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Carlton's up and down season continued with a meek loss to North Melbourne on this Friday night at Docklands.

Round 12, 2010

Carlton 1.2 8 6.3 39 10.4 64 10.8 68
North Melbourne 4.5 29 8.8 56 11.11 77 14.13 97
Venue: Docklands Stadium
Date: 7.40 pm, Friday, June 11, 2010
Result: Lost by 29 points
Crowd: 43,732
Goalkickers: E. Betts (5), J. Waite (3), M. Kreuzer, S. O’hAilpin (1).
Reports: Nil
Umpires: L. Farmer, H. Kennedy S. McLaren
Injuries: E. Betts (knee), M. Robinson (quad)
Ladder: 6th


Game Review

All the build up was about celebrating North Melbourne’s 25th anniversary of Friday night football. All the expectation was for a comfortable Carlton victory. When all was said and done it really was about a North Melbourne celebration after a very disappointing Carlton performance, made all the more disappointing by squandering a top four spot in the process.

With a host of names listed as available for selection the Thursday night match committee had an usually pleasant selection headache. It was Joe Anderson making way, the only victim from last round’s victory over Melbourne, but who to choose? With the likes of Armfield, Bower, Henderson, Lucas, McLean and Yarran all ready for a run it posed a tricky decision. In the end it was a like-for-like replacement with Dennis Armfield getting the nod.

Sometimes you can just tell it’s going to be one of those nights, you know a bad one. As Dennis Denuto so eloquently put it in The Castle, “It’s just the vibe”. Even though the Blues didn’t get blown away on the scoreboard in the early moments all the feeling, all the energy, all the decisions had a distinctly Kangaroo flavour about them. Half way through the term it was four goals to none and it really was a case of wondering from where a goal might be conjured. Eddie Betts had offered tiny sparks on the odd occasion when the ball ventured forward and it was he who finally posted the Blues’ first very late in the term. It was all about turnovers (Carlton’s), gifting the ball to the Kangaroos time and again with poor disposals or bad decisions. It was excruciating to watch, but the scoreboard suggested we were still in it trailing by just 21 points at the break.

Things did eventually take a turn for the better during the second term, but not before the Kangaroos banged through another few to extend their lead to a worrying 38 points. When the Blues finally clicked it happened in a hurry. Five consecutive goals in the space of 12 minutes were largely inspired by Bryce Gibbs, Marc Murphy and Chris Judd in the middle and Betts with three more up forward. The gap had closed to just nine points before Kangaroo Lindsay Thomas (duelling with Betts) grabbed his fourth late in time-on to bring the run to a halt. The margin at the main change was 17 points and the momentum had definitely shifted.

The third was almost a carbon copy of the second. The Kangaroos started better with the first two goals, before the Blues steadied and went on a run of their own. Matthew Kreuzer got one against the flow after marking and then receiving a 50m bonus in what was an otherwise quiet night for him. However, it did seem to provide the spark and three more followed soon after (two to Jarrad Waite and Betts’ fifth) to make the margin as close as it had been since the early minutes of the game. Again it was Thomas, the thorn in our side, chiming in with his fifth late in the term to leave the game evenly poised at the final change; the Blues 13 points adrift.

The last quarter was all North Melbourne. Carlton couldn’t take a trick or score a goal. It was three goals to none in the last before the Blues were finally put out of their misery by the siren to go down by 29 points, though in truth the margin was probably a little flattering to the disappointing Blues.

In a game light on positives for Carlton, a solid victory in the midfield clearances was a small one. In addition to Gibbs, Murphy and Judd, Kade Simpson and Richard Hadley were both solid contributors, and all benefitted from neat work from the improving Sam Jacobs. Betts and Waite were the dominant Carlton forwards, while Jeff Garlett covered a lot of territory with little to show for it. A late injury (knee?) to Eddie Betts added salt to the wound. A spot in the four went begging and left the Blues mired in the middle with a bunch of other teams fighting it out for a spot in the lower part of the eight.

Team


B:45 Aaron Joseph 40 Michael Jamison2 Jordan Russell
HB: 44 Andrew Carrazzo 4 Bryce Gibbs 1 Andrew Walker
C: 29 Heath Scotland 5 Chris Judd (c) 27 Dennis Armfield
HF: 38 Jeff Garlett 30 Jarrad Waite 6 Kade Simpson
F: 19 Eddie Betts 17 Setanta O'hAilpin 33 Ryan Houlihan
Ruck: 8 Matthew Kreuzer 10 Richard Hadley 3 Marc Murphy
Interchange: 12 Mitch Robinson 15 Steven Browne 32 Bret Thornton
39 Sam Jacobs
Coach: Brett Ratten
Emg: 7 Brock McLean , 16 Shaun Grigg, 23 Lachlan Henderson


Milestones

Last Game : Steven Browne
Games Breakdowns : This was Carlton's 2,300th game of league football.

Brownlow Votes

3. Lindsay Thomas, North Melbourne
2. Scott Thompson, North Melbourne
1. Michael Firrito, North Melbourne

Best & Fairest Votes

39 Eddie Betts, 18 Bryce Gibbs, 7 Andrew Carrazzo, 5 Jarrad Waite, 4 Richard Hadley, 3 Bret Thornton, Jeffery Garlett

Ladder


2010 Rd 12 P W D L For Agn % Pts
1 Geelong 12 10 0 2 1495 962 155.41 40
2 St Kilda 12 9 0 3 1054 841 125.33 36
3 Collingwood 12 8 1 3 1263 1004 125.80 34
4 Fremantle 12 8 0 4 1270 1067 119.03 32
5 Western Bulldogs 12 7 0 5 1171 937 124.97 28
6 Carlton 12 7 0 5 1173 1047 112.03 28
7 Sydney 12 7 0 5 1083 978 110.74 28
8 Hawthorn 12 6 0 6 1054 1037 101.64 24
9 North Melbourne 12 6 0 6 980 1233 79.48 24
10 Essendon 12 5 0 7 1088 1215 89.55 20
11 Brisbane Lions 12 5 0 7 1058 1192 88.76 20
12 Port Adelaide 12 5 0 7 940 1132 83.04 20
13 Melbourne 12 4 1 7 943 1032 91.38 18
14 West Coast 12 3 0 9 980 1207 81.19 12
15 Adelaide 12 3 0 9 909 1162 78.23 12
16 Richmond 12 2 0 10 869 1284 67.6 8


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