Preview Round 10 - Sydney vs Carlton @ Marvel Stadium, Friday Night Lights

[The King!]

Nah it's definitely leg speed.

I know it's not a stat, but it is the single stupidest thing anyone has ever said.

everything’s a pissing contest around here

 

[The King!]

COR gee umm

 

[Millky95]

COR gee umm

Rewarded for VFL form

 

[the hypnotoad]

Interestingly I'm not sure Carlton brought George in for his defensive work. Hardness, effort, work rate and professionalism, absolutely, but not so much what he offers defensively. Or if they did, Voss has viewed George differently and gone rogue.

Have watched all his games this year and can probably count on one hand the amount of stoppages or centre bounces where he's actually manned an opponent. If anything his role has been something of a sweeper. Gets loose out the back in space then distributes from there. That's exactly how he should be used and it's brilliant coaching from Voss to recognise his strengths.

sooo ... unaccountable and bludging

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Least Clarke isn’t back in

That’s a positive

 

[The King!]

Least Clarke isn’t back in

That’s a positive

or taylor

 

[caesar88]

sooo ... unaccountable and bludging

Yep. With great success!

 

[brad cooper]

off topic but xan someone bring up our cbas from last week

 

[LukeParkerno1]

or taylor

I hate you. Now I remember tht bloke is still on our list

 

[brad cooper]

Clearances are our bogie and we've just lost a mid we can ill afford to lose.

I'm all for the calls to bring Campbell back in but I'm more interested to where and how we shuffle the rest of the team to replace Rowbottom in the middle. Does Heeney spend most of his time there?

I'm thinking florent moves to mids from half back

 

[caesar88]

off topic but xan someone bring up our cbas from last week

Parker - 18
Mills - 14
Warner - 12
Rowbottom - 11
Papley - 9
Kennedy - 2
Gulden - 2
Heeney - 1

Ladhams - 14
Hickey - 9

And the results, our centre clearances:

Rowbottom - 3
Mills - 3
Parker - 3
Warner - 2
Kennedy - 2
Papley - 1

 

[Ticky009]

I'm thinking florent moves to mids from half back

COR down back and Florent more time in the middle.

 

[Wolfgang West]

I think it's safe to assume that what we sell to the public is different to how we handle the players. I doubt Horse tapped Campbell on the shoulder last week and said "Reckon you need a rest mate" only to turn around this week and go "Haha! Enjoy the VFL sucker!"

They would've known and Campbell would've known why he was removed from the 22 last week and I doubt the reasons for that have changed much this week.

So he was dropped.

 

[Swansujelly]

COR, nice.

 

[Mister B]

Sorry to ask another question on this. Can you do this on the mobile app?

I booked on the ticketmaster app and you just pop in your membership barcode to unlock the cheaper tickets.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Any idea how to stop them from dominating in the middle?

 

[Donza]

These decisions are way too sensible for this board .

Its only a page and 90 mins after announcement ffs !

 

[SSwans2011]

These decisions are way too sensible for this board .

Its only a page and 90 mins after announcement ffs !

There's not even any controversial emergencies for us to shit ourselves over FFS

 

[caesar88]

Any idea how to stop them from dominating in the middle?

Yes. By dominating out of the middle ourselves.

I'm fairly certain that if we spend too much energy trying to stop their mids, it will prove unsuccessful, as they just have too many quality mids who can do damage to make any kind of negating role effective. We need to get our hands on it ourselves. Force their mids to have to defend in a game where they will be preparing to attack.

If Parker butchers the ball, if Warner just bombs it inside 50, if JPK grubbers it along the ground, I don't care. It will do, because it will mean that at least we are winning it out of the centre and keeping it out of their mids' hands. If our mids are winning it out of the centre, it means that their mids are not. They won't be used to it.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Any idea how to stop them from dominating in the middle?

Win clearances simple.

Secondly spike the throw up (the ruck).
Whack it forward

 

[Daniel B]

Kennedy - 2

And the results, our centre clearances:

Kennedy - 2

I think we might have our answer.

 

[ShireSwan]

Interestingly I'm not sure Carlton brought George in for his defensive work. Hardness, effort, work rate and professionalism, absolutely, but not so much what he offers defensively. Or if they did, Voss has viewed George differently and gone rogue.

Have watched all his games this year and can probably count on one hand the amount of stoppages or centre bounces where he's actually manned an opponent. If anything his role has been something of a sweeper. Gets loose out the back in space then distributes from there. That's exactly how he should be used and it's brilliant coaching from Voss to recognise his strengths.

I wouldn't call it brilliant coaching. Just not blinkered coaching of our Horsey.

 

[Superstar swan]

Hopefully cor performs so Campbell can come back into the mids

 

[Wolfgang West]

Any idea how to stop them from dominating in the middle?

Yeah go one on one not allow a sweeper, be on your toes and not flat footed and be ready to pounce to get first hands on it and if the ball hits the deck roll your sleeves up and fight like **** to not allow them clean exit. It’s simple compete harder for longer.

 

[Westozswan]

Just been so frustrated that I haven't heard one thing about Sydney on all the AFL shows. Just about Carlton the whole time. Then I remembered I haven't listened to the True Bloods podcast yet . Thank god for that podcast!