To all those lucky enough to be at the game, barrack loud!
My nephew will be there, in the rooms, lucky sod. He's doing a coaching course through LaTrobe and spend a fair bit of time at Carlton. Know most of the players by now.
Friggin McGovern. Friggin Young
Just show me a forward half game plan please
We have started ok but Weiters is looking shaky.
WTF Moir? If you're not going to go get off the friggin ground!
Yeah that was bad. 5 min into yhe game.
We're on top of the live ladder!!!!!
Looks to be VERY slippery
Farken hell Ollie
After the first behind i said, "Blow the siren. Season is done. Give us the cup!"
Thats about as close as we'll get. But it was fun while it lasted.
Good effort by the boys but gee swans are playing worse than us at our worst
recruits look good. kids look even better. jagga and dean look like seasoned footballers.
if it wasnt for finishing inside 50 we could be 5 goals up
Thankfully the ball hasn't been down there a whole lot just yet, but he is doing his job.
Charlie getting cranky early and was benched to calm down. He'd just about play 100% game time when he was with us, so thats a good sign for our boys getting into him.
Jagga 9 touches, equal most on ground has already won the rising star for the year.
Zac Williams, our best small forward, trained as a defender all off-season, playing as a midfielder......but its working.
Think our rucks are doing well and giving us first use.
I think our numbers at stoppages in our F50 are low. Need more contest in attack
Carlton: 2 - 2 - 14
Sydney: 0 - 3 - 3
Possessions:
Jagga Smith; 9
Sam Walsh: 9 with a clearance
Cooper Lord: 9 with a clearance
Zac Williams: 8 with 5 clearances.
We're getting a lot of the ball, but what are we dong with it?
9 of the top 10 ball getters wear Blue!
Feels like they’re getting on top 5 mins into 2nd Q
Elijah hollands' fumble cost us a goal. Was a great setup....just fell down on the last line.
50-50 call in the goal square, goes to the swans. Umps get them their first goal.
Zac Williams can't defend. It's why he was moved from defence.
We are seriously wasting too many forward entries
Elijah Hollands has had 2 dribble kicks and a fumble. Out of confidence??
....and a turnover.
absolutely butchering the ball.
needs to get back on the gear 🤔
just joking
We’re breaking down
Kemp has been good
Poor from cripps giving away that free.
Just bombing it again
Have answered this question
Gonna be a long season
Heeney needs to come off
Back on top of the live ladder after crawling up from the bottom!...lol.
Marc "STRENGTH" Pittonet.....they key forward?!
Yep. I think it was as much about the timing of the push that caught him off balance and made it look worse.
But, every AFL ruck would've seen that and will do it from now on.
Pitto probably should've been paid that one.
Almost 2 in a minute.
Kemp cleared from concussion protocols.
Should help in the 2nd half.
Florent best effort tonight is his knee to Heeneys head, not sure Heeney will be as lucky as kemp.
Pit used to frustrate the hell out of me but i love the blokes heart. he cares and gives his all.
also im leaving my charlie rant till after the game.
Kingy loves talking up warner even time he touches the ball yet walsh is just a beast.
I really hope they continue with that effort. Swines were a little bit better that quarter but we lifted late again. If we could just use the ball a bit better we might be able to crack these pr!ck$
Been a few fumbles in the forward 50 that have cost us…. A few almosts
Hayward and Ainsworth 2 / Charles 0
Weiters is doing OK for a bloke who isn’t quite right!
You would have to have rocks in your head not to play a “not quite right” Weiters.
30 sec into the match “Warner is everywhere”
I think we have all seen this movie many times before. God I hope we get a different ending. How good would it be going into a weekend without depression
The Swans have been very fumbly.
The conditions seem quite slippery but the Swans should be used to it.
Why you gotta temp the footy gods like that? Charlie will take mark of the year over him now after sticking his knee in his ribs and putting him out for the next 2 months......and you are to blame. :P
Good start. Goal in first 90 seconds.
Lets kick a few more quick ones and put the foot on the throat.
Pittonet is thankful we don't have TDK on the list......and we save a mil!
Pitto!!
Saad nearly breaks his neck and swans get 2 in a couple minutes. ::)
When are we gonna learn with Lewis Young?
Rookie Derkson doesn't make that mistake!
Here we go
The SCG is such a comical stadium.
Such a small stadium.
wheels falling off
Back to playing stupid footy
This is plainly infuriating. We were 22pts up not long ago then let them kick 5 in 10 minutes. Such a BS club.
Make it 6.
Kao is such a bias commentary
1/3 of this team is new, but its still the same old 2025 Carlton.
Look good early, then disappear after half time.
Voss trying to be cute starting cripps forward this quarter.
As usual has no idea how to stop opposition run.
Still lack a plan going forward. Around the corner kicks in hope. Kicking it on top of Harry’s head.
Seen us hit up 1 lead all night.
Winnin the i50 count. Down by 19
pittttt!!!!
