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I hope he is taking on some of the blame himself though.
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I'm not too worried about where we are on Sunday, I still believe that we will be Top 4 at the end of the Home and Away games, it all depends on who we get back before then.Unfortunately we may be out of the top 4 come Sunday. A loss to the Pies would pretty much end it for us imo.
That's a positive if I ever seen one, has to put us closer to the premiership window on that chart thingy.We only gave up 79 points.
Credit to the backline for absorbing so much in the third quarter. They could have kicked 7 or 8 goals with the amount of f50 entries they had.
I'm not looking for excuses but trying to look for a theory behind the slump.
About a month ago the flu/illness bug hit * really hard. It was a pretty big story at the time.
Any chance that Ben or someone may have given it to Harry / another Carlton player and the same bug has gone through our team as well?
I wish i had your confidence gab.I'm not too worried about where we are on Sunday, I still believe that we will be Top 4 at the end of the Home and Away games, it all depends on who we get back before then.
We also need to get back to the G,Marvel just saps the life out of you.
3 hard games on that concrete dump.
That's just absolutely ****ing pathetic. Sorry for the swearing but seriously, im sick and tired of this club having these standards. You can't seriously tell me you hope to be a genuine premiership contender with injury prone players like Cunningham. What a joke.And he lasted about 25 minutes of AFL footy with one touch across two weeks!
Whenever I start to feel that I'm losing hope I cast my mind back to the horror years between 2002 and 2019, so many times our finals hopes were over by round 5 or 6 of a season.I wish i had your confidence gab.
You're a glutton for punishment, just like the rest of us areOkay, my anger has dissipated. I can now go and cry myself to sleep. Damn football. Why do I put so much of my heart in it?
110% and that's exactly what's holding us back, it's a flow on effect. Williams, McGovern are quality players, you can carry 2 or so talented but somewhat injury prone players, but Cunners, Marchbank, Martin and Durdin? That's amateur list building right there. It's also very unfair on the player's who aren't injury prone. If those 4 aren't cut next year, then forget it, don't expect this list to go anywhere.Cuningham
Marchbank
Martin
Williams
McGovern
Out of a possible 95 games they could have played season to date have played 39 combined. That includes Cuninghams “game” tonight.
Williams & McGovern account for 30 of those. The other 3 have combined for a total of 9
Add to that the back-up KPD Durdin playing 2 games in three years…..
That’s a hell of a lot of list spots to carry that simply don’t get on the park.
All of Martin, Cuningham, Marchbank & Durdin need to be exited at the end of the year.
Such poor list management to be still carrying all of those six after their respective injury histories.
Disappointed and not surprised with the loss after H Mackay out. Stopped our wing release outlet (out of defence) and we lost the second key forward. Zero planning on the loss of Mckay meant we played like he was out there. Coaches (dumb), and players (dumber).
Never understood so much of the confidence going into this game. Win or lose, this game was not going to be easy as 1) it was a 5 day break, 2) they owe us revenge and Kenny owes Vossy a smack and they have suffered at our hands recently, and 3) they have Sydney next week and if they lose to us and Sydney their season is done. This was always going to be a final type game for them.
What I noticed...
- I really did think we were out on our feet from 2nd half onwards. Given ports commitment to this game and a high pressure rating we were going to run out of legs and needed a lead. We couldnt get enough of a lead or sustain the effort. I would say this was a brutal cop for us to take on an important match.
- It's funny, GWS and Doggies missed key players but their system held up to beat us. We drop a few key players and our system of moving the ball ends up shit. Once we get a bit tired, the transition plan fall over. Harry missing meant we didnt change one thing despite losing a key fwd and an outlet mark / competing on the wing. We played exactly the same and got absolutely MUGGED on the wing and up fwd after half time. Dumb (coaches) and dumber (players) didn't change any of the process.
- I'm most disappointed in Pitto who got smacked after half time by close to the worst ruck in the AFL. Pitto im annoyed at as he is fresh. But he cant run out a game. The previous good form he had was in qtrs 1 and 2 with his hit outs to adv. Every time after half time he collapses letting us down. Sweet is a ruck potato.
