Carlton Supporters Club

Darren got us back on our feet after Pagan, can't bag him for that.  Would have made a prelim but for bodgy officiating.

I'm not surprised that many Carlton supporters still believe that Ratten was a good appointment, just as many Essendon supporters still believe in Hird and the great majority of Collingwood supporters are behind Buckley.
Meanwhile clubs like Hawthorn and Geelong who adopt a pragmatic and rational approach will continue to succeed.

Tigers had Deleido, Maric and Grigg out. Only Deleido was really significant, with due respect to the other two.

I'm looking at the stats now. Effective inside 50s Richmond won 59% to 44%, so we weren't that efficient going in, especially when you consider we had 11 more. We actually took more marks inside 50, 18-12, but weren't that accurate.

I'm sure Bolton will be pondering how to achieve that and will fine tune our structure until they do so more consistently.

Casboult missed two easy goals but he did a lot of good work.  Seven marks, most of them contested or the result of his own efforts, is a good return for a key forward.  He was playing on one of the best defenders running around, and managed to crunch him in one contest.

Everitt is not every supporters' ideal footballer but I'd have him in the team as long as he continues to kick goals.

Got it in one, I was hoping there was no need for an explanation.

Getting back to your original question, it's not going to happen obviously so we have to put up with what we have for now, which is not good enough so this is a big reason why we will finish bottom four again

Why would we want someone who can't kick and is soft?

I thought that some of our tackling was pretty good; we generally tackled with intent and let the Tigers know that they were in for some treatment.  Our tackling in the forward 50 was good; 8 to 4.  However, we lost the tackle count 51 to 60 and the seven players who spent most of the game in defence had seven tackles between them.

The midfielders led the way and, while I wouldn't want them to ease off, we really need others to contribute, particularly the blokes who aren't touching the pill.  Someone like White should really be using his size and strength to bring opponents down and everyone should be working harder to make their tackles stick.

They used to say SOS had to kick 6 goals as a forward to  make up for the defensive effort you lost by taking him out of the backline.

Reckon Everitt is thr same equation  but backwards.  He needs to kick 3-4 goals to make up for the softness he brings to the team.

No matter what people think of Everitt, he's good for 2 or 3 goals a game and that is gold for us at the moment until a viable alternative is ready.

Maybe he should do a "Place" as in "place kick", because that may be the only way he can prevent that horrible ball drop.

I thought Curnow was very good last night and probably didn't get the credit some others are getting because of the role he plays.

There were lots of positive signs but it's really important that we follow up with another strong performance.
The early win is also important, so there is some reward for the effort, otherwise the "effort" may be hard to maintain.

What did people think of Phillip's game? I thought he rucked well was good around the ground and is surprisingly agile and applies good pressure even against smaller more nimble players. If he plays like that every week he will be a very handy pickup.  He probably surprised me the most. A green shoot where i least expected to see one.
On the game. I actually enjoyed watching a proper team effort. Yes we lack some polish but atleast we played like an AFL team. When we clicked it was scintillating stuff through the middle.

Cripps and Murphy will be be much better for the run. Cripps is just awesome. The player who can have 2 tagging him but still get the clearance.