Jaded No More

They conceded 25 scoring shots which isn’t great.

Carlton fans being insufferable in 3…2…1…

This is the problem with playing hectic footy. It’s unsustainable for four quarters. Carlton look so tired and are incredibly lucky Dogs can’t kick a goal.

Embarrassingly so. Dogs killing themselves inside 50.

Bontempelli, an absolute star.

He isn’t surrounded by much. Naughton aside their forwardline is full of plodders. Instead of constantly stocking up their midfield they should have gone and found some defenders and forwards.

That doesn’t hold up in finals tho as you know. Carlton have the talent to finish top 4. So do the Dogs. Both have very suspect backlines.

I see arguing with the umpires is back.

Except their backline is trash

Dogs are in a world of hurt. To concede 76 points before half time is horrendous.

And we lost Salem from an already undermanned defense which threw us.

Embarrassing defensive effort from the Dogs. I can legitimately see them missing the 8. They are all over the shop.

Dogs look [censored] scared of going down the middle. We definitely broke them.

Same but when you’ve been horrible for 2 decades eventually you accumulate enough talent to get better. Just ask Melbourne.

They’re a very talented list. Still suspect down back for me tho.

Hot take- we broke the Dogs

Yze I believe is the main channel of communication in the box between himself and Goodwin on the bench. So I would say Yze. It’s quite good that Goody coaches from the bench. It means less chance of the other coaches passing it to him as they’re in the box.

Hunt played deeper last week and was on Weightman for quite a bit of the game. Rivers is a better user of the footy coming out of defence which is something we need, having lost Salem. I know Hunt has the speed and dash, but Rivers is more reliable by foot. I would say Rivers plays higher up, which means he may not end up on Rankine who does play closer to goal.

I think everyone saw that one coming. 0 need to risk one of our most important players in round 2, especially given the mounting injury toll to our backline and having lost Salem for a third of the year. Rivers is a good replacement for Salem from a like for like opponent matchup perspective so at least that’s something.

Welcome to the circus that is the AFL.

I wonder how the footy public would have reacted if Bevo behaved the same way towards a female journalist, and not Tom Morris.

I don’t disagree. McCrae only having 4 score involvements is very poor considering his possession count. He is a distributor but he doesn’t create damage forward of the center. It’s why I don’t think we cared that he was racking them up. I don’t dispute that Smith deserved votes. I just think it’s a bit rich of Bevo (and again I’m assuming it was him who gave him the 4 votes), to rate his game that much higher than Clarry’s who had more score involvements and was significantly better by foot. But it’s ok because Bevo not rating our midfield suits me just fine. Worked out super well for him the last two times we’ve met.

They’ve had a good list for a while. They just seem to fall apart under pressure. If they can fix that they’ll go a long way to winning a flag. But you don’t win flags if your team isn’t capable of playing high pressure footy.

Yet McRae doesn’t crack a single vote?

Well we had 27 scoring shots to 16 so it makes sense. Inaccurate goal kicking kept them in touch at quarter time after we had 9 scoring shots to 4.