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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Pre Game Promise AFL Rd 23: Carlton vs GWS
Dow not strong enough to be a top midfielder which limits where you play him. Fogarty can't kick more than 40 metres. Williams can't kick right foot and not strong enough. Lochie Obrien weak as water. Ploughman is a professional panicker when under pressure and can't read a game. Newnes, got the build to be anything and is really a nothing. Newman no right foot and weak physically, and the list goes on. Whether we see Sam Docherty pull on a Carlton guernsey again, remains to be seen. I know we all wish him the very best with this latest terrible battle.

We have got so many passengers, it's beyond a joke. IF my mail is correct, and Lyon has got the job,  I reckon he knows the weaknesses of the joint, as well as the strengths, and with a change of at least 6 personnel, maybe more, he knows that we have the players in Walsh, Weitering, Mackay,  a fully fit Cripps and a couple of others that he can build a team around to take us at least to the 8.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: In Game Action: AFL Rd 22: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide
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20 years of coach changes have changed nothing. Only good thing is a new coach always gets a sugar hit, which might mean finals for one year, before turning to crap in years 2 and 3 and the coach gets sacked. But, hey, i'll be thankful for small mercies.

Don't get excited thinking a coach will change things.
I would have thought that my post was one of the least excited ones, I have posted in years.
I'm just hoping we get a full clean out of the joint and and a new beginning. Is it guaranteed to work?
As the old saying goes, the only thing that's guaranteed is death and taxes, and if you are smart enough, you can avoid paying tax.

Let's just start with the changes that all of us, at least I think all of us on this site, believe we need, and we will go from there.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: In Game Action: AFL Rd 22: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide
It won't be Clarkson, I reckon that  Lyon or Buckley will get the job.

Whoever gets it, they will have a ton of work to do to improve this mob.
Our skill level is non-existent, and we aren't physically big or fit enough.
We have got too many passengers who aren't even close to giving us the opportunity to make the 8, and a flag. That's at least 6 top class players away.

What a top class coach can do for us in his first year, provided he gets top class assistants, and we recruit well, and the assistants and our coach can improve the skills and strengths and discipline of the team, and the coach has a game plan, and a plan B and C if plan A doesn't work, is maybe get us into the 8 so that we get a taste and a feeling for finals football.

And once you are in there, anything is possible.

Teague is a gentleman, and understands the basics of the game. After losses, I watch his press conferences, and he knows what they have done wrong, because he articulates all the things that we see.
His problem, and the reason that he's not up to the job, is that he has been unable to  correct  the issues that he himself understands they suffer from.

So he, and his assistants have to go. A hard disciplined mob have to be brought in, and get through to the players that they are a privileged lot, earning an average of 300 grand a year when people are stuffed due to Covid, and nothing other than 100% effort will get them a game and guarantee them a future at our club.

We won't win every game, the players will still make mistakes, but if we lose having given it all, as much as it will hurt, we will understand that we can't win every game, and will accept a 100% effort, loss.

But if we have another year next year like this one, the club can say goodbye to people, in these tough times, putting their hands in their pockets and parting with their hard earned and buying a membership.

As it stands at the moment, I can't see us getting to the 80,000 mark next year unless the major changes that we supporters believe need to be made, are made.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: In Game Action: AFL Rd 21: Carlton vs. Gold Coast
I haven't posted all that much on this site this year, but I have on some CFC supporters sites on Facebook.

I have consistently posted that we have a coach who shows no passion, refuses to make moves, and does not have a plan B or C if plan A fails.

I have also posted that we carry too many passengers. I've gone through some of them today, and there are more.
We have got players who are getting paid a fortune, for no results.

I have been a supporter for 68 years, and at least enjoyed the golden years.
But there are supporters out there who haven't seen any success for 26 years, and the way we are going, it might be another 26 before they ever see any.

If this club think we are going to get 80,000 plus members next year, to pay good hard Covid affected money to watch this cr@p, they can forget it.

That'sit for me for the year. I hope Covid permitting,  to live until next season, when we might have a new coach, get rid of the deadwood, and at least give our long suffering supporters some joy.