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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Rd 14: Post Game Palliative care: Carlton vs Richmond
Quote from: flyboy77 on
wake up the f.. up all of you.

they kicked 2.7 to 0.1 in Q2. it should have been a 10 goal plus smashing wee were that putrid....

Shame on the coaching staff for having no answers. it was obvious from the start.

Exactly.

This was one of our weakest performances for the year; a reminder of how timid we can be from days gone by. Maybe we still are, deep down inside. As the old saying goes, exert enough pressure on anyone and they'll revert to type. The Tiggers killed us and as you point out, had they kicked straight they would have won by plenty more.

Where was the 'attitude', the mongrel that we saw in the previous two weeks? Easy to pick on Ablett jr but were we scared to try the same thing with Dusty? If so, that is wimp city stuff. Real courage is getting into a bloke like Dusty. Can we only beat sides who are decimated by injury or in poor form or where we can pick on non-threatening blokes who are prime movers?

Thank you, 77, for calling it as it was. Seems we overdosed on 'pathetic pills' for both the NBs and seniors yesterday. Or perhaps we were still basking in the sunshine of back-to-back wins. That what losers do.

An all round bleak day for the Carlton Football Club. Between the NBs and seniors we kicked 12 goals for the day. Embarrassing. We're almost 66% into a reset/rebuild... really? Once we're challenged or played at our own game, we 'turn up our toes' as one commentator observed during the NBs characterless surrender at Punt road yesterday. Yesterday was a horrible reminder of our past where it was left up to a few individuals... if not for Cripps, Kreuzer, Gibbs and Docherty... I dread to think. And our skipper was the antithesis of leadership yesterday.

Players and coaches need a fair dinkum shake up... hiding behind this reset stuff has gone on long enough. And, sorry to say this, but if I see Samo cruise around the ground again playing bruise free footy I'll... cue Terry Wallace speech.

It's beginning to remind me of the bad old days when our marketing dept ran the show and the wool was pulled over our eyes, until it was impossible to mask the endemic failure of the place.

As an aside, I hope we recruit (if he retires at year's end) Luke Hodge as an assistant coach. His footy smarts, superior leadership and uncompromising ruthlessness are qualities we desperately need. And p1ss of the Adelaide bloke and get an elder coaching boss with a premiership pedigree who's got some old school intolerance to mediocrity.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Rd 14: Post Game Palliative care: Carlton vs Richmond
Quote from: Gointocarlton on
Ill drive him over, hand delivered. The guy is simply not AFL standard.

I'll pitch in with some petrol money and your flight back. Business class? Come on, let's raise enough money for GTC to return Boekhorst to WA. Maybe there's a discount for 2 and we can send Pickett back as well. Maybe hide Fyffe in your luggage on your return.  ;D
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Rd 14: Post Game Palliative care: Carlton vs Richmond
Beaten comprehensively at our own game?

Too much left to too few, again. Thank the gods for Cripps, Kreuzer, Docherty and Gibbs.

How many of our tackles were easily broken?

Was Murphy instructed to go at 60% today?

Samo does a couple of pretty things but little that is hard/ruthless. Has he been told not to hurt himself?

Pickett, Boekhorst and Samo contributed far, far too little. All 3 should be returned to the NBs. Many of us were surprised at who was promoted and who was not dropped, ie surprised Boekhorst kept his spot and surprised Pickett promoted. Pickett is beginning to remind me of the bloke he replaced on our list - Smith... runs around a lot, jumps about a lot but doesn't actually achieve very much.

Were we instructed not to bring our 'attitude' today? 48 tackles, good of us to not bruise the Tiggers.

Good to see Meat work so hard.

Thought Graham was far from our worst.

This 'one tall' up forward isn't working.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 10: Northern Blues vs Richmond
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
Working ok...Tiggers 49 Nb's 22, Harry in a collision, coming off but looks ok...

Yep, noticed the same thing. Been back up for a few minutes now. Betting you're like me and wishing it wasn't working!!! :-[ NBs a rabble. Harry bleeding after head clash with Stavrou... both off under the blood rule...

Tiggers 8.7.55.  NBs  3.4.22 about 29 minutes gone 2nd qtr.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 10: Northern Blues vs Richmond
Quote from: crashlander on
RICHMOND v. NORTHERN BLUES
Round 10 – 25/06/2017  12:00PM
Punt Road Oval

Richmond

B: 42. R. Garthwaite, 53. H. Beasley, 11. J. Batchelor
HB: 51. S. Darley, 28. T. Hunt, 35. N. Broad
C: 34. J.  Graham, 26. A.  Miles, 32. C.  Ellis
HF: 44. T. Stengle, 57. B. Wood, 38. S. Morris
F: 58. J. Aarts, 41. M. Chol, 1. N. Vlastuin
R: 47. I. Soldo, 54. J. Ballard, 21. J. Townsend
Int: 20. I. Maric, 55. R. Bathie, 64. T. Silvestro, 61. J. Fletcher, 78. D. Coffield, 62. J. Cass, 31. O. Markov, 15. J. Short, 46. J. Castagna, 7. B. Lennon, 29. S. Bolton, 37. C. Menadue

23P: 83. D. Smith

In: N. Vlastuin, S. Bolton, J. Short, J. Fletcher, C. Menadue, J. Castagna, J. Cass, I. Soldo

 

Northern Blues

B: 70. H. Macreadie, 43. S. White, 7. D. Buckley
HB: 47. C. Sheehan, 48. K. Jaksch, 51. B. Smedts
C: 72. S.  Kerridge, 60. D.  Cuningham, 49. D.  Armfield
HF: 5. R. Palmer, 31. P. Kerr, 42. S. Petrevski-Seton
F: 55. L. Sumner, 19. H. McKay, 66. J. Pickett
R: 80. M. Korcheck, 32. N. Graham, 65. Z. Fisher
Int: 59. C. Byrne, 76. K. LeBois, 13. C. O’Shea, 8. L. Russell, 11. T. Jones, 34. J. Glass-McCasker, 40. M. Stavrou, 6. G. Strachan, 1. T. Wilson, 56. A. Gallucci, 30. S. Bolger, 67. C. Polson

23P: 52. S. Fowler


In: L. Sumner, B. Smedts, D. Cuningham, M. Stavrou, Z. Fisher, G. Strachan, M. Korcheck, S. Bolger, T. Jones, S. Petrevski-Seton

Out: A. Phillips, D. Gorringe

Tim Jones coming in was pretty logical. He was one of the best VFL players we had last year. Similarly, Strachan is solid. Fowler didn't get a lot of chance to impress last week. Stavrou impressed until he got injured. Hs return is also a positive step.
We will miss Phillips. Our ruck division with Korchek being #1 does not fill me with confidence.

Well, you can take Cuningham, Samo and ZF out of that line-up, plus one of Pickett, Smedts, Kerridge or Graham (personally, I hope that Pickett gets the nod). WHich would probably mean that Byrne, Le Bois, Gallucci and Polson are in with O'Shea and Jones the Preston boys to come in. But if Docherty fails to come up...
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 14: Pre-Game Richmond
This will be a terrific test for our on-field leadership as the Tiggers will no doubt put plenty of time into Docherty, Simmo and Gibbs, which means Murphy, Cripps and other younger mids (Boekhorst, Cuningham, ZF and Samo) are going to have to have a much bigger impact on the game than in previous weeks. And other defenders will have to pick up the slack should the Doc and Simmo be curbed.