Just a few observations.
Contest work tick
Run and spread tick
Tackles tick
Two way running tick
Getting numbers to the contest tick
Defensive pressure tick

But their constant missing of targets when virtually under no pressure was a big cross

I would love to see the stats but Brisbane goals from turnovers must have been up there.

But a win is a win particularly after that 1st quarter

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Loved seeing the young blokes contribute.
I thought Derksen looked good and had good composure. I had Byrne in my round 1 team and he's definitely a lock now IMHO.
I liked the idea of Reidy resting forward when not in the ruck. If Harry continues with his half arsed efforts, we'll need someone down there who can compete.
Jagga totally changes our team. IMHO, the team half dropped their bundle when he went down last year. It shows the fragility of the group that I don't think they mentally recovered from it.

Harry Dean looked good. Ainsworth and Hayward gave exactly what we wanted and the midfield functioned well. Issues? We need to get rid of the flakiness. Moir has supreme talent but he is far too laconic for AFL football. Kemp needs to nail every shot he gets because he isn't a good enough footballer to carry in the 23.
Still not enough run out of the back half. I'd consider moving Williams to the wing. I don't think we can play him and Saad in the same backline and his kicking is an absolute weapon forward of centre. At the moment, no one else is putting up their hand to play wing other than Ollie.

Overall, great to see run, good disposal and dare. If they can stay confident and continue with that footy, they'll be fun to watch.

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First hit out for most of them. Takes a while to understand each other.

Very good signs.

This will be a fun year to watch regardless. Feels much more balanced.

Enjoyed a fair bit of the game and I think the kids must be played.
Derksen looks very comfortable and Young is just a different footballer when he's the main man.
Saad and McGovern just need to be moved out. Hopefully Cowan, Carroll aren't too far away, and Newman will probably get a run next week.
Williams and Elijah just give us some real class. Need them across half forward, pushing up and down. Having said that Fog was terrific tonight.
Harry and Walsh looked like they were in 2nd gear. Hopefully they build to 3rd and 4th by R0.
Ainsworth looks like a good pickup Byrne has just flowered by Supercoach surprise pick.
Reid might just become the enforcer we have been waiting for and Deano has his old man's emotions. Love it!!!!

Bring on the Kitty Cats and let's go another level again.

Not only did Derksen get himself a contract tonight he also earned himself a spot in the team for round on . Great game . A JSOS replacement .

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Pros:

Really liked our intent to intercept and score on turnover.
Ball movement was more aggressive than we've seen. Didn't always work, but liked the intent.
We've finally got some forwards who can crumb goals and apply defensive pressure.
Jagga looked our best player while he was out there.
New recruits in Ainsworth, Hayward and Derksen. Florent had a good 2nd half.
Liked the aggression and niggle from Dean and Reidy.
Hewett, Fogarty and Young were very good.
Byrne and Wilson were good when they came on.

Cons:

Awful handballing under pressure. Can't believe how many hit the ground.
Dropped chest marks.
Missed tackles from senior players leading to opposition goals.
Didn't see much from our taller forwards. Kemp the best, but really needs to work on his goalkicking.
Walsh's disposal was poor.
Elijah couldn't get near it.

Really enjoyed watching a new look team and game plan.
Lowering eyes, running the ball, and good spread,
Like other praccy games, players a bit rusty in first real hit out.
Last year's Premiers were rusty too.

Love that kid Byrne. Can see him, Ainsworth and Frank as our 3 smalls
I thought Fogarty's marking, ground ball gets and liking were very good.
New recruits Ainsworth, Hayward and Florent add class.
Kids were great: Jagga, Byrne, Ollie, Moir, Wilson and Dean..
Deano much taller than 194cm must be as tall as Oscar, 197cm, and the real deal.
Derkson has Haynes like qualities. Sign him up.
Young was the General. Stood up. Continues good preseason form.
Pitto our No 1 ruck. Strong performance. Adapted well to new ruck rules.
Williams is a handy swingman. Speed and disposal was great to watch.

I was disappointed watching kicks and handballs not hitting targets.
Harry wasn't working hard enough. Kempy's kicking must improve.
I like HOK as a mobile tall target, but can't see need for Pitto and Reidy if one of Moir/ Kemp playing.
Expect improvement from Harry, Walsh, Jagga, Saad and Elijah.

Expect 10-12 changes to this team with 28 players to make up our best 23.
Addition of Cripps, Weitering, Carroll, Haynes, Cowan, Newman will improve us.
Drop the weakest 11 and we have a pretty good team, with some those 11 good depth.

Played well considering the two pillars we could least afford to lose weren't out there: Weitering and Harry.
I'm bullish. We will keep improving, and trouble a few teams, when we get rolling.

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I love what Saady can bring to this team, and it has to be his best.

With the depth we have, and considering Newman, Carroll, Cowan and Haynes are missing, players like Saad should feel pressure for their spot and not a shoe in. That goes to Florent, Boyd, Elijah, Chesser, and kids like Wilson are coming.

Depth.

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Some nice ball movement at times involving Ainsworth, Jagga and Hayward. Great to have some players who are good decision makers and kicks.

At times some shocking decision making and kicking out of defence - kicks into the corridor that weren't on at all (Lewis Young at times).

At times Lions still able to move the ball like a training drill from Carlton's forward line.

Sign Derksen!

Kemp's inability to convert is once again going to be very frustrating. Will McKay bring more intensity than what he showed last night?

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Anyone know how the reserves went v Coburg?

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I nearly switched off after his first attempt to tackle, which cost us a goal within 30 seconds.
For a senior player, setting the standards for others, that was embarrassing and unacceptable.
These guys are getting shown up by the kids, and our coaches need to say, enough is enough.

