Autopsy 2024 Rd 22 Blues finals hopes sink like a stone

[juzza316]

Owies has trade value. Trade him.

Although, that will leave us with Durdin who hasn’t fired a shot in two years and Motts who seems to have hit his ceiling and rebounded off it.

Gah!


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Can't imagine getting much for him

 

[V_23]

Owies has trade value. Trade him.

Although, that will leave us with Durdin who hasn’t fired a shot in two years and Motts who seems to have hit his ceiling and rebounded off it.

Gah!


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Owies does not have trade value

 

[ESKIE]

Richmond supporting friend knows where we can get a truckload of chicken manure

 

[jj1978]

We have a top 10 pick suddenly

Owies has trade value. Trade him.

Although, that will leave us with Durdin who hasn’t fired a shot in two years and Motts who seems to have hit his ceiling and rebounded off it.

Gah!


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We could trade all 3.

 

[Blue1980]

There are many factors to consider for us falling off a cliff, but I think the main single factor is they completely butchered the fitness program pre season.

Combine that with too many injury prone players, the starts won’t align for this group again like they did back half of last year.

Revamp of fitness regime, getting rid of half a dozen permanently injured players, and focus on recruiting for our needs (pace pace and more pace, and a decent key back to help Weiters) and see how we go next season.

 

[blueblooded]

Absolute disaster lucky I had something else on.

We need a mini rebuild.

Team is slow and not skilful enough. If it’s not on our terms and if our top 5 players aren’t playing out of our skins we’ve got nothing.

McGovern
Kemp
Owies
O Hollands
Kennedy
Hewett
Pitto
Charlie
Harry
Walsh
Plus more

Have all been garbage for the 2nd half of the year.

We drank our own bath water after the Geelong game and it’s turned to shit.

I’d be aggressive at the trade table. Really agressive.

apart from Cripps weitering chsrlie Harry and TDK and maybe walshy because I’m happy to give him a pass due to his back for the 2nd half of the year I’d have everyone else on the table for any players that kick and run with half a yard of pace. They’re out there look at dambrosio from hawks.

Big off season coming up

 

[MightyMighties]

What broke at Q time of that GWS game? Can it really be that team selection bringing in underdone Cerra and Cottrell and dropping Hewett would have this much of an impact? There was a positive switch last year after Q1 against Gold Coast and a negative switch after Q1 GWS. Just cannot make any sense of this

 

[ESKIE]

Owies does not have trade value

According to gettable clubs are sniffing around him already

 

[Faucon Bleu]

Another great Carlton statement game, what a wonderful effort awesome, we are going to win the flag no questions.

 

[BrianSetzer]

Well it was good while it lasted crew. Back to footy irrelevancy for us. Perhaps 2053 we might be able crawl back into semi ? Who knows ! Exciting times to come !!

FMD all I remember besides half a year last year is us being irrelevant.

 

[Styxx]

Boyd didn’t get a touch. I know he was injured but damn..


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He was only out there as least injured. Not his fault at all.

 

[jj1978]

Let's have some Vossy bingo for the presser. I nominate the following items of NuSpeak:

Process
Journey
Values
Brand
Moments
Play our way
Identity

Get to work.
Don’t know what’s wrong with player X, appears to be <something> we’ll have it scanned tomorrow.
X played because the were fit.

 

[WalshYouLegend]

Our finals campaign journey from 2nd on ladder….

 

[passmark]

Enough is being said about the players and performance.

So I want to put a bit of acid on the crowd, at least early on. I only heard most of the game on the radio but even when we were right in the game in the first quarter every time Hawthorn were in possession and going forward the crowd was roaring with every touch and clapping. When we did... Almost crickets. This, with supposedly a Blues majority crowd.

I think a lot of supporters are almost hesitant and nervous like the players are. Granted many of us are quite scarred over the past few decades.

A novel concept, blame the supporters.

Let’s see how that plays out.

 

[CarmenSandiego]

Lol after last weekend I swore I’d make plans purposefully this Sunday arvo so I couldn’t get sucked in and be disappointed again.

Then I watched the ‘it’s the hope that kills you’ Ted Lasso scene and got roped into going, absolute disaster.

Been a Voss fan but after 3 years now I still have no idea what we’re trying to do. There’s no flow in our rebound game - when it does come off it’s just talent kicking it to talent up the ground.

