Ready for action.
Great run down by H
Great pressure Owies
1st goal 🫡
Fwds bring the pressure. Unlike last week
Pin point ZW
Great pass ZW
MC - please see Owies with 2 q1
Dogs look on
Cmon Harry 👆
Boyd shin injury?
Well done, staying focused. Shame about the point Fog 🫣
Amazing. Orasio out and small forwards look dangerous
2 goals for owies and marks i50 Williams and fog
Thank God Dogs not kicking straight.
Beating us around the ball. I
We look stifled
Need to string together possessions
And just like that, we cough up the lead
2 for H
Charlie totally out of sorts
Thank goodness for H
Well behind the pace for a couple of weeks.
Charlie needs to get on his bike and just leave H isolated on Lobb
C'mon Charlie 🙄
Ugle cannons Kemp into Saad
#crippa200 captains goal 👏🏼
To date, a somewhat lacklustre performance. Come on boys, top 4 and Cripps' 200th. No additional motivation required.
Zac Williams off the ground, straight into the rooms.
They are all over us. We're fumbling and turning it over
Looks like Matt Kennedy will be activated as sub.
Thanks Charlie 👏🏼
Finally htb free
I know we usually have an extra gear towards the end of the match, but so do the dogs. We've gone in tall.....we've used a taller/slower mid as our sub and we've lost a small to injury. Not ideal in a fast paced shootout.
Despite the extra ruck, we are on a par with our performance against GWS through the middle in terms of hitouts/clearances etc. This needs to change in the 2nd half.
Of our talls, Weitering has been huge down back. Harry has been big around the ground, the rest have been largely irrelvent apart from the odd cameo.
Owies shows why he shouldn't be used as a sub.
Williams breaking down now gives us enough time to get him back for finals and lets us try someone new there next week. Lets go with Motlop NOT Fantasia for this please!
Charlie shouldn't have played. He is not right.
Three 7 goal qtrs in 2 weeks we have given up.
Nothing in the last 6 quarters has been convincing.
Wrestle back the ascendancy by getting first use will go a long way.
Cottrell to get it together this half. Hopefully. Acres working his bside off. Harry having another solid game so far.
Who will step up?
Go Blues
Unconvincing so far. Midfield looks sluggish
Cottrell only has 2 touches to half time.
I know when he was off Fantasia was supposedly filling in as cover for Cottrell.
Cotrell now seems to be covering for the fantasia role......of being a passenger.
Hewett doesn't deserve to be out of the 22 with passengers like Fantasia/Cottrell getting a game. Need to lift!
For me the thing that has stood out in the last few weeks is we've lost our composure with the berserker game style.
We've had plenty of footy today, but turned it over in damaging locations, some of it about choice of target, a bit about execution. I thought we looked better balanced as squad today, but we might be missing McGovern's cool head and precise ball use.
English is got the better of both our rucks, but it's not helped by the lack of holding the ball decision today, a lot of unrewarded tackles that had a few of our players perplexed.
Cerra horribly out of touch, low confidence and it shows in his ball use, possibly carrying something as well.
Fwd pressure has been poor for 6q now, aside an odd glimpse. 1 tackle i50 isn't enough.
Marchbank on West?
Pittonet in ruck, we're outscored 21-3.
TDK in ruck we are winning 19-2.
In fairness to both, when rucks rotate so do the Mids, so it's difficult to put meaning to a simple statistical analysis that is meaningful.
I felt Walsh and Cripps have been well held so far, but also they have both been unrewarded for some terrific tackles. Bont and Libba get an incredible amount of freedom, Walsh does similar and gets pinged.
Cottrell is not the player you bring straight in after a long injury break. 2 rucks isn't helping us and one of our better mids isn't playing in Hewitt.
This feels like last week. We don't seem to have a response 😕
He reminds me of players we had in defence in the old sh1te days. He is unsure and nervy anywhere near it.
Yes, don't want to be 6 goals behind again when the response comes.
Marchbank slow as an old dog
We look too focussed on opponents and not focussed enough on the ball.
A risky corridor run from defence by Saad, on his rt, pays off.
Spot on LP. Need to start hunting the ball
For all the injuries marchbank has had, he put his body on the line with that spoil. Won't die wondering.
We are having glimpses of decent play. We know that won't get the W
We picked a team to play on our opponents, instead of picking a team to play the way we want.
I've called for kicking off the ground to be penalised, but what Cripps did you see 20x a game go unpenalized or even go the other way for contact below the legs, and all of a sudden it's in danger.
Need Crippa & Co to lift start winning out of the middle
Its always in danger, its just the umpires don't pay it 90% of the time.
Our main problem today is horrendous ball use, AFL players can't miss targets by 10m and still win games no matter how much footy they win.
Weightman is sucking in our defenders, but he's getting away with a lot off the ball that should be penalized.
Horrendous ball use is a sign of 2 things.
1. No time
2. No ability.
Taller/slower/out of form players will produce this every time.
