'Frantic' Blues bottle it in drawn season opener

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Carlton skipper Patrick Cripps has admitted his broadside got "frantic" aft its late-game demons from past play resurfaced successful a drawn thriller against Richmond.

The Blues led by 7 points precocious successful the 4th fourth earlier a extremity with 17 seconds near from Tigers guardant Tom Lynch tied the scores astatine 8.10.(58) apiece, with the gully the archetypal betwixt the 2 teams since 1972.

"When you're up, you conscionable privation to power the footy," Cripps told Seven aft the match.

"We astir apt got a small spot frantic determination astatine the end, truthful you've conscionable got to support learning. These young guys person conscionable got to support learning. These experiences successful large games with large crowds, that's wherever you privation to beryllium playing, truthful we've conscionable got to support learning.

"Our crippled is going to support evolving. You'd alternatively win, but I thought contiguous was a prime hard crippled of footy."

Carlton guardant Harry McKay echoed his skipper's sentiments.

"We'll look backmost and determination are a astir apt a mates of moments that, if we had our clip again, we astir apt could person done a spot better, but it's each portion of the learning process," helium told 3AW.

It was the archetypal drawn circular 1 lucifer since the 2011 play erstwhile Melbourne and Sydney drew astatine the MCG.

Collingwood large Nathan Buckley pointed to a last infinitesimal play wherever youngsters Jesse Motlop and Lochie O'Brien combined to play connected arsenic an illustration of Carlton's deficiency of crippled absorption hurting them.

"It looked similar they had the crippled iced and nether power 7 points up," helium said connected Fox Footy's post-game coverage.

"It's the small things erstwhile you're bushed and fatigued. How bash you marque the close decisions astatine the close clip to assistance your teammate?

"You cognize what Carlton volition inquire themselves? Motlop took the people successful heaps of abstraction and kicked it crossed to O'Brien.

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"In that situation, are you coaching for O'Brien to play connected and enactment himself successful a unit concern ... oregon does helium travel back, kick, people and instrumentality clip disconnected the clock?"

Richmond was besides near to rue what could've been aft finishing the nighttime up connected galore of the cardinal stats.

The Tigers won the disposals (349-341), wrong 50 (66-45) and clearances (36-32), but were made to wage aft being wasteful successful their guardant half.

"It looked similar a Richmond game. The world is we conscionable lacked polish," Tigers manager Damien Hardwick said aft the match.

Carlton's task gets nary easier adjacent week erstwhile it faces the reigning premiers astatine the MCG connected Thursday, portion Richmond travels to Adelaide to instrumentality connected the Crows.

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