Carlton Supporters Club

NORTHERN BLUES VS WILLIAMSTOWN
Saturday 20th August, 2016
IKON Park, 2:00 PM

NORTHERN BLUES

B: 4. S Russell 43. S White 34. J Glass-McCasker
HB: 33. D Thomas 50. B Jordan 38. B Gowers
C: 76. J Tutt 1. T Wilson 20. A Everitt
HF: 51. B Boekhorst 48. K Jaksch 49. D Armfield
F: 46. L Sumner 19. H McKay 23. H Kerbatieh
R: 36. C Wood 32. N Graham 37. T Jones
Int: 24. T Roos 21. C Barrett 22. D Aujla 12. Z Ballard 65. D Viojo 6. G Strachan 30. S Bolger 10. T Totevski 45. D Stevens 31. J Foster 35. K Declase 80. M Korcheck

23P: 40. M Blakey
    

WILLIAMSTOWN

B: 26. J Johnstone 31. D Fahey 7. N Sing
HB: 5. C Lockwood 8. P Faulks 17. J Charleston
C: 11. J Dorgan 4. B Jolley 24. W Wheeler
HF: 10. L Masters 3. S Dunell 14. A Siposs
F: 23. B Bese 36. T Davies 49. N Meese
R: 13. A Cordy 6. M Gibbons 15. B Bewley
Int: 2. D Conway 32. C Hislop 25. S Critchley 20. S Hetherington 18. J Greiser 27. J Chisari 33. T Currie 44. J Owen 

23P: 41. M Norton
 
No Smith? Well, he is probably gone anyway. No Gorringe? No idea what that means! Skittles on the bench? That bodes poorly for him.
To be honest, if we played at our best we could beat this lot. But we haven't and don't look like it. They killed us last time.

Would have loved to have been there but have been floored by this flu. Worst I've had in decades... it's a shocker.

Though when I look at the final scoreline maybe I didn't miss much! Looking forward to knowing more about the game..

The flu did you a favour. I didn't check out the pies but here is a review of the players.

No Everitt or Graham.

Tutt and Boekhorst were the standout Carlton players – they stood out because of their effort, their pace and their equally inept disposal skills.

I watched the game from behind the goals to get a closer look at the tall defenders and Harry McKay, who lacked touch but he consistently played in front so he was able to mark on the lead and whenever kicks fell short.  Unfortunately he never looked like taking a contested mark despite being in front of his shorter opponent who was able to out-position him or spoil from behind with too much ease. 

As far as the four tall defenders are concerned:
Foster was the most impressive because he was the only one who was able to stay with his opponent and consistently spoil in marking contests. His ball handling and disposal skills were also good. Showed enough to possibly get another year on the list.

Glass-McCasker moves well and seems to have good skills but lacked the presence to impact the game and was the least noticeable of the four when he was on the ground - I didn’t notice him after half time; was presumably injured.

Gowers played with intensity but without finesse and rookie listed players don’t often get more than 2 years - don’t let the gate hit you on the way out.

The most disappointing was Jaksch because more was expected of him. Despite some posters calling for his promotion, I have never been convinced but I thought he could be worth persevering with because he has decent straight-line speed and decent hands. After today, I would not be disappointed to see him let go. Of his 16 disposals, a significant number would have come after kicking to himself to play on after a behind and he nearly stuffed up one of those. For the most part he seemed to spend his time trying to arrange to be the loose man in defence so that he could have an opponent with whom he could possibly break even. Rarely have I seen a loose man fail to get to so many contests or fail to influence (or even touch the ball) on the occasions when he managed to get there in time. When he was required to man up on an opponent, he usually zoned off behind that opponent and then failed to get close enough to spoil (or even create) a marking contest unless the ball was kicked so high that his opponent became a sitting duck.

Korcheck and Wood were well handled and out-bodied by undersized former Bullants ruckman, Nick Meese. Wood is barely VFL standard these days (a massive drop off from last year) whilst Korcheck has yet to reach those lofty heights.

DVR flashed some nice skills from time to time in the midfield but so infrequently that his performance could be better described as a decent impression of the invisible man.

Of the VFL listed players, Kerbatieh did not impress. The better players were Strachan, Wilson, Roos, Aujla and Blakey (redhead from Northern Knights), who flashed some decent skills. Tim Totevski appeared to injure his knee seriously in the first term.