Pitto our most effective forward
Elijah Hollands - 13 touches. - 7 turnovers. - 46.2 DE%
Will Hayward - 8 touches - 1 turnover - 37.5 DE%
These are the 2 'good ball users' that should turn our fortunes around this year.....not bloody likely!!
We just give up hey
Young going the fist, again, when he should mark.
Cost us 2 goals tonight doing that.
Oh dear
Think papley may have him covered. Been on the ground a total of about 7 minutes and king has talked about him 900 times
It’s coz he’s scared crapeless and has no awareness of self or the game. Reminds me of bower
We were looking unstoppable when we were winning the clearances and getting it out of the guts. As soon as that turned, they have just killed us on the outside
so what does Voss do start the best ball winner in the comp forward. dumb
Total power failure- lights out!
What a disaster!
That's new. I don't think I've ever seen that. That is a new low.
Exactly, stupid move. He's no good as a forward. Mind you none of our forwards are good as forwards
3rd biggest quarter of all time.
WTF was elijah doing then with Grundy?
Had his hand out ready to smother, than removed them out of the way so he could get a clear kick.
Looked afraid to smother it?!
I've never seen anyone do that.
I've had enough of him tonigt!
Zero run. Have stopped
We have completely put up the white flag. It's so embarassing
Can we get a head count? They look to have 7 extra players on the ground.
Think Walsh has been our best but that was terrible
Harry has really struggled the whole match. He doesn't look right.
I think the Richmond game last year was worse, but this takes the wind out of 2026.
“No movement at all inside the Carlton 50”
I mean how many YEARS can this go on
Then he kicks a goal lol.
Hasn't looked right for about 3 years.
An so to bed to watch YouTube.
Get Dean off FFS
No disrespect to Walsh, but surely Pittonet deserves BOG honours.
Kicked 3 goals, has 8 clearances and is up against AA Grundy
Grundy hasn't been beaten
Saad injured again. Hamstring tightness.
Nightmare first round match up, gone exactly as expected....hope it doesn't @@@@ the whole season like the last 85 point flogging we got in round 1 from this mob.
Grundy has had 3 less touches, 5 less clearances, 1 less mark and 2 less goals than Pittonet, despite an extra 20% game time.
Grundy has had plenty more hitouts, but not sure how effective they are, need to wait for post game stats for HTA.
I'd say thats beaten.
Williams looks to have done his calf.
Saad with Hamstring tightness.
Time to put the old boys out to pasture.
As a ruckman,
43 hit outs.
Smashed both our boys.
Both teams fumbly in the first half. Then they came good. We didn’t….
44 to 32 in hitouts.....yeah smashed. So what?
Yet clearances is 36-37 our way!
Haven't i said it enough over the past 3+ years??? Hitouts is a useless stat.
Exactly! Only useful hitout is one to advantage, otherwise they shouldn't bother counting them.
I am just saying that Grundy hasn't been beaten.
He has taken on 2 and as a minimum come out level.
20 of Grundys hitouts may have gone straight to our players. That stat tells you SFA.
Maybe we should unretire Matty Warnock so we don't get beaten in hitouts. ::)
Imagine scoring 2 goals, 8 min into the 3rd qtr then late in the last qtr you have 20.
Thank God we're another ruckman debate
Maybe add hitouts to disadvantage too...lol.
A 207 cm ruckman? Be Robbie that you are thinking of
Champion data keep that stat.....i contacted them a year or 2 ago and gave me the stats up to that point (round 17??)
Posted the stats on here.....as usual people ignored them, despite it backing up everything i had said re hitouts being useless.
Speaking of ….. anyone know what Reidy does?
That blonde athletic st kilda ruck would be handy.
Thankyou and goodnight. Onto the Tigers
Yeah, that one....lol......very forgettable as all he could do was get a hitout!....and yep....was useless. ;)
Only positive - at least no one can say Charlie was the difference
Nah, wouldn’t have stopped Warner and gulden and co cutting us up on the outside
We've all waiting how long for footy season to start......now all i want is footy season to be over. ::)
Kemp fumbly, young punching when he is a mile in the clear. Hard to win when your chf and chb can’t handle the footy.
Kemp looked ok and could have had a good match, but just wasn’t clean enough
The FOX crew were extremely annoying; i.e. they never seemed to shut up. If one of them paused to take a breath, another one jumped in without delay.
Yet far superior to seven, which is why even when it's FTA I usually watch Kayo.
My biggest problem with the current media setups, is that the commentary doesn't match the game play. They cherry-pick moments and build a fantasy around it, I wish they would just shut the feck up and call the game as it really happens!
AS I mentioned in another thread, if you watch the game in silence it's like watching a different event. If you don't believe this then watch the replay with sound on, you'll be astounded at some of the bizarre live to air conclusions and issues they make. You can't do the reverse, watch the reply in silence, because you've already heard the words and they stick in your conscious perception.