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| Venue: | Ikon Park, Carlton. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date: | Saturday 5th October, 2024 (7.15 pm). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Result: | Lost by 55 points. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Crowd: | 1,452 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Goalkickers: | B. Moody 1.1, K. Sherar 0.2, M. Robertson 0.1, M. Guerin 0.1, C. Fitzgerald 0.1, Rushed 0.1. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Reports: | Nil. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Umpires: | Sam Whetton, Joshua Ball, Jordyn Pearson. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Injuries: | M. Hendrie (foot soreness). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ladder: | 15th | ||||||||||||||||||
Game Review
Buck laments missed opportunities
Mathew Buck admits his side is frustrated with their conversion rate. - By Carlton Media.Conversion was the Blues downfall on Saturday night, scoring just the one goal from 28 inside 50s against the Lions. Senior Coach Mathew Buck admitted that while areas of their game like ball movement and defence had improved, he admitted the lack of scoreboard impact is starting to frustrate the group. Buck did praise Marianna Anthony for her role on Brisbane star Ally Anderson, holding her to just 19 disposals despite averaging 28 disposals coming into the game. Here's what he had to say.
On Brisbane:
"Brisbane are an amazing team, an amazing organisation, I think they’ve proven that time and time again and we have the utmost respect for them. "They came and gave us a good lesson tonight, they’re a relentless side around the contest and we’ve got some learnings to take away. We had some moments in the game where we would’ve liked to capitalise but they were excellent."
On the scoreboard impact:
"That’s a real frustration for sure. We’ve gone after our ball use and I think it has improved but that’s not reflected on the scoreboard. Until you take your moments in front of goal, you don’t get the reward. "That’s something that’s stinging the group at the moment and it’s something we’ll get to work on. I think one of the pleasing things is that it does sting our group and they’re not happy with the results at the moment. We’ll continue to work on it and get better."
On Marianna Anthony's tagging role:
"Ally is one of the stars of the competition and if we can negate her - which I think Marianna did - I thought 'Mez' really stuck to her task tonight and did a fantastic job. "There’s a balance with that with the midfield and how it can open you up a bit and maybe that happened at times but I thought at times, Marianna did a fantastic job. "For Marianna to go and play on one of the best players in the competition, you walk away with some lessons for sure. One of those is work rate and positioning and we’ll unpack that throughout the week. "What Ally was really good at was freeing up space for her teammates to work in as well. That’s some good lessons for our other midfielders in how we need to act when that happens. We’re proud of 'Mez' overall."
On Maddy Hendrie:
"Maddy Hendrie played on (Taylor) Smith as well down at full back and did some great things before hurting her foot. "She'll be assessed now."
On the fixture and missing personnel:
"I think we’ve played five top-eight sides and that’s where we want to be, we want to be playing against the good sides and we need to front up a bit better than we have been. "To do it without your captain and vice captain is difficult for sure but we put 21 players out there tonight and we expected a better result than what we got. We’ll continue to go to work on what we need to do."
Lions savage Blues in a lopsided mauling
There was little Carlton could do to stop the reigning premiers from logging an impressive win. - By Gemma Bastiani at Ikon Park.Brisbane's impressive form has rolled on with a dominant 55-point win over Carlton on Saturday evening. Returning to the scene of its 2023 premiership for the first time since that day, the Lions enjoyed a 9.14 (68) to 1.7 (13) victory under the Ikon Park lights. In the absence of Orla O'Dwyer on the wing, young-gun Charlie Mullins dominated the game for Brisbane, recording a personal-best 23 disposals and kicking a goal, while captain Breanna Koenen was reliable as ever down back, finishing with 16 disposals and six intercepts. Carlton opted to send midfield bull Marianna Anthony to Lions star Ally Anderson, keeping the Brisbane gun to just 19 disposals, her fewest of the season to date, but she was still able to win a game-high nine clearances, proving her class even with close attention.
After a downpour during the warmup the rain cleared, but the deck was still soaked through, making conditions tricky especially early in the game. The Blues lived in their front half for much of the opening quarter due to this, bringing pressure around the ball and compounding the slippery Sherrin, forcing errors from a typically clean Lions outfit. Despite that early territory win, Carlton couldn't make it count on the scoreboard. The home side got some good looks, but faded off target or failed to reach the required distance. It took until the 10-minute mark of the third quarter for the Blues to kick truly via Breann Moody. Once the Lions settled, and found some calm with ball in hand, the floodgates opened. Belle Dawes (15 disposals, seven tackles) neatly kicked the first from a forward 50 stoppage and got her teammates up and about. Carlton key defender Harriet Cordner (six intercepts, three tackles) refused to have her colours lowered, even with a relentless barrage of Brisbane attacks to contend with, while Keeley Sherar (27, six clearances) won plenty of ball through the middle of the ground.
But the Blues' best players were, unfortunately, not in attacking positions, so were simply charged with stemming the tide rather than turning it. Connection between the home side's midfield and forward line was often found wanting, unable to spot up leading targets and instead booting long, high kicks to a congested goal square. Some of this was due to the work of Natalie Grider (seven intercepts) and Poppy Boltz (six intercepts) off half-back, with the pair making life difficult for Carlton's forwards as they deftly intercepted the ball and turned it into attack.
Inaccurate Lions
While Brisbane made light work of Carlton, it didn't always finish its work in front of goal. It didn't hurt on Saturday evening, but inaccuracy has been a trend for the club this year, and no doubt something coach Craig Starcevich will be hoping to rectify heading into crunch time in the back half of the season. Sophie Conway has been the worst culprit, with 10 behinds for the season, but five of those did come in one game back in week five against West Coast. More positively, the Lions' spread in front of the big sticks was ominous, recording majors via eight different players.
Up next
Both teams will now prepare for their Pride Round match next Saturday, with Brisbane heading home to Brighton Homes Arena to host Gold Coast in the sixth AFLW QClash, while Carlton will travel to Perth to face an up-and-about Fremantle at Fremantle Oval.
Best: M. Hill, H. Cordner, M. Guerin, K. Sherar, D. Finn.
Team
| B: | 27 Genevieve Lawson-Tavan | 21 Harriett Cordner | |
| HB: | 6 Gab Pound | 49 Madeline Hendrie | 10 Mimi Hill |
| C: | 36 Ciara Fitzgerald | 14 Marianna Anthony | 4 Keeley Skepper |
| HF: | 25 Keeley Sherar | 3 Darcy Vescio | 26 Tarni Brown |
| F: | 17 Dayna Finn | 15 Jess Good | |
| Ruck: | 16 Breann Moody | 18 Madeleine Guerin | 20 Lily Goss |
| Interchange: | 2 Jess Dal Pos | 15 Meg Robertson | 23 Lila Keck |
| 22 Mia Austin | 11 Yasmin Duursma | ||
| Coach: | Mathew Buck | ||
| Emg: | 8 Celine Moody | 29 Jade Halfpenny | 13 Lulu Betty |
In: Lila Keck
Out: Celine Moody
AFLW Coaches Votes
8 - Charlotte Mullins (BL)6 - Breanna Koenen (BL)
5 - Tahlia Hickie (BL)
4 - Catherine Svarc (BL)
3 - Ally Anderson (BL)
2 - Sophie Conway (BL)
2 - Keeley Sherar (CARL)
AFLW Best and Fairest Votes
3 - Ally Anderson (BL)2 - Cathy Svarc (BL)
1 - Breanna Koenen (BL)