Preview 2023 Rd 20 Carlton vs Collingwood Friday July 28 7:50PM @ MCG

[Aphrodite]

Team is in …




IN: Cerra, Cripps, Marchbank, Martin, Owies, Pittonet
OUT: Silvagni (knee), Walsh (hamstring), Cowan, E.Curnow, Dow, Honey, Young

AFL team news: Who’s ready for the old enemy?

Carlton has named six inclusions for the Peter Mac Cup.

www.carltonfc.com.au

Backs:	Brodie Kemp	Jacob Weitering	Nic Newman
Half-backs:	Sam Docherty	Mitch McGovern	Adam Saad
Centreline:	Blake Acres	Patrick Cripps	Oliver Hollands
Half-forwards:	Lachie Fogarty	Tom De Koning	David Cuningham
Forwards:	Jack Martin	Charlie Curnow	Matthew Owies
Followers:	Marc Pittonet	Adam Cerra	George Hewett
Interchange:	Alex Cincotta	Matthew Cottrell	Caleb Marchbank
	Jesse Motlop
Emergencies:	Lachie Cowan	Paddy Dow	Zac Fisher
	Lewis Young

 

[HarryFlashman]

Hope no one tries to be hero tomorrow, if you’re not right get off the ground.
Speed will be paramount tomorrow, need a mature attitude, not a “look how tough I am”.
Our game has come good off team effort, they need to carry that attitude, no passengers

 

[Arr0w]

Solid side, really good 2 way running and a strong defensive mindset as a whole

 

[FitzroyBlueBagger]

Need Gov to plant his knee into the back of Jamie Elliot......legally of course

That goes for all our players…

 

[Aphrodite]

* The Carringbush

 

[The Blue Weirdo]

I’m pretty ambivalent about Dow but fmd he has to leave to get a chance somewhere else.

Dow's been squeezed out because we've already spent his future wages on others, certainly not because we are going to draft a better player with pick 45 or something.
He'll forge a good midfield career elsewhere, and good luck to him.

 

[Blue Reaper]

Really pleased with the ins/outs and happy for Dow as sub.

And tell me the lads won’t be stepping a bit more spritely with TDK’s signing.

I can feel the energy 650kms away.

 

[AB_Blue]

Dow's been squeezed out because we've already spent his future wages on others, certainly not because we are going to draft a better player with pick 45 or something.
He'll forge a good midfield career elsewhere, and good luck to him.

Dow is Dow…his style won’t stand up in finals with his lack of 2 way running….but will carve out another 100 plus games at another club..good luck to him if he does.

I like him but his upside isn’t as big as others on the list.

Handy sub on this occasion


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[CCurnow3votes]

Need Gov to plant his knee into the back of Jamie Elliot......legally of course

Left one Elliott , right one Sidebottom

 

[Aphrodite]

Goosebumps

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Dow's been squeezed out because we've already spent his future wages on others, certainly not because we are going to draft a better player with pick 45 or something.
He'll forge a good midfield career elsewhere, and good luck to him.

I agree Dow has been hard done by somewhat, but let's not forget we drafted Kade Simpson with pick 45 back on the day.

And no. I highly doubt future wages on other players would have anything to do with it.

 

[Stamos]

Goosebumps

Was there.
Diesel!

 

[Aphrodite]

Was there.
Diesel!

Me too Stamos

 

[Blue Reaper]

Goosebumps

Yep.

 

[Aphrodite]

Was there.
Diesel!

Sticks kicked 7

 

[Blue and Blue]

Was there also

 

[BigFrizz36]

Dow's been squeezed out because we've already spent his future wages on others, certainly not because we are going to draft a better player with pick 45 or something.
He'll forge a good midfield career elsewhere, and good luck to him.

He's actually been squeezed out because the coaching panel, rightly or wrongly, believed that with the return of Cripps and Cerra there wasn't a spot available for him in the midfield.

He's next cab off the rank if there is a late withdrawal, if not he's the sub.

 

[TENACIOUS]

You'd think with the Marchbank inclusion...
Either Gov or Kemp, may have stints forward...

 

[Arr0w]

You'd think with the Marchbank inclusion...
Either Gov or Kemp, may have stints forward...

He came in for Cowan

 

[HarryBeef]

You'd think with the Marchbank inclusion...
Either Gov or Kemp, may have stints forward...

Why's that?

 

[Juddernaut08]

Would've rather we play Young instead of Pitto. TDK has been in career best form as the no.1 ruckman in the past few weeks so it'll be interesting to see how squeezing in Pitto works.

IMO TDK is the better forward and the better ruck...but both are limited forwards. I see it something like:

Ruck rankings: TDK 9 > Pitto 8 > JSOS 4

Forward rankings: JSOS 7 > TDK 4 > Pitto 2

So by my non-scientific estimations, we're going from a 16 to a 12.

 

[thylacine60]

Was there.
Diesel!

geez they hammered that fanfare for the common man by el & p for decades it seemed..........

 

[Jimmae]

Big upgrade on Honey.

In some ways, but I'm worried about our forward half pressure as the game wears on with him and Motlop in the F50, unless they plan on serious injecting one or both of them into stoppages.

he ain't that type of impact player.......in fact marchy & impact aren't that great in the same statement.........

Here, I'll do it: Marchy has fantastic defensive impact through his read and athleticism.

Looks fine

One change I feel that has gone unnoticed is they’ve gone from a 7,7,7 to a 7,6,8 set up with cameos.

I think they’ve massively focused on keeping fresh legs in the front half to keep the pressure up. So now they consistently go for:

• 2 wings playing 90 percent (this week hollands and acres) with cotta playing wing cover for 20.
• 4 central mids rotating the 3 spots (this week Cripps cerra hewett Doc)

• CC 95 percent game time
• SOS/(now tdk) 60 forward 20 ruck
• cotta 65 forward after his wing cover
• leaving 380 between 5 players (Martin Fogarty Cuners owies and Motlop).

It’s a lovely balance. The midfield is tough and hard as hell. The forwards will apply enormous pressure. Set up for the interceptors to try and mark and launch.

We are a chance to cause them some real problems.

Despite there being a tilt towards forward on paper, I think this is actually a very defensive side. Seems Cuningham will get a fair bit of stoppage time, while we'll be heavily relying on a 4-man outside mid rotation but Hollands, Acres, Docherty, and Cottrell all flogged themselves last week in various roles.

Motlop will surely get a lot of time around stoppages, or our forward pressure will drop off much in the same way it did earlier in the year.

Really not feeling the Pittonet selection, which seems like a desperate move to control the stoppage instead of swarming and reading the tap. This all has the potential to walk back the work that's been done, but I'm partly basing this on how much Pittonet's performance in the VFL fell away after about 35 minutes.

Who knows, maybe we'll swing Kemp forward, funnel the ball in transition through Motlop, and get Fogarty picking up even more slack defensively through midfield. But none of these forwards are really offering fresh legs, and that's a concern.

Somewhat expecting a late out, possibly 1 or 2 of Pittonet, Hollands, and McGovern.

 

[TENACIOUS]

IMO Marchbank, Weitering, Kemp & Gov is too tall a defence,
we've been playing well with a smaller more nimble defence...

With JSOS out we're a tall forward short, I'd play Gov up there in patches, not all game...
Gov's a marking tall to help nullify their tall marking intercept defenders...

 

[Accidental genius]

Want guv moved up forward. Need more power there.

 

[katmanblue]

Charlie doesn't need a mirror to distract Darcy

Is the mirror on the wall or table?

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