Carlton Supporters Club

The reality Shawny is that the form of the midfield group has directly equated to the team's result.  Cripps et al. were awful during rounds 1 to 8 but have been dominant since then.  And that worries me greatly going forwards because going forwards that's the group we need to re-vitalise.  We can rely on George and Paddy to be competitive.
Where I think we've greatly improved as a coaching group is there seems to be a preference to play blokes in their best positions, pick the right role players and in general far less cockamamie MC choices.

The win/loss column just shows who is in front at the end of the game.
The quarters won/lost columns show how competitive you are in the games.

People fixating on the first and neglecting the 2nd is a recipe for disaster.

Quote from: Lods – on June 28, 2026, 10:05:34 pm

I wonder how we sit now on that 'quarters won' table that was floating around before we were good.

It's an interesting concept, and perhaps a lack of understanding about how stats work.

Technically, there is nothing stopping a team losing 75% of quarters but still winning more games than they lose, or inversely a team winning the majority of quarters and still losing more than they win like Carlton. Because the bare stat represents nothing in regard to magnitude, it measures a swing in direction, not the magnitude of the swing. Scrap over the line in a quarter by 1pt, is the same stat as winning a quarter by 10 goals.

A great comparison might be the Filth from a season or two back, when they scrapped over the line in the last quarter of more than half the wins they had.

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on June 28, 2026, 07:14:34 pm

Everyone I have spoken to with connections to AFL clubs and in particular Coll and Haw, tell me Wright is a jet and knows what he is doing and his track record is proven. The fact he was hand picked and anointed by Cook is enough for me.
I have no intel on Davies but from what I have seen and heard from him, he seems knowledgeable and  impressive.

Wright may have been a good list manager but he’s never been a CEO before.  There’s also the matter of him walking away from Collingwood because he had issues with Kelly.  That may well be a positive but he doesn’t have a track record as a CEO or long term football administrator.  He may well be brilliant, and I hope he is, but the jury is still out.

I have a lot more faith in Davies who does have a proven track record as footy manager.

I wonder how we sit now on that 'quarters won' table that was floating around before we were good.

I wonder how we sit now on that 'quarters won' table that was floating around before we were good.

Quote from: PaulP – on June 28, 2026, 01:05:30 pm

I think the current setup is working because the players are less mentally burdened, and because Fraser the Amazer has taken 2.5-3 quarter good efforts and turned them into 3.5-4 quarter efforts. He deserves credit for that. However it's completely inaccurate to think that one individual (an inexperience caretaker coach no less) can take an entire organization from zero to hero in seven days, and keep it going for 6 weeks. There's no way that can be true. A football club is massive, with significant inertia and investment in training loads and methods, personnel, game style etc.

I still have my doubts about Wright and Davies.

Everyone I have spoken to with connections to AFL clubs and in particular Coll and Haw, tell me Wright is a jet and knows what he is doing and his track record is proven. The fact he was hand picked and anointed by Cook is enough for me.
I have no intel on Davies but from what I have seen and heard from him, he seems knowledgeable and  impressive.