Bit of a concern early, camera in the rooms show the players doing some warm-up drills and they are paired off and have to tackle the other guy with the ball.
Most of the guys are going hard at it, Jamison & Warnock are hardly inspiring any confidence, they are only just going through the motions.
Walker & Carrazzo playing, Bell is the sub.
Great start already then Sheik. Lets hope we lose by less than 10 goals then.
hope they ring that air raid siren when the IN's come
At least the game is live on the box up here !!
Might end up smashing the thing by half-time though.
Cmon Blues make my Sunday night!
Only seven can do bs better than anyone.
Chappy gone for a jab. ;D
MEMO to Everitt : watch the ball and attack it !!
If Warnock doesn't dominate the ruck tonight he should be sacked at the end of the season.
He is dominating but the clearances a pretty Evan at this stage
not great watching of opponents. Marks up forward are too easy
Second overhead mark & goal to Hardingham, time to change the match-up Mick, swap Tuohy over with someone else before its gets ugly.
Always thought Hardingham is a decent player though.
Brettie made the call on hardingham during the week.
Just shoes how poor Tuohy has become.
Some early warning signs for us. Uncontested ball is not looking good.
No desperation in the chasing department, a lot of spectators at present.
18-points down and the signs are not good.
3 against Tuohy
Can we even win the footy tonight ? ::)
I haven't seen a Carlton player break into a sprint yet. :'(
Our ball movement is non existent
We use to run and spread well.
They've had triple the possession and plenty of uncontested ball. It's like we don't know how they play. Oh and they can mark. It's embarrassing.
not in the race
Menzel mistake says it all.
this is really really bad
Shocking error by Menzel, he's still young and will learn from that, Mick will ensure he never does that again in his career.
Gee our blokes are dumb
Commentators are embarrassed. They were expecting a contest.
Looks like a goalless first qtr coming.
Tim Watson just talked about the lack of pressure from Carlton that has seen the Bombers kicking at 83% which is extraordinarily high.
Hopeless
What absolute BS this is.
We're not even winning the contested ball. Curnow easily shrugged aside and Walker playing like a millionaire.
Another great job by the coaching panel to get the boys up :-\
I had hope we wouldn't lose by 10 goals before the start of the game. I now have lost that hope. ::)
We'll struggle against Melbourne at this rate!
Im embarrassed, fork the commentators
we are witches hats
If they keep serving up this crap I'll be switching over to Fat Tony & Co at 8:45pm.
Oh look that champion Simon White gave away a 50. Absolutely deserves his spot in the 22.
Hahahahhahahahahahaha
Oh well, got the filth for +39.5 at $4, easy 2 hunge coming up.
Probably more like 100 plus!
How effin' easy is this?
As soon as the ball hits the ground, our players are flat-footed and spectating.
Witches hats.
Hibbert playing loose man and no one has thought to man him up . On Friday night Clarko made sure that the dockers never had a free man in their defense.
We have to play more consistently say the players. Consistently rubbish. Also Rowe proving his worth in the 22.
This is the worst I have seen a Carlton side play. The Pagan's side had no talent, but at least had a crack. These guys are just nowhere
Glad it's their home game. Saved me the trouble going down.
36 points at 3/4 time and it looks like a country practice match.
Fark me, if I was Malthouse you'd see steam coming out of my ears when I addressed the players, I be sparing no expletives and language in my appraisal of them.
That was freakin' woeful, insipid and goddam embarrassing.
At least if we come back it'll be one for the ages! :))
I wonder if Sticks is thinking about asking Bomber if he has any plans next year.
They are so lost.
Lucky I actually don't care. This is indefensible.
x 1 .
never seen a more insipid effort.
would be rapt if that margin was 3/4 time
Maybe they have been told after rd 2 that there has to be drastic list changes at the end of the year because they are all rubbish. That usually works.
People say we are on the improve. A better team than in the past. Yeh right. 39 to 3 in the first quarter. How f@cken lazy have we been. So much so that the game looks completely boring. We only applied a little pressure with 1 and a half minutes to go and the Scum still scored a goal with seconds to go. They aren't even trying to beat us and are smashing us. WTF is going on ????
