Carlton Supporters Club

My kingdom for a clean lace out fwd50 entry.  How many times did we steam forward, look a million bucks, then dribble one to Charlie’s feet, or over his head.  Could’ve absolutely toweled them up with some tidying up of the forward entires

Loved the fwd 50 pressure
Loved the intercept marking (Haynes, gov, wieters, jsos)
Loved the taking the game on thru the middle, and the great hands,  including the little handballs out the front of contests, even under pressure
Loved Lij
Loved Blakers looking to handball more than kicking
Loved JSos kicking
Loved fog, durds, white, mots
Loved Walshy making those media types writing him off, without a pre season, look silly
Loved TDKs run, fight and pressure
Loved what could be when Charlie, H, walshy, Crippa are all properly match fit

Gotta admit, watching again tonight, there were a couple of times, at the start of the 3rd and 4th qs, where I was worried we were going to lose the replay!

One positive to whats been a pretty disappointing season so far is our midfield seems more balanced and less reliant on Cripps which is a great thing.

Despite having to let Kennedy go we finally have depth now and we are getting an even spread. I would say Cripps would be behind Hewitt, Cerra and even probably Walsh in the B&F to this point which is a massive positive.

Jack has found his home in defence and looks like a bloke who loves the challenge to play on the games best and is unfazed 

Still think Charlie's output doesn't match his reputation. Everyone in the media go so over the top every goal he kicks mark he takes due to his energy and just the way he is exciting to watch but Harry on the other hand is a hard honest worker who is a bit unvalued IMO and his overall game is vital to us beating the best teams - He takes big late game team settling contested marks which is massive when the pressure is on, works s hard late up the ground. Charlie gets the most attention and as a result frees up others but think we underestimate Harrys importance when fit in big moments.   

After watching that again on TV, what stood out to me was our handball game. No more hack kicks straight to the opposition, chains of HBs to players running by (not stationary players like the first 4 weeks). Every possession had some thought to it. Also, players barking instructions to the person with the ball were all consistent as opposed to 5 different players pointing to 5 different options.
These are the little things I noticed.

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on April 29, 2025, 10:20:04 am

After watching that again on TV, what stood out to me was our handball game. No more hack kicks straight to the opposition, chains of HBs to players running by (not stationary players like the first 4 weeks). Every possession had some thought to it. Also, players barking instructions to the person with the ball were all consistent as opposed to 5 different players pointing to 5 different options.
These are the little things I noticed.

My appreciation of David King's analyses varies considerably but I think that he was on to something when he said that we were one handball short of winning our previous games.  That's one extra handball in each chain of possession and I think that we got there on Sunday.  We are dangerous and hard to stop when we run in waves and use forward handballs to give the ball carrier room and time to get an effective disposal.

One thing I've been meaning to comment on was how Sam De Koning saw the funny side of the smallest bloke on the field using him as a step ladder.  Corey has taken a couple of nice grabs now and will have his opponents thinking about his marking and not just his leading, crumbing and defensive work.

After watching that again on TV, what stood out to me was our handball game. No more hack kicks straight to the opposition, chains of HBs to players running by (not stationary players like the first 4 weeks). Every possession had some thought to it. Also, players barking instructions to the person with the ball were all consistent as opposed to 5 different players pointing to 5 different options.
These are the little things I noticed.

After watching that again on TV, what stood out to me was our handball game. No more hack kicks straight to the opposition, chains of HBs to players running by (not stationary players like the first 4 weeks). Every possession had some thought to it. Also, players barking instructions to the person with the ball were all consistent as opposed to 5 different players pointing to 5 different options.
These are the little things I noticed.

 (yeah I know, grandmother/balls/grandfather).

Seemed to be able to thread handballs out the front of the contest, to a teammates advantage a lot of the time.  Not backwards to someone standing still or to someone under the hamme

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on April 29, 2025, 11:56:54 am

 (yeah I know, grandmother/balls/grandfather).

In this day and age they both could be the same....lol.

Quote from: DJC – on April 29, 2025, 11:23:53 am

My appreciation of David King's analyses varies considerably but I think that he was on to something when he said that we were one handball short of winning our previous games.  That's one extra handball in each chain of possession and I think that we got there on Sunday.  We are dangerous and hard to stop when we run in waves and use forward handballs to give the ball carrier room and time to get an effective disposal.

One thing I've been meaning to comment on was how Sam De Koning saw the funny side of the smallest bloke on the field using him as a step ladder.  Corey has taken a couple of nice grabs now and will have his opponents thinking about his marking and not just his leading, crumbing and defensive work.

King for mine is a very good analyst, right up there alongside the best. I definitely think we handballed too much to stationary players in the first few weeks which teams cottoned onto use it to their advantage (ie tackled and stopped us in our tracks). I guess we practiced wave running and receiving (no disrespect intended) against WC and NM and applied it against a good side on Sunday. Make no mistake, our kicking lets us down and we need to recruit some elite ball users by foot. The run and HB somewhat covers for that deficiency by as you say, giving the person on the end of the chain more time to execute a good, more measure kick. It also compensates for the lack of real break away leg speed by putting our blokes ahead of the chaser quickly. If you look at some of the kicks into the F50, many were poor and if we tidied that up, we would have one by plenty (yeah I know, grandmother/balls/grandfather).

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on April 29, 2025, 11:56:54 am

King for mine is a very good analyst, right up there alongside the best. I definitely think we handballed too much to stationary players in the first few weeks which teams cottoned onto use it to their advantage (ie tackled and stopped us in our tracks). I guess we practiced wave running and receiving (no disrespect intended) against WC and NM and applied it against a good side on Sunday. Make no mistake, our kicking lets us down and we need to recruit some elite ball users by foot. The run and HB somewhat covers for that deficiency by as you say, giving the person on the end of the chain more time to execute a good, more measure kick. It also compensates for the lack of real break away leg speed by putting our blokes ahead of the chaser quickly. If you look at some of the kicks into the F50, many were poor and if we tidied that up, we would have one by plenty (yeah I know, grandmother/balls/grandfather).

Same page here, GTC old son.

King seems to actually think things through, not just take situations at face value... and he was right about us, but it was pretty apparent in our first 4 outings - defensively strong (great foundation), but offensive game was soft when confronted with real pressure... handballing to witches hats, panicked sky-high disposals into forward 50, etc.

It was great that the Pussycats hit us with real, quality, sustained pressure -- especially at the beginning of the 3rd and 4th qtrs -- forcing us to 'face our demons' and we responded in the best way possible... and that's the road to being mentally tougher, offensively as well as defensively.