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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane
It's quite possible that the rebuild is really just scratching the surface. Maybe deep down in the guts, the club isn't really doing the hard yards, because they've never really had to. Player development is a big tell for me. We've never really had to do it, and we still may not be doing it. Certainly looks that way.

Aaah, to steal a Keatingism, the rebuild we had to have!

I suppose that is why our club's top end is clearly a tad Liberal, a case of Elliotitus!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane
You'd be surprised how many around the place think sacking Bolton will solve the club's problems. Extreme myopia.

I'm not sure that'll fix anything, but I'm quickly losing faith in him being the man for the job as well! ;)

There is just no way, when you are 40 points down with injuries on the bench, that a opposition team should have extra numbers at both ends of the ground! We are burning the candle at both ends, BB is supposed to be the one putting out the fire!

Are we scared to make a match look ugly, who decision is that, has someone dictated to teh MC the way we are to setup and play, could it really be the coach? personally, I think any AFL coach would probably take a 1pt to Nil win every day of the week!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane
I'd be inclined to agree. Bolton doesn't seem like a divisive, conniving type. He seems like a fairly decent, honest type, not the sort who would corrupt or derail culture. The fact that all 4 of our teams are struggling means it's a club wide issue IMO. If I was a betting man, and the club's culture is indeed rotten, I'd be looking at someone(s) more senior than him.

Should I really be hearing "The Godfather Waltz" as I read that post!

I'm not sick in the head am I, please treat me kindly and speak softly!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane
Some fans slam the club for re-signing Murphy, Murphy has signed up for more of this!

Murphy was far from our worst today!

We should be nominating him for a Nobel Prize, he's sacrificed more than Mother Teresa!

Let's get this straight, so it isn't glossed over, Murphy signed up for more of this!

99.999% of people would have cut and run!

No wonder Hodge picked him up! :o
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane
Neither the Jones or rowe turnover was under any sort of pressure Jones was just a scrubber kick and Rowes was just a crap decision both stuffed up as bad as each other but in my opinion Rowe has passed hes used by date ,dont think this is a personal attack on rowe I admire the man for what he has gone through to play at the top level and I would be the first one to shake hes hand and say thanks for giving your all to mine and your football club but it is time

I wasn't making an excuse for the other incidents, or defending unpressurised turnovers of which there were many, but it's the effect our teams crap work ethic and culture has in building pressure on each other!

I've been arguing for a long time, our team plays with no sacrifice, it feels like they are all too busy climbing to the top of a drowning pile of team-mates!

Another good example of that today was Murphy getting slammed, .................. and Hodge picking him up! FMD, Hodge felt sorry for him, and Hodge is a dead-set white line fever kent!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane
When rowe cannot kick the ball without kicking it 5 meters to the oposision what example does he set when he drops easy marks and fumbles under pressure it just is not good enough for a senior player he should be setting a better example

Jones and Marchbank did the very same, I was watching TV and listening to radio when Jones fecked up and the radio blamed Weitering!

There was one incident today, it might have been Rowe or Jones who took an intercept mark and went to play on past a team-mate, the team-mate who I won't reference because I am not sure who it was, let an opponent run past unhindered to pressure the kicker which resulted in a turnover. Just a simple arm or a bump would have seen Rowe or Jones free to run off! The commentators, spuds as they are, slammed Rowe or Jones for the turnover and made no mention of their team-mate the spectator! That is the sort of crap our defence has to put up with!

Nthmond always shepherd for a team-mate, Carlton hardly ever!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane
Don't agree about Rowe, we are now doing to him what we did to Weitering, and Rowe's suffering the same fate!

I thought Thomas was one of our better players today.

It was interesting earlier in the week, I heard a coach from one of the top or improving clubs, I cannot recall which one. A spud journo asked him if a certain player would go to another and the coach said something like, "We don't put players on other players, our players play in their positions!"

But we send the kids all over the shop because it's good for their development!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane
Anyone wanting to see the coach's post match presser the current link on the clubs site is wrong, of course.

This one works, http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2018/16/bl-v-carl

BB was blaming the defence, but the defence don't make extra numbers at both ends of the ground.

Fans should go back and watch the replay to find out just how much bullsh1t that really is. You'll see repeat after repeat, over and over again, of 4 or 5 Lions players up against or 2 and 3 Blues players at both ends of the ground!

There are moments in the game when Charlie loses a contest against 2 or 3 deep in our F50, the Lions take the ball coast to coast in a chain in just seconds, and you see Jones or Weitering isolated against 3 or 4 Lions in or around our D50! It happened on multiple occasions, two of them even made the AFL's highlights!

If BB believes what he is saying then he is probably not the man for the job. If it's spin he should be better than that, it's not like he's keeping a top secret from the opposition!

Watch the highlights of some of the Lions coast to coast goals, look in the background behind the ball carrier and count the number of Carlton players trailing behind. Even when Rowe, Weitering or Jones manage to make a spoil or hold up the Lions there is no Carlton player in sight to help! Over and over again!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane
Stop sooking it up. This is what got us here in the first place, that sense of doing things the easy way by tanking and quick fixes. I've said this previously, but the first time I have been actually proud of the club for the last 20 years was when this was announced. It was the first time someone at the club said, no we got ourselves into this and we'll work our way out.

I have no problem with that, but I'm certain we won't get out of the swamp by playing nice!

Either we get disruptive, or we must accept our lot!