5 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Too cute Bowery.

Langdon too immobile and just looking at the ball

Lucky to be this close. Reset let's go

Blues playing out of their skins. Pretty happy to only be 2 points down, but it’s pretty annoying that we missed some gettable chances because it looks like those will be very important. 

Can we come out in the second half and turn it around?

HTB not exist when Carlton get tackled?

1 minute ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Langdon too immobile and just looking at the ball

Langdon and Salem have been horrible lately

We’re just lucky Carlton didn’t turn inside 50’s into scores in the first quarter. 

Their pressure is elite ours is avg. 

9 minutes ago, Floody100 said:

How Jordon continuously gets a game is beyond me.

He's a worry at times but there are a few out there totally butchering it.

 

1 minute ago, Clintosaurus said:

HTB not exist when Carlton get tackled?

I don’t know how many times Hewitt has been caught and just dropped it. 

Quality game. I think if we're able to get out the back Carlton are vulnerable but aside from that it's going to be about who wins the most contests.

The Carlton supporter behind me, I've just about had enough of him. He feels he has to tell out his opinion on every play. If he bags another one of our players I'll scream.

We better win just to shut him up. 

2 minutes ago, Red But Mostly Blue said:

Blues playing out of their skins. Pretty happy to only be 2 points down, but it’s pretty annoying that we missed some gettable chances because it looks like those will be very important. 

Can we come out in the second half and turn it around?

Well I don't think we can play much worse and it's only a two point difference.

Feel like Carlton can’t play any better than this and we just need to make a few changes and a few less errors and we run away with this. 

If we could stop constantly turning the ball over…

I’ve never seen the kind of pressure Carlton are dishing up. It’s beyond extraordinary. Playing out of their skins. They can’t possibly keep it up, and when it drops, we’re in. Well done boys, hold your cool.

Levers not doing a lot either 

3 minutes ago, Chook said:

Quality game. I think if we're able to get out the back Carlton are vulnerable but aside from that it's going to be about who wins the most contests.

I do wonder where our goals are going to come from.

Maybe Smith forward.

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3 minutes ago, KingDingAling said:

We’re just lucky Carlton didn’t turn inside 50’s into scores in the first quarter. 

Our defence is elite. We will be OK.

4 minutes ago, KingDingAling said:

We’re just lucky Carlton didn’t turn inside 50’s into scores in the first quarter. 

There is a reason they didn't.

1 minute ago, leave it to deever said:

I do wonder where are goals are going to come from.

Out the back (and van Rooyen once he stops missing them).

2 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Well I don't think we can play much worse and it's only a two point difference.

Agree. I think we’ll be ok for this reason. I’m not sure that can sustain that, and we can only get better and have been running out games really well.

Improve our pressure, have more composure with the ball and take our chances and we win. 

Why are we playing sweet Caroline? Is that a Carlton home game thing or because the matildas won?

Hands down the backline is keeping us in it. 
If the midfield can lift and start to get some dominance in the contest we can win. 

Salem still looks NQR. Seems slow and reactive.