- Given the 5 day turnaround Pitto, Cunners, Cottrell on freshness were the players i expected most from. Cottrell disappeared again when we needed him. Got lost, got ineffective. When we are dominating he gets loose in the fwd 50 and goals. He is not a skier in mentality as he is blue collar, but he is a skier in output.
- Kempy. Poor ****ing guy. I blame the MC but he was involved in most of Port's goals. Austin, you didnt see this. It's costing us now as every key forward not taken by Weitering is kicking 2-5 goals every week. And lets not miss they are taking Weitering away from the contest it is that easy. What is the point of having the best 1-2 fwd punch in the league if opposition potato fwds can score just as many goals per match.
- Ollie needs a break. Trying his guts out but he is cooked midway through the third qtrs. Over doing it early in games.
- Charlie is a freak. Leads every goal list but not one goal is easy.
- Didnt understand the butters release and Curnow back with no outlet option on the wing..Pitto somewhere lost. Where was the coaches instruction here.
- I cant be bothered. Another disappointing weekend. We are faltering...
Yep.Was selecting Cerra and Cottrell straight in for me...
I think it sent a negative message to the playing group...
Tried to fix something that wasn't broken.
On a positive note.
1994
We fancied ourselves as premiership favorites (or certainly contenders).
Season fell away and ended with the heartbreaking loss to half a Geelong side out at AFL Park.
We then drafted Scott Camporeale.
We came back the next year, went 20-2 and flogged Geelong in the grand final.
2024
We fancied ourselves as premiership contenders
Season fell away..
We will subsequently draft two Camporeales.
We will come back in 2025 and... History is in the making.
We had our 5 best mids out there and lost contest and clearance.We were stretched too thin tonight. Cerra is wasted in defence, but with Boyd out, Cincotta now a tagger, Williams now a forward and injured anyway, he's needed to plug a gap.
Kennedy was one of our best, but playing him forward means he's not there to contribute in the midfield.
Pitto was very disappointing. The 5 day break is irrelevant for someone who didn't play last week.
Kemp was repeatedly outmarked, but more than once he was simply done by a lack of height.
Elijah can hold his head up, his first half in particular was very good.
Doc and JSOS have been big outs all year. Imagine Doc running around on Ollie's wing, adding hardness and experience. JSOS adding grit to the forward line, delivering inside 50, taking some ruck time & freeing up Kennedy for other roles.
Things can change. I'm not writing the season off just yet. Even tonight our second quarter was pretty decent. But a disappointing game overall.
Young is a microcosm of my criticism of Austin. His list spot should have gone to Liam Mcmahon, instead Young was given 4 years instead of 1.Young is an awful footballer. He is not the answer
Carlton goals per quarter - 1-7-1-0
Dear God, when I prayed for Carlton to play a good second quarter tonight, I think the Almighty may have misunderstood..
I noticed this on TV and thought the same myself. The right play was obviously to blockI feel like we need to go back to basics in doing the team things. We have lost that a bit.
I saw an incident on the wing directly in front of me tonight that illustrated that. Not picking on the player involved, but a symptom of the bigger issue.
Two Carlton players running at the ball, one of them was Walsh. Port Player in desperate pursuit. Walsh had the ability to shepherd so the other player could safely pick up the ball, indeed myself and about 4 Carlton fans around me were screaming for it. Instead he peeled forward for the handball receive - which never arrived because the desperate Port player reached the contest and forced it out of bounds.
Get back to working hard for each other, Blues. Then the rewards will come naturally.
consistency is killing usCarlton goals per quarter - 1-7-1-0
Dear God, when I prayed for Carlton to play a good second quarter tonight, I think the Almighty may have misunderstood...
Ironic, as that look sums up my feelings towards him and the selectors right now.
MJ you do realise Kennedy and Cerra weren’t playing as midfielders last night which might explain why Kennedy (one of our best players) had 0 clearances and Cerra 1 clearance.We had our 5 best mids out there and lost contest and clearance.