There are plenty of passengers in this team thus far tonight but I'll rip into anyone on the site going forward who tries to tell the world that Rowe & White are part of our future. :-[
Man Rowe is bad when in the ruck! REALLY BAD
Walker and Tuohy gifted 5 goals between them.
I m not looking at the play, looking around the play - our guys are not interested in doubling up. There is a problem
and its big...looks like mid week banter about lists, gibbs etc is being shown for all to see
soft - very soft
these Bastaards play on their own terms
On current form we should expect to finish 17th.
Let's hope Spanner has upgraded the servers to nuclear strength - they'll be needed circa 9.30 tonight.
They were godawful under Pagan. There are scars I'll never recover from. That said this is pretty close.
What kills me is the complete lack of skill level in this side.
rowe and white wouldn't even make the box hill hawks
Our midfield is just weak as piss. Murphy, Carrazzo, Curnow, Ellard are all good little players but they can't all be in the same team when you've also got soft c0cks like Yarran , Gibbs and Garlett.
Can handle being beaten if you are having a dip, standing around and providing match practice is embarrassing on all levels.
Meanwhile Laidlers running around in the seniors for the Swans.
Got no system or structure. Just lost when going forward
cant kick cant mark, wtf is happening this is embarassing
Commetti just said Gibbs was "industrious in the first quarter with 9 touches".
Must have been doing a Marcel Maceau impersonation with those 9 touches then.
cripps and giles will be smiling right about now
One blues player in the top ten disposals. Says it all.
What a farking rabble
Umps feel sorry for us.
Henderson hits the post from not far out, sums up our night thus far.
Why? Who'd want to be in this team. At least the Northern Blues won.
Goddard is physically targetting Buckley both on and off the ball and NOONE is helping him! P1ss poor!!
Still fkd it up!
I honestly think I've never been more frustrated in my life. There is always 2x more of their guys around the ball
Essendon pressure great. Even when it isn't we turn it over at will.
When Essendon have the ball they have all the time in the world. Carlton pressure no where.
Thank feck I'm not there!
Start throwing some punches, take a few out FFS !!
If you are going to go down, at least go down swinging.
No justice in this world when these drug cheats come out and smash us.
MENZEL !!
Thank god we are on the board now.
F__k i hate Bruce McAvaney commentating
Well done Menzel!
Seriously I haven't seen us this lazy for a long time. No one looks like they want to hurt the opposition.
Menzel finally a goal. ::)
Zip pity doo dah, at last. Class effort by Menzel.
This is worse. Much worse.
Thank Christ, we won't go goalless
Turnover kings!!!
>:(
This is the worst carlton performance in a half of footy - EVER
This is fking hilarious. They've changed down to second gear the scum and are still pulling away.
Rowe gave it straight to them.
Seriously Mick, top 4?? GAGF!!!
Tanking.
shhhhh you're not allowed to make comparisons to pagan around here ;-)
Is it just me or are we witches hats tonight and the Scum are not even breaking a sweat ? This is watching us get smashed in slow motion. The game has no pace or entertainment. We just can't be bothered being there.
2E kicks a goal and I can't find the enthusiasm to get excited.
Rowe is having a go. Would be going even better if we weren't kicking it to his feet.
Even when you play like a bucket of poop, you still kick 6-7 goals in a match so you have to expect a couple to go through.
Yeh sure we are 37pts down but come on, we scored a goal show some desire, and hunger if we want to get back in it.
His having a go isn't AFL quality.
I've a sneaking suspicion you may be right. This list is crap and Malthouse knows it. If not Malthouse has lost the plot.
2 goals in a half of footy isnt acceptable under any circumstances
Here I was thinking we could finish the season higher than 12th. Silly me ::)
should have a heart monitor on the players - for all to see they have no heart
They FKD up the Captaincy, out Murphy in Simpson.
MM thought we could win a flag or top 4
Unless your Melbourne Victory ;)
Been a long time since I have seen a CFC side so insipid; so confused and clueless that I have actually found myself laughing at what I am witnessing. Glad I chose the NBs game to watch today.
