GAMEDAY - Round 6

[Grand New Flag 3,227]

Good quarter, happy to win it. Only the 3rd quarter we have won for the season.

[Guest]

Neeldy needs to work on the boys skills. 9 inside 50's to 1. They need to convert. Running and fitness levels are good but they don't help you kick.

[What 18,810]

its easy to see why we used pick 2 on Trengove and then made him captain

what a star

[Demon_spurs 1,881]

I was up shouting at the Telly, haven't done that in a while, CFC look ordinary if you put them under pressure. Need to transplant Watts' leg on Tommy's body, he'd be a superstar. But we won that quarter. Good one guys !!!

[Grand New Flag 3,227]

Some tall forwards (Hogan, Dawes, Clark) and it would be even.

Well done on great endevour that quarter. Some terrible misses.

[Guest]

To be honest, just having the footy doesn't mean you are playing awesomely. Carlton are tending to kick backwards so let's not condemn yet. I remember when we played Collingwood in 2010 on Queens Birthday, the Pies had miles more possies than us but that wasn't an accurate reflection of the game.

[McQueen 17,867]

We WON the qtr!!!

The coach will be sure to point that out at the presser when the demolition is complete.

[The heart beats true 18,175]

Carlton are really ordinary. We have very little players with poise and skill and ultimately that's the difference. That 2nd quarter effort was much proved though.

Am liking Jones, Gawn and Tappy. Chip needs to give more. Will be interesting to see how Dunney goes if he keeps tagging Judd. So far he's been pretty effective.

[Deemotivated 550]

Is it too simplistic to keep them back for simple kick to kick drills.... our kicking is a joke.

Oh for our 2 key forwards...

[Bring Back Barassi 552]

a bit more composure and we are there. loving the TOUGHNESS

[Chook 15,022]

Brisbane kicked poorly last week and it was our fault, so we come out and kick poorly this week and it's still our fault. WTF?

It's not just kicking skills that matter, it's composure under pressure. We have none.

It's getting to the point now where we need a good old fashioned goalkeeper just to stop those stupid over-the-back Carlton goals.

Edited May 5, 2013 by Chook

[stuie 7,374]

Neeldy needs to work on the boys skills. 9 inside 50's to 1. They need to convert. Running and fitness levels are good but they don't help you kick.

It's the type of inside 50s though not just the amount.

[cowboy_from_hell 2,390]

TAB has odds at $1.01 that Neeld will tell the press after we lose that we had a lot of scoring shots and Carlton double our number of average games.

[Jaded No More 68,974]

For anyone watching this on TV- any news on Grimsey?

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

Cant be critical of the EFFORT so far. Must do this for 2 more quarters. Be a good test to see how committed this group is.

Things could be a little different on the scoreboard today if we had a KF in and had of taken our chances in front (usual story).

Doing better in the ruck contests with out the big Russian. Sorry mate but you're 3rd stringer IMO from here. Gawn and Spencer offer a better contest and both more mobile and get to the contest more often. Not expecting Spence to be able to keep up in 2nd half though given it's his first AFL game for a long time.

Viney has given us something. Frawley and Garland doing well down back. Jones boy has been everywhere and Sylvia/Dunn/Tapscott have added a bit of grunt around the ball/i50

All we need to do is knock Garllett and Yarran out and we're in with a slim chance

[McQueen 17,867]

For anyone watching this on TV- any news on Grimsey?

None yet

[The HuLK 139]

If we had Clarke, Watts , and Dawes we would win this match on our 2nd quarter efforts. Howe needs to get involved

[rjay 25,197]

Carlton are really ordinary. We have very little players with poise and skill and ultimately that's the difference. That 2nd quarter effort was much proved though.

Am liking Jones, Gawn and Tappy. Chip needs to give more. Will be interesting to see how Dunney goes if he keeps tagging Judd. So far he's been pretty effective.

I reckon Chip is going well, hasn't had anything kicked on him and stating to get some run back....anyway..

[DEE fence 5,042]

I saw Carlton bodies getting knocked over, tackles, and hard work, and a bunch of kids in red 'n blue making skill mistakes. I'm bloody happy about the hard work, the skills will come, if they play the rest of the game like the 2nd qtr, I don't care about the score as much.

You wanted to see players improve, I'm seeing that, we have some brave players.

[frankie_d 1,471]

And this mob look like they just might physically hurt you. This is a good thing!

[Demon Jack 6,931]

For anyone watching this on TV- any news on Grimsey?

AC to his shoulder I think. Serious injury.

[titan_uranus 25,050]

It's at least heartening to see comments relating to us giving a crack and having a go. I can stomach losses when we go down fighting.

Looking at the stats (dangerous, as I haven't seen a second of play), it's good to see we're at least matching them in certain areas (clearances, contested possesions, inside 50s) which at the start of year we had no competitiveness in. Clearly we've got significant problems in terms of defensive pressure, zoning, stopping their spread.

It's all rather redundant if we get blown apart in the second half, but I guess there are some things to hang our hat on right now.

Is it fair to say that if we had a fit Clark we'd be doing a lot better? With that many wasted inside 50s, you'd have to wonder.

[bjDee 1,249]

Good to see us going into ball ups with a 50:50 chance for once. Jake is giving us more than Jamar did.

[Bring Back Barassi 552]

And this mob look like they just might physically hurt you. This is a good thing!

yep. toughness. haven't seen that for a long, long time from the dees

[beelzebub 23,386]

Carlton dont look fabulous bar one aspect..they are jumping on their opportunities and slotting goals.

Thats about as convoluted as footy is really.., get ball kick goal.

Carlton ARE doing the one thing we dont... they beleive they will WILL the ball forward..and play accordingly.. Better teams do this. Winning teams do this.

We showed a glimpse or two of this but only via a handful of our players.. Everyone else is trying to defend when then need to attack