Ready for Saturday evening.
Evans becoming a cult hero lol
Started well, now stopped.
Ben King destroying us.
Weitering's positioning is terrible, selling Young up the river every time it gets kicked in.
Oh dear.
Still early days, a good passage of play early then capitulated a little which is to be expected -
Let’s see what the second quarter brings!
Ben King kicked 3 goals and taken mark of the year.
When i suggested him coming back in a trade for Charlie, everyone told me he was a spud.
Few people got egg on their faces tonight.
If what TDK is showing the saints value at $1.7m they can have him. Not worth rookie wage at moment
Cripps injured. Give him a jab and get him back out there.
Game over no fight in this group.
$12M man getting a bath
We dropped Pitt so this banana can ruck one out.
Its an unimportant player and an important match.
Right?
Right?? ??
F***me we never learn
But one arm cripps is better than a Frankie Evans or Cooper Lord right?
Wish we went after Witts all those years ago.
Poor Harry, always a 3 on 1 no matter what part of the ground he's on.
Workmate
Just going through the motions- no heart.
King is beating Weitering
Rowell is beating Cripps
Witts is beating TDK
Taylor beating Harry
Zac Williams MIA
That's our money players.
Lord doing a good job on Anderson.
HOK 1st ever goal.
Taylor and everyone else on Harry is beating Harry.
Harry has been ok.
Been a bit unlucky with some ump calls. They seem to have it in for him today.
What do we have to gain by playing an injured Cripps?
Better off getting more minutes into 2 blokes who are fighting for their future at the club.
....you'd think.
TDK is playing a very very different style of play to how he played last season.
I’ve seen two free kick calls where the umpire indicated the wrong way 🤦🏼♂️
Trying to stay uninjured to get his 12 million...lol.
Yes we don't have the same overall skill level as Gold Coast, but why don't our players give a lead? Often it is not the fault of the player who kicks the high ball towards Harry M and his 2-3 attending backs, no other Carlton player has led up.
Ab
One thing i've noticed today, but realised its a regular thing, but why does Harry try to mark the ball directly above his head? That is, why not take it out in front of your eyes?
If the ball is high, he'll stop and jump straight up.
If the ball is in front of him and high, he'll jump at have his arms straight up.
If the ball is in front of him, and at a reasonable level, he won't jump, but try and take it high above his head.
....Those are the ones you jump and take it in front of your eyes, so the defender can't get a crack at it.
Look at the way King gets the ball on the lead, out in front, arms at a 45, take it in front of your eyes.
Think the great FF's of yesteryear. Lockett, Ablett, Dunstall.....take it out in front.
Yes, the kicking isn't the best, but Harry doesn't help himself.
Was really hoping Flynn Young would show more. But we're playing him out of position, of course.
He's losing but he's competing. Weitering is running the other way from King.
They probably figure there’s no point leading because the ball will go over their head or 2m short of them 😢
Six shots to fifteen at half time. Gulp.
Williams good clearance to cripps who takes on everyone kicks from 50 and doesn't make the distance and forces a free kick against for shepherd.
LOWER YOUR EYES!
Kick it in front of Skull and let him have a crack. Stop trying to be the hero.
Ollie Hollands had a chance to do the same thing. Lowered his eyes and found Fogarty 20m out.
THAT is how you do it.
....if only a small forward could kick it from 20m!
Getting really embarrassing now.
Seeya Fogs over him.
I'm confused
What was that all about?
Give Evans and Haynes contracts, I was wrong.
Has gone from a very important player for us to a liability.
Umpires are laughably bias
Suns have beaten Collingwood and Brisbane recently. Thrashed Richmond as well. They are no mugs, and they have clearly stepped up this season. There's no point documenting our issues, they are already well known. Let's be realistic.
Ollies left eye is closing up
H doesn't get much live from the umpires though.
He often gets pushed, tunnelled arms chopped and gets nothing
Whilst he has been ordinary, He's not filling his pockets with $12M, the Way De Koning is playing he isn't with $12.
Weirering, Cripps, McKay, Williams are all on more than TDK now.
Just too many passengers.
The midfield is getting smashed. Rowell is tearing Cropps a new one.
Cripps
Is clearly broken but Rowell is an amazing player
Pretty reasonable bet that the side that takes the field for round one next year looks very different to this one tonight.
Smith, Curnow, Walsh, Newman, Silvagni, Kemp, Cottrell, Hollands
I reckon there is 2 of them that won't be in our R1 side.
When you struggle to even score from 25m out dead in front and youré playing as a small forward, then there is no place in the team for you.
He has to go !!
Frank the Tank
Let's hope Richmond don't pick up pick any talent, their kids are going to be bigger, stronger and quicker next season...
Frankie Evans has gone from deeply derided to our BEST small forward :o :o
Post May he’s been brilliant, give him whatever he wants for another year
I'm still taking Motlop, Williams and Moir before i get anywhere near Evans.
....but he's better than Durdin, Fogarty, Fantasia, White, F. Young.......which is a low bar.
Did you hear Lyon, our contested footy is through the roof this qtr. And How are we going?
Motlop, Williams, Evans, Durdin, Fantasia, White, F. Young & Fogarty all have to go.
You could open a weekend market stall selling baked potatoes with those spuds.
MOIR HAS CLASS
Frank will get a 5 year deal at 1.7 mill a year after tonight..lock it in.
Frankie BOG
Fogarty misses again !!
FMD !!
Good on you boys, just bloody good on you.
Two missed sitters from Fog
We've almost lost our momentum.
But its only 3 goals in 9 minutes, so can certainly get it back.
Need the next one
Game on. :o
13 points.
5.5 to go
If we could bottle this pressure, we'd be millionaires, if not billionaires!
Spud King
"Spud" King does it again.
We could do with a spud like him.
Speaking of spuds.....Lewis Young...what the hell was that??
You know what I say about a broken clock .........
Good effort and fight to turn what was looking like a big loss into an honorable one.
He's second for the Coleman.
If they had of played the whole season like they have this last quarter who knows what may have been achieved.
Sadly, too little too late for me.
What we tried in the last isn't sustainable, you can't play four quarters like that let alone week after week.
Well at least we came back and had a good crack with a few good signs from the younger players.
The folks on the ABC radio were saying that we played high risk, surge football in the last, which would not work for a whole game, but would certainly be a very useful string to add to our bow, to use as needed.
Was posting in the wrong thread :)
At least we had a crack in the last and put some respectability on the score board.
If those from Fog (2) and Williams went in it would have been real close.
Rowell and King were the difference.
What a travesty.
Apart from an unexpected 5 against the Swans, his biggest tallies have been against WCE & North (6 & 5), against the better teams he has eked out only 1's & 2's.
Reminded me of Richmond footy in their premiership years.
We'll you're overdue due to get one right by that logic. ;)
Yeah, apart from all the goals he kicked in these matches, he's only kicked more goals than anyone on our list!
Delist him!
What a shame, I would’ve liked seeing that absolute highest order dickhead Hardwick explain that loss! Not to be.
Very proud of their fight! Good on some
Of the young kids, good on them. They will be better for it.
Umpiring sub standard, along with TDK until the last quarter. And Fogs 🙄 and Jesse at times,
Anyway a good fight out, no shame in that loss.