Carlton Supporters Club

No, we gave away our first rounder for this year, remember guys.  Our brilliant "list strategy"....
Give away two valuable and effective players.
Recruit crap trucks to replace them.
No viable tall defensive options other than Weeter.  No pacey defenders.
Refuse to develop a second ruck option
Refuse to develop buy or steal a small forward, certainly one with pace
Keep drafting clueless slow players who can't kick and keep playing them.
Horrible unbalanced list.

Seen enough, Austin and Agresta have to be under the pump.

Quote from: tex – on March 14, 2025, 07:45:09 am

Tell ya what pick 7 to Geelong for SDK and bagging TDK for $1m a season seems pretty good deal right now looking at McG and effin Haynes JFC

We might have pick 1 to play with...

Quote from: tex – on March 14, 2025, 07:45:09 am

Tell ya what pick 7 to Geelong for SDK and bagging TDK for $1m a season seems pretty good deal right now looking at McG and effin Haynes JFC

We might have pick 1 to play with...

Haynes - will be (one of) the whipping boys this week I'm sure and I was as disappointed as much as anyone. He seemed to fumble and drop marks - generally looked like he was lacking touch.
On the upside he did get to many contests and moved well enough. I'm hoping it was a blip on the radar and he will be better for the run. I wouldn't be writing him off yet. Walsh was far from his best - add to that list Kemp, McGovern - all players we know can play. No need to throw out the baby with the bath water.

Now every opposition coach knows (we've known it for ages), this group is mentally soft.

Forget singling out individuals, their poor or average efforts are but symptoms of us being mentally soft. When a few drop their heads it sweeps through the side like a virus - poor leadership, discipline and resilience... and fight. We don't fight, we'd rather finesse.

Remember the GWS game last year when we established a big lead then we started drinking our bath water and then were easily overrun... and have seldom looked any good/threatening since.

When you consider the circumstance (opening round), the young, inexperienced opposition... we capitulated. We actually looked frightened and desperate. When the pressure comes we resort to type - an ordinary football team.

Same old, same old... apply serious pressure and we go to water and panic.

Vossy uses the word 'disappointed' a lot, I'd replace that word with pathetic. Just a disjointed, poorly skilled rabble who cannot handle the real tough stuff of AFL footy at the highest level. Our brand was embarrassed last night, even humiliated.

Completely dominated the game without winning it.
I am not sure what to say after sleeping on it.
Richmond kept turning over the ball as well but we couldn't score from it.

All I can take from it - Richmonds defence is still elite

Flags are won from defence and need to get that right next week.

If we kicked straight, we would be having a different conversation, but we didn't.

If we brought the ball into our forward line better then...
Why the Fu%*ing fu#$ do we keep bombing it??
We've been doing it year on year out to suggest IT DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!!
IT DOES NOT WORK

Clear out the forward line of all our specialist small forwards and leave the big fellas room to lead to.
Everyman and his dog is inside the 50 wanting to kick a goal.
Let them lead and honour the leads.
Play team footy and the team will win.

Get Eddie Betts to mentor Motlop because the only thing he knows what to do at the moment is run onto the ground through the banner. Otherwise clueless!!!

How to stop other teams momentums??
Leaders lead and Coaches coach.
Our Leaders NEED to be more vocal or demanding of players and our Coaches, well, I would like them to be ALOT more tactical.
Not the end of the world but it certainly felt like it.

Pedal to the metal for a quarter and a bit only to fade away - familiar story for the last few seasons.