2018 Rd 2: Post Game Prattle: Carlton vs Gold Coast

[flyboy77]

rubbish, it's not the players, it's what doesn't go in between the ears - collectively.

Today - collectively - we were so far off the required standard it wasn't funny.

Q1 especially.

WHY?

[jeza]

That was an epic cluster fck of a game.

Whoever was in charge of team selection wants to be let go immediately.

Half the team was played out of position, no ruck and the INs were awful.

Polson - way off AFL level. Cunningham had a shocker.

O'Shea wasn't great.

Gave that game up.

[laj]

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt today because they've shown to be alot better but they best be lifting next week and the week after that etc, to make this effort an aberration.

[townsendcalling]

It's an interesting point. The players from today around the 80-150 game mark :

Wright 139
Curnow 123
Jones 96
Cas 95
Mullet 86
O’Shea 81

Apart from Wright, the rest of those are simply ordinary footballers. And that for me is the far bigger problem.

Ed Curnow earns his spot. 

[PaulP]

Ed Curnow earns his spot.

He may well, and I know he gives 100% effort, but IMO he's just an average footballer.

[laj]

He may well, and I know he gives 100% effort, but IMO he's just an average footballer.

He's a bit better than average.

[flyboy77]

Jones too....we just coughed the ball up repeatedly.

O'Shea - was he playing forward?

Why Kerridge isn't getting a game before Dow, Polson or Cuners staggers me. Terrifies me in fact.

We went into the game with no ruck and 3 players down.

BB - honeymoon is over, you score 1 out of 10 t oday....

[ElwoodBlues1]

That’s what I saw today.  Our lack of depth is really exposed when we cop an injury and/or one of our better players has a quiet day.

Appreciate we lost Kreuzer, Kennedy but our skills and decision making were terrible on and off the ground....players skills were shocking and the coaches tactics /selectors were terrible.
Going in one tall short after losing Kreuzer was a diabolical error...Poulsen was ordinary in the VFL practice game and should not have played.
Bolton's tactics baffle me and he seem devoid of tactical nous when in the heat of battle...Lynch kicking 8 is a blight on the coaching dept not Jones IMO, I was at the game and
the GC forward line was open all the time and gave Jones no hope given the amount of supply.
We looked leaderless and lost today on and off the field...

[flyboy77]

fair summary EB.

Bolts better start sucking up some of his own learning as today was the effort of a bottom 2 side.

[cookie2]

Appreciate we lost Kreuzer, Kennedy but our skills and decision making were terrible on and off the ground....players skills were shocking and the coaches tactics /selectors were terrible.
Going in one tall short after losing Kreuzer was a diabolical error...Poulsen was ordinary in the VFL practice game and should not have played.
Bolton's tactics baffle me and he seem devoid of tactical nous when in the heat of battle...Lynch kicking 8 is a blight on the coaching dept not Jones IMO, I was at the game and
the GC forward line was open all the time and gave Jones no hope given the amount of supply.
We looked leaderless and lost today on and off the field...

Also, they were all over us when we got into our F50 and choked us off time and time again. They seemed to get back so quickly as soon as we got possession.