Game Day Round 8 vs. Carlton, MCG, 7:40pm Fri 03/05
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Carlton clearance game is unbelievable.
They will belt us unfortunately.
They will belt us unfortunately.
Carlton’s average clearances per game is 37.9 ours is 34.3 - not sure that difference justifies panic stations
And for all their perceived superiority yesterday, they only won clearances by 6.
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When you put it like that, it's not really convincing.
They do 'look' better during games than what that suggests though.
I only listened to their second half against Giants on the radio & unless Giants were just really poor, the Blues seemed to be in total control & their pressure rating was through the roof.
Regardless, it doesn't really matter how they're playing, they always bring it against us. We better bring our A game & be willing to break records with our pressure & tackling. Accuracy in front of goal would also be helpful.
Ouch
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Big Bill on Curnow then. That settles that.
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I'm feeling a little ill thinking about Walsh & Cripps exiting the midfield at every centre bounce ..
Shut Acres out of the game. This guy is a barometer for them and flies under the radar. Everyone talks about Cripps & Walsh for obvious reasons but this guy has a knack of stepping up and dragging them back. We need to shut him out.
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Cats seemed to curtail their influence in the last qtr. Interestingly they seemed to look better when Danger got injured. Walsh was making it look so easy up until that point.
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It’s not Clearance numbers that’s the difference (never is).
It’s the walk out the front damaging clearances that make the Blues far better than us in this space.
I’ll happily lose Clearances if they are scrubs from the contest or out to the wings from CB.
Dons walked out the front time and time again. Especially in the first 15 mins and the last qtr.
I’d like to see us only ever play Nick or
Jordy in the CB. Never both. They are both one and done due to being on the move.
if it doesn’t go their way, we’re absolutely toast.
Happy for another defensive player to go in there. Whether that’s Sullivan/Macrae coming in or we role Beau in there more.
Shoota is the perfect one for this…:but given he is new with no training in this space, too hard for him to impact.
Just need to help our D by not letting them get clean CB clearances. Once’s we can role up HF/HB….that proposition is easier to handle.
It’s the walk out the front damaging clearances that make the Blues far better than us in this space.
I’ll happily lose Clearances if they are scrubs from the contest or out to the wings from CB.
Dons walked out the front time and time again. Especially in the first 15 mins and the last qtr.
I’d like to see us only ever play Nick or
Jordy in the CB. Never both. They are both one and done due to being on the move.
if it doesn’t go their way, we’re absolutely toast.
Happy for another defensive player to go in there. Whether that’s Sullivan/Macrae coming in or we role Beau in there more.
Shoota is the perfect one for this…:but given he is new with no training in this space, too hard for him to impact.
Just need to help our D by not letting them get clean CB clearances. Once’s we can role up HF/HB….that proposition is easier to handle.
I think he played on Curnow as a Crow and things didn't go well. I'd rather Billy play on McKay.
Curnow isn’t your conventional tall, like Cameron they aren’t “big gorillas” but they play tall through aerial game or in curnows case go go gadget arms. Frampton ain’t the right match up. He needs to go to McKay IMO
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I was kind of being facetious. Jen's post outlined Curnow's goal tally the last time we met, and the only player on her list who didn't play that day was Big Bill.
We all know Charlie will likely have a big day regardless of who is playing on him. The umps usually ensure that happens anyway.
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Geelong cut off a lot of Charlies leads as well. Their back six was very BIG compared to ours, they have the advantage of Blicavs coming back from a wing though. Maybe this is the game for Dean to come in and assist Frampton with the big two thus allowing Darce and Howe to intercept. ?
Like a previous poster I too believe that we need to target Acres. Daicos isn't big enough to hold him on a wing....maybe Crisp or even dare I say it Maynard?
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Interesting match up. They've got us covered in the midfield and air, but we're a lot stronger on the flanks. Need to make it manic with the ball zipping around with heaps of pressure and we can get them.
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Moore was bog on Curnow in the first match up last year. Back him in. Plus no choice, Billy and Jezza are too slow.
I imagine Murphy would have been Curnow's opponent if he was still playing, though Curnow did kick six against us when we played Carlton last year, so whoever was on him then lowered his colours.
it comes down to how the mids are going, they were bombing in hope that game, easy pickings for Moore with sidey laughing on the bench. Curnow isn’t superman, make sure their entries are dirty and we’ll be fine
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