Carlton Supporters Club

You know you've had a bad day when a spud like Melsham kicks five.......

Nothing to say here, this is what a complete rebuild looks like at the beginning of the third year, farking ugly!!

Patience my brethren, watching the Bears make the Dawks look second rate for me confirms we are on the right track, confident to predict Brisbane V Blues finals in about three years. I am in no way delusional, this stripping back of the previous incarnation had to happen if we were to create something sustainable and not some fly by night band aid that we used to revel in to sell us a poxy vision that we were at least competitive. I like what I am seeing with the youth, blokes like Kerridge, O'Shae, and Graham are only out there to make up the numbers, they will be replaced by the likes of Dochety, Byrne, Curnow (C+E), Williamson, Cunningham etc.

In the words of Yazz (the singer not Yarran!) "The only way is up...."

That's always been my concern.
Had we not cut so deep and done it gradually would we be better placed.
Time will tell.

Baggers, me and my missus call that the "usual bet", she never pays.......

I thought it was persecuting me!!!! I also can't quote or use the emoji's....

I was going to quote "The Clash: Train in Vain", great song but slightly negative perspective.....

Does this mean we are on Mission Impossible? I.e. you can't do a ground up rebuild in a live AFL environment? 

Ground up rebuild is harder....you need to be rebuilding, reinventing while you are still a good team and have good senior players to look after and help your newbies.

Stkilda did a ground up with Pelchen and its failed.....same problem as us, not enough mid range/ elite depth to support their newbies, they also went a lot of small bodies too and tried
to top up with fringe GWS players ie Bruce, Steele and other fringe types like Roberton, Weller, Savage, Kobie Stevens etc...hasnt worked..

Actually Principal LODS, I think it is simply that last week we really didn't have an opponent and this week we did, and when the pressure came we folded badly, very badly. This is a theme with us, when genuine heat comes from an opponent, we fold.

I won a dubious bet with Mrs Baggers... she bet at loss by under 34 pts. I bet a loss by 10+ goals, just knew it in my bones that an in-form side would tear us up. Oh, what was the bet? Let's just say I don't feel as bad now...

I really believe that even with the Curnows we would have still suffered a heavy loss, not 100+ pts, but probably still around 10 gls.

Unfortunately I really don't think we know much about where we really are at present. I said a few weeks back that I suspect after the bye, when we have most players available, we should do better, and win a few games - if not, then I wouldn't want to be BB at year's end.

By the bye, or just after, we should have (by year's end, anyway), Williamson, Pickett, SOS - CUZ, Marchbank and Byrne. And we'll know more about the SOJ experiment as a mid/fwd, whether Weitering has regained consistent touch, Polson as a run-with, whether Cuningham can actually put more than 2 qtrs together, whether Kennedy is injured or another GWS dud.

Bottom line is that we need two gun, mature aged, BIG BODIED midfielders at this year's draft...no more little bodies FFS.  Murphy, ZF and SPS should be outside mids, not inside... just to fkn small.

If not for Cripps, god knows how many huge losses we would have had.

Murphy's

EB, do you think the players or Richardson is the bigger problem ? He doesn't inspire much confidence in me tbh.