The coaching group were replenished 6 months ago but you keep on burning the witches 👍🏼
Bring in the Inquisitors, they always get it right!
The logic in the haters is laughable, they think The List is NBG, the Recruiting staff are NBG, the Medical staff are NBG, the MC is NBG and the Coach is NBG. I suppose after leaving some embers smouldering they now think The CEO is NBG too.
It's all sound logic.
It's pointless that I write this in trying to correct the perspective, because they can't think their way through their own arguments.
Actually, I think they aren't thinking at all!
Morons and Idiots repeat the same thing over and over again hoping for a better result.
It's not going to fix anything, the current generation doesn't want to wait for anything, they hurt their own prospects by too many expecting fully furnished designer styling from day one.
In our first homes, pretty much everything came from the secondhand shop, and in modern times "secondhand shops" won't even accept the stuff we were buying back then, they want labels and collectables.
Even shops like The Salvos and Savers are full of designer labels cheap, because that is the only stuff modern kids will buy.
btw., I have to correct a misnomer here, people(knuckleheads) think The Salvos and Savers are for "poor people to shop at", that's completely wrong! The people those charity shops raise money for are living in cardboard boxes and under bridges and don't shop at The Salvos or Savers, they eat out of bins. The Salvos and Savers outlets need you to shop for recycled or secondhand goods in store so they can raise cash to fund the purchase of stuff they really need, medical supplies, food, accommodation, etc., etc... If you want some old clothes to wear gardening, concreting, fishing, painting, pretty much anything, or if you'd like a kettle for the shed, a jobsite microwave, or a spare corded power tool for when the battery dies, shop at The Salvos or Savers, don't shop secondhand at joints like Cash Converters.
For me the problem they have is that they now have two KPF who are 70% types, it is sort of the same problem we had finding balance between H and Charlie. You really need on 24x7 type who is a grunt specialist, and the flash type as a compliment. Let's say Heeney maintains his form, he'll be No.1 ahead of both!
We kicked 4 goals in the second half to 7 of Collingwoods who were goalless at half time. Considering the gulf in class a very dissapointing end to the game.
We limp over the line, that game was there to win by 15 goals, we never do it anymore.
I think watching this will highlight one of our big problems, and that is we do not and never have taken VFL seriously, as such the development of our stocking fillers falls dramatically short.
When was the last time you can recall a Carlton player coming in cold from the VFL and doing a job, Cottrell maybe, but even he like Evans took games to settle?
We never get them cherry ripe, and even if they are showing form we tend to run it out of them and wait until they are on the slide before begrudgingly giving them a shot.
btw., This is not a coach or MC issue, because it's been happening for decades, through dozens of coaches and probably hundreds of MC.
My only conclusion today EB is that the medical staff thought it best he be out there with his team mates. Up until 3/4 time he spent 84% TOG. They rested him in the forth and ended up on 60%.
Maybe, but they have to strike a balance as Spock stated!
I know I've piled on about our headspace issues as a team, but this is just another example that there is something horribly wrong with our sports psychology and health departments.
We are a professional organisation, we probably have tens of university-trained professionals circulating among the players pre-game, and yet EH ends up out there!
I feel the chance that they all failed to notice something is negligible.
Addiction is a mental health issue im told. Just a nicer way of saying it
In fairness, addiction is more often than not the consequence of a long series of problems and events, it's rarely the root cause of a problem but a futile attempt to escape from it. That is why it's often starts with and is identified as mental health.
It's no good guessing about last night.
A while back I talked about scary trends in football, from amateur to professional ranks blokes are/were taking high dose paracetamol 1 - 2 hours before games. Pre-emptive self-medication because it stops the pain from in game collisions. But it leads to problems after the game, the AFL don't talk about it but it's endemic and has been for at least two decades. fwiw, It's endemic in rugby as well and most collision based professional sports. A famous past player has even talked about it in the media and it's just glossed over. The professional sports take it even further, handing out prescription only jabs to numb painful conditions. What happens the night after the game when these things wear off?
Same social media reaction, lots of people throwing rocks none of them knew what was going on, lots of guesses most of them 100% wrong.
This is when the Caro's of this world tell you ten versions of the same event, lots or if, but, maybes, this and or that, then weeks or months later come out and write "I told you so!"
Contrast the commentary about Elliott missing goals for the first 3 Qtrs with that of Harry.
btw., As bad as some of the shots at goal might be, the horrendous missing of targets in open play is even worse, but it's not just Carlton doing this in 2026. Games in general are more like episodes of The Keystone Cops than football.
The thing that differentiates us is not the poor skills, we are the same or equal of the rest, it's that a lack of leg speed / closing speed prevents recovering from the initial error, and it also hinders our ability to take a toll on the opposition's errors. Our list needs to be better skilled just to be equal because we have less time and space.
