Carlton Supporters Club

Kingy was on Richmonds bandwagon every early in 2017 I recall, one of the very few in the media who was at the time.

Across a few forums I notice fans raging on Pittonet, as you know I'm not his biggest fan and want De Koning accelerated as quickly as possible, but it's a bit unfair on Pittonet this week as I thought he was OK.

Further Pittonet was really done over in the umpiring, particularly by Umpire 17 whoever that is! Sinclair jumped into Pittonet multiple times using his spikes up high with his leg out into Pittonet's gut, and when Pittonet shoved out his arm to defend against it the umpire penalised Pittonet for blocking, it was bullcrap call and it happened more than once. At one bounce the ball came down almost on Sinclair's head and he stuck out a leg to stop Pittonet, and yet Pittonet was penalised for blocking!

We had a lot of talls out there at the weekend, they all at times looked confused and were getting in each others way, this didn't help Pittonet, De Koning or Casboult! But I thought the use of Casboult in D50 allowed Jones and Weitering to go about their work, so it partially worked, probably where it fell down was Casboult is only playing at 80% and not clunking marks.

Listen guys, we are not that bad.

I agree with you on Pittonet. He's got the ability, but he needs to direct his hit outs, when he gets one, a hell of a lot better than he does. The biggest thing, I reckon in his favour, is that he's only 24 and ruckmen usually start playing their best footy at 26 plus.

I dont understand the Pitto hate this week, I thought our two ruckmen beat their two ruckmen easily. It was after the tap/hitout where our problems began.

I thought it was break even....it was really our two vs Sinclair who I thought did well in the last quarter when they needed him.
Was a bit disappointed we didnt dominate more given their backup was Mclean who is a KP Forward who just does a Casboult in the ruck and not as good. With Hickey out we should have done a lot better IMHO...

Maybe we are worse.  In the eyes of many, we are.  Why?  Failure at the trade table.  Failure in basic training.  Failure in line management.  Failure in tolerating below par performances.      

Most of the Heeney highlights saw Saad as his opponent... height and body advantage there.
So was Newman supposed to be his opponent?

Time for my weekly hitout report??

Pittonet had 31 hitouts from 58 contests - He won 53.4% of contests he was in.
He had 8 hitouts to advantage meaning 25.8% of his hitouts went to advantage.
My stat - hitout to advantage from ruck contest % - 13.8%

DeKoning had 13 hitouts from his 28 contests - He won 46.4% of contests he was in.
He had 6 hitouts to advantage meaning 46.2% of his hitouts went to advantage.
My stat - hitout to advantage from ruck contest % - 21.4%

Sinclair had 24 hitouts from 68 contests - He won 35.3% of contests he was in.
He had 5 hitouts to advantage meaning 20.8% of his hitouts went to advantage.
My stat - hitout to advantage from ruck contest % - 7.3%

McLean had 6 hitouts from 16 contests - He won 37.5% of contests he was in.
He had 1 hitout to advantage meaning 16.7% of his hitouts went to advantage.
My stat - hitout to advantage from ruck contest % - 6.2%

As far as ruck craft goes.....we dominated the ruck.

Whilst another loss where we were in it up to our teeth until 3/4 time is difficult to cop (again), I have to agree with Krudd that we are not that bad.
Couple of points (not picking on players by the way):
- Docs fumbles which cost 2 goals, tidy that up and those 2 goals dont occur
- Vision of Saad sagging back to defend the goal line instead of defending is man, tidy that up and that goal doesnt occur
- Inject fully Charlie and Gov into that side and we dont lose
- Change some coaching staff around Teague and we will be way better off. Teague and and MC are starting to make statements with players like Murphy and SPS but I still think he needs better quality line coaches around him.
- Our best is good enough, about that there is no doubt and we have shown it against all the contenders. We just have to do it longer and be a little bit more ruthless when we do get ahead.
Yesterday, when we got ahead, we did everything right except put the foot on the throat. And that can be done in a number of ways and one of them is getting into your opponents head and intimidating them into submission. Instead, what I saw was Sydney players, despite being down, physically intimidating our blokes into submission. The sooner our blokes as a group truly believe we belong, that will change. Not trying to be a smart ass here but extract Doc out of that side and insert a Selwood or a Hodge into it and we dont lose, nothing surer in my mind. Not because they are superstars, but because they are competitive beasts who know the mind game side of thing better than most. They would have intimidated Syd into believing they were gone and the rest of our blokes would have followed. Instead, Doc for reasons we probably all know, has lost that "kent" he once had and the result was all there to see. Not blaming one man here, just making some points about collective attitude and leadership that we must improve in order to take the next step.

re 'kent'...
There was a bit of push and shove which we instigated which i was pleased about. We can still improve that area though.

I reckon Newnes back in the team for Gibbo (or Cottrell who is almost an invisible man nowadays) will add that little bit of 'kent'. He always flies the flag and doesn't shirk contact. He is a seasoned body who is not intimidated.
Willo used to be that player but is so devoid of confidence that he is not worth persisting with at this stage.
Gov gives us a bit of aggression, but is still weeks away.
Not many blokes not in the 1's we can expect that from, so Newnes should get the gig. It will help us put the foot on the throat a bit more and just lift that little bit extra when the going gets tough.

re 'kent'...
There was a bit of push and shove which we instigated which i was pleased about. We can still improve that area though.

I reckon Newnes back in the team for Gibbo (or Cottrell who is almost an invisible man nowadays) will add that little bit of 'kent'. He always flies the flag and doesn't shirk contact. He is a seasoned body who is not intimidated.
Willo used to be that player but is so devoid of confidence that he is not worth persisting with at this stage.
Gov gives us a bit of aggression, but is still weeks away.
Not many blokes not in the 1's we can expect that from, so Newnes should get the gig. It will help us put the foot on the throat a bit more and just lift that little bit extra when the going gets tough.