Re: Post Game Frustrations: AFL 2021 Rd 14: Carlton vs GWS
Reply #80 –
What can you say. Three weeks of derision in the media and they don't turn up to play. They don't care so why should we. They lie to the Club, they lie to their supporters, they lie to the Members, they lie to the sponsors, they lie to the media, they lie to their team mates and they lie to themselves. We don't lack pace, we lack the willingness to run hard. we not incapable of defending we just lack the will to defend. It is said the standard you walk past is the standard you accept. Our players don't walk past they saunter past like they are on a Sunday stroll. Coaches will lose their jobs, administrators will lose their jobs and players will lose their jobs because the players don't care. Murphy will miss out on 300 games because despite being a great servant of the Club, a great team mate and a great player, his team mates are not willing to make the sacrifices to help carry him there.
The last goal GWS kicked demonstrated the total lack of respect the football world has for Carlton. It was pathetic. They don't turn up and then in a ten minute display they get within two goals, the ball goes back to the middle and in a clearance Carlton must win, or at least draw, they give away a soft free kick, an unmanned GWS strolls past, kicks to a spot and a GWS virtually takes an uncontested mark. We get back to two goals in the last quarter, Harry takes a mark, twenty five meters out, it's a goal he has to kick but misses, gets another kick which he needs to kick to keep us in the game but kicks wildly and the ball misses the goals by twenty meters. These things aren't skill errors but application errors. It is not important enough to McKay to kick the goals. He is leading the Coleman, why does he have to win us the game as well. Silvagni had a quiet game, however twice he got free in the forward line and twice the delivery was poor, once by Docherty and once someone kicked it over his head and out of bounds on the full. These two opportunities could have change the story around Silvagni. On the flip side, when he shoots for goal with a set shot he has pushed the ball right all season, he seems to use the same routine and gets the same result. Is it the traning, how he practices or does he simply not care.
We don't play out the match, we don't play out the quarters and we don't play out the minutes during the match. we don't run to support our teammates, we don't run to support our team mates, we don't run to create space, we don't run to shut down the opposition, we hesitate to make decisions, we make poor decisions, we don't protect ball, we miss targets, we fumble, we fall over, we miss tackles, we don't block, we don't kick to advantage and we don't care.
I agree with all you have written, but one thing I would find difficult is accusing a Silvagni of not caring. Accuse them of anything else but not that. Perhaps he is the only one there who does in fact care.