Luke Hodge

Are they squeezing?

Should they spread out a little bit?

You can see the game a lot better from behind the ball to be able to teach and instruct your teammates.

But being in and around the contest, you look what Pendleby's been able to do for years while he was captain, having a midfielder who can do both.

Play midfield and have a bit of an impact when you need to or maybe go in there and shut someone down as a selfless leadership role or sit across half-back and be able to direct from there.

I think his body's banged up, but also the game hasn't helped him.

You sort of look at how they've changed the ruck rule, which has taken away a lot of... O'Brien, for instance, from Adelaide, it's taken away his strengths of ruckman and given to the more athletic ruckman.

You look at Reeves, Meek dominated the ruck for Hawks the last couple of years.

All of a sudden, they're split at 50-50 because Reeves, with the jumping rule, it brings advantage to his way and Meek can do his stuff around the ground.

Um, what it's also do is it's taken away that bigger bulky midfielder that teams have built up for years.

All of a sudden Carlton, Carlton was so good at contest position and they're still really good now scoring from, from stoppage because that bigger bulky midfielder, but it's the next phase that gets you.

It's the spread from a contest.

It's the turnover.

It's the scoring from turnover because you can go from contest to contest.

um that's where it's starting to affect them and you look at carton they build up that list to be a bigger inside bigger body midfield but then all of a sudden because of a couple rules all of a sudden it's like oh hang on our list is too dominant one way so that's why they've got to throw in these younger kids who probably can't have a consistent impact just yet and if you look at crips i i felt i felt for carton because

The biggest knock on Carlton over the last 18 months has been their second halves.

You can't run out a second half.

This crip gets tired.

So what you'd look through and say, well, when's the best time for us to give him a rest early so he can have energy late in the game?

Unfortunately, when Adelaide got a spray at quarter time from Nick's,