Review Round 15 vs Carlton

[PatientMental]

Good:
Nothing, except maybe Trengove getting through with a solid game

Bad:
Ryder got slaughtered, by Phillips, huge concern.

Sam Rowe got 12 intercept possessions, huge concern.

We let Kade Simpson run around like an unregistered dog getting 37.

Letting the Curnow's and Cripps slaughter us all over the ground.

Dougal Howard getting 5 marks and only 9 1%ers.

Dixon. S.Gray

Pittard's atomic hamstrings.

 

[KenOath]

So we're kind of mastering the art of the ugly win. But wouldn't mind some pretty wins every now and then.

Pretty ordinary effort today.

 

[Magus]

Well we aren't flat trackers anymore.

Game change - grind out wins against top sides and do the bare minimum against the bottom teams.

I mean, legitimately we were a class above Carlton and just played with our dicks for three quarters today before doing what was required in the last.

Not worried in the slightest.

 

[Wargreymon90]

Man we look so much better with jonas in

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Put some of this in the other thread but belongs here

That was like putting $200 in the bank which is good, but we should have banked $2,000.

Take an ugly small win at the G in the middle of winter on a wet day but **** that was frustrating to watch.

Today we learned we dont need to put the pedal to the metal in the 3rd quarter to win a game. We were kept scoreless in the 3rd.

I wish our Charlie could catch the ball like their Charlie.

Trengove was bloody solid down back. Smart footballer. Might keep his spot. Thomas pisses off the oppo crowd. Good, love it.

 

[chiwigi]

There are usually only 2 outcomes in footy. Win or lose. If you can’t be happy about winning then...we are equal second and have beaten the team in first.

If anyone judges Dixon by his goals, then they don’t watch Port games and their opinion can be dismissed.

The Marshall sentimentality is done, get Watts back.

I love Rockliff and Thomas more than I should players in their first years. We won today at half speed, happy days.

We also have two speeds that we can switch between, it’s an interesting experiment. It’s paying off, but very strange to see.

 

[powerrrrrrrrrrrr]

Three votes: Chirpy bird.

 

[Power Raid]

Gash

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[chiwigi]

Anyone who follows soccer will recognise our dual game plan immediately.

It’s a little different for footy, but seems to work, even though it does frustrate fans,

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

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Doooooooogs

Needs to be blown up.

 

[chiwigi]

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He has already been accused of advocating rape. It didn’t take long.

 

[Smithy7]

Have to sort out the inside 50's ...

 

[Smithy7]

Needs to be blown up.

Is that better ..

 

[afl2004]

Fire brendan lade and tredrea 1 on 1 training with dixon for the next 18 months . Please we could win the flag if our forward line apart from robbie had any forward craft

 

[Visenfest]

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Have to sort out the inside 50's ...

Hey we won the free kicks away from home. This feeling is new to me. I'm expecting a Royal Commission though.

 

[PJ Power]

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Doooooooogs

Don’t tell me, Curnow marked it?

Not the best game to talk up Doogs. Got thrashed.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Needs to be blown up.

Bit harsh on Doooogs.

He tried.

 

[VineValerian]

4 points.
Move on.
Saints now.

 

[Peck]

This team can’t lose right now.

****ing love it

 

[Steven Gerrard]

If we had played a team higher up on the ladder, we'd be saying happy to take the points and move on.

If we had lost today, we'd be saying wake up call.

I see it as a combination of the two. 4 points and a wake up call.

Not getting the percentage I hoped we could get hurts, but if that means this team has learnt that each game requires 120% over 4 qtrs, it's a price to pay. Still pissed about the percentage though, we've never had the double chance under Hinkley.

 

[mic59]

64 inside 50s to 38. Simpson played some kind of a game, he really knows where to get to when the ball goes inside 50. And Liam Jones got the ball out of the 50 a few times as well, in fact 15 between the two of them. But however well those two defended we still should have been able to do more with the ball when we got it inside 50. I saw two occasions in a very short space of time where the ball was put inside 50 for us, Rowe for Carlton took the mark and he was barely challenged.
A lost opportunity there. Sitting on fourth and likely to drop to fifth after Collingwood/Suns. Would have had to have been a 70 or 80 point win to get further up the ladder but with the ladder the way it is and so many teams likely to have equal points we have to use opportunities when they arise. Don't know what happened with that third quarter when we scored well with 3.6, 5.3 and 5.3 in the other three.

 

[Andre]

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Have to sort out the inside 50's ...

3 tall forwards will help there. My biggest trigger point this year is people wanting Watts/Marshall/Dixon out for Watts/Marshall. FFS our forward 50 entries should have us winning almost every game by 5 - 8 goals more then we do. Yet people want to keep us having intercepted marks and small forwards as targets in the pockets. It does my head in. Sam Gray gets way too much undeserved love IMO. In games against top sides, or in crunch games like today he rarely stands up. If we played Brisbane or Bulldogs every week, he'd be in my first 5 picked, but we don't. I'll take Watts over him next week with 0.005 seconds thought.

A forward line with Dixon / Watts / Marshall as our talls and Robbie / Lindsay and whichever of our other smalls (Wingard, Ebert, etc.) is rotating through would be our best forward line of the year by a decent margin IMO.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Official report says corked leg for Pittard. It'll be a hamstring lol.

 

[NEGAN]

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Have to sort out the inside 50's ...

Goal kicking accuracy would be the answer me thinks

 

[B0ydmental]

My take on this game is that I have been coming to the MCG for too many years and not taking a Victory so I'm going to take it today