2018 Rd 4: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs North Melbourne

[Gointocarlton]

Does anyone else get the feeling that Cripps is playing "angry".

He's carrying a big weight at the moment and with both Gibbs gone and now Murphy missing he's copping all the attention.
Hardly a wonder his effectiveness is down.

I said this last week.

[Gointocarlton]

I said Kreuzer's injury was probably going to be a long term thing, he'll probably be like that for the remainder of the season, if they keep playing him.

I won't be surprised that they pull the pin on him before halfway and start setting him for 2019. The thing is if it's a iliopsoas it cannot get worse, but I doubt it will improve while he continues playing. They need him to get working on building support strength to correct the loss of core stability or he'll burn this season and most of his next!

This season is lost already, why fight it!

Agree.

[PaulP]

Hey everybody ! Why so glum ? In the not too distant future, when we become the Melbourne equivalent of the great Brisbane 3peat teams, performances like yesterday will be a long, distant memory. Just hang on my friends. Food will taste better, the air will seem fresher. You'll have more energy and self confidence than you ever dreamed of.

[cookie2]

Putting aside any discussion about game plan & tactics.....it’s our basic skills & decision-making which are the biggest red flags for me, they simply aren’t AFL standard & quite frankly, an indictment on the entire playing group....

Totally agree. Everything is built on solid skills and high awareness. There was virtually no evidence of either last night. Until that is fixed we cannot move forward.

[Gointocarlton]

Steps I would take today:
1. Summons the entire coaching and playing list to a remote location and light a big campfire;
2. Wheel in a trailer load of VB;
3. Look each other in the eye and dish out some home truths around the campfire, a no holds barred free for all;
4. Empty said trailer load of VB;
5. Start fresh with the footy stuff Tuesday.

[shawny]

We are playing injured players and when you lose the majority of our already light on top end talent, we instantly become non competitive.

We need close to a full list to really guage where we are at.

From last nights game:

Murphy missing
Docherty missing
Marchbank missing 
Lang missing
Pickett missing 
Kruezer and Kennedy both are injured and shouldn’t be playing

Pretty much have no midfield once you add losing Gibbs to that list.

Having said that our skills are woeful and bringing in the likes of mullet, O’Shea and retaining graham makes no sense to me.

Once the emotion from last night subsided a little I realized while we are still miles away in this rebuild, there are also some real reasons some beyond our control as to why we performed like we did last night.

[Gointocarlton]

Hey everybody ! Why so glum ? In the not too distant future, when we become the Melbourne equivalent of the great Brisbane 3peat teams, performances like yesterday will be a long, distant memory. Just hang on my friends. Food will taste better, the air will seem fresher. You'll have more energy and self confidence than you ever dreamed of.

Help me get through this Pauly.

[buzza]

Out coached.

NM crowded our forwards. Bolton had no counter plan.

Expect crisis meetings soon

[Baggers]

Lambs to the slaughter.

In a previous post, TOWNSENDCALLING, mentioned that we're not sliding in a couple of newbies amongst hardened senior footballers... spot on. We have a team of newbies crying out for direction/leadership where there simply isn't any, or precious little. The real danger in this is that history will repeat... newbies brought into a losing culture run the very real risk of ending up learning how to deal with failure/don't know how to win. Addressing this requires superior coaching and all round club culture to avoid having a group of 'potential' who never realise what they could achieve.

Rowe and ASOS are more important in this side than many may realise. They're both strong, hard and vocal. Sadly there's not much more than a season or two in each of them.

Murphy is not a leader and as such his loss wasn't significant, however, as a player, his loss was significant - but nowhere near an 86 pt difference.

Cripps is getting frustrated with the lack of support, but he really is growing nicely as a leader... please don't dampen that dash of mongrel he's got CFC, just direct it.

Daisy really stood up as a leader and player last night.

Jones is a one dimensional player who has been worked out by opposition clubs. Someone suggested he should be loose on the backline to play on instinct - absolutely, and it's the only way he can play.

Weitering needs a break, his head aint right, and wheeling him out each week is only setting him up for more failure and self-esteem issues .

We have plenty of blokes taking the field who fly in the face of BBs mantra of only playing blokes who have the form... clearly Garlett, Mullett, O'Shea, Weitering and even Kennedy, don't/haven't show enough to suggest they're in form or up to footy as this level... BUT the cupboard is bare in terms of replacements.

Kreuzer needs a rest, he's a shadow of last year. Marchbank and Kennedy worry me in terms of being glass men. (I watched Tomlinson and Hopper yesterday and dreamt of what could have been!).

So last night we carried into the game plenty of blokes who are in average or less form, or are deeply inexperienced (in terms of AFL footy and/or understanding our game plan), injured or just not up to it... recipe for disaster - an 86 pt disaster.

Phillips and others... please show something in today's NBs game!!!!!

[Professer E]

yea, like this afternoon at Prince's Park after the seconds get done by 150 points and we have 23 fit blokes to pick a side from for next week.