Robertio
Spotswood Guinness Bar manager
De Koning pick 30
Cincotta Pre season pick
Hollands trade 3rd round
Nice work.
Cincotta Pre season pick
Hollands trade 3rd round
Nice work.
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Yes and still delivering mail, around Preston. Absolute Legend and a ripping fella. Just don't expect a long conversation.Fox talking about Bot as the second best defender ever for Carlton, behind SOS. Accolades for him are nice. Hard to believe he is in his 9th year.
There was this lad called Bruce though… Fair player he was.
But I don't think this is actually correct if the umpire has already judged there to have been no prior opportunity? In such cases the ball can be knocked out in the tackle or the player with the ball just needs to have made a "genuine attempt" to dispose of it - short of an obvious throw I think you'd be hard-pressed to see many free kicks when the ball hits the deck after an instant tackle.It’s a tough one.
Less eyes might become frustrating with holds, pushes, high contact not seen from the wrong side of a contest.
It just seems to me like they’ve “corrected” holding the ball, but stopped paying incorrect disposal.
How many times do we see players being tackled handing the ball to ground - play on no opportunity!
It’s daft.
Tackled holding the ball requires prior yes, but they have to dispose of the ball legally also - seem not to be paying these.
I mean we only got 41 up. Had we gone on with it instead of relaxing what would the narrative be? Agree with you. Bombers are not up to it. I don’t think we were anywhere near our best and we toyed with them.I love that the narrative is going to be that * were good enough but just kicked poorly. Keep thinking that *
Doull, Hunter, Silvagni speak for themselves…you could mount a case for a quite a few to fit in around those three.If you were doing a best carlton team of the last 50 years who would the key defenders be? SOS, weitering, southby, david mckay? The flankers doull hunter dean? Christ ang and andrew mckay dont get in the conversation….. the two smalls are the tricky ones rhys jones on the bench maybe
Tom Natanui I think you mean?I just want to talk about tdk
Think there's a pattern of characteristics here with Cincotta and Cowan being asked to specifically play these shutdown roles.Wow our coaching. Voss and co on fire. They have really taught them how to transition the ball now.
Some of the moves. Cowan wouldn’t have occurred to me for Martin. Superb. Cinc cemented his role in the side forever. E Hollands Centre forward is just top shelf. Williams forward is amazing. He just hangs around Charlie and waits for him to be double teamed and feasts on it. Love having Fog in the side.
I have it at EIGHT games we have pressed the button when needed. Has me wondering whether they conserve energy a bit. 3/4 time I thought “wonder if we will do it again” and they just went smash. 4 in a row. Game over.
We don’t look slow any more. Pitto can’t play in this side while Tom is fit. I do see him getting a game or two to rest Tom later.
Hope McG is ok. He and Saad set our transition up.
wife was calling him Jamie Elliott last night lolCommentators keep saying Williams plays the Jack Martin role but I think he's playing the small forward role really well.
He's been a game changer up forward.
Well, considering how stressed I was all ****ing game, the margin wasn't even that close.
It felt like we played the game on their terms and beat them anyway. Helterskelter footy, mistake ridden but at the end of it we were much, much more coherent in front half. 4 goals from Lij, Cincotta and 1 from Fog, Durds and Williams each really ****ing helps; takes the pressure off the two talls.
It also felt like Voss is really trying things out. I'm reading in the gameday thread a lot of 'Voss outcoached'; well, I'm looking at our 4th terms over the first two months of the season, and I'm looking at them now and I'm seeing us running games out considerably harder than our opponents. We won without Cripps, Acres and Walsh playing anywhere near their best; Gov didn't have a spectacular night, and nor did Weitering IMO.
Tom De Koning, you're playing the best footy I've ever seen from a Carlton ruckman. It's not just extra mid stuff; this is Dean Cox stuff plus Paddy Cripps stuff. He's faster than our inside mids, stronger than opposition ruckman, one touch below his knees. Since the Sydney game, you've been in rare air.
The forward line is humming, and it's great to see.
Carn, the Blues!
Divorce papers incoming?wife was calling him Jamie Elliott last night lol
yep caught me by surprise!Divorce papers incoming?
Can't remember when but they showed a stat late in the third?? on the board that we had scored something like 54 points to 14 on turnovers. This is definately a plan.
I heard that. And then the cherry on top is that we can turn it on from stoppage to blow it apart. We've done this 3 weeks in a rowAnd as Hoyne says on SEN this is the key metric all premiership teams have
Todd Goldstein was the only reason that stopped us from winning by 60+
Maybe he is holding himself back a little. Conserving himself, just a tad and saving his very best for his favourite month of the year. SEPTEMBER!Watch the game, he is not, to my eye, getting separation from stoppage, he used to get
We just don’t get looked after like others….Puma needs to add this pic of Williams to their advertising, showcasing the great elasticity of their onfield products (free kick Carlton?):
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No SEN for us up on the border sadly.
He’s a mile better than Kruezer.That ACL and us rushing him back ****ed up Kreuz... but you're dead right. TDK is Kreuzer Mk 2.
We should also acknowledge the Dutch connection between the two of them. Maybe we need to explore the Netherlands for future ruckmen?
I think the great intercepting defender can be a two edged sword. Jones and Moore both get burnt not paying enough attention to their man. We are getting the intercepts more evenly from 3 defenders.I watched the Fox interview with Weiters and I assume they were sucking up to him
I feel watching the game that we are getting no where near the sort of defensive intercept marks we need, (the lack of scoring from * last night might just have been anomoly)
Maybe it’s why we ended up with so many opposition entries
We seemed to defend okay (bring ball to ground), it’s just other teams defensive bigs are better at peeling off and getting intercept marks
I watch the game and see indecision on when to intercept from any
Good win - but lots to work on
Harry was back on pretty quickly...