Carlton Supporters Club

I will give usone more chance vs Nth and say we can win but only on the basis that players like Cripps, Simpson, Kruezer, Wright etc will lift and drag us over the line and because Nth are equally as flakey as we are .

Agreed, but prior to Friday night many thought much the same about the Filth.

Norp have flogged a couple of higher rated mid-fields that are built like brick craphouses compared to our lot of skinnies!

They are their pudding face coach will be out to make a statement about being on prime time coverage and I expect them to be more motivated than the filth not less.

We look like a team that is ripe for the kicking provided you don't get ahead of yourself!

North are not as aggressive or in your face as many other teams....I think Kruezer will find Goldstein more to his liking than the mobile Grundy and Cripps wont have quality like Pendlebury breathing down his neck at the clearances. Dow can face off vs LDU and I think Kennedy and Curnow can do the job on Ziebell and Higgins...
More of an even game IMO and I think Cripps will have a big afternoon...

It's a perspective thing...

My position has always been that the "rebuild" tag was used to buy time for a club in crisis.
The folks in charge basically said "this is day one!"....so we now get extra time....even though we were already coming off a fairly low base.
So while I've been quite patient and prepared to look for positive signs I'm struggling to be convinced

"The 66 game rebuild" ...does anyone have a direct quote from anyone saying that's the timeline?
If that is indeed the case then 2/3 into it we should be seeing signs of improvement....it's looking doubtful we'll see a lot in the next 20 odd games.
So after 66 we'll have had minimal progress.
Maybe after a 132 things will be different...but there's no guarantees.

For those saying that we've been through this before my answer is that we haven't.
This is a ground up rebuild, not the short term, knee jerk garbage that we've fallen for in the past.
We need to build a core because due to our hopeless recruiting and list management in the past decade we don't have one, it will take more than two or three years and there will be some bad results and rough patches along the way.
It not long ago that we traded out Kennedy and pick 3 for Judd, traded pick 21 for Warnock and pick 7 for Jaksch, we've finally realised that those types of decisions only led us up a dry gully but we're paying the price for them now and there's no quick fix.

Doggies look like putting down the Drug cheats.
That probably puts us on the bottom rung.
I hope that generates some motivation for the trip across the Tasman

Just noticed this will be on 7Mate fte. At least I won't have to watch the miniaturised version on AFL Live App.

Could be worse, she could have been at "The G" and suffering with everybody else! Think of the poor bastards traveling to Hobart!

My advice, head to the bars & restaurants around North Hobart or Salamanca & pretend there's no footy game on .......I might be doing that myself ....&  live here !

Damn....I've got tickets.....but I'm not going to New Zealand to watch 'em !

 

cheers

Hmm, fresh seafood and frothies by the harbor, or watching Carlton get smashed by Pudding Face II and his Cohorts across the river!

Sh1te, if only it was that easy!