AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

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AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

May 03, 2025, 09:57:57 am

Ready for this evening, I hope. Don't know If I'll be.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #1 – May 03, 2025, 07:01:08 pm

De Koning, Hewett and Cripps did okay. But really, it was just a bad team performance all round. No doubt the Crows are up and about this season, and they do have a good list, but I was hoping for better than that.

Wipe it and on to next week. Should be interesting with Bolts there and De Koning perhaps getting acquainted with his new team mates.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #2 – May 03, 2025, 07:10:18 pm

Quote from: PaulP – on May 03, 2025, 07:01:08 pm

De Koning, Hewett and Cripps did okay.

I thought he got soundly defeated by O'Brien, we've been down this track before, once, twice and another few foolish times.

Playing against the ultra-strong types was and is TDk's kryptonite, further the 2025 ruck rules don't help him because these opponents basically strong arm him out of being effective and it kills his confidence. When O'Brien starts streaming forward as part of the disposal chain you know your ruck is cooked!

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #3 – May 03, 2025, 07:13:31 pm

What a pack of frauds this club is.

Beaten one decent team in 11 months and they were coming off a 5 day break.

Season is done and so is this rebuild. Time to do some massive trades end of year. TDK is out the door and the replacement is absolutely nothing on him so going backwards there.

Take off your blue glasses all those giving us the injured excuses week after week after week. Fact is this list is not getting it done and the worlds longest rebuild is officially a fail.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #4 – May 03, 2025, 07:14:18 pm

What a terrible game we just played.

Not sure who could hold their head up besides Weiters, Saad, George, Cripps - I thought tried to do too Much when he got it and made some stupid decisions.

MCG just does my head in. Just costly errors with absolutely no pressure - just knocks the stuffing out of you.

Thought TDK had a crap game tbh, our midfield was smashed.

How quick Dwayne forgets Tex is a racist prick. The absolute fawning of that bloke makes me
Want to puke.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #5 – May 03, 2025, 07:23:18 pm

I'd love to say, "Well everyone has a bad game from time to time..." But, it was the manner in which we were disassembled so easily. We could have copped losing by a few goals, but we were exposed. 10gls, which could have easily been much more: 15 shots on goal, to 30!

7 rounds is a good sample size. We've got 3 wins... 2 against poor sides and 1 against the Pussycats who we seem to match up on well. 5 losses.

Discipline, leadership and toughness above the shoulders went out the door today. Same old story: too much left to too few.

We're a bottom six side at present, the ladder doesn't lie.

What really worries me is that, and it's been the same for some time now, when the game isn't going our way, and the scoreboard is against us... we revert to type, just a bunch of talented individuals (top 12 or so) playing like just that, individuals. Cohesion vanishes. Skills sink. We can beat up on poor sides, and sides in poor form or having a bad day.

We're another Freo and Port. We've got plenty in common with those two... plenty of talent, sporadically demonstrated, and maybe some downhill skier as well. Not the end of the world, but certainly the end of any top 4 (or 6 even) aspirations.

The only consistent thing today was that we put in 4 ordinary to poor quarters. Well, now to go watch Vossy's blue skies and fairy floss media conference. No doubt there'll be the minimizing of issues chucked in for good measure.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #6 – May 03, 2025, 07:31:30 pm

Putrid. We are consistently inconsistent. 30 years of terrible recruiting and development sees us in the predicament we're in. Just a sort of halfway there side with the odd surprise win against good opposition. Then you have today with the same old culprits playing to their worst (see McGovern). We play poor old Doc and there can be no argument that his time is over.
My only hope is that Graham Wright can weave his magic before our dual brownlow medallist, two Coleman medallists and gun ruck man are out of the picture.
Stkillya next week and we've been their bitches for as long as I can remember.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #7 – May 03, 2025, 07:33:59 pm

Hearing ya Rocky.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #8 – May 03, 2025, 07:37:33 pm

Nothing good can come from that 10 goal flogging, just get on the plane, go home and start again on Monday.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #9 – May 03, 2025, 08:04:58 pm

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on May 03, 2025, 07:37:33 pm

Nothing good can come from that 10 goal flogging, just get on the plane, go home and start again on Monday.

And thats what they will do. Forget the result and hope for a better result next week.

Exactly the attitude of bottom tier teams.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #10 – May 03, 2025, 08:09:44 pm

As has already been mentioned.
We're mediocre at best. Despite squandering bags of money, supporter investment, and high draft picks.

I'm feeling a bit like a broken record here. We're mentally weak and possibly a little full of ourselves. Our goalkicking is sh&t, cohesion fragile, and lack G & D and any semblance of consistency. Despite all the changes we've made over the past 20 odd years.

It's R8. I've still seen nothing to suggest anything is cooking in 2025. Worst still, we're a consistent lowly VFL side half packed with non-AFL ALF listed players.

I don't bag clubs like Freo and StK. Mainly because deep down I know we're no better. We just hold that illusion or perhaps its a delusion 😵‍💫 Or a burnt on beautiful memory of the old days.

What I am confident of is that supporters will stop supporting if this trend isn't arrested.

Although bereft of hope right now, I can only dream that things will turn. Over to you CFC. Pull something out of somewhere to help us out here.

Go Blues

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #11 – May 03, 2025, 08:14:21 pm

Always think we will lose this fixture.
Just glad its done and dusted but must win next five.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #12 – May 03, 2025, 08:43:57 pm

Quote from: shawny – on May 03, 2025, 08:04:58 pm

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on May 03, 2025, 07:37:33 pm
Nothing good can come from that 10 goal flogging, just get on the plane, go home and start again on Monday.

And thats what they will do. Forget the result and hope for a better result next week.

Exactly the attitude of bottom tier teams.

Im certain they will review it hard on Monday where many will find it uncomfotable and then move on. Thats what top tier teams do.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #13 – May 03, 2025, 08:59:17 pm

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on May 03, 2025, 08:43:57 pm

Im certain they will review it hard on Monday where many will find it uncomfotable and then move on. Thats what top tier teams do.

Yes, Voss gave it up in his presser. The review will be very short : beaten up around the ball, and then could not contain them once they got on the outside.

Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

Reply #14 – May 03, 2025, 09:09:30 pm

Unfortunately if we don't win the clearances we don't win.