Post Game-Carlton v Collingwood

[BluePhantom]

Just too many players not up to the standard but you couldn't question the effort.
All of our good young ones did what was expected, Simpson battled away as did Jones, Kreuzer and Thomas but no team can carry as many poor players as we do and hope to win matches.
It's going to take another few years to weed them out.

The problem is though we only just got these guys after weeding out the last batch. :

[JonHenry]

I’m not sure what more people expect or want from a captain.
If that game isn’t enough I doubt not know what more he could do?

[PaulP]

It's a shame that we're still in honourable loss territory, but given what happened last week and in other games this season, I'll take it, with a slight mopping of the brow.

We were up against it even without the injuries - the Pies are a classy and smooth outfit - they're also pretty gentlemanly and don't have that ruthlessness that some other mongrels do. They did what they had to, and no more. Having said that, I reckon they would have been a little surprised at our fight and spirit.

Well done CFC.

[laj]

Yep
Charlotte's a  Modern pentathlete
Eliza's a middle distance runner
and George is a High Jumper who played some VFL
They're a pretty sporty family.....but Charlie seems a combination of the best parts of all of them

Yes, we only used 62 of our 90 rotations.

[cookie2]

A lot to like this week and Charlie will be an absolute superstar. What a warrior Simmo is, love him!

[Lods]

It's pretty obvious our games at the moment are more mental challenges.
If we come switched on we can cause concerns for most teams.

But we're at a level of ability that we cant afford to be the least bit "off"..otherwise we get "First half Freo"

That attitude is hard to maintain for a young side...but it has to be the baseline, the least that's acceptable.
That's the challenge for the rest of the season

[rocky]

Looked to me like we were playing to minimise the damage rather than win the game. How do you explain playing a 5 man forward line against this mob? Looks like Bolton is in survival mode.
Still they did have a decent crack at least. Completely knackered by Q4. Injuries curse continue to hurt us.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Looked to me like we were playing to minimise the damage rather than win the game. How do you explain playing a 5 man forward line against this mob? Looks like Bolton is in survival mode.
Still they did have a decent crack at least. Completely knackered by Q4. Injuries curse continue to hurt us.

Not sure if it was pre planned or losing Casboult made us change our plans...given our lack of strike power we obviously function better with the extra man back and prefer the game
played in a more dogged manner where we dont suffer as much on the rebound from turnovers. Doesnt make good viewing but it does as you say limit the damage and if it was pre planned I dont expect it to change for the rest of the season. Bolton has got another two years IMO, there are no coaching messiahs out there and we have to stick to the same path for a while unless we get some big name players in who can win us games which is doubtful..

[Professer E]

Stick Lukosious in that side at CHF to give something else to kick at and it might have been closer. 

Matty Wright missing again today,  can't see us deviating from this game plan until we strengthen our list dramatically.

[blue4life]

Stick Lukosious in that side at CHF to give something else to kick at and it might have been closer. 

Matty Wright missing again today,  can't see us deviating from this game plan until we strengthen our list dramatically.

Same here, and Harry McKay had another ordinary game in the VFL by all reports.
I thought that with Casboult injured in the pre match we would have played Silvagni as a more or less permanent forward but we obviously have other things planned for him, Pickett kicked 3 in the VFL and at least he's quick.