Carlton Supporters Club

Yes.
And they only beat us by 4 goals.

With Daisy and Jones in the side instead of Goddard and Schumaker, we would have beaten them.

We put in a bloody good effort considering the players we were missing I reckon

We made too many poor decisions today.  We executed pretty badly at times too.

There were lots of bonus goals given to the eagles.  That simpson free kick was disgusting.   The actions cancelled each other out.  To give a stager a free goal when his team was coasting is simply poor judgement by umpires.

It was the equivalent of a 50 point win.

It wasn’t just the staging, he smacked him in the head moments before as he was running after the ball, past him - and Simmo didn’t like it and retaliated and that’s when he flopped. craps me that I can see it happen on my couch but the ump standing right there misses that part but then gets sucked into the flop!

So tell me, why didn’t they win by 50 if they were just coasting?

Percentage is crucial for those top spots, if we were such easy beats why didn’t they flog us?

Just because we’ve won 5 out of last 8 (two losses in under a goal), doesn’t mean we’re now finals contenders! There is still a lot to fix but what we’re seeing now is we’ve got a lot of talent to work with and the senior players are playing better than they have for seasons.

Did you really think we were going to beat last years premiers, who have built this team and played together for years? A 4 goal loss for us to them after the 2 months we’ve had is bloody unreal - we had two new players, we have deluca who has played SFA, no:

Kruezer
Jones
Daisy

Three of our top 10(?).

Add to that
Charlie
Doc
McGovern

It’s very unlike Simmo to retaliate like that ... and it should have been a 50m penalty to us for Allen’s hit on Simmo if the umpires were fair dinkum.

The result was a reality check but at least we were competitive.

Positives for me were the performances of Goddard, Schumacher and O’Brien. 

Goddard’s first full game for us was serviceable and he showed that he is capable of matching it with the best key forwards.  He is definitely worth retaining as back up for our first choice key defenders.

Schumacher had a tough introduction to AFL and I thought he handled it pretty well.  He showed poise, pretty good decision making and skills.  I think that he could force his way into our best 22 with continued development.

O’Brien seems to be growing in confidence and his footy is improving as a result.  His disposal was better but he still needs to eliminate miskicks.

I piked out on going to the game and watched it on TV with Ms DJC for company.  Her observation that Wet Toast “don’t have any skinny, weedy players” summed up a key difference.

One thing I did think was dumb in our play was how we bombed the ball into F50 all too often against one of the best aerial defences in the league - MacGovern, Barrass and Sheppard. who were dining out on it. I noticed on two or three occasions even the ball being bombed to a one on one with MacGovern and Fisher! Also the devastating period of play by WC, end of 1Q/start of 2Q from memory, really set us back. Their skills and ball movement in that period I think were as good as you'd ever see. Anyway, we weren't massacred, at least we hung in, which is a great sign atm, at this stage of our development.

Are we going to discount WC junk time goals as well?

Are we going to discount WC junk time goals as well?

The problem for us was that Wet Toast got a bunch of questionable line ball frees at the critical moments.

In one passage of play you see our defender(I think it was Newman) gets pinged for a push out, Wet Toast free and goal, then moments later one of their forwards does the very same thing and isn't penalised(identical action to Simmo) and gets paid the mark for another goal, then at the other end SoJ takes a mark with the very same action and gets pinged for a push out on a Wet Toast defender, and that causes a rebound goal to Wet Toast.

In effect the umpires delivered a 3 goal swing in just a few minutes from identical actions which all went Wet Toast's way!

Another one I saw was Big H got deliberately legged outside F50, a Wet Toast player who was lying on the ground reached out and grabbed his ankle. Big H should have received a free kick and 50m penalty for an infringement that is supposed to be an automatic report, instead Wet Toast rebounded and had another shot on goal.

Yep, thats a fair call LP. We got boned again by the umps but what's new.....