Carlton Supporters Club

To me, sitting in the stand, we just looked, primarily, overwhelmed physically and the rot started there. Also Melbourne were far quicker and slicker on the breakout and punished us seemingly at will. By contrast  when we tried to break out we were too often stopped by lack of ideas and slow movement, skill errors and turnovers or fierce Melbourne tackling. Done like a dinner today I'm afraid to say. Brushed aside.

The club is hamstrung by injuries but the failure to select a side with any hope of winning bewilders me.   No run from defence.  Again.   Why?

Why pick injured players?

Why no movement forward of the kicker?

Why play with such a, I don't know the words,  such a worthless defensive set up?    Why persist with it for four quarters when it clearly wasn't working?

Why Jones continues to play "defence" like he did today staggers me.   U14 let defenders are smarter than he is.

Why do we continue to pick blokes that are just no good?   Their errors and non-contributions kill us.

Why do blokes who can play lose all semblance of skill when they play for us?

Big problems at all levels with this club. Other than glimpses of a prototype forward line,  not one bankable positive today.

Lastly,  we have to get Cripps help.   Now.   Not next year, he'll be broken by then.

Of that later lot though other clubs would snap them up fast for a high draft pick if available. Thomas has had a great year. Rowe does ok but like Levi is a fill-in while other s develop. The other's we don't need in the side.

Give the boys free reign, play a Blighty game plan

Other teams drip feed their youngsters into the big time. We have to play them consistently on mass. If O’Brien or Dow had been at Geelong or Swans, they’d be rotated out and ‘managed’ by now for a few weeks.  This attitude of ours goes back to Kruezer’s first year.

Other team drip feed their youngsters into the big time. We have to play them consistently on mass. If O’Brien or Dow had been at Geelong or Swans, they’d be rotated out and ‘managed’ by now for a few weeks.  This attitude of ours goes back to Kruezer’s first year.

Murphy's

Gibbs, Weitering, Petrevski-Seton last year without a pre-season and now Dow.
When you're desperate you don't have much choice, due to our woeful recruiting over a sustained period we just don't have that core group of foot soldiers to take the load off the kids.

That's because those players are playing elsewhere.......

We therefore answer our own questions in a sense by acknowledging that, due to sins of the past, we are forced into a ‘play all the youth at all costs’ strategy which is a long, long way home.