Carlton Supporters Club

Quote from: kruddler – on Today at 07:29:00 pm

I was going to say the same thing as EB.

I think EBs point is that the judgement before a ball was kicked in anger was premature expectations.

After 3 games last year our % was 83.3%
After 3 games this year our % is 72.9%......and we were luckily enough to hold on and win one of them.

Based on form.....i'm taking last year.

I know its hard to compare, but youre putting words in people's mouths again. Your contention was we'd go backwards where most were saying we wont miss Charlie.  Thing is, are we missing Charlie?  How about tdk?  Or jsos?

Thing is this is what the discussion was.

Not whether or not we'd magically improve.  How far back do we slide?  Id wager with Charlie in, we might have done a bit better, but tdk was going anyway, and jsos is a hard one to quantify as he only averaged 12 games a season.  What if he had missed these ones? 

The Melbourne loss might not be as bad as we think, theyve at least got the bones of a premiership side there and some bonafide stars. We have a vanilla team, and we play vanilla footy.