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Sam Docherty and Adam Cerra both gathered 28 disposals, while Nic Newman contributed seven intercepts in a strong win for the Blues. Having not beaten the ...

Against Nic Naitanui, De Koning finished with 17 hitouts, but it was his work around the ground - registering 16 disposals and a career-high six clearances - which saw him able to provide his midfielders with clear access to the ball. Young continued to provide a strong intercept game and Adam Cerra battled away in the contest (seven contested possessions). Carlton had a purple patch in the last five minutes of the term where it was able to hold the ball in their forward half, keeping a 17-point lead heading into the final change. Curnow was a bright spark for Carlton, slotting two goals in the term to take his tally to five for the game: his contested marking was crucial as an outlet for the Blues. Carlton wasn’t able to mount the same pressure in their forward line as it did in the first term, recording a forward-half kicking efficiency of only 23 per cent for the term. Even though the rain started to get heavier, Carlton was playing cleaner footy than it had in the previous two terms. The Blues' pressure was down while the Eagles ramped theirs up, getting the better of the contested possessions (42-31). Josh Kennedy became a handful for Carlton in the defensive arc, while Lewis Young and Nic Newman battled manfully. Matt Kennedy was getting the brunt of the clearances for the Carlton midfield (six to half time), using his physicality alongside Patrick Cripps to get the ball moving.

Charlie Curnow and Harry McKay kicked five goals each in a critical one-two punch to help Carlton thrash West Coast by 63 points at Optus Stadium.

Sign up for the Real Footy newsletter. But from there it was one-way traffic, with Carlton booting the next eight goals on the back of Cripps starring in the midfield to run away with the win. McKay then broke West Coast’s spirit with two goals early in the final term as Carlton landed the final eight goals of the match to win 17.14 (116) to 8.5 (53). Curnow feasted on West Coast’s ineptitude to boot two goals in the opening quarter, while McKay, Sam Durdin, and Zac Fisher also got in on the act as Carlton entered quarter-time leading 5.4 (34) to 0.0 (0). The inside-50 count read 17-0 in favour of Carlton before West Coast finally made it into attack at the 18-minute mark of the opening term. The Blues led 34-0 at quarter-time of Sunday’s AFL clash but West Coast hit back with a seven-goal blitz in the second term to claw the margin back to 10 points by half-time.

West Coast midfielder Andrew Gaff admitted the Eagles were uncompetitive in the first and final quarters against Carlton on Sunday, saying the club won't ...

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A DOMINANT 10-goal game from Carlton's twin key forwards has spearheaded an important 63-point win against West Coast at Optus Stadium that has the Blues on the ...

Before Sunday, Carlton last beat West Coast when Bryce Gibbs was the club's reigning club champion and Andrejs Everitt its leading goalkicker. West Coast champion Josh Kennedy kicked his 700th career goal back in round seven, but his 700th as an Eagle was a special moment for the 34-year-old. Chris Masten, who is the Eagles' runner, was drafted with the pick No.3 that arrived at West Coast alongside Kennedy in the Chris Judd trade of 2007. Kennedy entered the match with 698 goals as an Eagle and in the third quarter he kicked the second he required to hit 700 with the club, where he is the all-time leading goalkicker. While they conceded the first 17 forward entries in the first 17 minutes, the most damning stat was their inability to register a disposal inside 50 by the end of the quarter. The backline was done no favours and held up as well as it possibly could, with the Blues kicking a wasteful 5.4 that could have been more.

Charlie Curnow and Harry McKay have kicked five goals each in a critical one-two punch to help Carlton thrash West Coast by 63 points at Optus Stadium.

The first quarter was the part we can't accept. "The first quarter was the most disappointing part of today. "It will be a big game next Saturday night. "There is commentary of how we are going. I think we're in some really good form. The Blues led 34-0 at quarter time but West Coast hit back with a seven-goal blitz in the second term to reduce the margin to 10 points by halftime.