Team effort beat Pies, says Ratten

CARLTON coach Brett Ratten lauded his team's ability to winwithout any goals from spearhead Brendan Fevola after the Bluespowered to a 51point thumping of Collingwood at the MCG. Carlton captain Chris Judd was comfortably best on ground,snaring 32 possessions, although Ratten said he was most pleasedthe Blues had achieved the win without any passengers. "To our boys' credit 133; I think we had a lot ofcontributors, and that's been a big part of our game that hasprobably fluctuated a fair bit, where we've had 1012 contributingand a few 133; blokes we've had to carry through games. I thoughttoday everyone played their part," he said. Advertisement: Story continues below Collingwood defender Simon Prestigiacomo's resolute effortagainst Fevola was the first time the Carlton forward had been keptscoreless since round 20, 2007, but Ratten said Fevola 151; savefor a 50metre penalty against him in the third quarter 151; haddisplayed "great body language". "I suppose it's the belief of players around and the team thathe doesn't have to dominate games for us to win," Ratten said. "Theway he went about rolling up and assisting and creating space forothers (was important)." Judd was even more glowing in his praise of Fevola. "I thoughtFev was terrific. He was a general down there, he really set ourforward line up," he told 3AW. "Some of his tackling was fantastic Rosetta Stone Italian ,he stirred up and put it down Eddie Betts' throat. He mightn't havehit the scoreboard as much as usual but his impact was justhuge." Four goals from livewire forward Betts and three from utilityJarrad Waite filled the Fevola scoring void for Carlton, whereasCollingwood 151; missing Paul Medhurst, Anthony Rocca, Didak andDale Thomas from its forward line 151; had only two multiplegoalkickers, Jack Anthony and Tarkyn Lockyer, who kicked twoeach. Despite the Magpies' deficit reaching 45 points atthreequartertime and extending beyond 10 goals midway through thelast quarter, coach Mick Malthouse insisted his team's chances ofvictory were not blown until the last five minutes of thematch. "I didn't think we were out of the game at all, at any stage,until the last five minutes," he said. "Obviously that a coach'sperception but we were getting enough of the football. "We just weren't getting enough clean football and we weren'tgetting the ball in a clean manner forward." Malthouse said he would not use injuries as an excuse for theloss 151; "You're dealt the hand, you play the hand" 151; andinstead lamented the lack of pressure to Carlton's players in thefirst quarter, as well as the Magpies' slow movement of theball. "We went forward more than the opposition but 133; they werequick into the forward line, we were slow into the forward line,"he said. "And sometimes that's got to do with the way we moved it. Wejust didn't have the confidence to run it. When we did we lookedOK, but it was infrequent." Indeed, Ratten acknowledged the Blues' players had "forcedCollingwood's inside50 kicks to be high balls and not clean andcrisp". It was the second successive match in which the Magpies had beenpunished by an opposition's small forward but Malthouse defendedhis decision to keep assigning Harry O'Brien to these quickerplayers.

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