Skip to main content ↑ ↓
Topic: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide (Read 17512 times) previous topic - next topic
0 Members and 5 Guests are viewing this topic.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #15 –
We are front runners. We are as good as any team when we have a full list and the game is being played on our terms. Take away one of the above and we drop to a mid table team.
Conclusion is this list is still not capable of going all the way. Had built a nice position on the ladder and had 4 winnable games and lost 3 of them. Too fickle too reliant on a few stars. Wont be this year unfortunately.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #16 –
Injuries 'are' an excuse...they're the best bloody excuse there is.

Make it in a decent ladder position.
With a reasonably fit side...
and I wouldn't expect that Port would cause us too many problems

But both of those are big 'ifs' just at the moment.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #17 –
Quote from: Lods – on
Problem is our talls are A graders, our smalls probably C's at best.

First choice maybe.
Replacement talls are d grade (don't give e grades anymore otherwise they would be here).

Look I was, I wouldn't say optimistic, but excited to see how we'd go with mix n matching the players we had available.

However....It was a terrible fail.

Both in terms of output and 'data collected'
We should've tried to move players around a bit more to find a mix that worked. We didn't.

I think pitto was good in the ruck.
I thought Charlie was good up forward.
I thought weiters was good down back.
I thought gov was passable.
I thought Kemp and young were largely disappointing.
Too many fumbles. Too slow to make decisions. Not enough 'swinging around' from vossy.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #18 –
At the ground I thought Pittonrt was useless. Charlie was well beaten.weitering beat Dixon but not much else.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #19 –
We will be lucky to make the finals.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #20 –
Quote from: Lods – on
Injuries 'are' an excuse...they're the best bloody excuse there is.

Make it in a decent ladder position.
With a reasonably fit side...
and I wouldn't expect that Port would cause us too many problems

But both of those are big 'ifs' just at the moment.

Seriously who do we have out. Like no team ever has no injuries.
We are missing TDK harry and Doc.
If we were as good i started to think we ate we still take care of the 7th placed interstate team at home.  If we played swans loins then maybe not having a full team may be a reason but against a middle of the road team at home nope im not buying that.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #21 –
McKay, De Koning, Williams and Acres. That's a good chunk of running power, goal scoring ability and height.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #22 –
I couldn't quite figure out what Fogarty's role or position was.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #23 –
We must be in a hard training block. We play one good qtr most recent weeks then are just cooked. We've flogged sides in last qtrs. with 5 day breaks before.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #24 –
Quote from: shawny – on
Seriously who do we have out. Like no team ever has no injuries.
We are missing TDK harry and Doc.
If we were as good i started to think we ate we still take care of the 7th placed interstate team at home.  If we played swans loins then maybe not having a full team may be a reason but against a middle of the road team at home nope im not buying that.
JSOS, Acres, Williams, Martin too would be handy.

I just don't understand how we can play one qtr the last few weeks that is premiership material then not fire a shot for the rest. Like after we do that we are cooked and sides just run over us. Up until 4 weeks ago getting run over by sides just never happened. If we were a few goals up, then the other side kicked a few, we'd lift and burying them unmercifully. Now we just get run over and crash after that one random qtr of brilliance.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #25 –
There plan was simple, let Curnow get balls up the ground because there was no one to kick to, play through Kemp's man..... and let Lewis Yoing do whatever he wanted to do.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #26 –
Port are garbage thats why its embarrassing, dud players like Esava, Allir and Zerk Thatcher outmarking our blokes isnt on, we dont have any KP backup at either end and lets be honest we dont have a CHB either. Did I hear we average more opposition marks in our defensive 50 than any other team?......
Smashed at centre clearances, beaten in the hitouts, beaten in general clearances and outackled, they were better with the ball and with Cripps and Walsh both held again to average games we were never going to win.
The loss of TDK has affected us badly as he impacts not only in the ruck but at clearances and in general play and its having a flow on effect to Cripps and Walsh who need to be extra dominant for us to win and thats not going to happen every week that TDK is missing.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #27 –
Quote from: PaulP – on
McKay, De Koning, Williams and Acres. That's a good chunk of running power, goal scoring ability and height.

...and our defensive structure has been unsettled in terms of personnel in recent weeks with a fair bit of chopping, changing, omissions and injury.
McGovern, Kemp, Boyd, Marchbank have all been in and out...and Weitering has been knocked around a bit as well.
Hard to get a settled line-up with constant changes.
But even if they are all fit there are question marks over some of them.

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #28 –
Yep if you ever wondered who the number 1 ruck was that question has been more than answered. Pittonet is a C grade footballer.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #29 –
McGovern was on the bench for most of the last quarter.dont know what that was about.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!