(07-31-2020, 10:48 PM)laj link Wrote:We are developing. You'll get these results sometimes at our stage, and it's worse now because more is expected. It's not happening overnight. That away the frustrations and you'll see overall it's alot better. We've combined brilliance with crap this year, as up and coming sides do. What side loses to Melbourne the wins at Geelong, the toughest of all grounds, the next. One week efficiency and ball use off the charts, as Bevo described it, and in the wet, other weeks not AFL standard. That's unfortunately what happens when developing. You dont have that consistency. Often we do it in the same game, costing us about 6 places on the ladder.

Live ladder looked good during the 2nd qtr showing us 6th. Looks crap now it's showing 12th.

(08-01-2020, 04:31 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:Cripps problem is he's thinking he has to do it all.

(08-01-2020, 04:22 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Jim, Probably more the way we lost, shades of the BB era, really dumb footy, soft weak contesting/tackling, too many cameo artists not enough main performers, Cripps looking like he has to do everything and collapsing under the load.
Lets hope its a one off....the thing we all like about DT's work is his ability to generate some fight and to keep on punching even if we lose, thats probably what has scared folks, having to revisit the past...

(08-01-2020, 04:36 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:EB what do the "weak" efforts have to do with the coach? I doubt any coach would ask his players to go play bruise free.

(08-01-2020, 01:29 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Yes, I can see where you're coming from. mbb said he now looks like a B-grader, and he's probably right. One has to wonder what the problem is. Arguably the highest paid bloke at the club, co captain, most marketable player, seems to get his way on important issues (i.e Martin in, Bolton out). I'd like to make my next comment without starting yet another furore, but I've wondered for a while whether he is really captain / leader material. There's a part of me that really worries about whether he is more like Kouta/Whitnall etc. and less like Hodge. Just sayin'. 

(08-01-2020, 01:29 AM)PaulP date Wrote:seems to get his way on important issues (i.e Martin in, Bolton out).

(08-01-2020, 04:50 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:GTC..I'm just saying its unusual for a DT team to fold up meekly and I agree its down to the players and am not blaming the coach.
Probably have to look at the leadership on the ground too... Cripps and Docherty have had their own battles of late but not much insperation from other senior players IMO...