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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by LP -
Quote from: kruddler – on
The best way to do it drop players who are sub-par.
I think that works on transient issues, but we've had this fade out problem persisting across MC regimes and variety of player selections.

Off field we have new fitness, new MC, new executive but the same problem, and to me the early signs of this problem go back to the end of the Judd / sMurph era.

It can't be fitness, and we've had odd games go the other way as well, in which we've set out like slugs and come home like trains, but it's an understatement to say not often. It wasn't that long ago the media was full of argy bargy about our slow starts, with much the same playing list.

Balance seems to be the thing that is impossible for us to find.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 2 2026 Carlton vs Williamstown
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Quote from: Professer E – on
Surely Ben C must be a chance for the seniors soon, our midfield mix is clearly wrong but we have a pig headed MC....
Do we need to drop one of Cripps or Hewett  to play BenC as a midfielder?
Do we need to?
Yes.

Will we?
No

So how about this....
Out: HOK.
In: Ben C.

Cripps to FF and changing in the ruck.

That way we have another option at FF....and one that can actually wrestle.
We can play him as a ruck and have 4 mids in the middle.
We give exposure to Ben C in the process.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: LP – on
How do we get the squad in the right headspace, somebody must see this mindset developing because it stands out like proverbials to the fans?

The best way to do it drop players who are sub-par.

I hand picked some names which included, but not limited too.....
Kemp
HOK
Chesser

Problem, is, apart from the last name there, we haven't got anybody to replace them.
Thats when we struggle to pull ourselves out of the hole we are in. We don't have the cattle to swap them out.

Look at who our better players are in the 2's
Flynn Young.....we already promoted Byrne who plays the same role at the expense of Fogarty.

Are we going to have to go back to a team of 10 small forwards simply because they are the only ones 'in form' ??
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by LygonStreetLimbo -
I wish we hadn’t won those pre-season games against last year’s Grand Finalists.
The fall from expectation to reality has been sudden and steep. No-one rates the Dees but we couldn’t beat them.
I think E Hollands is looking great and Frankie gives his all. Crippa is looking slow and Walsh is not as elusive as he used to be. Gawn and Pickett killed us
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by crashlander -
Quote from: Baggers – on
Quote from: shawny – on
what did our LM see in Chesser and Florent.

Both turn over merchants and the opposite of the type of players we need.

On another note if Saints are paying Milera 2M what is Pickett worth.  Can rip a game apart like no one else except maybe only nick dacios.

Kosi tore the game apart because he was allowed to.
This is all too true. When we had a fit tagger, someone who could play close, Pickett was a total non-issue who struggled to get a kick. But the last two games he hasn't had anyone playing him closely, and he has really hurt us.

Alas, this isn't an isolated case. We don't do much locking down. Cooper Lord does some, but he has limitations due to his pace. We need someone who can take out the opposition's best midfielder, which we don't have. Look at the way Collingwood struggle when Daicos is ineffective. But can we do that? We don't even try.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by ratlice -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Quote from: Baggers – on
This is not new. We've seen this movie over and over for quite some time now.

We've changed the game style, but not what is between the lugholes of our blokes. Same old, same old. You can paint stripes on a donkey and tell it to now run fast and hunt...

Bottom line: we're an embarrassment with no respect from other clubs. We have all the mental grit, resilience and strength of a turnip. But this is of our own making. How come this group is so demoralised that it can only operate when things are going their way... and easy?

Vossy admitted he's a glass half full kind of guy, looking for positives to focus on. All too often those who rely on positive thinking only do so because they're sh*t scared of negatives... reality. Fear based. Confronting fears (negatives) requires courage. Confronting the mindset of what happens to our blokes when pressure and change comes might just reveal the issue(s). We're courageous with our bodies, but not with our minds and hearts. Why?
Limited list talent wise being coached by a man who is struggling with a modern game plan which is foreign to how he really wants the game played and looks like a deer in the headlights when the momentum changes and gets that paralysed look which all Carlton coaches of recent times get.
Zero leadership from senior players, the captain looks like he has checked out and I also question our fitness.
The talent wasn't limited in the 1st quarter!!!