Cripps was also #1 in our voting system, and no surprise. Congratulations on another Award champ. The Tribe has spoken. However, the top ten vote placers here, appear to be the same names who placed in the top ten last night as well! We here at carltonsc.com know our football team very well.
I reckon the coaches jump on here for our opinions before they cast their votes!
Of our 5 losses so far, 4 have been against the teams who are currently 1-4 on the ladder - and these teams look light years ahead of the rest of the competition. It's fair to say our 10-game draw for this season has been ridiculously hard for a side that was predicted to finish in the lower half.
Vance will say whatever is needed to move to the next rung on the ladder. You can see him positioning himself to be the 'messiah' once the Trump train has left the GOP station.......
I reckon the clear element that separates elite players from those that are just great is vision - and I'm not just talking about the ability to see. It's also the ability to not only spot where things are on the ground at any given time, but predict where they are likely to end up as the play unfolds.
That's why Diesel hit blokes with 30m handpasses from the middle of a pack, and Nick Daicos and Cripps can deliver blind handballs knowing it is going to a teammate in a better position. And the other mere mortals on the ground (including the umpires) say 'how did he do that?'
News Corpse may be about undergo significant changes if Rupert/Lachlan lose their Nevada court case. If it becomes 3 v 1 when discussing strategic company philosophy, Fox/Sky/HUN etc as we know it may be about to have a significant clipping of wings (well, the right one anyway).
Crippa doesn’t have the athleticism that enabled Kouta to excel wherever he was played.
An occasional spell as a forward keeps the opposition on their toes and often leads to a bonus goal or two. That should be the extent of Crippa’s multi-tasking.
I'm going to open a can of worms here by suggesting that Kouta, as good as his was, is not in the same league as Cripps. Kouta had the benefit of playing in a very strong team in his first 6-7 years as he learned the craft, while Cripps has had this team on his shoulders since 2016.
If (and it's a very hopeful if) Cripps ever gets to hoist the premiership cup aloft, he may well assume the mantle of this club's greatest ever player and captain (and I've pretty much seen them all since the late '60s...).
I think Crippa is certainly in the discussion for greatest Blue of all time - especially the way he continues to reinvent his game (in July 2021, Leigh Matthews said of Cripps that the game may have 'passed him by' - and he's won 2 Brownlows since then......). Umpires certainly love him, he got votes in some games where he was just part of the peloton......(Ess and Freo games spring to mind).
But, and here is the big but. Cripps performance in the Brownlow since 2022, as remarkable as it is, underlines the deficiencies in our team.
We need more blokes getting 4-10 votes if we are to be a top-flight contender. Serious opponents know that shutting down Crippa and to a lesser extent Walsh is all they really need to concentrate on. We have to spread the load more or Crippa will never get to hold the cup.
Having got that off my chest, well done Crippa, a truly remarkable footballer, and by all accounts, a top-shelf human!
Can't help feeling that the US is going to degenerate into divided chaos - that's what happens when you let your democratic process be swallowed by a popularity competition largely decided by who has the most money to spin the story.
The despots sitting on the other side of the world must be sitting back laughing - watching it all come undone without them needing to do a single thing......
Both sides of US politics better get their respective acts together, for all our sakes.
Trump's crew are out claiming he luckily avoided shots, and it now appears the "shots heard" were Secret Service operatives shooting the at the bloke carrying the rifle.
Have the GOP learned that someone taking a potshot at Trump boosts his figures?
Who needs a debate to prove your worth as POTUS....... just go out and dodge some nutters with AK47s.
But how quick did they spot and capture this guy - anyone would think they already knew he was going to be there......
Maddie Guerin was superb, and we have a strong advantage in the ruck which will give us a chance in most games.
Compared to the top teams, though, we still have a lot of players whose skills are rudimentary at best (especially in the back half). When the heat is on, they turn the ball over or fumble at crucial times.
When the ball gets in the hand of McKay, Guerin, Hill, Sherar or Vescio, good things usually happen.
That’s all well and good but if you’re a forward and the ball is delivered NOT to your advantage but to your DISADVANTAGE then you are out of position and cannot impact the contest… That’s why intercept marks hurt so much
I would agree with that, but watch how hard most of our forwards chase - most barely get out of a trot. No wonder the opposition can set up such great D50 rebounds - they have plenty of time and space to work out their next move.
Inside 50s mean nothing if the ball comes back out faster than it went in.......
Our biggest weakness is getting caught on the slingshot, and it happens more times than I care to remember.
The level of F50 pressure is pathetic - only Fogarty and sometimes Owies actually give anything in this area. The rest trot around and admire the opposition defenders' rebounding skills. The defensive unit must be pulling their hair out when they see that.
All I know is, there may be plenty of excuses, but we have to find an answer for those excuses......
Get tough and do it! FFS, if McGovern kicked the goal after the siren and we'd held on against the Saints, we would have been playing Port Adelaide in the Qualifying final.
We need to find the ruthless edge again - for me, we play too nice......
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