Carlton Supporters Club

Ok mate,
you tell me this.  Here is your chance am I'm eager for your opinion...

Why are we playing so badly?

There was plenty of effort for the first half.

Saying otherwise is just a tanty.
I want I want I want.

Grow up.

Running around and chasing your opponents is not being competitive.
All that means, is that blinkered biased Carlton supporters who can't accept or face reality, will think that our team was "competitive".

All they achieved by doing that was keep in touch with GC for the first half.

Eventually, namely the second half, it took its toll. Hit a target with a handball and a kick, and you aren't running up and down the ground expending needless energy.

Even Bolton conceded that 11 goals that GC kicked were as a result of turnovers. I.E. skill errors.

At least he did say that if players aren't up to it, they will be cleared out at the end of the year.

I respect him for that.

He can see that they are no good.

Take a leaf out of his book., and your comments might gain some credibility.

I'm not convinced our fitness base is the problem. Our players just don't play intelligent footy. They don't run to the right positions and they don't make it easy for their team mates. When was the last time you saw Hodge, Lewis and Mitchell gut-running to cover turnovers or fast ball movement from the opposition? It just puts too much pressure on our defenders and causes the midfield to run out of gas.

I'm not convinced it's poor disposal half of the time either. it's the players up field not working together to create space and to present a clear target for our players to hit up. How often do we kick to a player that has one or two defenders hanging off them? They need to be smarter, work together, and create space for themselves.

Smart teams conserve energy and win games by being efficient.

As for our coaching staff and I use the term coaching loosly, I ask what sort of a game plan is it when whomever kicks out after a behind is scored, has got no idea what to do, where there is no forward line structure or a plan to maximize forward entries as far as possinble, where handballs fall at the feet of players, and players cannot hit a target when they pass, and where, if the ball is turned over, our players look up, and there is not ONE forward who has been told to stay within the 50 metre attacking arc for just such an occurrence.

What the FK have they been doing for 5 months.

We face yet another long hard season ahead. And yes, I know it's a young team and we are rebuilding blah blah blah blah, but when you are paying players between 150 and 500 grand a year and they can't execute basic skills, then you have to say that the club is going nowhere, and forget about a 5 year rebuild, it will be more like ten.

Game 3 of a rebuild and peeps want wins away from home, against a red hot team in slippery conditions.

^^^ this

Funny people follow this club.

I'm not convinced our fitness base is the problem. Our players just don't play intelligent footy. They don't run to the right positions and they don't make it easy for their team mates. When was the last time you saw Hodge, Lewis and Mitchell gut-running to cover turnovers or fast ball movement from the opposition? It just puts too much pressure on our defenders and causes the midfield to run out of gas.

I'm not convinced it's poor disposal half of the time either. it's the players up field not working together to create space and to present a clear target for our players to hit up. How often do we kick to a player that has one or two defenders hanging off them? They need to be smarter, work together, and create space for themselves.

Smart teams conserve energy and win games by being efficient.

Remember Henderson & Menzel.
We also have the advantage of every other club seeing Waite, Betts, Garlett and Robinson at other clubs

We gave the latter away for nothing and let Mick replace them with peripheral plodders. No wonder we are so far behind. Mick has set us back 10 years. Thanks Swanny, and thanks Sticks.

AND, if I hear Bolton say, "it's a learning process" or "it's a fkn journey" one more time, I'll throw up.

I'm getting sick and tired of hearing it.

I want him to be honest and say, "we are not up to it, our skill level is non fkn  existent, and I'm sorry to say this to the 47,000 people who have parted with their hard earned to buy a membership, but it's going to be a long hard year."

F*** this again?!

For tha bazillionth time, why is there no $hit slung at Andy McKay?

Is it just me or does cripps not look right.

Mentioned it before but seems to jog jog around the place and either can't run hard or refuses to.