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Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - flyboy77 - 05-20-2019
(05-20-2019, 03:01 AM)LP link Wrote:O'Brien spent most of the game on a flank, so if you bring Kennedy in for O'Brien how do you re-shuffle?
You're not giving the problem full consideration.
Given Ed was already a slower flanker, how many more slow flankers can we carry? Would you prefer we move someone with pace to a flank like Fisher, who also happens to be our 2nd best inside ball winner at the moment!
I accept you want Kennedy in, but the re-shuffle is not trivial given we are already top heavy with five relatively slow talls playing, in and around a relatively slow midfield which has Kreuzer and Cripps?
Don't just tell us what you want, tell us how you will make it work?
Well indeed, heard of a word called rotation LP?
Winning the ball - you know, getting your hands on it is far more important than whether you run the 20m in 2.9 or 3.2 seconds (I note Kennedy did it in 3.13 at the Combine back when - you call that slow! :
)lob seldom touches the ball nor even gets close to the ball 98% of the game....yet gets picked!
Balance you say? Kennedy plays inside and outside. LOB does neither presently.
Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - flyboy77 - 05-20-2019
(05-20-2019, 05:27 AM)WASurfer link Wrote:Sounding like a broken record but if we don't get decent support in their for Cripps he'll be a busted up player within 3 years from carrying our club and I won't begrudge him wanting to come home and play for someone like the Eagles who are in flag contention. We recruited Kennedy to play that role and he can't get a game ahead of blokes like O'Brien. Said it last year, O'Brien is not up to it and another high draft pick blown.
Charlie Curnow must've read all the hype because at the moment he's not worth having out there, albeit the ball didn't obviously get down there much yesterday. Thankfully I basked in the glow of the election victory and didn't want to dampen that mood by watching us get blown away yesterday which was a dead certainty. Give Curnow a run in the twos and give Kerr a crack at it....if Kerr's not up to it then get rid of him rather than clog up the list
4 years into a rebuild and we sit on the bottom of the ladder...again! It's looking highly likely we've blown the number 1 draft pick next year as well. Agree on the earlier comments about Goddard. Why get him into the club and then when your full-back goes down, don't even pick him despite being BOG in the twos a couple of weeks back and they have 3 big forwards!
We have far too many blokes that are injured all the time.....guys like Kennedy, Marchbank, Cunningham, Kreuzer, Phillips.
The mantra was 4 years of drafting kids and then load up with trades and free agents. Who in their right mind would want to come and play with Carlton as a Free Agent unless their sole reason was $$$ before retirement. It irks me to see someone like Mitch Robinson playing superb footy for Brisbane and using his body as a battering ram at every contest and we just don't have anyone remotely close to being able to play that role.
The club is on it's knees and simply can't continue on like this. It might've been offensive from Eddie but someone should be making a call to Clarkson's manager and just asking the question.
Would be interested to know why Cuners didn't play?
Kennedy is fit, O'Brien is BB's present love child seemingly.
Again, we were putrid because the midfield went totally, abjectly missing....can't blame the back line.
Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - Gointocarlton - 05-20-2019
I don't know but was it just me or did anyone else think Bolts looked pale and like he was staring death in the face during his presser? He looked defeated for the first time. As for Lloyd on SEN this morning, he just sounded shocked.
Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - WASurfer - 05-20-2019
Dale Thomas sent straight to the tribunal for abusing an umpire....but apparently it's all okay to crunch a bloke in the ribs with your knees?
Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - PaulP - 05-20-2019
(05-20-2019, 07:12 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:I don't know but was it just me or did anyone else think Bolts looked pale and like he was staring death in the face during his presser? He looked defeated for the first time. As for Lloyd on SEN this morning, he just sounded shocked.
Yes, agree. He looks resigned to a fairly grim end, courtesy of the Carlton Coach Killer Vortex™, which will claim its next victim pretty soon.
Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - PaulP - 05-20-2019
(05-20-2019, 07:15 AM)WASurfer link Wrote:Dale Thomas sent straight to the tribunal for abusing an umpire....but apparently it's all okay to crunch a bloke in the ribs with your knees?
One reason why our players play the way they do. Look at an opposition player, and it's straight to the tribunal.
Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - LP - 05-20-2019
(05-20-2019, 07:12 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:I don't know but was it just me or did anyone else think Bolts looked pale and like he was staring death in the face during his presser? He looked defeated for the first time.
I thought he was similar after the Norp game, but why wouldn't you, did you see Barker at 1/2-time, he was moping sweat off his forehead?
In this regard I suspect Walls has also been an epic fail, another bad decision in my opinion! The coaches need somebody to keep them up and focused as well, it's not Walls style, he an old world fire and brimstone type who is more likely to hang sh1t than offer assistance!
Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - shawny - 05-20-2019
(05-20-2019, 07:18 AM)PaulP link Wrote:One reason why our players play the way they do. Look at an opposition player, and it's straight to the tribunal.
AFL as an organisation is now officially a f**king joke. A guy climbs a post and get nothing even though its a rule, then Mumford absolutely cannons into Murphy who was playing the ball, ends up in agony, goes off to hospital by ambulance with broken ribs, and will be out of the game for at least a month. And yep all good nothing to see here. What a joke!
Cripps literally taps a player with the softest jumper punch ever, nothing in it at all and comes away with a fine.
Then Thomas calls the boundary umpire a cheat and BANG off to the tribunal......with media saying he has to get a 3 weeks plus for it. On sen a caller said he should get 6!
What the F""" is going on >
> >Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - flyboy77 - 05-20-2019
(05-20-2019, 08:15 AM)shawny link Wrote:AFL as an organisation is now officially a f**king joke. A guy climbs a post and get nothing even though its a rule, then Mumford absolutely cannons into Murphy who was playing the ball, ends up in agony, goes off to hospital by ambulance with broken ribs, and will be out of the game for at least a month. And yep all good nothing to see here. What a joke!
Cripps literally taps a player with the softest jumper punch ever, nothing in it at all and comes away with a fine.
Then Thomas calls the boundary umpire a cheat and BANG off to the tribunal......with media saying he has to get a 3 weeks plus for it. On sen a caller said he should get 6!
What the F""" is going on >
It's time MLG and others make some serious noise!!!
Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 9: Carlton vs. GWS - PaulP - 05-20-2019
(05-20-2019, 08:15 AM)shawny link Wrote:AFL as an organisation is now officially a f**king joke. A guy climbs a post and get nothing even though its a rule, then Mumford absolutely cannons into Murphy who was playing the ball, ends up in agony, goes off to hospital by ambulance with broken ribs, and will be out of the game for at least a month. And yep all good nothing to see here. What a joke!
Cripps literally taps a player with the softest jumper punch ever, nothing in it at all and comes away with a fine.
Then Thomas calls the boundary umpire a cheat and BANG off to the tribunal......with media saying he has to get a 3 weeks plus for it. On sen a caller said he should get 6!
What the F""" is going on >
As I said earlier, I never gave it a second thought, but some of the goings on at HQ level, at MRO level, at umpire level, seem very suss.