2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane

[Jack Burton]

Fisrt round draft picks just simply means they were good at junior football. Head to head our little kids would get brushed aside by the more experienced, bigger bodied saints players, at this stage. If we can keep our kids together, in 2 or 3 years is a different story

[cookie2]

Fisrt round draft picks just simply means they were good at junior football. Head to head our little kids would get brushed aside by the more experienced, bigger bodied saints players, at this stage. If we can keep our kids together, in 2 or 3 years is a different story

But what kind of environment can we create for them to develop in. ATM their confidence is being systematically taken apart imo.

[blue4life]

But what kind of environment can we create for them to develop in. ATM their confidence is being systematically taken apart imo.

The team which just pulled our pants down was a basket case in the  1990's, then they merged with an even bigger basket case.
It took time but the kids matured, gained confidence and formed themselves into one of the most dominant outfits that the game has ever seen.

[Professer E]

Brisbane in the late nineties drafted en mass a swag  of gun kids,  who developed together.  Lappin, Voss, Chris Scott,  Aker, Black, Power,  Bradshaw, Headland, etc...plus Lynch,  Johnson,  Molloy and Brown via the Fitzroy connection.  Astute pick ups e. G.  Pike, White.  All very strongly self motivated, driven types.  Potential  plus effort = success.

[cookie2]

Brisbane in the late nineties drafted en mass a swag  of gun kids,  who developed together.  Lappin, Voss, Chris Scott,  Aker, Black, Power,  Bradshaw, Headland, etc...plus Lynch,  Johnson,  Molloy and Brown via the Fitzroy connection.  Astute pick ups e. G.  Pike, White.  All very strongly self motivated, driven types.  Potential  plus effort = success.

Drool!

[blue4life]

Brisbane in the late nineties drafted en mass a swag  of gun kids,  who developed together.  Lappin, Voss, Chris Scott,  Aker, Black, Power,  Bradshaw, Headland, etc...plus Lynch,  Johnson,  Molloy and Brown via the Fitzroy connection.  Astute pick ups e. G.  Pike, White.  All very strongly self motivated, driven types.  Potential  plus effort = success.

Mal Michael was a very good pick up as well.
Lynch was at Brisbane a few years before Fitzroy folded, Johnson was a gun but the only one of the four Fitzroy players which Brisbane were allowed to take to make a lasting impact, Molloy played his best football after moving to Collingwood and didn't play in any of the Brisbane Premiership teams.
By and large their success was built on the draft.

[malo]

Brisbane in the late nineties drafted en mass a swag  of gun kids,  who developed together.  Lappin, Voss, Chris Scott,  Aker, Black, Power,  Bradshaw, Headland, etc...plus Lynch,  Johnson,  Molloy and Brown via the Fitzroy connection.  Astute pick ups e. G.  Pike, White.  All very strongly self motivated, driven types.  Potential  plus effort = success.

And Matthews was probably the last of the successful old school type of coaches.....by that I mean, you bloody well did it his way & measured up or you buggered off.  Can you imagine any of this "oh he's lost the players" cr@p going around with a bloke like him at the helm.

Nope.  Even Aker knew his role & was allowed some degree of licence to do it, but still within the coaches boundaries........very much like the relationship Crosswell had under Barassi.  Two more opposite personalities you couldn't find....but it just worked.  Had to have a pretty accountable team around them both though.

[blue4life]

Matthews also got the best out of Pyke after three clubs decided that he was too much trouble.

[31Tommys_barber]

Disappointed murphy said in a interview on Monday he would talk to the playing group as they know effort wasn't good enough blah blah blah.  maybe he should of done that going off at half time  and put a fierce rocket up the group. Couldn't see blokes like hodge brown Selwood etc waiting till Monday to do it. Everyone is too nice and understanding to our group we need some grunt or as they have in ice hockey a goon a protector to make youngsters walk taller not touching hands at each stoppage when no effort was given I hate him but this why Melbourne went after Lewis why lions got hodge crows are better with walker we need tough every tackle blokes, could have done with bonehead Robinson on our side not against us. We need to take respect back the hard way let the opposition know they will come off sore and have earned a win. We are young with some skill but need a big brother or two. Brisbane in the Matthews era had some absolute gun players but they also had some nasty pricks Hawks had hodge and Lewis

[LP]

Matthews also got the best out of Pyke after three clubs decided that he was too much trouble.

Pyke and White were not bad footballers though, I frown at Carlton fans talking down Robinson as a footballer because of some off-field misdemeanors that were over-played by the media. He is and was a good footballer, and someone we dearly miss around the contest. There is no universal rule that a goose cannot be a good footballer, and MM was a hypocrite to condemn Robinson while excusing Alan "The Pistol" Didak and Heath "The Driver" Shaw!

Should the level of on-field exploit be of any relevance in determining such an outcome? Isn't that a Trumpism if we accept that is the case, one rule applied differently for some!

I'm not sure being stared down by Leigh Matthews is the same as being stared down by Brendan Bolton, but then few if any would be the equal of Leigh Matthews! Matthews has the eye of a White-Pointer as is cruises past ever so unnervingly! ;D