Loading...
 
Carlton lost to the Pies at the MCG and as a result went 0 and 3 to start the year

Round 3, 2018

Carlton 3.2 20 3.4 22 7.8 50 11.10 76
Collingwood 4.0 24 9.4 58 13.4 82 16.4 100
Venue: MCG
Date: Friday 6th April, 2018 (night) 7.50pm
Result: Lost by 24 points
Crowd: 68,548
Goalkickers: L. Casboult 4, C. Curnow 2, D. Thomas, P.Cripps, M. Kreuzer, J. Garlett Z. Fisher 1.
Reports: Nil
Umpires: J. Dalgleish, N. Foot, D. Margetts
Injuries: C. Marchbank (ankle)
Ladder: 18th


Game Review

Carlton lost this Round 3 fixture by 24 points in a disappointing game that looked far worse during it than the final margin suggested. The Blues, now 0 and 3, were sitting at the bottom of the ladder with a long injury list and little cohesion in the ones.

At selection the Blues welcomed back Kreuzer and Kennedy, omitting O'Shea and losing Byrne to a quadriceps injury.

Special K was a welcomed site for Blues fans, particularly against gun Pie ruck Brodie Grundy. The Blues would score the first three goals from impressive pressure and structure, seemingly learning from the prior week's loss. Dale Thomas kicked the first from the top of the square - his 150th AFL goal - before a neat snap to Garlett and a strong grab to Casboult was converted, and we were out!

The Pies seemingly snuck back in to it with two 'over the back' goals to Hoskin-Elliott, but for most of the first quarter it felt as though we had their measure. Two additional Pies goals to end the term were an insight in to the onslaught that would follow, with 10 majors in a row to the Pies seemingly killing off any spirit the Blues had.

We would fight hard in the third and fourth but never really threaten, and again some consolation goals at the end made this '8 goal loss' half that on the scoreboard.

Many eyes will be on the Round 1 VFL game where the Northern Blues had a number of players returning from injury who could be looked at to assist the ailing seniors - Lobbe, Lang and Shaw all come to mind. Unfortunately that team went down by 20 goals in their season opener, and a sense of bewilderment seemed to be present over most fans in the outer...

Team


B: 22 Caleb Marchbank 14 Liam Jones 23 Jacob Weitering
HB: 6 Kade Simpson 20 Lachie Plowman 28 David Cuningham
C: 39 Dale Thomas 9 Patrick Cripps (vc) 18 Aaron Mullett
HF: 3 Marc Murphy (c) 30 Charlie Curnow 25 Zach Fisher
F: 21 Jarrod Garlett 41 Levi Casboult 46 Matthew Wright
Ruck: 8 Matthew Kreuzer 7 Matthew Kennedy 35 Ed Curnow
Interchange: 2 Paddy Dow 5 Sam Petrevski-Seton 13 Jed Lamb
29 Cameron Polson
Coach: Brendon Bolton
Emg: 10 Harry McKay, 11 Sam Kerridge, 24 Cam O'Shea*, 32 Nick Graham

Marc Murphy started the game off the back of the square
-*Cam O'Shea was selected as the emergency in the Carlton Website team on Thursday night and in Friday's matchday Official Team sheet, but Jack Silvagni was listed as the emergency in Friday's newspapers & in the Football Record.

Milestones

150th AFL Goal: Dale Thomas
Interesting (sad) fact: For the fifth time in the past 6 seasons, Carlton would set 0 and 3 after 3 Rounds

AFLCA Votes

10 - Steele Sidebottom (Coll)
7 - Brodie Grundy (Coll)
6 - Jack Crisp (Coll)
5 - Josh Thomas (Coll)
1 - Will Hoskin-Elliott (Coll)
1 - Marc Murphy (Carl)

Brownlow Votes

3 - S. Sidebottom (Coll)
2 - B. Grundy (Coll)
1 - J. Thomas (Coll)

Best & Fairest Votes

Marc Murphy 7, Levi Casboult 6, Charlie Curnow 4, Ed Curnow 4, Kade Simpson 4, Dale Thomas 4, Matthew Kreuzer 3, Patrick Cripps 2, Paddy Dow 1, Aaron Mullett 1.


Round 2 | Round 4
Contributors to this page: WillowBlue , Bombasheldon and molsey .
Page last modified on Monday 11 of November, 2019 09:32:15 AEDT by WillowBlue.

Google Search

Random Image

thumbnail
1990 - Ex Blue Peter Higgins in good form.
thumbnail
1972 2nd Semi Vs Richmond Footy Record Cover.

Online Users

341 online users