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

[flyboy77]

The players need to show they are proud to wear a Carlton jumper.

Or f... off.

[BluesRock]

Had very little influence on the outcome of the game. When it comes to finding excuses for poor performances our files have every known justification known to humankind and beyond!

As was reported by one of the boundary riders in the media who was at the game, he said you could see the fire in the belly in the Kangaby players, it was palpable, and as soon as they hit our blokes we 'backed away'. Dawks applied heat in the 3rd qtr and we 'backed away'... and so the story goes. That's who we are and who we have been for a long time.

Our problems are solely above the shoulders.

We fielded a team which included 14 players with 50 games or less AFL experience.

We were without Kruezer, Simmo, Newman - key players in our team

We lost Jones for half the game

We debuted Stocker and played willow. Stocker was nowhere near AFL ready and Willo had llittle or no match fitness.

Im not happy about the general lack of heart shown by the team and the loss overall, however, those points I've raised are not excuses, but fact and had a significant bearing on the result.

[LP]

Im not happy about the general lack of heart shown by the team and the loss overall, however, those points I've raised are not excuses, but fact and had a significant bearing on the result.

BluesRock, if most of our kids had taken on the Norp big bodies to show a bit of attitude, we would have been the losers!

We really needed guys like Phillips, Plowman, Marchbank and Casboult to be far more physical and intimidating, they are just too easy to play against. They have size that they fail to utilise week after week!

[Baggers]

We fielded a team which included 14 players with 50 games or less AFL experience.

We were without Kruezer, Simmo, Newman - key players in our team

We lost Jones for half the game

We debuted Stocker and played willow. Stocker was nowhere near AFL ready and Willo had llittle or no match fitness.

Im not happy about the general lack of heart shown by the team and the loss overall, however, those points I've raised are not excuses, but fact and had a significant bearing on the result.

Ticker (attitude/endeavour/guts/passion) does not know about nor care about age or experience. Look at Walsh.

If Kreuzer, Simpson and Newman are the difference between a hiding and winning... god help us.

Kangabies also lost a key defender... earlier than we did.

As for Stocker and Williamson... mates played with a poor attitude so you can't judge them at all, that kind of p1ss weak attitude goes through a side like a pandemic flu.

[LP]

Ticker (attitude/endeavour/guts/passion) does not know about nor care about age or experience. Look at Walsh.

Baggers, Walsh isn't close to the meat hammer some fans are after, and at the moment under license from the MC he is mostly unaccountable for his direct opponent. It's highly unlikely he'll be a Selwood type, or a Judd type, but maybe he's going to be our Paul Kelly!

As much as I love Cripps, I doubt Selwood would standby and let Ziebell and Cunnington intimidate and beat up on the kids like they did, Selwood doesn't give a stuff about Brownlows and being your buddy! I appreciate we must be careful, because if we start too much of that shizen we just do not have the team to back it up!

I've liked fragments of Setterfield, he has some presence around the stoppages.

I'm not going to talk about the others like Phillips and Levi, as they look like a lost cause!

[BluesRock]

Ticker (attitude/endeavour/guts/passion) does not know about nor care about age or experience. Look at Walsh.

If Kreuzer, Simpson and Newman are the difference between a hiding and winning... god help us.

I never said they are the difference. logically, their absence given our team makeup/profile/age/ has a significant impact.

Kangabies also lost a key defender... earlier than we did.

Kangaroos have a much more experienced line up overall and it was only one key player. incuding jones we had 4, so your point is moot.

As for Stocker and Williamson... mates played with a poor attitude so you can't judge them at all, that kind of p1ss weak attitude goes through a side like a pandemic flu.

Are you saying they played with a poor attitude? Maybe. but my point was neither should have been selected. Fact is the players we have out and the lack of depth we have available to cover them made it necessary to play these guys. They certainly werent in the category of like for like in regards to who we have out injured.