Re: 2017 Rd 2: Post Game Postulations: Carlton vs Melbourne
Reply #85 –
I must have watched a different game.
Was impressed with the endeavor and heart today. Melbourne took till 20 mins into the last to put the game in the bag. Many on here predicted this mob will definitely play finals and made a good outfit look poor last week.
I know it's difficult to be positive when you have a loss but we must remember we had SOJ, C Curnow, Marchbank, SPS, mcCredie and Pickett all in today and curnow aside thought the rest were very serviceable. SOJ is the veteran of this list with 10games!!!
Hard to win with 6 players under 10 games.
Add in Weitering, plowman and cripps as more young players yet to notch 50 games and that's a very young team today.
While I'm disappointed with some of the costly errors from senior players and to lose yet again but I saw enough today to say we are tracking ahead of where I thought we would be.
I'm happy with the kids progress.
A bit of perspective needed folks.
That sounds like the game I was at
I was much happier with yesterday's effort than the Richmond game. We really had a chance for an unexpected win but lost momentum when Murphy turned the ball over.
I'm really pleased with Plowman; he seems to have stepped up a notch from last season and I feel confident that he will end up with the ball whenever it's in his vicinity. It's probably just as well because Docherty has put in a couple of shockers. It's uncharacteristic of him to be easily out-positioned and make poor decisions, and his disposal has been worse than usual. Hopefully he will get back to his best in the coming weeks.
I watched the game with a neutral observer and he was very impressed with Plowman and Marchbank and reckons that Pickett, Sammo and Macreadie will be very good.
I don't really follow the criticism of Casboult; he worked really hard off the ball, marked well and negated Gawn when Kreuzer had a spell. Some very poor umpiring cost him a couple of opportunities.
My grandsons had a great day. The 7 year old kicked a goal and the 5 year old carried the ball from one end to the other. Unfortunately, he didn't bother to take a bounce