We called the Tiges 'Ninthmond' for quite a while on this site. Three flags later.....
Lessons are only good if they are learned. Richmond got snarly because of it. One can only hope.
Yep, to my point earlier. No way you can just assume we 'make it' next year. No more excuses. That's loser mentality. When Richmond changed their mentality, things changed quickly.
In the past, the club has sold bulls$&t hope, now it is genuine hope. Watch how many Charlie Curnows and Sammy Walshes turn up at Aus Kick next year. There is pride being restored with being associated with Carlton and it should be a time of real optimism and positive anticipation!
Yes, agreed, should be, but until you make a final and win one at a minimum, it's still selling BS. Such an improvement this year for sure but let's face it we were a basket case for so long. Still a bit of a laughing stock and butt of jokes cos we choked. But, the cold hard truth is we didn't make finals. As I have said for a loooooooong time, close enough is not good enough. Improvement made, yes. Are we playing in the next game. No. Other teams are and if you want to keep kids as supporters, the next gen, we'd want to bloody well make finals at an absolute minimum in 2023, or more BS will keep rolling through the Club.
Not true in my house, in fact the opposite has happened and my youngest is now interested in footy and was complaining about the free kick robbing Cripps of a certain goal in the last 🥰 warmed my heart when she usually doesn’t even show a passive interest!
And my elder one has become more passionate, finally they’re getting a taste of real hatred and rivalry with the other big Vic Clubs!
Bring on 2023 - we were too injured this year and still too reliant on Cripps, surely Voss and Cooke have seen enough and will fix the problems!
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Ir's definitely true for others I know also. This is just anther year of disappointment for my kids, me too. It's not just 2022. Many others also. Let's see how many kids we keep supporting the Club if we keep missing finals!
We now have 12 months to wait to see if we make the finals for the first time in a decade!!! It's not about the preseason or round 1. We simply must make finals in 2023 and make a serious dint in the finals series.
This could be a learning curve, this past month in particular. This could make us hungrier, or this could have been our opportunity, our test, our time, and we missed it.
You simply cannot just assume we will make the finals next year.
It's bloody infuriating, flopping like we did, basically being comfortable getting close. Like I have said for a decade, close enough is NOT good enough. Period.
I have kids now wanting to barrack for other teams. We had a chance to keep young supporters, and we have blown it again for another year.
Silvagni and Dow go into the midfield for mine this week. I'd be asking SOS to do the grunt work to aide Cripps and Walsh. He has excellent hands around the contest, clean too. We don't have Kennedy or Hewett.
I'd like to see SOS and TDK roam up the field as the outlet kick, leaving the oppo headache of Curnow and McKay inside 50. We can always rotate the 4 talls up the field and inside 50.
On the wing positions - do we look at deploying Fisher and Walsh to the two wing spots? Cerra could rotate through also. Perhaps once Williams is back, we could push a half-back flanker up onto a wing. Thinking one of Newman, Doch, Saad, Williams.
Out - Hayes (susp), Newnes, Honey (unused sub) In - O'Brien, Pittonet
Hopefully TDK's shoulder is ok. Owies another week away apparently. Martin close to returning. Test this week. Does McGovern need another run in the 2's?
For mine, the best of our VFL listed players that could develop into AFL players are Stef Radovanovic (liked him a lot last year) and Ned Cahill. Ben Crocker is thereabouts. Just turned 25 so he's worth a rookie shot. Fast in his movements and footy IQ I think.
We just didn't compete this week v the Suns. Too many passengers and players who looked like they wanted to take the easy way out. Soft. Not good enough. Hoping Voss puts a massive rocket up them this week.
As for changes, it's hard to know but Pittonet is back it seems. Now we can see what our response is. I am very much looking forward to this and which players do respond. We must nail Port to the floor and take the 4 points.
For starters, I think Durdin, Pittonet, Dow and Stocker should come in.
Outs would include the injured Cripps, Martin, Fogarty and Boyd for mine.
If McDonald is right, I'd consider him but does he need a run in the 2's first?
Gibbons needs to exit for a while, to get himself back to the football basics, we don't need a guy staging for cheap frees inside our D50.
While I appreciate why people want Durdin or Honey, it sends to the wrong message, they have been playing some nice cameos but neither has played 4 qtrs.
I think Gibbons needs a fresh challenge. Think he has the footy nous and skillset to become a decent small defender. Throw the challenge out to him. As for Honey and Durdin, similar, throw the challenge and opportunity to them. Durdin particularly plays with the intensity most of our senior team lack.
