody on their small forwards. Again.
Had enough of fisher. Does sfa
As Sam Newman would say "You idiot"
Young the ruckman
To be fair, the slip when Schultz took the mark was probably irrelevant. The error was that no defender covered Schultz and the slip was really a desperate and vain attempt to remedy that failure.
Young at the centre bounce.
Setterfield at the throw in.
Dogs breakfast trying to cover Pitto
Nothing like a statement of the bleeding obvious, but... this one is getting away from us, non-hackers being exposed under serious pressure.
He will NEVER be any good.
Dirty from Cripps
Just saw the Pitto injury, I thought you have to be looking at the ball, their ruckman just ran straight at Pitto.
Boyd making U10's mistakes weekly.
Pitto has had free kicks against despite winning the tap directly to a teammate for that reason.
Different umpire, different outcome.
We need to have plan B as he is becoming Kruezer mart II. Another glass man on the list.
Oh crap, you know things are going South when Sonny Walters starts kicking accurately at goal. That hasn't happened for ages.
These guys are going to smash us. This will be an ugly end result.
This is good - I want to see how this group responds chasing a game instead of holding onto a lead.
Martin 🙌
Agree. We seem to persist way to long with certain blokes. Fisher as well is a lucky footballer to get the game time he gets considering his output
Yep. Had a good look at it. If it was Max G getting injured there would be hell to pay.
No eyes for the ball. Pure knee at the apposite ruck...
We're pacing ourselves.
;)
Martin 🙀
Is it just me or are they an exceptionally tall team. And yet they are not slow.
Is that our lowest first half score to date? Is Harry OK. He looks done with that leg.
Under seige in that qrtr but hanging in there.
For mine TDK is a worry.
Scoreboard gonna get ugly.
We haven't played our one quarter yet :)) :)) :))
We badly need him to stand up in the second half.
We also don’t have a great 3q record. Or 4q as I recall 🙄
Just in case anyone's thinking that the midseason draft might allow us to draft a ruckman, the problem is that it'll take place after Round 11, 5 weeks away. PCLs are about a 9 week injury aren't they?
This is the week to change all that. 😎
He's not experienced.
If you go back and watch a replay of the first half centre bounces, you'll see Darcy taking his eyes off the football and targets his knee at our rucks shin or quad. There are a couple of clear shots of it happening, one has cost Pitto a PCL. It's a dog act, and technically it's a block that should be penalised, but is rarely paid because the umpires aren't watching for that stuff. An experienced ruck knows that if you come at the football from the same direction as Darcy he can't do that, and it becomes a wrestle / jumping contest.
Hard to get Freo pinged for holding the ball in Perth, the crowd has a lot of influence.
Not sure how Newnes gets a run ahead of Stocker or LoB, on form and intensity nothing I've seen justifies Newnes selection ahead of those others. Both Newnes and Owies dropped baby marks that turned potential goals for us into opposition scores.
Boyd, why? Newman must be next to go. So often caught out of position and gives us nothing going fwd. Far prefer Stocker locking a dangers fwd away.
You left out the 'k'... ;) ;D
32 - 15 i50’s.
connection is underrated
Not picking up their small forwards well enough for mine
Seems a PCL injury that won't require surgery takes 4-12 weeks recovery time. But if surgery is required, then 6-9 months rehab is required (which is season over in this case):
The injury with the highest recurrence rate: Why it happens and best way to fix it, afl.com.au (https://www.afl.com.au/news/132894/the-injury-with-the-highest-recurrence-rate-why-it-happens-and-best-way-to-fix-it).
Worse possible start. Looked so easy
We don’t have any answers anywhere on the ground.
We are getting a lesson in work rate and hardness at the footy.
How is it so hard to mark a ball? I am starting to feel sick. This will be a thrashing and a percentage booster for Freo.
Is uncompetitive too harsh a description?
And that is game over. They're doing as they please.
Martin keeps his feet and is strong in the contest.
Newnes Cottrell Fisher Owies Boyd De Koning
Nuff said
Should all be replaced next week.....
Cripps starting to carry them on his back again
Frees not going our way now
Boyd is a spastic
Dekoning was playing well till Pittonet went down.
Htf does Boyd fisher setterfield newnes get games but Dow can’t crack one.
He can’t be worse then that bunch
Setterfield, Fisher, Durdin, Newnes not happening
I don't want to see Boyd in Carlton colours again.
Defense is shaky
Getting ugly
Selections like his are making Voss look like Teague.
I think it’s time for a sacking.
When the screws are tightened, we simply have no answers.
As a forward. I checked the stats during the first term and he had 8 touches and was the 2nd ranked player on the ground. He is a forward who can pinch hit in the ruck but can't be relied upon as a back up.
Given enough chances to the same culprits.....Dow, Stocker and Carroll surely deserve a run in front of these blokes.
This umpiring... Seriously.
Ive seen enough, nity nite.
Witches hats is all we are at the moment. This could be a 12 goal loss.
First prime time game since round 1 and choking badly.
Spotlight now switches to Voss. And it bloody well should.
Don't go. We haven't played our one quarter yet.
North next week ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Harry injured and can't get near it so why do we keep on bombing to him?
Welcome to Carlton Vossy. At least we won 4 games.
Cannot continue to give non performer's games.
Injuries have bitten us as usual but the difference this year is we have a competitive reserves team.
Another setterfield beauty
Why is Martin jumping at the same ball all the time.
Tell Martin to crumb and stop spoiling Harry!