This breaks my heart Shades.
2011 Carlton loses to Semi Final West Coast by three points. Young side on the rise and three years later the side that should be at it's peak is here?
Tim Watson will be changing his pants at half time.
Seriously what F*$ing diff would it make. Would we be 10 goals up with Simo as Captain?
This is so much bigger that who is the captain.
...today I saw Heath Scotland put in his usual terrific effort - leadership. Why can't he get a game with the senior's?
Is Simpson the only leader out there?
He'll miss it.
Edit. Couldn't back him.
i doubt we would beat the demons the way were playing
We're playing like girls... I've changed the channel... Womens cricket 20 20 world cup final... Aussies chasing 106 to win...
STOP KICKING BACKWARDS AND SIDEWAYS !!!!!
After presenting to the board that the list is rubbish what is the worst thing that could happen tonight. That's right we win, that's probably why he's not playing.
should win that then........
There might actually be legs in the "Malthouse fronting the Board" story. Players look like they've had their hearts ripped out.
If you have no skill, that's one thing, but playing without heart is quite another. Coach has got to em methinks.
Simpson, unlike his doe eyed mates, looked genuinely angry. I agree that changing Captain would make little difference to this score, but Simmons has heart and emotion and looks like a leader.
Anyway, whatever. I'm sure we will kick a couple of goals in the third and get within 5 and the boys will think they've done enough.
Keep us updated, I might make the switch to because I'm sure they're having a crack!
walker has had 7 kicks for the half, have any of them hit the target?????
Don't be like that. Leave the girls alone. They are tired. They need this half time break to have a rest, fix their foundation and make up, and go for a wee wee. Give them some tissues to wipe their box while they are at it.
Agree on this, nothing one player can do alone out there that is just awful. Pagan had no players but this side has talent and basically hasn't turned up to play at all.
Robert Warnock
2 quick kicks out of a stoppage, to nobody.
No other kicks.
No other handballs.
0% Disposal efficiency.
20 hit outs, mostly to the opposition.
1 tackle.
No other effect on the game.
There are no recognised ruckmen on the opposition and thats all you can come up with in a half of football!
BRING IN WOOD!
MM you wanted control
you brought your boys in
you left guys that couldn't challenge you there
we got your love child over
we fkd off laidler when you didn't like the smell of him
we understand your past problems with Scotland still persist.
so MM since we gave you autonomy, where are we at?
1mil per annum to tell me the list is sh1te?
fugg off pal and the fuggin board that opened its legs
Captains inspire and there's only one bloke out there having a crack. He's the reigning B&F.
We have had most of the clearances and done absolutely nothing. Cut this squad.
To be fair to Rowe and I was on his case last week he hasnt really made any stuff ups and a couple of his handpasses have resulted in scores,
he has has also shown some nous in the ruck and direct his hitouts well.
He would be in our best players tonight IMO purely because he hasnt messed up as much as most of his teammates.
Dylan Buckley.....feel sorry for you mate, you are having a crack and you stood your ground vs Goddard but your teammates are letting you down...
We may as well sub Warnock off, it's like playing with one less at the moment.
Poor Juddy on at half time.....lol, earning his cash tonight even if he isn't out there.
Saw that. We play with no heart ATM.
Yep...useless.....give me Wood and Casboult next week....Wood and Rowe can ruck and Casboult can play FF.
a sad fact unfortunately
but at that time - no one would have ever thought that
And we wonder why we cant't get 50,000 members. Who wants to watch this garbage
I got sucked right in... the signs were there though. The loss to the bulldogs that year was a prime example and the fact we couldnt win more than 3 in a row.
And this list is better than that one.
at first I thought that wouldn't be a bad idea given they are playing without a genuine ruck, but we are actually winning the hot outs and all the clearance stats. We just aren't doing anything with the ball after that.
I felt like telling him to shut the f#ck up and get himself on the mend and do it quick.
Should never been the peak.
