Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 7: Carlton vs. North Melbourne

[Professer E]

Iaj, it isn't a good look, the opposite to what he should be showing - interest and concern for a mate.  I'll be honest, it that's how he carries on around a hurt mate then ta ta Plowman, don't let the door hit your ar$e on the way out. 

Too many on our list play like it doesn't matter, they just don't care...  here comes the next cheque...

[laj]

Last 5 weeks we've played...

Swans
GC
Bulldogs
Hawthorn
North

Really could argue, if we had improved, we'd be 5-2, like Brisbane, or 4-3 against that opposition. Should be with the players we have.

We are 1-6.

Now we have a real $hit run ahead. maybe beat Essendon just because we do, lol, but not alot ahead to look forward to. Could well be 1-10 half way. That might cost someone his job.

[Raydan]

Time for Wallsy to take a training session

[laj]

Iaj, it isn't a good look, the opposite to what he should be showing - interest and concern for a mate.  I'll be honest, it that's how he carries on around a hurt mate then ta ta Plowman, don't let the door hit your ar$e on the way out. 

Too many on our list play like it doesn't matter, they just don't care...  here comes the next cheque...

We still don't know what context it was. We don't jump to conclusions until we know.

[laj]

Gibbs & Murphy have been picking and choosing when to play for 2-3 years after a decade of disappointment and that's a hard habit to break. Pick and choose at a decent side with some depth, you're dropped.

Murphy knows that he can run-by or stick an arm in the contest and there will be no repercussion at the selection table.

Gibbs learnt that.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Time for Wallsy to take a training session

Boxing gloves?...we need a Strempel session ...

[Woodstock]

I'm not sure you can take one moment in time and make something of it without context. How do we know someone didn't do one big, loud, dirty, smelly fart in the huddle. That'd get a chuckle at a funeral wake.

The Context my friend is that his colleague is lying unconscious on the ground, while 10’s of thousand of people at the ground and on national tv are watching in stunned belief and dread and he does not have have the emotional intelligence to understand something serious is happening. Hearing a fart is not a get out of jail card. I know it was only an example mate, but he’s a grown man, not a 12 year old and he is also in our Leadership group. He has to own that moment and be taken aside and told that that is not a time to laugh but a time to lead.

[Raydan]

The Context my friend is that his colleague is lying unconscious on the ground, while 10’s of thousand of people at the ground and on national tv are watching in stunned belief and dread and he does not have have the emotional intelligence to understand something serious is happening. Hearing a fart is not a get out of jail card. I know it was only an example mate, but he’s a grown man, not a 12 year old and he is also in our Leadership group. He has to own that moment and be taken aside and told that that is not a time to laugh but a time to lead.

Add to that the fact that you are getting your ar$e handed to you

[IvanAwfulbigone]

Murphy needs to retire this week.  Plenty of precedent for such an event part way through a season which is slipping away.  Has been ravaged by injuries and sickening knocks over the years from bigger players whose sole intent was to hurt him.

It's sad but it's time.  Replacing him with a youngster who admittedly may not be ready means we'll get a dozen games into some kid who'll then be ready to step up next year instead of 2021. Despite what many think, he was Captain Courageous early in his tenure. The Club won't drop him. The Club has no idea. Sorry Marc, it's the right thing to do. 

[Barbs]

We played like 22 scared players trying not to make mistakes and take zero risks today.
And it didn’t work. In fact it had the opposite effect with everyone in the wrong headspace.
Nobody showed desire or a willingness to take the game on and try beating an opponent.