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Re: 2026 Last Practice Match Carlton vs Geelong

Reply #90 –
Quote from: Blue Moon – on
My one concern is that we played another quarter where we didn't score a goal. The inability to manufacture goals when things are not going your way has been an ongoing problem for years.  I think we need to be able to score goals against the run of play more consistently than we have in the past.
However beating the two grand finalists from last year must mean we are Premiership favourites.

Generally agree. Apparently our I50 entry work shows improvement but  I would like to see it improve further. There still seems to be too many poorly directed kicks and lack of creative leading. Otherwise I thought it was a pretty good effort.
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Re: 2026 Last Practice Match Carlton vs Geelong

Reply #91 –
Quote from: cookie2 – on
Quote from: Blue Moon – on
My one concern is that we played another quarter where we didn't score a goal. The inability to manufacture goals when things are not going your way has been an ongoing problem for years.  I think we need to be able to score goals against the run of play more consistently than we have in the past.
However beating the two grand finalists from last year must mean we are Premiership favourites.

Generally agree. Apparently our I50 entry work shows improvement but  I would like to see it improve further. There still seems to be too many poorly directed kicks and lack of creative leading. Otherwise I thought it was a pretty good effort.

Generally agree with your general agreement.
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Re: 2026 Last Practice Match Carlton vs Geelong

Reply #92 –
Quote from: Blue Moon – on
My one concern is that we played another quarter where we didn't score a goal. The inability to manufacture goals when things are not going your way has been an ongoing problem for years.  I think we need to be able to score goals against the run of play more consistently than we have in the past.
However beating the two grand finalists from last year must mean we are Premiership favourites.

Yep, noticed the same thing. That 2nd qtr was a reminder of previous years. On the up side, the 3rd and final qtrs were strong improvements.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17

Re: 2026 Last Practice Match Carlton vs Geelong

Reply #93 –
Quote from: Baggers – on
Quote from: Blue Moon – on
My one concern is that we played another quarter where we didn't score a goal. The inability to manufacture goals when things are not going your way has been an ongoing problem for years.  I think we need to be able to score goals against the run of play more consistently than we have in the past.
However beating the two grand finalists from last year must mean we are Premiership favourites.

Yep, noticed the same thing. That 2nd qtr was a reminder of previous years. On the up side, the 3rd and final qtrs were strong improvements.

Yes we seemed to lapse back into old habits in the 2nd quarter. Several times we ignored the short kick to the player free on the flank and instead did the usual big kick down onto the head of our key forwards.
 

Re: 2026 Last Practice Match Carlton vs Geelong

Reply #94 –
I'm not sure that the second quarter was that bad.

We had 13 inside 50s with four kicks marked by defenders (one ball was tapped inside 50 and led to several possessions and a missed snap by Williams).  We took two marks inside 50 (three with Smith's "not 15") and kept possession or forced a stoppage from seven inside 50s.  Where we fell down was our goalkicking with two shots falling short (one from outside 50), two set shots missed from 35m and two gettable snaps missing.  We probably should have kicked three for the quarter and one of Geelong's two was gifted to Martin.

Our ball use and decision making was good but our finishing let us down and we really can't afford to miss set shots from inside 50.
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Re: 2026 Last Practice Match Carlton vs Geelong

Reply #95 –
Quote from: DJC – on
I'm not sure that the second quarter was that bad.

We had 13 inside 50s with four kicks marked by defenders (one ball was tapped inside 50 and led to several possessions and a missed snap by Williams).  We took two marks inside 50 (three with Smith's "not 15") and kept possession or forced a stoppage from seven inside 50s.  Where we fell down was our goalkicking with two shots falling short (one from outside 50), two set shots missed from 35m and two gettable snaps missing.  We probably should have kicked three for the quarter and one of Geelong's two was gifted to Martin.

Our ball use and decision making was good but our finishing let us down and we really can't afford to miss set shots from inside 50.

And that's the issue, just like recent years we got it into forward 50 plenty of times in the 2nd qtr but finishing let us down... again. BUT, it was corrected in the 3rd and final.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17