Mitch Robinson
Marc Murphy
Kade Simpson
Andrew Carrazzo
Chris Judd
Heath Scotland
Lachlan Henderson
Dennis Armfield
Jeremy Laidler
David Ellard
Christopher Yarran
Michael Jamison
Nicholas Duigan
Andrew Walker
Setanta O'hAilpin
Robert Warnock
Zach Tuohy
Eddie Betts
Jeff Garlett
Bret Thornton
Aaron Joseph
Marcus Davies
That was the side that played that night. No Gibbs, Waite and Kruezer.
This side should be top 4 in 2014. However we are embarrassing bad.
Dead wood on the park tonight.
Ellard
Robbo
Rowe
Touhy
Waite
Warnock
White
None will be premiership players ever.
Playing to the coaches instructions.
No shakin it's the list... Clearly!
Exactly. I just explained this to the missus when she said kick it down the guts FFS.
Couldn't agree more. Waite in particular has had his personal peak. I would also add Bell.
Ha Ha.
Chapman kicks the first goal of the second half, 50 points down now.
2 for 77 8)
They have a 206cm witches hat who cannot take a mark, that is why they kick sideways!
Nice goal from the boundary by Ellard, guess there has to be the occasional highlight in 120mins of footy.
Two in a row from Ellard, still need to kick 7 more unanswered to hit the front.
He kicks the first 2 for us in this quarter and my heart rate is still only at 67 BPM.
A miss from Waite makes it 37 points.
"In the fight"
Fark off Bruce.
2011 was the peak lol.
Clearly it's said that guys need to play 100 games before peaking. Nah you're right all those young players have gone backwards... Lol
activate the sub MM
take your pick
you have 15 downhill skiers
Touhy is being comprehensively beaten in defence tonight, all of his enthusiasm and mad-Irish bravado is great but when he goes back to playing like Setanta, it kills us.
Winderlich kicks an easy goal, back out to 43 points.
Yarran decided to play for the free kick instead of putting on the afterburners...... friggen soft crap that does my head in.
What could he possibly be waiting for?
This farking zone defence can fark off, go man on man.
Is it just me or the umpires are fckn. Yarran got pushed in the back in our fwd line then he does the same thing up the other end and they get a free >:(
Curnow corralled Chapman well then but Gibbs just trotted behind his opponent to the ball and let him pick it up first.
*major face palm*
Another gift goal to Chapman, blows the margin out again.
Gibbs didn't even chase. Don't want you anymore, see you later and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
We're that far off it.
Three defenders try to spoil Goddard and leave Chapman on his own.
I'd expect that sort of crap from my local U/15 team.
The same Chapman that some of didn't this forum want because he was too old. Kind of like Thomas last week...
Gibbs...just go... please just go.
Heppell rolls one through from a tight angle, margin out to 54 points.,
Thompson as coach would of played a huge part in him going there, we wouldn't of been in the race unless we offered him some stupid money.
Another goal and it's 10-goals even.
Please call the mercy rule.
Warnock is crap
To think I could of been watching the final episode of Fat Tony & Co rather than this contemptable poop !!
This going for a century loss
You're recording it I hope.
66-points because Stanton does a Stevie J from the boundary, it's party trick time at the 'G' and all we are there for is to be the incompetent straight man.
Nah, can get it online via their replay system.
That effort from Warnock in the goal square was soooooo weak. Have we touched the ball in the last 10 minutes?
It finished last week in Melbourne Sheik.
He towered over the other two players and any of the other 'serious' ruckman in the comp would of positioned themselves and marked it, not our Robbie The Robot.
Warnock - if I've ever seen a less physical player it was at a softball game. Been saying it for years- he has to go.
What does Casboult and the kids have to do to get a game????
Glad to see you have taken ownership of him, your Robbie!
If I did in fact own him, I'd be listing him on Ebay this coming week with a starting price of $0.01, wouldn't be expecting to many bids though.
What's Parkin doing, surely we can better his media contract.
How about Roos? We've got a slightly better list than Melbourne.
Much better passion and intensity in that 3rd quarter, but we are out of our league with the class against us.
What hurts the most is the lack of heart in most of these guys.
