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Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

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Quote from: LordLucifer – on
One of the worst ever games to watch, it was a horrible spectacle on so many fronts. However, knew we were home when Ison kicked his goal.

Some of the young guys didn't look completely out of their depth, Florent played his best game for us thus far and Cowan was back to his absolute mongrel best. 

Not getting carried away, as Elwood said, the Dogs were ripe for the picking and we still had some players who were passengers yet again.

The one thing that stood out for me was Jagga & Ison embracing at the end, there is a nucleus of good young guys who have a camerarderie that will be the building block for the future.


Yep ..if you look under the hood at the stats it wasn't much different to normal except the Bulldogs were worse than us and we were very average.
We controlled the clearances and had way more i50s but were 18% efficient down forward and can't kick goals from any systematic play. Dogs were the same at 23% efficiency but our weight of numbers in disposals and I50s won us the game.

Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

Reply #16 –
Winning ugly its called, we don't do that much nowadays.

Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

Reply #17 –
Quote from: RiverRat – on

No surprise that the team's best two halves of the season were built on Crippa's clearance work - especially out of the centre.
The trouble is he's 30 now, we need him to get a chop out from some mates who don't surrender at the first sign of strife.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

Reply #18 –
Quote from: LP – on
Quote from: RiverRat – on

No surprise that the team's best two halves of the season were built on Crippa's clearance work - especially out of the centre.
The trouble is he's 30 now, we need him to get a chop out from some mates who don't surrender at the first sign of strife.
It certainly seems as though he can only dominate for short periods and then mainly only if/when Pitto is able to give him an armchair ride.

Hewitt is certainly not playing nowhere near as well as last year and appears to have lost a yard (or more) of pace that he can't spare but he has been more than serviceable when the pace has gone off the game in the second half of the last two games.

Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

Reply #19 –
Cripps' last quarter: 13 possessions, 5 clearances, 4 score involvements, 3 centre clearances and most of his possessions contested. Huge!
He wasn't bad earlier: he and Bont sort of nullified each other, but when the final term started, Cripps lifted and Bont didn't. Bont had 24 possessions, but he didn't hurt us with them. I guess you could say something similar about Walsh: 25 possessions, 4 clearances, but did hurt them as much as Cripps did.

Our best 4 quarter player was probably Ollie Florent. He was huge! 28 possessions, 11 marks and 4 tackles. And some of the things he did were huge.

Not far behind him was Lachie Cowan. Cowan has been ordinary this year, but this was easily his best game. He marked well, he did some magnificent defensive things. He had 1 tackle, but he did so much more defensively.

Jagga Smith was also much better this week. He had 25 possessions and the longer the game went on, the better those possessions were.

Ollie Hollands gut running was excellent. He made things happen by not giving up and running hard.

Billy Wilson was ordinary early. He turned the ball over and didn't seem to have the confidence or the commitment. But, like a number of others, he really lifted.

We've definitely found one in jack Ison. He had 15 possessions and kicked 1 goal 2, but it was more the way he went about things that impressed.

Harry Dean made one shocking error early, but was very good after that. I was really surprised to see he had only 12 possessions.
Live Long and Prosper!
 

Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

Reply #20 –
Quote from: RiverRat – on
Hewitt is certainly not playing nowhere near as well as last year and appears to have lost a yard (or more) of pace that he can't spare but he has been more than serviceable when the pace has gone off the game in the second half of the last two games.
They are as effective as last year when the mode of play suits, but AFL 2026 is much faster making them look slower.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"