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Gibba never had Goddard, he played his usual run with role on Jobe. Duigan had Goddard for the entire game, even followed him to the bench.
Gibbs played on Goddard for some time.
The underlying problems at Carlton run alot deeper than 12 months. Think MM worked out now what he has walked into. Years of underlying problems relating to work ethics, attitude and culture going back 12 years won't get fixed in a year. Years of not trying back and giving up easily in mid 2000's, tanking, etc.. means the white flag is easy to raise if it gets too hard. similar situation like for Parko in his first year back in 1991, after we lost our last 8, he cleaned the list out with blokes that wouldn't work, as well as those not up to it, got in bloke that would, built the list that way and won a flag 4 years later.Fair enough Big Jack.
Then I ask the Question again. Why pay out Ratts at $900k or whatever and bring in mick for $3 mill if we fundamentally can't improve the players we have. Seems like a waste of money... no?
Because Mick knows how to build a list and run a club.
And where are we at 12 months in?
We'll win next week because we would've been embarrassed into it. Prefer we win because we consistently work hard rather than be embarrassed into it. We'd possible end up with a nervous Richmond first week, beat them them embarrass ourselves no end the week after with another gutless performance just as we built a little false hope. Sounds a familiar story.
Wallpaper over the cracks just nicely unfortunately.
Look at our past month: out-of-our depth loss to Freo, meek capitulation & outplayed by the Bulldogs, faith-restoring win over a lazy Richmond, weak-minded & skill-less loss to a terrible Essendon team......classic wallpaper-over-the-cracks win last week in every respect. There's one giant common denominator over-riding last week's win.
Dick always said get the best, now find the best conditioning coach in the business here or OS.
Not sure that going over to my S,C&B list will change anything but I am going to look at it again.
waite and Henderson in the forward line - The backline needs to be shored up, a decision needs to be made. Mick chooses waite. Its clear MM sees hendo as a forward here on in
Waite cannot play in the forward line, he has to be either on a wing as a running linkman or in defence where he is made accountable for an opposition player.
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Yes a few of us now have said Boots needs to spend a bit more time on the weights!
Problem being cookie he's an ectomorph and ectomorphs find it very hard to put on weight. I think he'll always be quite skinny, especially when you consider how much running these blokes do. It will be nearly impossible for him to put on decent size. Some ectomorphs (Zac Dawson) have great inner strength. Boots doesn't seem to have it.
I like Lars..lol.I like how much strength Menzel has through his hips. Usually a very good sign for a footballer.
Another good sign... he kicks goals!
How's his possession per goal ratio going so far?
Gary Lyon was talking him up pregame saying without the lars and his brother's history he could have gone at pick #2.
Bell was doing a fair bit of grunt work in terms of spoiling and ball winning in the clinches, which I think we benefited from. He just needs to improve his disposal which lets him down atm. I'm confident that will get some focus as he's very useful to have around the clearances and contested ball situations.
Also let's the opposition know he's there - ask Cotchin.
Cookie...Glad to see you could see what I saw with Tom Bell....his big body is a must for the senior team.
Nothing surer than a win this week. They got their bogey win against us they have made finals and dont need the win. We now have nothing to play for on saturday, and the tigers are going to crow early about their finals fortunes. It all adds up to us winning this week. No Chris Judd. I can see the Tiggies getting ahead of themselves, and failing to rise to the occasion. They are a bit mind stuffed when they face us, and if we get the jump on them early will go into their shells and fail to respond.Thry me old mate, you are unfortunately describing what Carlton would do (ie steal defeat from the jaws of victory). Richmond will put us to the sword and will well.
Yep. Looking squarely at us, and us alone we will win this game. We are so predictable in when we pick and choose which games we rock up to play its not funny. We still have the wood on these guys. One coughing and spluttering almost win is not the panacea to a decade of dishing out losses to these bozos.
Yes we are predictable and we can't beat sides above us at all and lets face it Richmond are THAT MUCH better than us and have been building for quite some time. We can't even beat the Bulldogs when we have plenty to play for and they have nothing at all to play for. We USED to have it over them, when we were a well coached outfit. We have zero chance this weekend, I'm predicting a 10 goal plus hiding.