They make it look like they dont even care that they being made to look like complete fools. I mean im sure they do care but they certainly dont play like they do.
i know, but I thought the umpires were getting too easy ;D
You know what is going to happen now, the Bombers will put the cue in the rack and we'll kick 5-goals to only go down by 30-points and everyone will be saying how good they were in the last. ::)
We played hard for about six minutes. Then they got a couple of goals and we went back to sleep. Yes they're a much better side in terms of depth and skill, but I look at the one on ones and we are being killed. We didn't touch the ball for a good chunk of that quarter.
Wrap the club up and close the doors and finish it in its 150th yr. Im over it
We also have the worst ruckman in the league. Even Jesse Spencer puts in a better effort.
if this was the hawks, they'd be up 100+ by now
Bunch of boys playing men
Carrazzo delivering the post-Malthouse sermon, looked like he was swearing too.
Malthouse has switched off in tonights game, he is going to blame the players and the list managers.
Warnock taps it, Carlilse grabs it and clears the ball.
Yeah right, taps are really so important! ::)
He probably said that putting the triplets to bed is more fun than playing with you bastards.
Their tackling is strong and relentless, we just flap our arms around them and let them break through with ease.
It's one of the many parts of our game that is simply killing us.
We are so old school and nobody seems to be able to do a thing about it.
He probably added that the triplets put up more fight too.
Tuohy just cracked one of the Essendon players in the chest with a big right jab, about time we showed some fight !!
Can't wait for the presser. Nobody should fear Mick, tell him he's a farkin crap coach.
Chapman goals again and it's out to 73-points.
Tuohy is close to the most over-rated player on our list. Great kick and nothing else. Absolutely clueless ATM, lost when the ball is in the air and concedes simple goals. Needs to re-learn how to defend in the 2's or be played up the ground. His first 3 weeks have been insipid.
Even the Bummers are finding this a bit embarrassing. I can't wait for the after game interview with Jobe or whoever when they say, "we knew the Blues would come out hard..."
And he faked the contact to the face. Big girl. Hope he gets a fine.
Menzel hits the post, he took an eternity to size up the kick and he was only 15-metres out.
Crap, it's Warnock by 2.06m!
See thompsons reaction to the Menzel miss. He'll never leave Bombers.
Goddard missed a sitter early to. Menzel is far from our worst and has a better chance than most Carlton players out there tonight of playing in our next premiership.
I'm not knocking Menzel, reckon he is a ripper, just needs to concentrate that little bit more on those set shots and not walk back 45metres before he kicks it.
The playing culture in this club is something horrid. Tail wags the dog.
A few of the drafts picks the last 2 years can play, Cripps, Graham, Giles etc... sometimes it surprisingly freshens a side.
Usually i get angry and emotional but now nothing. Big lack of care factor
Rowe drops an easy regulation chest mark, they scrap it forward and Winderlich kicks one off the ground.
We can't even execute the most basic of skills now.
Rowe. Champion.
Rowe is fkg useless!
He will not play in a premiership
we haven't hit ground Zero yet until all the board leave, prez and most players
10 - 15 years at best
the scum coaches box was laughing all at the same time
Daniher kicks another from downtown, its now out to 85-points and they will be looking to bring up the ton soon.
Embarrassing ................. >:(
91 points.
No soul. Nothing.
4 bucks at 39+
I m spewing
The problem is the dog is headless, which makes it brainless and slowly dying!
Within a minute and Chapman dobs a long shot, 91-points and looking down the barrel of one of our more insipid losses ever.
Garlett just gifted them a silly 50-metre penalty.
Here come the cheap goals!
Late goal to Hendo.
heads need to roll after this surely someone in the two's played well enough to warrant a call up
Carlisle beats Warnock in the ruck .......... again !! ::)
Lock the thread.
This is the worst loss in our history. Forget the Pagan era, where we were restricted blah blah blah. A bounty of #1 picks a proven coach and we just get smashed into oblivion.
Lock up the players for impersonating footballers.
Another late junk-time goal.
Junk time!
Gibbs to leave and we get a pick more than likely a first rounder right after our pick, so pick 1 and 2 coming up.
