At least it should be dry tonight.
Pitto not paid the mark in front of goal?
Is it going to be one of those nights??
We are playing terrible
5 minutes to go in the first, and the second goal of the quarter, our first, has been kicked.
Not sure there are many non-bombers/blues supporters sitting through this one.
Cripps and Walsh down so naturally we struggle..need to clamp down on Durham and Merrett.
We'd wanna play better than that in the next few qtrs.
Coming out of our fwd line very easily this week.
We'll fire up later. We started playing rope a dope 4 weeks ago
Meanwhile im in greece and cant see a kick, so keep me posted.
It was nice while it lasted Josh, welcome to Carlton.
Not today folks I'm affraid.
Time to sack the coach.
Getting smashed
Has Josh lost the players?
Terrible, terrible terrible
Durham is slaughtering us, being physical and our blokes don't want to tackle him..
Can't stop the oppositions run of goals.
Must have.
Its the only 'logical' conclusion.
Forward line is a rabble thus far.
Midfield have forgotten how to kick, again, so not helping our forward line.
Backline is clearing the ball well enough. Losing it through the midfield.
Getting beaten at stoppages, contested ball and clearances.
We dont have a 'plan b'
Only positive so far is I don't THINK we can play any worse
11 players wearing a carlton jumper yet to lay a tackle.
The other 12 have only managed 16 tackles between them.
Thats on track for a mere 32 tackles for the game.
Where has our relentless pressure gone??
Umpires kept us in it.
Yep, things can only get better…..hopefully.
We are lucky they have Ben McKay else we would been 5 or 6 goals down...
Clearances for Carlton....
Pittonet - 4
McKay - 3
Rest of the team - 9.
Walsh - 0 clearances, 0 tackles
Cripps - 0 clearances, 1 tackle
Mids need to lift big time.
What we are seeing is the mental side of game and how poor we are at aspects of it. Ess hasn't been able to beat an egg so we should have come out breathing fire, instead we come out looking tired, disinterested, fumbly, unable to stick a tackle and letting a young inexperienced side beat you at your game. I expected this to happen and I am sure Fraser would have known the also. His challenge this week would have been how fix or coach it. Unfortanately, as Hinkley said, its not something that should need to be coached but at Carlton you need to.
Cripps was right to call out the holding the ball / last touch call
2!!! Fucjing umpires right there and they still can’t get it right ffs
Florent and Pittonet our best up to now IMO.
I would've said Dean probably hasn't been beaten yet.
Even winning a free there.
Derksen🙄
Sam Walsh with a shoulder.
The one he injured....what last week or the week before?
Seems we haven't learned by playing injured players.
4 farken 9
When are McG and Kemp going to show up?
We're missing targets by 5m from only 20m away, forwards aren't an option, it's not getting that far forward often enough with any accuracy or efficiency.
Want to know why we are anchored on the bottom of the ladder, watch this game. ;)
So ends Fraser's career, it took just 4 weeks for the list to burn him, at least Voss lasted 4 years, now Fraser knows how Voss feels!
Staying in touch but by gosh both teams are playing like their ladder position.
We gotta be thankful we are playing against the bombers tonight.
Play like this against a top 4 team and its a 10+ goal defeat.
Bombers are bad enough that we are still in it.
currently on a ferry to naxos. From here its santorini and crete before going to portugal. Last time I travelled was 2023 so the omen is good.
Scores level at 3/4 time.
We won the quarter, our first for the night.
Win the another quarter and we win the game.
We’re on a ferry to nowhere.
At this point, I wish to formally retract my 55 point margin prediction! 😁
Liked Portugal. I too was there in 2023. If I had've known it changes our football fortunes I'd have stowed away...lol.
I'm guessing if you're heading to Kriti from Santorini you'll end up in Irakleon. I'm in Hania.
I hope for 55 points, and enough to win.
Naxos is beautiful. Enjoy.
Why would cripps nominate for ruck when pittonet is there lol?
Everyone ready for the weekly heart stress test? ::)
Brodie Kemp.....lets have him kick them all from the boundary. Can't kick from in front!
Frankie Evans great kick for Byrne.
The only one on the list smart enough and capable enough to make that kick.
Taylor Byrne > Jesse Motlop
Essendon tanking
Pulling their best players out of the middle.
F me we make hard work of it
Umpires robbed essendon with the clock.
Worse than the Richmond win
Honestly don't think we've played worse all year.
Lucky, lucky, lucky
How the hell do we go from matching it with Geelong to nearly being overrun by Essendon? In one week?
Its a win. Take it and move on.
That was sh it and should never have come to that. At least they did something when it mattered but that was it, which is something that's better. Just know when we were 18pts up we'd take the foot off the gas. Been like that most of the night, just not fully switched on. That was some mental letdown after Geelong.
Got the bye next week.
How we come back after that should show us a lot about this group.
If they go into holiday mode, expect a poor showing.
If they put their head down and work over their break, we could get a few more wins from here.
Jagga pumping up Vossy again when asked about what Fraser has brought to the group.
Reckon we found holiday mode after last week. That was one mental letdown to end all letdowns.
Jagga was definitely a fan.
I have a theory. During the week in one of his posts Kruddler set out in detail that if we did not finish in the bottom five then the new AFL drafting rules would compromise our draft picks.
Evidently our playing group read the post, were impressed by its content, and began putting it in to practice tonight
I think so too. It’s habitual IMO.
Hahaha. you saying we can't even tank properly.....lol.
That hurt my eyes.
Jokes aside, for a club that has experienced so much failure in the last 25 years, treating victory as an inconvenience because we have embarked on Operation Get Cody, is beyond the pale.
Just a bit of a joke. Have a laugh.
would be on trend to aim for a loss and miss... 😃
Mine bled.
Hard enough going through that stress play Geelong, don't need it when playing Essendon.
Ben McKay kicked a goal with 8 minutes left and the next centre bounce Essendon fielded their weakest line up.
Tanks a lot.
Why were they going so hard at the last centre bounce?
Was that all part of the show