Match Thread Saints v Blues Round 6 2023

[The Fireman]

Bad signs. Can’t win a tap

[The_Dud]

Turnover, mistake, turnover, mistake

[The_Dud]

Clearances

Absolutely monstered!!!!

Someone needs to go to Cripps

[therabbitinthehat]

Steele having a shocker so far, maybe came back a week early

[Premium89]

Wood is good. Thank faaaaak for half time!

[The Fireman]

Where’s the legs ?

[Premium89]

Double post

[IluvHarvey]

Paton is a liability with the ball. Cordy is a witches hat.

[CURLY]

Higgins comes on a lead gets blocked and held by his opponent allows his team mate to mark.

What am I missing here?

[The_Dud]

Send Steele to Cripps or get him off, clearly underdone.

[Winmore]

They are smashing us in general play, but our defence has kept us close.

And BTW crucifixions are generally at Easter.

[desertsaint]

not a bad result for us given how many quiet players we have and the lack of reward for carlton infringements. hopefully both factors even up, and our defenders do a better job nullifying their tall forwards.

[Scollop]

We are getting SMASHED in contested possession

The guys who have been so good all year in Crouch, Seb Ross, Gresh, Sincs and even with ground balls in the back line, guys like Stocker and Hill. They've been poor today.

Note to Ross Lyon

The players aren't machines.

Rotate the workload. Classic opportunity has been wasted for a player like Bytel to announce himself today

[Otiman]

Sub has to come in the first 10 minutes of Q3 if not at half time. This game is made for Windy.

[The_Dud]

Feels like if we just cut out the basic errors we’d be 5 goals up.

Brain fades by our tall backs, Battle jumping in Curnow’s back is just plain dumb.

Butler showing his great first touch, knows what to do around goal, other small forwards can learn something.

[B.M]

We are getting smashed really

Not sure how we are still in it

Midfield battle
Walsh 22, Cerra 21, Cripps 19
Crouch 11, Ross 9, Steele 8

Backline
Battle 5, Howard 5, Wilkie 4

Have been totally blanketed by separating key forwards

[StPeter]

Steele only 2 touches??

Phillipou, Steele, Membrey....all ineffective. Pretty good strategies by Voss so far. He was and is a clever bastard.

Not to mention a much as it pains me...Blues have some flippin class players that when they lift have the raw talent to leave us standing

'Membrey one our best.

[bergsone]

Need to get the ball out of the center,getting thrashed there

[seano1]

Send Steele to Cripps or get him off, clearly underdone.

He is on him isn’t he ….. standing next to him on my tv

[whiskers3614]

Need a real tap ruckman, even Owens looks more in control in there than Marshall.
In the old language Marshall is a big ruck river.
The fact that he couldn’t give us an advantage against a makeshift Collingwood ruck is damning.

[The_Dud]

Feel like Campbell for Cordy would have been nothing but beneficial for us today.

[saynta]

f****** 15 frees to 5 and charlie boy 3 goals all as a result of gifts from the maggots

[B.M]

Hit Outs are almost irrelevant

It’s 14-11

It’s more mids positioning

[meher baba]

We still look far and away the better side for mine.

The umpires and Cripps keeping Carlton in the game. All we need to do is to hang in there for the third quarter. Then, if the umps seek to even up in the last quarter - which they normally do - and Cripps runs out of puff, we should storm home.

[meher baba]

Apart from Cripps being amazingly good, as he so often is (apart from kicking for goal), Acres has been surprisingly good for them.