Said it last week.
Is a 'slow thinker' Every man and his dog saw that he should've given it straight back to Saad....and that was why,
Voss reckons he has been good on the wing this year.
I haven't seen it myself. Think he lacks too much pace.
I said as soon as Pitto got injured and found out that Boyd was the sub that we would lose this game.
Its looked like nothing since.
But.....Freo should be another 5 goals in front.
Its certainly unlikely, but if Harry/Charlie get a few quick ones and get the confidence up, we can kick some goals in a hurry. (Albeit its a lot harder without Pitto gifted our mids the clearances)
To be a slow thinker you have to have a brain. He’s a no thinker.
This bloke has not one quality at all apart from looking athletic and being an early pick. How he holds his spot week after week is beyond me.
My mate texted me that Mirkov is injured. Who is going to ruck next week? This could be season over.
He isn't the lone ranger. Gees we carry some passengers and boat anchors.
He lacks composure when under pressure.
Big quarter coming up folks..
Sean Darcy off with concussion (or test at least).
Gives us a chance in the ruck from here....
I have warmed to pitto because I love competitors and he is one but he is no Max Gawn and we are not going to amount to anything unless we can gets wins when we lose a important player early on.
I mean imagine if we lose Cripps in final early on. We need to be a team.
Cripps will need to book up a physiotherapist. His shoulders must be very sore and tired carrying the entire squad for most of this game.
Whoever helped Cripps with his kicking in the off-season deserves a huge payrise.
His kicking at goal was the worst on a list, now its one of the best.
Crippas goal kicking is aok
Looks like Charlie has evened it up in the ruck. In Q3, he went up for a mark and when he came down Darcy was on the ground and he accidentally stomped on his head. Now Darcy is in concussion protocol and may we subbed out.
I remember in the early 90s my mates at school used to call us Kernahanton.
We're Crippton at the moment.
Darcy out, Banfield in.
I say it every week.
Never let Boyd play in a Carlton jumper again!
Or is that "Cripponite"....lol. Looks like it has affected us.
Whoever is responsible for picking Boyd should be sacked on Monday.
Boyd is nowhere near afl standard.
McKay seems to be going for the ball with just one hand a fair bit.
Our small forwards been woeful
Fisher?!?!?!
Boyd!!! nice smother.
Boyd has good tenacity
I said there was time....
Has evened up since darcy went off
I'd take Boyd over Setterfield and Fisher every day of the week
We're seeing what sort of impact Darcy had in Pitt's absence. It's back to an even game now.
In fairness TDK has tried his arse off.
They have lost lobb as a forward too.
Attack the ball Newman.
Agreed. He just can't compete with a beast like Darcy.
Crucial ruck contest and Young is in. >:(
Owies and Durdin been awol needed them to stand up with talls not firing
Lewis Young is cementing a spot. He's now been KPD, KPF, & ruck in the same game.
Still hanging in there. Only just.
a goal every 2 minutes from here and we can steal 4 points.
Have we hit a 2nd half scoring record?
Its worth noting that the opposition is 4-1 on their home deck.
We have played awful to this point. Copped injuries during the week, and during the game.
We have no right to be this close, playing this bad, with this lineup.....but we are still hanging in there.
This would be a 10-goal defeat every other year.
Daylight between their small forwards and ours
Another setterfield inaction. The bloke is stuffed
Easily and I agree totally. This is a loss to really learn from. How to execute work rate.
Still a finals team I reckon but too many under performers being gifted games.
Why is Weitering always trying to fist the ball when he could have had half a dozen more marks in this game?
Williams.... $800 K a year and has no idea.
They just have way more run.
Voss now has the ability to ring the changes, 3 or 4 at least.
I'm worried about next week. Goldstein might break records.
Still a fair bit off the better teams. We always talk me included about who we have out as a big reason why we lose but the reality is we are now a mid tier team and results will show that as the year goes on
Fisher
Setterfield
Williams
Martin
Boyd
Newman
Words fail me.
Midfield was good - defence under alot of pressure and didnt cope the best. But still ok.
Wings, Half forwards and small forwards just didnt do enough.
I don't think we can win a flag with Saad, Docherty Newman and Williams playing in the same backline.
Enough with the small forwards!
They haven't done anything, sure, but they haven't had the chance too either.
Our entry inside 50 has basically meant that we mark it, or they do.....and they usually have extra numbers to help once the ball hits the deck.
They haven't stopped running, trying, harrassing, but they have been forced to be reactive all night just with the way we have got the ball inside 50.
Yep, take Williams and Newman out of it and we will be fine. For a player on huge money, his disposal and decision making is ordinary at best.
I said earlier in the year that i don't think we can play them all in the same team, and Newman was my weakest link.
He's been a solid contributor since coming across, but for team balance, we need a genuine 3rd tall back there ala Gov and Newman needs to reinvent himself elsewhere, or play VFL.
Why enough with small forwards are you the all seeing and all knowing?
What I saw they were not good enough - they didnt lock the ball in forward 50 and were ineffective when they HAD to stand up.
Durdin, Owies, Fisher, Martin, Setterfield were just not good enough. faster we get Motlop and Honey up to speed the better.
Midfield was good.
BTW small forwards have been under performing past four weeks. The ease opposition defence rebound from turnover from forward line has been TOO EASY.
Small forwards did lack intensity and pressure. Forward entry was crape, but they don’t crumb the ball well, and don’t lock the ball in often enough.