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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 17 Carlton vs Hawthorn-Post Match
One thing we should consider about Fridays performance is after we play North this week, we will have played seven of the top eight teams over the past nine weeks. The two teams we played who are out of the eight are the teams we have beaten. Our draw has been tough. Put together with our injuries and the six day turn arounds and the travel to Perth provides some context, however it is not an excuse
Additionally we have played forty players so far this season so I would suggest that we are looking at our list and determining who is staying and who is going to stay. There will be some pain, but this is what we want.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 17 Carlton vs Hawthorn-Post Match
It wasn't all doom and gloom, the bay I sit in won chooklotto! :)
On a more serious note, there are seven players out because of injury, Walker, Menzel, Gibbs, Armfield, Graham, Thomas & Carrazo. Wouldn't win the game with them but would have made us more competitive.
On top of that over the past four weeks we have had two six day breaks, a trip to WA and then another six day break. Once again it would not have changed the result but once again would make us more competitive.
On top of this we could consider the players we should have had available if they hadn't left or been traded, Waite, Gartlett, Betts, Jacobs, Robinson Hampson & Maclean. I think if we are start putting all this together, I believe we would make serious inroads into the gap between Hawthorn and us.
We have consistently wasted our draft picks, we have mismanaged our playing list and we have failed to develop our players skills, leadership and there commitment to put the team first.
I believe we currently have a club that has four different factions vying for Board control which is impacting adversely on the football department as a whole as well as the individual coaches and fitness staff through the lack of development and security for them, and which is infiltrating into the psychology, beliefs and attitudes of the players.
We need people who will unite the Club's administration and provide certainty for the football department so that the players can gain some certainty around there careers.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 14 - Blues v Western Bulldogs (Aftermatch Aftermath)
I think Yarran is playing injured, in fact if Cripps hadn't gone off I think he would have spent most of the last quarter on the bench. I also think that Johnson's job was to limit Murphy and while he didn't shut him out of the game, he did restrict his output. Boekhurst seems to lack confidence and if he could let go of his fear of making mistakes then he could be ok, Holman looks ok and Whiley needs to play more. I think Murphy leadership has been great the past three weeks and he has set a very good standard for everybody to follow. The Wood Casboult fiasco demonstrates to me that the side hasn't been playing as a team for a while now and therefore they are not on the same page. They have been better the past few weeks but they need to trust one another and believe everybody is going to the right thing. And this is not a MM thing. I don't think they have been playing as a team for about fifteen years and four coaches weren't able to change this. They are doing it now but they need to do it into the future.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Why So Different??
Under Ratten we had the reputation of being "down hill skiers". I would have got Roos, but he was not interested or available so I think Malthouse was brought in to provide a more defensive mindset. Clearly this didn't work. I think the club misunderstood the problem which is and was that the playing group believed they could pick and choose when they would try and when they would go thru the motions. This was Malthouse's failure just as it was Ratten's, Pagen's and Brittain's failure. The tackling pressure is an indication the players are choosing to have a go at the moment. The real challenge for the next coach is to make this a part of the culture of the team and the club.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations
Gibbs will probably get suspended, Gray was carted off which was unfortunate and we should not like seeing that, so 1 week is likely with an early plea and good record. However for a longer term team perspective it was a message of physicality that hasn't been shown by Carlton for a long time. For too long we have been punching bags yet on the weekend our tackling was aggressive like it should be. So I think a suspension for Bryce is a cheap price to pay for a strong message. Let's just hope this sort of physicality continues into the future.