Stoppage game is just pure cheating, all they want to do is run forward of the footy and no matter how many times we get burnt, nothing changes.

Team defence is an absolute disaster due to our midfield refusing to work without ball in hand.

There’s honestly not one shining light about our ‘game plan’.

I won’t agree with any terms like ‘our list has been exposed’ - our list is fine, as good as anyone else’s in the top 4, there’s just a clear problem with the playing group in terms of mental fortitude and coaching… and injuries.

Best thing for the club big picture is to miss the 8. If we fall in on % and cause an EF upset you just know the club will back slap and all will be fine again.

Clearing out Russell should free up soft cap space, overpay for some two strong assistants and ffs just develop a playing style that’s identifiable and holds up. I refuse to believe that we’d be in this position if we had similar coaching as Hawthorn, Collingwood (2023 version), Geelong, Sydney etc.

As for the playing group itself, Martin, Cuningham, Marchbank have to go - can’t even believe some fans are discussing this. Gov & Saads durability are also questionable - they’re key players, can they be relied on?

Walsh’s kicking.. my god. He legit can’t hit a leading fwd no matter how much time and space he has & how good the lead is, is he damaging enough to be our #2 mid? We know what he can do, but after some injuries, attention from opposition and body copping turmoil now, is there any growth there? His defensive running is just terrible as well so he can’t be redeployed as a winger or anything either.

Small forwards personnel continue to be a problem, I don’t see that getting fixed, but once again it can be fixed from a team perspective if we cleaned up our entries and created some unpredictability.

I’m not as worried about the back 6 as if our mids pulled their finger out they wouldn’t be caught out so much.

It’s all so deflating. Another September watching other teams contend, like we’ve spent 8 years getting to this point, so clubs like Geelong can steam past us after 1 year out of the 8?

Bloody over it. #eco.#eco

 

[lilJeffyG]

Dockers have gws away and then port at home

We win two they drop one, and possibly both, we are in

Season is not done

Bookmark w.c to beat is by 8+ goals next week.

 

[Kruezing]

So we finished with more injuries than goals … that must be some sort of record

 

[Styxx]

As someone who has openly struggled with mental health and has faced joblessness and homelessness in the last month, to have some of that fixed to see this has funnelled a lot of those emotions right now.

I don't intend to pick fights, slur anyone or misbehave. We are all supporters and together in most cases the one love we share. But it hurts to see us do this again.

 

[Kernafides]

I said this morning top 4 was gone... didn't expect to shit the bed that badly

 

[jj1978]

A novel concept, blame the supporters.

Let’s see how that plays out.

Exactly. You could smell what we were cooking from 20 seconds in.

 

[HarryFlashman]

The most gutless display of sh1tful football I have ever seen a Carlton side ever dish up.
They really showed what a soft bunch of downhill skiers they really are.
McGovern soft as butter.
Saad looking for easy kicks.
Walsh, a sh1tton of nothing possessions.
Williams, might as well have slept in.
Pittonet, trade bait.
Cincotta - did he even get a kick?

The list goes on....

Given Saad pinged his hammy, that kinda explains why he’s been so off

 

[bigblueboy]

Dockers have gws away and then port at home

We win two they drop one, and possibly both, we are in

Season is not done

We are done mate. Capitulation that was aided and abetted by arrogance.

 

[BlueTongue]

Can you imagine, your whole bloodline following the Hawks, reminding you that they’ve won 4 premierships since my birth to our 0, went through a rebuild and have overtaken us again in the same time?

What a miserable day. Miserable.

I’ve been biting my tongue for a couple weeks now thinking just one win will make it all click, oh how foolish I was/am.

I honestly, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart think this club is about to implode from within, we may need to make some drastic changes come years end.

I’d get rid of Vossy, think he’s respectfully inept compared to a majority of the other coaches in the league. but that won’t happen, I don’t think.

Yes because 2 of my 3 brothers are Hawthorn (the other is Geelong) and so there's 8 flags there to to our 0.
What REALLY irks me off is that none of them are members, and only have interest when they are winning, yet I've been the poor sucker who's stuck fat with consecutive membership for the last 24 years.

 

[Faucon Bleu]

Didn't the same thing happen with Voss at Brisbane? First year made finals next few years fell off a cliff, can't coach and the MC is a disgrace.

 

[cookie monster]

Not enough people here trusting the process