Hey guys!! So I haven't been on this forum for a long time now, and I apologise if a thread of a similar sort has already been started.
After watching only one game (round 1) and being 3 rounds in I am claiming that I am "over" footy. Now I love the blue boys through and through. When they came to my hometown I stalked them haha for two days and got as many signatures and photos as I could. I love the club and an proud of its history. I bleed Navy!
So, I was wondering if there had been a general concensus as to what the heck is going on!? The first quarter of round 1 was a different Carlton. They were tackling aggressively, running through the corridor, reading the play excellently. Then the old Carlton reared its ugly head for the rest of the match. So, Is it the list? Do I just have my navy blue lenses on and think that my team is capable of achieving more when in reality they can't? Is it the coaching staff? Pls explain.
Thry and Blue_MM, I think you are both confusing finishing with hitting targets.
It's easy for fans to forgive and forget the foibles of the superstars, but by AFL standards Yarran, Murphy, Gibbs are the best on our list yet just average overall.
Unfortunately for us, Judd who is an absolute star in most other areas except perhaps marking is/was also very ordinary by foot hitting targets.
I agree with them being only average overall. I did say that they can at times show some real class with delivery. As has been mentioned, Hoops and Scotland were consistently fantastic. I think in an interview once, Fev said that if his life depended on a good delivery it would have to come from Hoops.
That's right LP, it was when Ratten was trying to squeeze several ruckmen into the side. It worked OK a couple of times but really depended on the opposition.
Our coaches / line coaches have generally been dumbar5es.
The setup with the resting ruck option up forward is OK but only if you can deliver the ball half decently. Since the departure of Houlihan our list sprays the ball like a tomcat pissing on the front door, and back then under those two talls conditions when the ruckmen contested inside F50 Eddie Betts would be flying against them rather than crumbing! We had a forward line that wasn't being out-marked yet we had nobody crumbing! The alternative setup was to have blokes like 1AW, Robbo and Simmo bombing the ball forward off the HBF to a small forward line and watching Betts and Garlett get out-marked body on body time after time!
Back in Fev's day he had Houlihan and Scotland hitting him up on leads, that is if we could manage to feed the ball forward through them, the rest of the time it was a chook raffle.
Now with the departure of Scotland I don't think we have a single A Grade ball user on the list, some very talented goal kickers, but not one bloke who can reliably put the ball to the forwards advantage. I maintain Carlton are the worst ball using side in the AFL, and by some margin! It looks like our recruiters put no emphasis on accurate disposal under pressure as a recruit requirement. It's the arrogance of the coaches that cause this situation, they genuinely believe if they are given a super-athlete they can teach them to do the rest, but it's a bullsh1te belief and the Dawks, Cats and Swans have proven it time and time again by recruiting footballers first and slaughtering the opposition regularly!
I think Yaz has shown on numerous occasions that he is able to deliver the ball very well to leading forwards. He is good as putting it at their throats, with a very low, pin-pointed pass. Murph does well too. They may not be Heath Scotlands, but they still do pretty well. Other than those two, i'm not very confident.
Cheers guys! I've tried Wardley Fin/Tail rot treatment, but I don't think it's working overly well. I know my PH is a little high, I think I'll have to go and get some more to condition the water etc.
I've had crow problems, but a net has fixed that. As of late, I'm slowly losing one by one to tail rot. I've tried medicating them and what not but to no real avail. It really sucks!
Ok. So this is probably not an idea forum to be asking stuff like this but........ Are there any goldfish enthusiasts out here?? I have a large outdoor pond with 16 goldies and am slowly loosing them to disease (most namely tail rot). Was just wondering if anyone on here has had any experience with fish??
Like I said, I know you're on here to talk about the footy, but maybe one of you guys are Dr. Harry!? Ahah
Buckly Jamieson Docherty Jaksch Rowe Simpson Everitt Gibbs Yarran Menzel Henderson Thomas Walker Jones Cas Kruezer Murphy Curnow Judd Bell Cripps Carazzo Emerg Tutt Dick Whiley Tuohy White Graham Armfield Watson
I'd have Touhy ahead of Carrots, unless Carrots can return to his 2011 form. But that team looks pretty solid. I might even swap Sheean into the mix also.
I think Rowe and Docherty will finish in the top 6. Both played to the roles they were given, although they weren't all class, I would certainly call them up a chance.
Crash I agree I didn't even realise Krakouer won it, all I know is the AW missed out and was also probably screwed out of a nice car.
It was a $10,000 prize, I reckon Nic Nat's mark that year (against us at Etihad) was clearly second behind Walker's.
I was there at that game. Gee, it was a good mark. Poor old Thornton didn't know what hit him. I think that was the game that we resorted to Jammo or Hendo in the ruck at one point.
