Carlton Supporters Club

I just saw and read a few more of these "drive bys".
It's like they're parroting what we're saying.
These buggers are stealing 'our' material.

Quote from: laj – on May 26, 2025, 03:40:04 pm

Attitude changed instantly after the pow wow at Ed's place. Then we won 10 in a row. Those finals wins were good ones as we were nearly cooked by then. That was our one chance to get a premiership if we didn't play in such poor, often lazy fashion the first half of 2023. The side is similar, structure definitely needs work though for the next step but attitude is everything, and that's the worst part. Without that, nothing else matters. May as well shuffle the deck chair on the Titanic. 2023 it changed overnight and changed the fortunes.

You know after thinking about what I watched on Sat and watching Terry's (Blue Abroad) review, something didn't look right with the players. The attitude doesnt seem quite there and I wonder what's the cause? Is the TDK move and potential senior player move causing angst? Is the E Hollands situation worse than what we know? Ollie in particular looked flat as a tack from when he ran out.
Dunno, could be me just jumping to conclusions based purely on what I perceive (think I see) with no inside knowledge whatsoever.

I'm thinking of getting off this train and waiting for the next one.
It should be along about the end of the year

I’m struggling with maintaining interest at the moment, finding it hard to watch the footy at all in fact.

Quote from: pertz – on May 26, 2025, 02:54:42 pm

I wouldn't be trading McKay.  He is a very important player.

Im all for trading Harry, I think two tall key forwards isnt the go in modern footy and we need a class small forward and a class half back more. The times we have played with one key forward and an inbetween tall like Kemp in the other KP we have looked a bit slicker and more modern in our playing style.
If TDK goes and either Harry or Sam Walsh are traded we might be able to reset quickly with the draft capital, Graeme Wright presided over the Grundy/Treloar trades and the Pies had a flag in 12 months time.
Id want Wright in charge of any of these bigger trades both outgoing and incoming, time to roll the dice imho.

I think H is impoetsnt to us, he can be used around the ground and always takes amazing clutch marks............

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on May 26, 2025, 03:53:07 pm

You know after thinking about what I watched on Sat and watching Terry's (Blue Abroad) review, something didn't look right with the players. The attitude doesnt seem quite there and I wonder what's the cause? Is the TDK move and potential senior player move causing angst? Is the E Hollands situation worse than what we know? Ollie in particular looked flat as a tack from when he ran out.
Dunno, could be me just jumping to conclusions based purely on what I perceive (think I see) with no inside knowledge whatsoever.

Rumour I heard after the weekend was EH issue was relationship issues involving someone else’s partner from the club. This came from someone that’s around the club a lot but who knows.  People say all sorts of stuff.

To me there doesn’t seem to be great camaraderie and why that is, only they know. I don’t sense they play for each other at all tho and yes they’re professional sportsmen and winning is the goal and they should be able to pocket any drama and just win. Winning does bring people together and I’m sure losing does the opposite.

Don’t know the answer but wouldn’t want to be Voss Lloyd or Austin at the moment as they will be feeling the pressure.

Quote from: laj – on May 26, 2025, 08:46:19 pm

Looks like AFL 360 called us "The Lygon Street Butchers".

Talks about poor entry inside F50....showed 1 example of a miskick as proof we can't kick.

2 second analysis based on numbers, not game plan.
Someone is always going to be 18th. Doesn't mean they can't kick.

I’m struggling with maintaining interest at the moment, finding it hard to watch the footy at all in fact.

Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on May 26, 2025, 03:07:57 pm

Im all for trading Harry, I think two tall key forwards isnt the go in modern footy and we need a class small forward and a class half back more. The times we have played with one key forward and an inbetween tall like Kemp in the other KP we have looked a bit slicker and more modern in our playing style.
If TDK goes and either Harry or Sam Walsh are traded we might be able to reset quickly with the draft capital, Graeme Wright presided over the Grundy/Treloar trades and the Pies had a flag in 12 months time.
Id want Wright in charge of any of these bigger trades both outgoing and incoming, time to roll the dice imho.

Im 150% with you EB. We need to be all chips in for this years trade period and if we think a few little tweaks here and there will be enough we are more delusional then i thought.

Apart from Weitering and Cripps i think any of our other so called A graders should be possible names thrown up during the trade period providing of course if we can get 'proven quality' in the areas we need coming back the other way.

Without this this list wont go deep into finals and with our top end talent going past their prime we will have to concede the rebuild has failed.