Carlton Supporters Club

Let's be brutally honest with ourselves here ...... if we offer up the same woeful first half to the Pies like we did against the Dogs, it will well & truly be over at half-time.

They will make us pay for any lack of pressure, onfield indiscretions, skill errors & inaccurate kicking for goal.

Once they get a good lead, they pressure the opposition hard and never give them any opportunity of clawing their way back into the game.

The only way to beat them is attack, attack and then keep attacking. No lead is insurmountable in their eyes, when an opposition team tries to run the clock down or play safe, they smell the blood in the water and come at them even harder.

We have defenders coming out of our ying-yang so its time to rethink our options. Saad & Walsh to the wings all match gives us some serious running & clearance power that may be the edge we need to topple them. Whilst I never thought I'd say it but McGovern to the forwardline makes us less predictable too.

Half their players are soft and the lads need to expose them in a tough brutal brand of footy where the pressure gauge is at its peak four quarter.

Half their players are soft and the lads need to expose them in a tough brutal brand of footy where the pressure gauge is at its peak four quarter.

Nick Daicos has really got the treatment of late and surprised me with how he just picks himself up and carries on playing the game. Thought he would sook it up a bit but he seems to absorb the physical stuff well and I seem to remember his father was a bit the same.

I think they're soft and havent been exposed enough with unsocial footy.
Nick and Josh are soft recievers
Pendles, Sidebottom and Mitchell are soft
Hill, Markov, WHE, Ginnivan are all soft

But they play well as a unit and need to be disrupted.

Our lads need to be completely brutal

We are not exactly the hardest team in the comp either...not sure it's our game style to be over physical.

We were very hard for much of last year, brutal at contests. Need to return to that.

Hard at the contest for sure at our best but I wouldnt call us unsocial or nasty.

Jordan Lewis commented about us in one game last year, cant remember which one, said we added a brutal and ruthless edge to our game. He'd know as he was a kent when he played.

So much of this comes down to confidence, with confidence you hesitate less, and everything seems easier, doubt breeds delay and then you act too late.

With the exception of maybe the Adelaide game, I haven't seen (to me eye at least) any issues with effort from our guys nor with our physicality. Sure they may take it easier at certain contests where there is risk to the opponent (and hence suspension) but in general, to suggest our blokes (or any AFL player for that matter) is soft is nonsense. I have always maintained his view and always will. Its take great courage to play at the highest level and being a thug like the old days is not being harder. I agree with you 100% about confidence, that applies to all facets of the game and once you get on a positive roll (like the Pies ATM), it is hard to stop. Ill say this about the Pies also, they seem to be enjoying their footy, each others company, training, etc. You saw the players reacting to the players mum giving a pre game address, they were in hysterics. Good on them. This is way whilst the results aren't going our way right now, its imperative they stay positive and enjoy all aspects of their footy whilst working their butts off to rectify their fortunes on the field.

we are the soft team /players  can some 1 name a tough player at carlton