Carlton Supporters Club

In the last two weeks we have appeared to have almost put the game away half way through the final term. What is Voss supposed to do from there? Surely that's on the leaders on the field?

Well I guess we all knew it was going to happen. We have too many substandard players. I'll single out the captain today, he was woeful from start to finish. Handed that ball to LDU in the centre when the game was in the balance, instead of steading the ship, he actually launches the missile that sinks it. Very disappointing.

Umps murdering us BTW

our skills are so bad.

Quote from: dodge – on March 30, 2026, 10:26:54 pm

Drop won't kick in until tanks are re-filled. All petrol currently in the sevo tanks has full excise paid.

People whinge about how much excise there is and whine when the cut isn't big enough.

Next if some economists are right in that cutting excise will increase inflation, hence interest rates - what's the reaction?

Drop kicked in yesterday morning at my local.

That afternoon the price was no longer showing.....tipping they ran out already

My day at the footy:

I left home at 1300 and caught the VLine train from South Geelong.  It was a leisurely trip, so leisurely that I missed our first two goals.

One of the things I noticed walking from the station to the G was how few cars were parked in Yarra Park; fuel prices are biting.

I haven’t listened to any commentary on the match, read any reviews or posts here, watched replays and I haven’t seen any stats or votes.  What follows are my own impressions, as flawed as they may be.

We played damn good footy in the first quarter and it seemed that we were going to give the Dees an old-fashioned shellacking.  The only concern I had was that Max Gawn was all over Pitto and Skull.

The second quarter was much the same, although we weren’t getting the results on the scoreboard and big Max stepped his game up a notch.

I braved the crush in the Legends’ Lounge at half time and enjoyed a glass of Balter XPA.

At the start of the third quarter two thirds of the G was bathed in sunlight and it looked magnificent.  I thought that you couldn’t get a better day in Melbourne, if only our team could continue on. Half way through the third quarter, the sun began shining directly into my eyes and my shady seat was roasting.  Mistakes were creeping into our game and Gawn had stepped up another notch.  Kosi Pickett was making his presence felt too.

We started the last quarter well and my confidence was restored ... momentarily!  Melbourne lifted again and it was like we’d lost all confidence and cohesion and were resigned to losing.

It’s probably unfair to single players out but I thought that Kemp had an absolute shocker.  He seemed to be far more concerned about his opponent than he was about leading and making his defender work.  Our youngsters – Dean, Smith, Carroll, Byrne and Skull - all made rookie errors.  That’s to be expected but it’s still momentum sapping.  And, speaking of momentum sapping, the holding the ball free against Hewett was critical … and the Dees seemed to get more than their fair share of critical frees.

Lij Hollands was mercurial at times and the usual suspects plugged away, but we had no answer to big Max and Kosi.

Forget about Daicos and the Bont, Max Gawn is the best footballer going around now.  Apart from his ruckwork, the outcome of virtually every kick down the line was a foregone conclusion.   

The train trip home was morose and strangely quiet.  I spoke to a Melbourne supporter who was getting off at South Geelong too and he said, “I can’t work out how we won, or how you lost.”  I think the answer is between the ears.

I got home just after 2030; a long and pretty dismal day.

It’s not even a last quarter fade-out thing. We were fading from midway thru the second

How was that holding the ball against Hewett?

Young survives, Hollands x 2 survive. Fogarty still named. Our MC are F@