Carlton Supporters Club

Last year we were dominating the contested ball and clearances and we still got smashed.

All teams have inside and outside players, our problem is we haven't had a good midfield coach since Ratten got the chop!

We don't even set up correctly at the bounce.

Read we are 18th for overall clearances and similar for centre clearances.....thats not good when most of us rate our mids as one of our few positives, impossible to win games with those stats.....Cripps is being rotation tagged every game and its exposing the rest of our mids as nothing more than free wheelers who wont get the hard ball...

So Jamo gets dropped, doesnt play in the 2's and gets named in the extended bench. So was he omitted or injured? Puzzling given its all about "earning youre spot".

In: Jamo, White, Jones

"We know Murph is tough in and under and he's a real hard gut runner so he's important to us and he'll be fine," coach Brendon Bolton said.

It would be the worst start to the season in our history. It basically starts the ball rolling.

The process at the moment is education...when we get all the pieces to the puzzle ie required players to fill or the gaps we can work on the method/game plan.
I wouldnt be bothered over complicating things at the moment, some of our players are struggling with the basics..if we had 40 Weiterings/Cripps on the list then we could skip
process 101 and move to 301 but thats dreamimg...

I think Bolton himself admitted in a post match presser a week or two go all he can do is educate this season and look to cut and draft more players at season end...he knows
he need another big cull to get the list in shape..

Whitey was a gun, gees did we miss out on a quality small mid there.  Blasted foot injuries.

Indeed. he has got away with ridiculous stuff for many a year. Always the sniper too.....

Unless you were in his body I doubt you'd know how he was feeling  seriously idiotic comments on here.

Murph gets in there and I wouldn't call him soft physically - if you're comparing him to a guy like Hodge well he's a dirty sniper who goes about it in a way I don't respect and would hate for us to be doing.

Dipper played after losing a lung!

Dermie played after being knocked to kingdom come.

Platten played after breaking ribs.

Hodge breaks bones in his arm and misses 2 weeks.

So our 'captain' had a virus and everyone wants to excuse him - what was wrong with him in round 2 and 3?  No wonder we haven't one a flag for 20 years while the Hawks have held the cup up 4 times in the same period!