Carlton Supporters Club

You can say what you like about the coach, but I was at that game last night and all I saw were players who refused to man up, refused to run and spread, could not deliver by hand or by foot consistently and fumbled the ball like they were a bunch of Auskick kids. This talk about the players wanting to play for the coach may have been true in the 70's and 80's but these guys are professionals and as such at some stage have to be accountable for their own actions. It's called pride. I can't imagine any coach in the AFL would have got that much better a result. It surely must now be apparent to all we don't have the cattle. Our recruitment has been both deplorable and unfortunate. Each of Murphy, Gibbs and Kreuzer have been underachievers for various reasons, yet they were all rated as no 1 picks by ALL the experts so where did it go wrong? Can't help but concur with others that our development people are incompetent and need to be moved on. Let's bite the bullet and start again.

Consider the following
Short term option, drop these guys
Mitch Robinson too slow and butchers the ball.
Zach Tuohy sadly out of form.
Simon White gives us nothing.
Jeff Garlett nowhere near it without Eddie around.
Sam Rowe not up to it and he won't be around at years end so why play him?
Robert Warnock the biggest spud in AFL football. I sick of other teams laughing at us because of him and his deficiencies.
Bring in whoever is showing ANYTHING in the magoos and who can kick and is willing to give it a crack. Note : NO to Watson


Play these guys ad nauseam even is they play crappola
Troy Menzel
Dylan Buckley


David Ellard like him but what's his long term prospects? Still I'd have him ahead of Jeff at the moment so let him play and Jeff can have a rest and move over to Adelaide with Eddie at years end.
Only one slow butcher allowed at any one time in this team so Tom Bell gets the nod ahead of Robbo but seriously look at cutting him as well at years end.

These guys are going soon but need to be played with one proviso that Walker plays up forward from now on.
Jarrad Waite 31
Andrew Carrazzo 31
Kade Simpson 30
Andrew Walker 28
Michael Jamison 28

These two are probably the only 2 on our list worth anything
Lachie Henderson
Chris Yarran

We should only play one tagger in our team for the rest of the year and that is Ed Curnow at this point in time, with maybe Cachia as the fall back.

Will only ever be good ordinary players
Dale Thomas
Andrejs Everitt

Strategy is to rotate through each and every young kid on our list and see if they can cut it with a view of off-loading anyone who can't kick AND run fast at years end. I would rather lose by 100 points each and every week for the rest of the year and get another wooden spoon and die trying something new than put up with that sort of exhibition again. Let's just make sure we have better recruiting staff than we have now. Make the call now and stop the rot. No more pathetic club propaganda

Quote from: PassIt2Carrots – on April 07, 2014, 08:21:09 am

Malthouse won 3 flags in 30 years, in comparison, Bummer T 2 in 10 years, Clarkson 2 in 10 years, Pagan 2 in 8 years. Malthouse won 2 of those flags with the powerhouse WCE, juiced up and all. He's won one premiership in the last 20 years and he did a great job of nearly losing that one too. All coaches reach their use by date and we seem to be doing a good job of picking them up after that happens.

51 finals wins. Spin that.

Before any call on any coach gets made that board needs to turn the blowtorch onto themselves and start honestly appraising where they are at, because THEY are responsible for why we are this way today.

Quote from: madbluboy – on April 07, 2014, 08:25:26 am

Quote from: PassIt2Carrots – on April 07, 2014, 08:21:09 am

Malthouse won 3 flags in 30 years, in comparison, Bummer T 2 in 10 years, Clarkson 2 in 10 years, Pagan 2 in 8 years. Malthouse won 2 of those flags with the powerhouse WCE, juiced up and all. He's won one premiership in the last 20 years and he did a great job of nearly losing that one too. All coaches reach their use by date and we seem to be doing a good job of picking them up after that happens.

51 finals wins. Spin that.

80+ points. Spin that.

Seen Curnow do some good things last year , buts he's stunk it up so far this year. I wouldn't have him in my team.

LMAO. You're getting really delusional now. Lyon has proven himself at his current club, we have gone backwards.

Judging by last Friday night Freo have gone backwards.

Quote from: madbluboy – on April 07, 2014, 09:45:16 am

Judging by last Friday night Freo have gone backwards.

Maybe, but at least they have shown something this season!

They are not the first club to play badly the week after a soft win over the GC!

They showed they couldn't compete without Fyfe. If Judd played the first 3 rounds we would have definitely beat Richmond.

Quote from: LP – on April 07, 2014, 09:47:42 am

Quote from: madbluboy – on April 07, 2014, 09:45:16 am

Judging by last Friday night Freo have gone backwards.

Maybe, but at least they have shown something this season!

They are not the first club to play badly the week after a soft win over the GC!

They showed they couldn't compete without Fyfe. If Judd played the first 3 rounds we would have definitely beat Richmond.