If we don't win a game do we get a compo pick as well? Picks 1, 2 and 3. ;)
The board are negligent if they don't try and lure Bomber Thompson.
START TANKING
Not sure he is the answer.
Gut the side and start again these players just are not up to it.
really then who is the answer?????
Another lamb to the slaughter.
I think Bomber has been a far better coach in the last decade than MM.
Correct, lousy recruiting and list management have left us with nothing to work with and list a rebuild .....
MM doesn't believe in rebuilding remember.
It's just not working a all.
Need to play Casboult fwd permanently.
Need to play Graham, Cripps & Giles.
Need to move on from McLean, Rowe, Watson, Bootsma, White (d graders)
What to do with Walker, Garlett and Tuohy???? Horribly out of form
I wonder why their confidence is at an all time low? ::)
MM can go and get Fugged TBH
atm, he's the worst coach in the afl
Our first blow-out under MM. And it was embarrassing to watch.
There can be no avoiding the questions with trite responses, MM. No use talking about the season being a marathon and not a sprint. We've not started yet and the rest of the field is under way.
At present the CFC and Melbourne FC are the two worst clubs in the competition... how fitting they meet this week. One of them will finally be a winner. And if us, it will be a very hollow victory.
I think he will have to revisit those comments and play some kids as the natives are restless and both he and the administration are on shaky ground.
I expect Sticks to be trotted out this week to pacify the rank and file and Mick to be very quite on the media front...
Ratten was so much better than MM it's a joke.
Just ask Clarkson. He knows talent.
No it won't. It will be a hard fought out draw.
If theres a clean out to be done, id rather it done now
First and foremost, I want a spill of the full board and tickets put forward.
once that is settled.
A full a through audit of the whole operation. I want a sub committee of trusted carlton people right away
I don't want these carlton people part of the long term structure - just a transitional overbody
I want all the kids played now for the rest of the season- 6 players should be dropped next week
I want a expert development senior coach appointed next year
No point getting a premiership coach
The season is over - there really is no point playing for 10- 12 on the ladder
The rot starts at the top - always....
Kernahan, Malthouse, Murphy.
Well the silver lining to this may be that it triggers the start of the changes that we desperately need as a club to start going forward again, and they are a LOT bigger than just the coaching staff for sure.
The great Carlton sides would not have had to consider such options and this is where the board is behind the times.
Just on this. I'm not sure if you can blame Murphy. Yeah he's an average captain but that's not his fault. He still laid 8 tackles and had it 27 times. He tried which is more than you can say for a few others.
No chance Cookie.
MM, Mathieson, Swann all on the same page with the deflection.
We are finished as a club the way things are.
Yep. Thought Murph was solid without being spectacular. Don't think he is captain material. Think
that this is to much of a burden on him.
I read the Ian Collins article in The Hun today, the story of being whacked by the AFL.
In hindsight we might have been better off to hand in the keys!
I'm not bagging Murph, but I think the club was wrong to make him skipper.
Just put it with the rest of all the bad decisions ::)
ian Collins is a screww1t
waited 20 years to go from vice prez to prez
what does he do first? he rolls over like the b1tch he is
and takes it rudely and suddenly from a former scum afl prez imposter.
Did even put up a fight - his article, him the man is typical of what was on display tonight
The Pr1ck of person to run to the papers and put that stuff in there is embarrassing for him the "man"
Thank you, you saved me from typing it...well said >:D
I agree... an Extraordinary General Meeting
These people at the club are celebrating 150 years...$500 to $1000 per seat...in June
I say..get rid of them now...we have to look to the future and we are at least 7-10 years away from being a force...
no time to waste..
Marc Murphy is the very least of Carlton's problems. A very talented player and emerging leader and it's a bit disappointing to see so many here turning on him - he's committed to this club and tries his guts out every week. He bleeds blue.
No I am not.
Fact...Simmo has given so much more as a leader on field than Murph. Fact...Murphy has played well below his own standard since becoming captain.
Yep, that's pretty much sums it up for me, not his fault though.