Re: Post Game passion: AFL 2021 Rd 6: Carlton vs Brisbane
Reply #108 –
Have had similar experiences to Mickey0, had to tell one guy last week to stop swearing, later the security came and spoke to him. It wasn't me who called them but they really should have kicked him out. Yesterday I asked a guy to stop his moaning during the putrid second quarter. Another supporter said he was saying what everyone else was thinking and someone has got to make the team listen. First off they can't hear us in the outer and secondly, going on and on about the sides performance just makes a depressing situation even more depressing. If you are not enjoying your football experience, don't come, in a lot of ways these people are just being selfish. Finally, while we all have the right to free speech, we also have the right to remain silent, and just because you want to talk it doesn't mean I want to listen, so in my opinion, people should make there comments and move on and not keep going over the same ground.
It was the same old story, inability to hit targets, poor decision making and bad kicking for goal. Our last two goals by Murphy and McGovern came about from good foot skills and good finishing. Where was that in the first 120 minutes of the game? I liked the Docherty and SPS, along with Murphy, Cuningham and others starting up in the middle of the ground. I thought it allowed for more players to get into the game and made us a lot less stagnant, unfortunately we lost too many one on one in our D50 and we were smashed when the ball hit the ground in our F50. I was happy that Cripps was hand passing more but he just needs to get better at that and more players need to be running past when he does get it so we can start getting waves of players going forward.
The second quarter was so bad it overshadows what was reasonable to good efforts in the other three quarters. If Cripps had kicked the goal, then the ball would not have been swept down to the Brisbane goal and it would have been a six to three quarter, while this would be bad it is not disastrous. Finally I am not sure we can carry Betts and Murphy in our front half at the same time.
Great post.
RE Cripps, yes handball and handball quickly to runners. He attracts a crowd so we must have blokes who are free, capitalise.