NON MFC: Rd 12 2021

[Jaded No More 68,976]

This game was awful. 
West Coast are just cruising into the top 8 on the back of playing at Boo Stadium. Will bother absolutely nobody at the MCG. Can’t stand this club. 

[titan_uranus 25,245]

7 minutes ago, old dee said:

Their gone tu, all over for 2021 they are just making up the numbers.

They've only got two top 8 sides left for the year, so their only shot really is to win all of the other 8 games (GWS (away), Adelaide, Fremantle (away), Collingwood, North Melbourne, St Kilda, Gold Coast, GWS again).

It's not going to happen.

You can't "honourably lose" eight times in the first half of the year and expect to make finals.

They have no excuse with their list profile, either. Disastrous.

[titan_uranus 25,245]

3 minutes ago, Jaded said:

This game was awful. 
West Coast are just cruising into the top 8 on the back of playing at Boo Stadium. Will bother absolutely nobody at the MCG. Can’t stand this club. 

You have to give them credit for winning that game with the quality of players they had out, on a ground they hadn't won at for 20 years.

We'll see how they go next week vs Richmond at home though. Will be a significantly sterner test than Carlton.

[Jaded No More 68,976]

5 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

You have to give them credit for winning that game with the quality of players they had out, on a ground they hadn't won at for 20 years.

We'll see how they go next week vs Richmond at home though. Will be a significantly sterner test than Carlton.

Carlton have several injuries too. 
Credit sure but god they are so dull. Offensive jumper. Offensive song. Offensive supporters. 

As soon as McKay was subbed out it was game over. Carlton was up to their neck in it until that point. 
Adjusting your forwardline mid game is very hard. Especially when your key forward goes down. 

Edited June 6, 2021 by Jaded

[Dee Zephyr 19,309]

Clubhouse leader on the Carlton boards.

” We look faTeagued”

[Ner0 2]

Losing to Peel Thunder, Damien Barrett and all the boys will be loving it after that game

[old dee 24,077]

9 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Carlton have several injuries too. 
Credit sure but god they are so dull. Offensive jumper. Offensive song. Offensive supporters. 

As soon as McKay was subbed out it was game over. Carlton was up to their neck in it until that point. 
Adjusting your forwardline mid game is very hard. Especially when your key forward goes down. 

I don’t mind the Blues! Rather them win than WCE.

[titan_uranus 25,245]

6 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Carlton have several injuries too. 
Credit sure but god they are so dull. Offensive jumper. Offensive song. Offensive supporters. 

As soon as McKay was subbed out it was game over. Carlton was up to their neck in it until that point. 
Adjusting your forwardline mid game is very hard. Especially when your key forward goes down. 

Carlton's current injury list features: Cuningham, C Curnow, Durdin, Gibbons, Marchbank, OMac, McGovern, Philp and Plowman (suspended). Of those there are about three best 22 players: C Curnow, Marchbank and Plowman.

West Coast's current injury list: Allen, Cameron, Duggan, Kelly, Kennedy, McGovern, Shuey, Venables, Winder, Witherden. That's 7 best 22 players and at least 5 of them are better than the three missing Carlton players.

The talent missing from West Coast's side is incomparable to that missing from Carlton's. If it were Melbourne not Carlton, this board would be disgusted.

[Jaded No More 68,976]

Umpire 22 is still the worst umpire in the game. Just hopeless. 
 

Freo applying nice pressure. 

Edited June 6, 2021 by Jaded

[Jaded No More 68,976]

39 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Carlton's current injury list features: Cuningham, C Curnow, Durdin, Gibbons, Marchbank, OMac, McGovern, Philp and Plowman (suspended). Of those there are about three best 22 players: C Curnow, Marchbank and Plowman.

West Coast's current injury list: Allen, Cameron, Duggan, Kelly, Kennedy, McGovern, Shuey, Venables, Winder, Witherden. That's 7 best 22 players and at least 5 of them are better than the three missing Carlton players.

The talent missing from West Coast's side is incomparable to that missing from Carlton's. If it were Melbourne not Carlton, this board would be disgusted.

I take nothing away from their injury list. And Carlton are very ordinary. But I see nothing in West Coast that worries me. 

[titan_uranus 25,245]

2 minutes ago, Jaded said:

I take nothing away from their injury list. And Carlton are very ordinary. But I see nothing in West Coast that worries me. 

Now that's a different topic.

Right now I'd like our chances against West Coast, although it's still 9 weeks until we play them, and almost all their injured players will be back by then, on current estimates.

Still, their ball movement is the sort that we can defend well, slower and more methodical. 

[Jaded No More 68,976]

3 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Now that's a different topic.

Right now I'd like our chances against West Coast, although it's still 9 weeks until we play them, and almost all their injured players will be back by then, on current estimates.

Still, their ball movement is the sort that we can defend well, slower and more methodical. 

Yeah they are not a quick team or a young team. They can afford to move the  ball slowly because their tall towards are so good in the air. 
 

Freo is so infuriating. They do a lot right and their pressure is excellent. But their ball use going inside 50 is trash. 
 

Brayshaw is their best player along with Mundy. No idea what is up with Fyfe. Done nothing. 

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

14 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Umpire 22 is still the worst umpire in the game. Just hopeless. 
 

Freo applying nice pressure. 

Is he the baby faced one?

[DubDee 26,660]

Freo are a red hot chance here. Just need to apply some more scoreboard pressure and the crowd might get them home

[Megatron 886]

Melbourne have shown teams how to play the dogs. Libba getting tagged

[Greendale 350]

26 minutes ago, Jaded said:

I take nothing away from their injury list. And Carlton are very ordinary. But I see nothing in West Coast that worries me. 

West Coast have underperformed significantly this year, but they still have one of the most talented lists in the league. If their injury issues ease up I could see them building back some consistency and confidence. 

[Jaded No More 68,976]

16 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Is he the baby faced one?

Yeah the guy with the blonde hair. 
 

Freo’s kicking inside 50 kills my soul. 
Every time they go forward I’m screaming at them to be better. It’s sadly not working  

 

 

[Damo 3,463]

Carlton ... Schadenfreude

[Jaded No More 68,976]

Well the difference in this game is Dogs have a handful of absolute stars like Bont. And Freo can’t do anything forward of the Centre. So yeah. 

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,351]

Lobb has obviously been taking marking lessons from Weiderman ....

[DemonLad5 1,642]

Watching this is giving me PTSD of we needed Freo to beat the Dogs to make the 8 last year

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

12 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Yeah the guy with the blonde hair. 
 

Freo’s kicking inside 50 kills my soul. 
Every time they go forward I’m screaming at them to be better. It’s sadly not working  

 

 

He’s a shocker.

[BDA 23,048]

Very stupid from serong.

[Jaded No More 68,976]

Bontempelli > Freo 

[John Crow Batty 8,891]

If Freo butchered the ball 50% less going inside 50 they would be in the 8 easily. 

Edited June 6, 2021 by John Crow Batty