Carlton Supporters Club

Some of our key players were rubbish today

Briggs 40 hitouts to TDK 19.....TDK 11 Clearances to Briggs 10....given TDK's role in making us a winning team thats a win for GWS.
Cripps with 33 possies did his job, problem was Tom Green had 33 for GWS so it evens again when we needed a clear win
Walsh with 22 possies afetr being tagged was a win for GWS also...
Tackles inside 50....GWS 26- Carlton 4.......so not much pressure from our blokes to create goals or prevent them running the ball out.
Centre Clearances were equal and Stoppages just in our favour but given this is our one wood territory I reckon GWS would take those stats and call it a win for them..
They won the contested possessions by 17 and thumped us in the uncontested possessions...
Our average marks per game is around 90 we had 57, they average around 90 too and had 92...
Overall just outworked, out run and our key players were either held or beaten, probably did well to keep the game to a 2 goal loss...

I want to point something out.

Last time we played gws we had Lewis Young, and pittonet in, carroll was the sub, durdin was in as was hewett.

Cerra, cincotta, saad and gov were all out. 

We had a lot of players well down on their output which is why this happened and it wasn't all bad news. 

It's just not good enough to look down the stats sheet and see so many of our key players so down on output.  Maybe we attempted to slide the magnets around to lessen our single points of failure but we may have highlighted them instead.

Next week needs to be a big improvement.   I think we might want to rethink the risk reward of this one ruck vs two ruck business.  It isn't a zero sum equation where one ruck vs two definitely means less run, depends on what we do with the rest but it is a lot more limiting when we can't change up rucks or change match ups down back. 

We didn't turn up to play hard footy tonight. We took the bruise-free option. Looked good when it was on our terms but had no willingness to work when it wasn't. Suppose there's a reason no side goes through undefeated. They all chuck in crap ones. Swans even managed to lose to Richmond this year.

When we lost in 1995 we lost worse than that.

Well that's exactly what you get when you get ahead of yourselves and egos reign supreme. Inflated egos, once challenged, fold... and equates to poor work rate = someone else will do it. Heard a few tones of arrogance in Weiters words coupla weeks back when interviewed by Whately. Not good from a leader.

About fourteen goals to two in the middle of the game. Pathetic. Embarrassing. Once hunted, we sh*t the bed.

Well that's exactly what you get when you get ahead of yourselves and egos reign supreme. Inflated egos, once challenged, fold... and equates to poor work rate = someone else will do it. Heard a few tones of arrogance in Weiters words coupla weeks back when interviewed by Whately. Not good from a leader.

About fourteen goals to two in the middle of the game. Pathetic. Embarrassing. Once hunted, we sh*t the bed.

This is what worries me.
When the Giants cranked up the pressure and were running in waves, there was no resistance.
Panic set in and we crumbled.
Great sides don't do this.
I just wish it meant as much to all players as it does to Crippa. When he kicked that goal against the tide in the 3rd quarter he was angry and vocal trying to fire up the team.
He takes it personally. We need more to have his passion and drive.