Cerra hammy strain

We didn't go to sleep after half time
A significant upgrade on last year

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Strongly disagree. The games gone past Saad and it showed last night. We need to move on from him.

Do we re-sign him now?

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These are some of my musings. I was sitting at ground level, with kids, and the video screen wasn't being used so found it hard at times to know which player did what when ball was in dispute.

Team seemed in a great mood, carlton crowd seemed happy and didn't notice any rubbishing of own players. Crowd certainly built up as the game progressed. And the game was far more entertaining then some of the old anset cup type games. Didn't notice the umpys carrying on too much either which was a nice change. Cripps had a smile on his face all night. Gave my daughter a high five after the game too that she was pretty happy with.

Unfortunately was sitting near keidan Coleman's cousins or similar and everytime he went near the ball they carried on like Peter Daicos. They did get quieter as the game went on, ha ha

Early on in ainsworth looked all at sea and its like oh no what have we done? But got his shit wired nicely.

Fogarty early on just trying to do too much for a small bloke. There was two on one or two on two but still in carltons favour with Mackay. Both went at it but if fogarty had peeled off it probably would have been a tap to him and open goal. It either ended up as a stoppage or whisked away, can't recall

I agree Saad is firmly in the problem player category. He was possibly the least impressive of the experienced blokes. Didnt seem to have any voice or enthusiasm.

Lots of voice from Lewis Young. Really tried to control backline. An exchange with Derker, I think when Derker on Allan. Hang here "Derk". Derker looking confused. Where is he? Just hang here Derk. Where is he? He's in the ruck. Oh ok. Ha ha. When comparing to players like Dean and Derker Lewis Young now looks like the incredible hulk. He might not of been on ground at this time but there was zero voice from anyone in the last quarter when mclovin rushed a ball through that was essentially an uncontested chest mark. Thats what happens.

Derker seems like a very solid citizen and have no problem with him being cover. I yelled out derker, derker, derker and then realised he was standing next to Saad. Thats the last one of those for the night otherwise I'll get kicked out. Lucky I didn't do the other version.

Dean very light (naturally) compared to the experienced hulks and gorillas but didn't look out of place. Will be looking for things from him next year.

Hayward is interesting as a couple of times at centre bounces he drifted to the outside of the square and his opponent was able to run off half back with it and I'm thinking geeze. But he brought the enthusiasm and experience to that half forward line. I'm not sure if its his experience rubbing off on other players but you could clearly see he was assessing options when around the 50. He was possibly the most enthusiastic player out there, hugging players and almost dancing when fogarty was lining up for his goal in the third. At one stage thought he was going to hug the umpy. If you compare Hayward to Elijah who play similar roles. You can easily see the criticisms of hollands. Youd take Hayward everyday of the week, even only after 1 practice match.

In congestion its screamed out Hot Hot Hot! And half a second later one of the Carlton players gets nailed in a bone cruncher. You weren't wrong.

I'm sure I've missed a lot but the general vibe i took from yesterday is that the playing group know they aren't particularly rated but they are going to bring the enthusiasm and not go quietly into the night.






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First quarter was woeful, it had me thinking we needed to trade out more players than we did.
I couldn't stop thinking of that training video when they kept missing targets and thought, this is going to be a long season.

Good to see they got into a bit of a flow after that and started moving the ball a bit better.
Not sure what is happening overall with our skills department though, but there are a lot of players that need more work.
At times the ball movement was what we expected to see but then you would see the same culprits from last year bombing the ball or missing targets under little or no pressure.
There were also a couple of times when players moving the ball into F50 were looking for a target amongst a packed pocket when there were easy options laterally or on the far side around the 50 line.
They need to start taking these options to open that F50 up more and be less predictable.
Thank goodness players like Ainsworth, Hayward and Byrne made them pay when they had their chance, we look a lot more dangerous with options like that in the F50, even with poor delivery.
Ainsworth would've had to have been close to best on ground for us with his running capacity and goal kicking.
We still need more of our mids troubling the scoreboard, 2 goals is not enough IMO.
Smith is going to be a gun for us, he moves so well through traffic and the forwards will be able to trust him hitting them lace out, Cerra and Walsh need to step it up this year or he will walk straight past them.
I just hope after that game, new levels of acceptable and unacceptable disposals are set at the club.

I liked Dean, we got to see his white line fever the club has talked about, he just needs to rein it in come Rd0 and not give away frees.
I thought Wilson did some nice things and Lord was still a little patchy, needs to work on consistency and he'll be a gun also.
Young was alright, he still dropped marks and bombed the footy out of defence, he needs to tighten this up.
Derksen, sign him up.
Elijah, nothing special from him, hopefully he just needed to blow some cobwebs but for a bloke getting a second chance you'd have hopped he'd have been a bit more damaging.
Chesser, not sure about him yet, I didn't really see his elite boot or speed.
Ollie, still too weak and drops tackles, still can't kick. I actually seen his foot the first time when he kicks, he's one of those players that lets their foot go like jelly when they kick, it's no wonder he misses targets, he needs to point his toe more. Give the kid some ballet lessons because we know he can get the pill, it's just what he does with it once he has it that is disappointing.
Reidy was ok, without stats he looked like a good VFL ruck.
Harry........well not much has changed, but with the same delivery at times, what can you expect.
I didn't even realise Ben Campo was playing until they mentioned his name.
As someone has said already, Williams needs to be on a wing, put Ollie back on the HB line and let's see what Williams can do going forward.
Florent done some nice things but when the rest of the blokes around you are playing like 2025 then what more can 1 player change, can't wait for Newman to come back.
As for the rest, I didn't really see much improvement from last year.

Anyway, it was just a practice match, so I'm probably being too harsh, hopefully they can build on this and we might finally get to see what we were promised this time last year.