Tuesday, June 06, 2006

The Blues Bad Day, Not So Bad - AFL 2006 -

Blues were in for a bad day against Port Adelaide when Port Bolted clear by more than 60 points, luckily for the Blues they kicked 6 goals to 1 in the last quarter to add some respect to their score board.

Best For the Blues, Heath Scotland (32 disposals) and Lance Whitnall (30 touches) and Brendan Fevola was the leading goalkicker on the ground with five.

CARLTON: 3.2, 4.5, 6.8, 12.12 (84)
PORT ADELAIDE: 8.4, 13.8, 15.14, 17.16 (118)

GOALS – Carlton: Fevola 5, Betts 2, Koutoufides, Walker, Murphy, Whitnall, McLaren

BEST – Carlton: Whitnall, Scotland, Murphy, Simpson, Fevola, Stevens, Thornton

INJURIES – Carlton: Longmuir (shoulder)

Coaches Said :

Denis Pagan Said : "The last three weeks we've been terrible at the start, (but) we get together and they're able to take a step back and see the issues that are causing them concern and then we go," he said."It's still very disappointing - our start to the game - and you know the side that's in front at quarter-time has probably got a 75 per cent chance of winning."

Mark Wiliams said : "They played particularly well. It was great coming back, and coming back to Telstra after last week's win. It was nice to think that the young players I thought played particularly well and got some good opportunities.""Quite a few of the senior players led the way and gave them some nice touches."I thought Surjan played well again, Salopek played well, Chaplin did a good job, Symes. He was under an injury cloud until really today and I thought it was good for them."