Richmond V Carlton Round 1

[WilliamPowell]

Follows it up with a poor chase on betts ( i think). you could see martins effort drop off once he realised he could'nt catch him. The thing was that betts ran into trouble, which meant that if martin had chased hard he would have got to the contest, but by dropping off it allowed carlton to clear, and goal.

If that's the chase I thinking of al, then the fact he expected big Ivan to do the hard chaisng left me like this 

It was extremely poor and simply not good enough

[dwaino]

After sleeping on it I'm still stoked with Morris. Never thought I'd say it,  but I hope McGuane comes in next week. It pains me to think of Post going to Dawes. Glad I'll be in Tassie next weekend and won't have to tune into footy.

I think the AFL site said Maric won the hitouts and got 18possies? I'll take that. Hard to expect many to keep up with Kreuzer around the ground.

Hoping the Wright or Darrou experiment works out and we can have a monster defender next year.

[rogerd3]

Dustin Martin you need to chase son, this is starting
to become a trait in your game..

Its Dustin watching this season,  not when he has the ball
hey he is fine in that regard,  but when he dosent..lets see
he goes through the year.

[1965]

Dusty is still only a 20yo kid, plenty of time for improvement.

 

[JVT]

What frustrated me last night was the amount of times the scum were able to waltz in to an open goal. I think they kicked 7 goals running into the goal square!  Don't know how many times we see a 2 on 2 in the scum forward line where Betts or Garlett stay on the ground, the 2 Tigers go up, ball falls behind the pack and off they waltz for an easy goal . . .

Post was pathetic, couldn't take a mark to save his life, didn't chase hard when it was his errors causing us to chase and time after time goes into a contest half bummed. His decision making was worse than his marking and thats saying something as neither were evident.

I think we played better in patches yesterday, but again, it comes down to switching off in the last quarter. That, and Kreuzer had an absolute monster of a game.

Not to mention how many times we laid a tackle, the scum player drops the ball like its a hot potato after clearly having possesion and the maggots waved their arms in the air for play on . . . . however when Tucky did the same thing, they didnt hesitate to call 'holding the ball'. 

Cotchin is all class, Maric tried his heart out and was 100 fold better than Gus (looked worse thanks to Kreuzer), Deledio was solid, Martin needs to chase when he doesn't have it., but going forward he is A grade. Morris was important in the pressure he applied, his stats aren't going to be overly impressive, but his chasing and determination to win the ball was evident. Ellis looked about as solid as you would expect for a kid in his first game in front of 80k people. Rance our best defender by a long margin.

I thought Newy and Houli were disappointing last night also, needed better from them both.

Hopefully Waite finally sees a suspension this time for his knock on Grimes.

[tony_montana]

Geezus... And you all thought I would over react

. C'mon, my post was sensible!! 

Mate, it was pretty dissapointing

We lost the second quarter and got blown out midway into the 4th. Still a few things to take away.

My old man is a QAFL level coach (nothing to gloat about but still insightful) and he's constantly picking. Anyone at the game notice the kick ins? I was front of third tier Ponsford and got a good view of structures. We had NO kick in plan. Zip. Newy held the ball up and there was no movement. Players were flat footed and Carlton held the gaps and their talls sheltered the press. Our kick ins turned into junior style of kicking to any free man you can find, or bomb long. Every team is employing a press. We need a get out tactic. Also, we never employed a press. We flooded and left open centre squares. Another I picked up was when Carlton were switching, our boys were running hard to cover their men and the new holes. But if you watched the linker, every time he would look down the guts to see if we had a free man due to one of our blokes straggling or losing their man due GI hurriedly getting numbers in front. They hurt us every time with this.

Great post dwaino, I was right where you were in th ponsford and could see the way they murdered us on the spread all night. I think we were naive, a little lazy and typically just expected that it would happen, tonight - was a rude awakening. I'm not writing us off yet, we're better than that even by our standards  .

Where abouts exactly were you, tones? Small world if we were on top of each other lol. I was on the front railing immediately in front of where the booze was sold, in front of escalators. I was pretty vocal and often yelled "slimy green maggot!" if you heard that and saw it coming from a tattood bloke in a media polo sitting with a couple old fellas/ferals (dad and uncle)... That was me

haha, i was about 20 metres to your right then, in line with the rh point post a few rows up from the railing, had the mrs and daughter with me. small world 

[Mr Magic]

Our endevour for 3/4s was good but Carlton are simply much better than us.

Fair bit of work to do to bridge that gap.

[Willy]

beaten by a side with more class and a much more 'rounded' list.
The hype around us was unjustified.
I'm disappointed but not really all that surprised.
Let's see how we go next week.

[cub]

Lid on, Gas off, season over, cricket bats at the ready!

[Penelope]

That was pretty intense game at times last night. In the past that sort of pressure would have seen us totally wilt. we even fought back when the game looked lost, only to stumble in the home straight

when was last time we fielded a side capable of doing that?

things have improved, but we still have a long way to go, as dimma keeps saying himself.

too many people went looking for reasons why we would win and started to believe their own BS. It was really just wishful thinking.

[Ox]

stuffen coaches that continually say were a long way off should stuff OFF

[Penelope]

...as opposed to supporters who cry like bunnies and tell the world how crap we are?

[dwaino]

...as opposed to supporters who cry like bunnies and tell the world how crap we are?

 

Those sorts should stuff off for the sake of their own health, and the club.

 

[Captain__Blood]

 - Do not understand how Post can have a bloke jump into the back of his head with the ball nowhere in site (2nd Q, about 14m) and not get a free kick.
 - fumblingpresent participle of fum·ble (Verb)
Verb:
1.Use the hands clumsily while doing or handling something.
2.(of the hands) Do or handle something clumsily.
 - Cartlons aboringals are far too fast for us. 
 - Tuck (or Edwards, or Jackson) if in the team should be the sub. Conca, one of our few skilled blokes should be in the starting 21.
 - If our 4 stars dont have great games we struggle.
 - Did not think Grigg, Miller, Edwards, Jackson were much good.

[Yeahright]

stuffen coaches that continually say were a long way off should stuff OFF

your an absolute flog