Carlton Supporters Club

C Judd will be a fair addition to that side.

The small crowd in the bowl shaped venue offers some advantages when assessing a group.

Can anyone who was at the game give me some feedback on the level of talk, particularly from the newer players like Boekhorst, Cripps, Jones and Bell?

Hendo, Armfield, Cripps, Simmo, Carrots all very vocal. In the first quarter you could hear lots of Aints players being vocal, our bunch were quiet. Gee Gibbs was soft in that first quarter. We were seated next to Kiwis who'd come along to enjoy the game, they had no allegiances. During the first quarter they were all commenting on how 'weak' no. 4 was. He really did squib it a number of times right in front of us.

Very poor marketing re our presence at the ground. I was amazed that walking to the ground and arriving at the ground, not one CFC flag/signage. Nothing to suggest we were playing. Fair enough it was an Aints home game, but fair suck of the sav. Mrs Baggers even commented how poor it was. I emailed the club offering to do what I could to drum up interest in the game via local media and Mrs Baggers was willing to get the organisation she works for (one of the biggest in Wellington) to have internal comps with tickets to the game as prizes... would have gotten at least another few hundred along... still waiting for a response. That was almost a month ago. The media promotion of the game was shizen. Little to no excitement created at all. Any wonder FA folks turned out to watch the game.

Great venue though with terrific visibility from just about anywhere... leaves Etihad for dead.

The strong swirly wind made it difficult for players, so if you were noticing lots of skill errors, especially early on (until they got used to it), it was probably due to the wind.

Jones doesn't work hard enough. I watched him a bit and he has lapses and goes missing. But when he does knuckle down he's good at he contest and pretty quick as well.

Armfield is more value than folks might realise. His ability to use his speed to get to contests / create contests is great.

And if there was 12,000 people there I will chew off my own legs. No more that about 7,000.

Not good to hear that our Captain wasn't among those eing vocal.
He led by example with a good game and plenty of contested ball winning, but he seems to be from the Judd school of Captaining rather than the Jono Brown school.

Until you have better players that bring the pressure that Ellard and Armfield bring then you have to play them otherwise we get slaughtered like we did in round 2.

Did anyone else notice that Bell's disposal efficiency was 100% and that he made no critical errors?  Of course, he also kicked 4 goals, had a hand in two others and threw his weight around. 

That won't stop some folk calling for him to be dropped and/or traded 

Mate, if he played like that every week, he'd win the brownlow.

As carrots said, thats the exception, not the rule.

Not if Henderson, Murphy and Cripps play like they did too 

I think we focus too much on negatives, hence my post to even the ledger.  I guess that's the nature of supporters' discussion groups.

...and you guys wonder why i stick up for Mick.