Carlton Supporters Club

like to see blokes start playing in their best positions. Setterfield into the guts, Williamson onto a wing SPS into the midfield, Murphy not as a small forward. Otherwise it's no point playing any of them as you're only going to get half the value you should.

Biggest issue is the will to win. We don't have enough of it. We match every side we play alot, top sides or not, rarely copping a hiding, but we don't win enough. We only fully commit at our choosing, not bringing it in uncompromisingly every week. we tend to often play to the other side's level, good or $hit. Sadly, it's been out culture for 20 years and takes alot of time to turn that around. We are doing way better than in 2018-19 but unless we bring that total commitment every week we'll lose games that we should be winning more often than we should. That's more frustrating than when we were $hit as we expect more.

Once again our season starts in round 3. We have the worst round 2 record ever i'm sure. Pump up, show a heap of promise in round 1, going down after a close effort, then we have a big letdown and play like crap in round 2, starting like slugs. You can imagine we'll fire up next week as we did round 3 against Geelong last year..

To this end, I watched Cripps, Newnes and Setterfield closely and all three don’t track back.

I've just had a look at Paddy Dow's 2019 season
Bolton was sacked after round 11.
Up until that point Dow was averaging close to 20 possessions a game
After that he struggled to reach double figures....until a bit of a flurry towards the end.
It may have been an injury but he kept playing.
Now we know that Teague made the decision to move some of the older more mature players back into their positions of strength which left some of the younger players out in the cold.
Since that 2019 season Dow has had a fight to get back in  the side.

The question has to be...Do we have too many players for certain positions at the cost of a lack of strength in other positions?

Will to win and willingness to the body on the line and take a hit for the team, too many blokes wanting the easy kick and refusing
to do the 1%ers. You have old blokes in Pendlebury and Sidebottom on the deck fighting for the ball and our young blokes watching waiting for the likes of Walsh to get it to them.
About 5 players need dropping so they get with the program....

The problem probably is that there's not enough room in the 'player's best positions' to fit them all into those spots.

My two cents:
We lost the game in the coaches box. I noticed (watching from home) that Pies players played on at every chance. This made our players look flat footed and our coaching panel had not answer for this. Nothing nothing at all.
In the 3rd the Pies stopped playing on and we got ourselves into the game.

A lot did go the Pies way,
when talk of Cox as a footy player is mentioned on this board, then we know things are going well for them
Jones slaps the ball out of a pack and the ball lands to De Goey. How do you defend that?? See just kept ging their way.

I think players are also being played out of position:
SPS is NOT a backman
Setterfield is NOT a wingman.
Murphy is NOT a small forward

I can keep going but worst of all I rejoined as a member today. Does that make sense

According to the AFL website, the one percenters went our way 60/43.

Will to win and willingness to the body on the line and take a hit for the team, too many blokes wanting the easy kick and refusing
to do the 1%ers. You have old blokes in Pendlebury and Sidebottom on the deck fighting for the ball and our young blokes watching waiting for the likes of Walsh to get it to them.
About 5 players need dropping so they get with the program....

That would be Walsh getting 59 and the rest of the team one.......I'd like to see those in isolation and draw my own conclusions and
my idea of a 1% er is probably different.
We were soft vs Richmond and same vs Collingwood

That would be Walsh getting 59 and the rest of the team one.......I'd like to see those in isolation and draw my own conclusions and
my idea of a 1% er is probably different.
We were soft vs Richmond and same vs Collingwood

Yes, playing culture is the next thing. We need to weed out those that don't have that passion to win at all costs, rather than at their choosing, and put them in the twos. A highly committed Carlton can beat anyone. Sadly we aren't that highly committed anywhere near as often as we should be.

I didn't see us lay a single offensive shepherd, not one block, not one uSecond of delay on a Filth opponent.

I'm not even sure you can do that by accident!

Walsh had 3 1%ers. Weitering had 16, Docherty 8, Jones and Pittonet 4 each.

Three backline players, and a badly beaten ruckman....nothing of note around the ground apart from Walsh
No forwards performing 1%ers either...
Fogarty was good and has already shown a few of his teammates how to tackle and chase in his short time at the club.