Carlton Supporters Club

I think that Steele must have misplaced his cloak of invisibility.  Not once did he appear out of nowhere to accept a pass inside 50 🙂

If nothing else, Friday’s performance shows that our coaches and playing group have learnt from past experiences.

Collingwood’s not a great stoppage team and I was expecting us to be on top there.  I was hoping that we could stop their run out of defence and I couldn’t be happier with how that panned out.  We made the most out of our forward 50 entries and worked hard to keep the ball in our half.  The wall we built across the centre of the G was formidable and Weiters and his crew mopped up anything that got past.

That same four quarter effort will be very hard to beat, regardless of the opposition, and that’s the challenge for Vossy and our leadership group.

Dare I say it, but we’re becoming just a little intimidating, both in terms of football ability and our attack on the aggott and the sucker who has possession.

Our Achilles’ heel is the bare cupboard that is our VFL team.

The point is that there's no logic or consistency to the way ruck infringements are adjudicated.  If the two frees against De Koning were correct, at least ten other similar frees should have been paid.  I don't know if there's much communication between the AFL and clubs about what constitutes a ruck infringement, but there should be more.  It would be interesting to hear what the AFL/umpires think De Koning should have done when the ball bounced towards his side of the circle    

 

A good starting point would be to stop the umpire who bounces the ball from awarding free kicks for ruck interference at centre bounces.  That umpire is so focused on the bounce and backing away from the contest that he/she does not have a good perspective to make such decisions.

Cerra was probably BOG at half time.

Whilst I believe we’ll go on with it, we really do need to win next week to make this week count.

Amazing game. Could not be prouder.

BT or, as we refer to him at home ‘hindsight Hodge’ said - Collingwood had a 6 day interstate wet turnaround - does that matter? We missed Cerra after halftime, Walsh and JSOS entire game 🤷🏻‍♀️
 

Whilst I believe we’ll go on with it, we really do need to win next week to make this week count.

Amazing game. Could not be prouder.

BT or, as we refer to him at home ‘hindsight Hodge’ said - Collingwood had a 6 day interstate wet turnaround - does that matter? We missed Cerra after halftime, Walsh and JSOS entire game 🤷🏻‍♀️
 

Yes i remember them saying that loud and clear. I applaud Richo for coming straight back at them and said yeah maybe but Carlton are smashing them at clearances thats why they are winning. Some of the commentary from 7 callers sounded very bias at times for the other mob or maybe it was just me. AND not once did they mention the players we had missing vs a FULL strength other mob who also has a full list to choose from. So yeah this was a huge!!!!!!! win.

They were at full strength, we were far from it. Everyone can throw up every excuse they want, the win was top shelf no matter how you dice it, we forced the errors by applying immense pressure, we ran harder and longer than they did, we kicked straighter. EOS.

I've watched the replay 3 times (twice sober) and there is one bloke who seems to be on our side, surprisingly, Luke Hodge! I think he really likes us?