Carlton Supporters Club

We seem to have the draw from hell.
Recently played all top eight sides some undefeated with a long injury list and now past two games we have played teams that are fighting for survival. This time of year you prefer to play teams in top eight that are slightly complacent than teams fighting to get into the eight as their hunger will always be higher.

I read numerous articles last week on how Cripps has changed his game allowing others to win the ball so gets the second posession. Pretty sure that's Hewett and Kennedy.

I read numerous articles last week on how Cripps has changed his game allowing others to win the ball so gets the second posession. Pretty sure that's Hewett and Kennedy.

It's good that the load is shared, and in Hewett's absence we had a Midfield rotation including Cripps, Walsh, Cerra, Hollands, Fogarty and Kennedy(From 2nd Qtr.), hardly the bare cupboard fans are painting.

Expecting 'bull' work from Fog, Ollie & Walsh is a folly. Our 'bulls' are Crippa, Kennedy, Cincotta and Hewett. Walsh and Cerra are better on the outside and Fog in the small forward mix.

That's not the point, the mix doesn't matter it's the sharing of the load that gets a team across the line. We mentioned many times in the past if we don't find ways to share the load we will run the likes of Cripps prematurely into the ground.

As for having a substitute Cripps, it's a fantasy, there is no "other Cripps".

Good tradespeople look after their tools.

Fog, Walsh, Cincotta, etc., can do what gets done to Cripps, and harass, chase and dump the likes of Bont or others. At the weekend, Bont often stood of the back of the stoppages and played a sweeper role, coming in as the 2nd or 3rd player, and he was doing so largely unchecked.

That's not the point, the mix doesn't matter it's the sharing of the load that gets a team across the line. We mentioned many times in the past if we don't find ways to share the load we will run the likes of Cripps prematurely into the ground.

As for having a substitute Cripps, it's a fantasy, there is no "other Cripps".

Good tradespeople look after their tools.

Fog, Walsh, Cincotta, etc., can do what gets done to Cripps, and harass, chase and dump the likes of Bont or others. At the weekend, Bont often stood of the back of the stoppages and played a sweeper role, coming in as the 2nd or 3rd player, and he was doing so largely unchecked.

Bont did a lot of the monkey work pushing the ball out to other players because he was covered and I think he led the tackle count too with nine and had eight clearances as well, he was kept under wraps by Cincotta and friends but still found a way to contribute and is a class act.
 We had a lot of players get a lot of ball and led most stats but it never looked that way in the game and Im sure Voss and crew will be scratching their heads trying to figure how we lost if you look at the stats in isolation but as we know its more about the big moments in the game than amassing cheap stats.

I reckon based on the presser and efficiency comments voss is aware of where it went wrong.  Doing not much with a lot is what I take out of it.  They were on top for most of it, we had our chances and kept taking the wrong options which hurts.  We did the right thing early applying scoreboard pressure when they didn't but it started falling apart when Williams went off which is why we might look at more creative better users next week against North.  Martin might feature.  I think we should consider it given its a relative free hit.