Yep, looks too much like last week... an opponent who go fast and haphazard and it brings us undone.
Cottrell very disappointing... miles off it. We look better with TDK in the ruck.
With time and space we are missing opponents, we are missing blokes in static plays, we are missing blokes when we get the advantage, we miss when we play on.
Fog just gave you a great example.
Ff2
Fog tackled high = htb
Something dramatic will have to happen for us to win this... as we're playing now, you just can't see it. Dishlickers in charge.
Charlie hoggy there. Certain goal passing to cripps went himself.
Not good enough.
Missing George Heweett
Yes I agree. Only 3 points down as I type this, but the vibe is like we're 6 goals down.
At last. ... it's pinging out of f50 way too easy. Making scores such hard work
Well done Cincotta
Getting slaughtered at centre bounce
Outcoached, outplayed
He just adds a different dimension - more defensive mindset
Fu%$$$#%%^ing red time goals
Is this one of our most frustrating games?
My changes for next week.....
Motlop -> Williams
Kennedy (sub) -> Pittonet
Hewett -> Cerra (sub)
Cuningham -> Cottrell.
What have we got?
The past 7q, we've had nothing.
Who steps up?
Do they know it's the captain's 200th?
Agreed. Except Hewitt for Ollie
A few boys in the Magoos tomorrow have the opportunity to put their hands up...
Gotta get imaginative with the magnets at 3/4 time, Vossy. Dishlickers have the answers and are in control. Maybe ask TDK to ruck the entire final qtr?
Couldn't be more frustrated. All that work to get a goal and they get it straight back. Twice in a short time. They need to be booted flush up the arse.
Ollie out as well... strong tackles but FA else.
Go Blues
Like Cottrell as a solider and best 22, but not sure I would have bought him straight in after 6-7 weeks out. Couldn't get near it last week and likewise this week.
Surely they lift for crippa here.
This is where you will see if this team truely is a top 4 team. No excuses just get it done
Feck around with team selections and pay the price...two weeks in a row.
Why do we do it every season..
The interpretation is BS.
He had no prior opportunity, so thus shouldn't be holding the ball under current rules.
Can’t win now
That mark sums up our game.
Very poor effort all round.
Cincotta is probably our quickest midfielder, time to give him a more attacking/creative role and give the run-with to someone else.
Not a top 4 team gents.
We obviously have got way ahead of ourselves.
That's the ball game. Nothing thus far has suggested we can reel in that lead.
Curnow is playing for Curnow and does zero 1%ers for his team mates.
Smashed in the middle two week in a row.
If you can't correct that against 12th place, you're in strife.
We look tired and slow. Mind. Body. MC. Coaching.
We've been exposed.
Since qtr time 13gls to 7. Dishlickers 8 more shots on goal.
Sorry Crippa.
We get a goal by playing Cripps in the ruck.
We should try that more often..... ;)
Cripps from the ruck, gives to Charlie goal.
Cripps in the centre gets the clearance and goes forward.
Cripps takes the contested mark and kicks the goal.
Not a bad minute from the 2024 brownlow medalist.
If only we could get someone else to help him.
Thank christ for Cripps
About sums it up. Like last week, looked a million bucks in the 1st qtr, then collapsed. (Dishlickers inaccuracy in the 1st helped us look better than we were (are).
Called it in the first 5 mins - dogs were on. We were 2 goals up at the time.
If only we had a legitimate 2nd key defender in the team.
Anyone else getting deja vu?
Game over. Overrated.
Top four teams get the points against an undermanned mid table team.
Gutted for cripps
Back to the bad old days of Crippa having to put the side on his back... other mids should hang their head in shame. We won't get too far relying on Crippa.
This is the most frustration game. Let's hope we are in a heavy patch of training.
Go well in the 1st qtr again then nothing. Every time we look like getting back into the game we give up an easy goal.
Yep... sad that it takes Herculean stuff from Crippa to give us some respectability.
There has been a lot of talk about the ladder and if it lies.
Ladder position only tells part of the tail.
% tells a large part of the story as well.
Dogs have a better % than us. Do not undestimate them.
I had the same thought.
Pushed through all the top teams, now struggling against the 'lower' teams (still good though).
Team selection is one thing, but it doesn't explain everything.
And why wasn't Hewett playing?
Charlie 3.5
3.6 to Charlie.............grrrrrrr.
Poor performance for a great leader
Yes, we die after qtr time.
Sorry for Crippa
3.7?
Dodgy ankle not helping his kicking??
Started poorly. Did not lift despite the best motivator.
Old-style Carlton unfortunately.
Too many passengers.
We may quickly find ourselves in the pack fighting for the 8 if nothing changes.
The only positive I can find is that we can play so poorly and still only lose by a couple of goals. Blah.
Disgraceful!
Our record with Pitt and TDK continues to be poor, however the MC seem to forget every six weeks. We look slow and get split open. Great win for the Dogs with their outs.
Both frustrating and embarrassing 😳