Any win against Carlton is a good win. Carlton are going to be crap this year, we won't get away with that performance against a better side, but also I don't think we will see another game this year where all 3 of Dusty, Lids and Cotch are ineffective in a game so there is lots of room for improvement. The knockers that say we can't win without those 3, well they might as well not have played tonight, and we got by OK.
I can't help but say but I don't like the midfield set ups at all. Carlton were getting it out of there way too easily and too often. We were slaughtered. It wasn't Maric's fault but if you are going to have all 3 mids standing behind the ruck, then wouldn't you arrange to have the ruck just flick it back behind himself a little. At times Maric was winning the ruck quite easily and sharking it to what seemed a designated area-but no one was running on to it.
I was not keen on Morris in the forward line but it worked quite well. He could go a long way towards filling the huge hole left by Jakey. He just needs to work out a way to get on the scoreboard and really hurt them.
Lloyd. What an interesting character. He is hard to describe. Lloyd is not that skillful but always adds a positive influence somehow. He just does stuff that ends up in goals and if possible he would prefer if it was him kicking them. He is a bit goal hungry, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Overall, happy with the game.
