Carlton Supporters Club

That much is obvious ...

EDIT - I've always loved sellers and since when should he be held accountable for commentary on all things football?   Very odd statement

CARLTON’S CONCERN

Points against
86.0
Rank 13th

Opp goals per inside 50 %
24.3%
Rank 15th

Points from turnover diff
-9.8
Rank 15th

Opp pts from defensive half
36.2
Rank 14th

D50 to inside 50 %
18.1%
Rank 18th

Pressure factor
169
Rank 18th

This!!   It was amazing how many times, the ball bounced around in a pack, we picked it up, and then another pack formed... but when, they picked it up, they were off, 3 or blokes in a chain that we had no chance of stopping.  it was chalk and cheese.   we fought so hard for ground, but they were able to make it appear out of nowhere

I look at out flag teams of the 80's and 95. Whilst footy is no doubt different there is one tangible imo - the desire to play for each other.
Until we can find a coach and coaching group that get our players to play for each other we will never rise from the ashes. Those teams in the past when they went off the plan of playing for each other they could get beat by anyone - and often did (St Kilda in 95 for example). But they had the maturity to recognise and fix that, and were able to take a good old fashioned bake by the coach.
Recruiting 2 outside runners in the 2 top 10 draft picks doesn't help, but we cant change the playing stocks this year. There is no system or willingness to be hard for their mates. This will spread and inject confidence, rather than this crap of being bruise free then missing easy shots which spreads frustration and is confidence sapping. For players and supporters!

If Maclure genuinely loves the club and thinks he has the answers, then he should stop bleating from the sidelines, and roll up his sleeves and do some real work in helping us out. His whinging, fan boy antics are the journalistic equivalent of bruise free footy.

He's in the media and it is his job to criticise where warranted. That was an article that was very much spot on. Don't let your dislike for the messenger distract you from the message.

Pretty sure he meant Sam not Mark, if not I'll just STFU. But I do agree, how are people in the media with opinions (like those of footy forums) to be held accountable?

I'm not really a Sam fan, but I was referring to Mark. Sam was on the real footy podcast talking about how our recent form is like Malthouse's last season, i.e no system. He then compared Docherty/Cripps now with Murphy/Gibbs back then - in both instances, he said those players were trying to do too much to help the team, but it was backfiring (like now) and that's why their form has suffered.

It's possible, but it's wrong to blame those players, the doing too much problem, overdoing it ethic, often comes from those around you doing too little!

You have to forgive the mistakes of those around you, ignore them, and just get on doing what you do well.

Yes, maybe. I can imagine getting the balance right between "leading the way" and being selfish or biting off more than you can chew would be very hard to get right. And it would probably change constantly.

I think he tends to take on aspects of others' roles in a "if you want the job done well, do it yourself" kind of way.

I don't agree, Maclure is making a habit of potting the club in general and piling on the pressure.

You see guys like Matthew Lloyd target specific CheatsFC players, but they do so trying to improve the wider performance of the club, they don't pot the club in general.

Maclure barely has a surface left to add some graffiti!

Further, I have it on good authority that more than once he's scuppered / complicated trade deals by gobbing off to his mates down Sorrento way, he's unofficially known as a trout mouth and it takes very little to get him to regurgitate all he knows! He thinks he is in tight with blokes like Fox and Jess, but they laugh behind his back!

Coaches can't get players to play for each other. They can encourage it as much as possible but in the end the motivation comes from within and that one is on the players. Parko was talking that just a couple for weeks ago. Can tell you that from my experience coaching. 1995 was very player driven after failures the previous 2 years and we drew a line in the sand after an absolute flogging in a practice game. We can only hope the current players draw a line in the sand, much like Geelong did in 2007 when 2-3 after round 5, and do something.