Re: Round 17 Carlton vs Hawthorn-Post Match
Reply #62 –
I'm still feeling sick.
Woke up this morning hoping it was just a bad dream........but alas 
Whats happened to the aggressive approach to tackling we started with under JB ? There was just no fight. Thats what dissapointed me the most. NO FIGHT. No mongrel.
The players have stated they want JB as there coach. They back him. Really?? By putting in a performance like that he'll be lucky to get an assistant coaching job next year. And if its JB's "game plan" to kick the ball sideways and backward and not use any ' run and carry' whatsoever.......then I hope he doesnt coach us next year.
Hawthorn are a great team....probably as good as there has ever been. But if you were to take their team and spread their list amongst the 17 other teams, I reckon they have 5 or 6 players who'd still be guns but the rest would be average. What I'm getting at here is that they have a system and every player on there list, not just the starting 22 understands it. They each know their role . they have a complete understanding of what is required, when its required. They know when to run off, when to flood back.
There workrate I50 is phenominal. They never stop working to find a teammate in a better position to make certain of the goal.
We take a mark I50 on the boundary and stop the play to pull our socks up and almost wait for the entire opp team to completely flood our fwd line and then think......hmmmm I cant get the distance so I might look for an option now!
We are too disjointed atm. Heaps of young kids, which isnt all bad, but "team football" is just not what we seem to be about.