Round 17 Carlton vs Hawthorn-Post Match

[Brettie]

It was chaos in the backline and a barren wasteland in the F50. Which was probably our best chance given the delivery from our mids.

There were numerous times we had our entire team well inside their half of the ground, yet they still had free blokes everywhere and well within scoring range......wtf was going on with this headless group??? What a mess.....

[Dominator_7]

Reckon some people are getting a touch overemotional and melodramatic.
The Saints were copping floggings every week last year, and people predicted they wouldn't win a game this year.
Now suddenly they re the new black.
A few weeks ago, we were winning a few games, the kids were playing well, and there was a great vibe around the Club and amongst our supporters.
Then we run into a red hot Hawks side at the peak of their powers (probably the best side since the Lions 'threepeat' side) with over 1000 games more experience then us, and then lose Menz before the game even starts to make things worse, and get predicably flogged, and people lose the plot and start saying we have to tear the place down and start again.

[thrunthrublu]

the saints list is much better than ours

[ElwoodBlues1]

There were numerous times we had our entire team well inside their half of the ground, yet they still had free blokes everywhere and well within scoring range......wtf was going on with this headless group??? What a mess.....

No leadership from players like Jamison, Rowe, Henderson etc down back...Touhy just wants to kick the running glory goal and Yarran couldnt be bothered especially when the ball is in the air and he
has to lay some body on opposing players....half of Hawthorns contested marks were stat sheet lies..there was no contest..
As you said we flooded down back yet there were giant gaps to run into for Hawthorn players....we helped by kicking it backwards, then to the side then backwards again...after about 3 kicks we usually turn it over and gift a goal...

[MosquitoFleet]

this crap will continue whilst we have this board......

[ElwoodBlues1]

Reckon some people are getting a touch overemotional and melodramatic.
The Saints were copping floggings every week last year, and people predicted they wouldn't win a game this year.
Now suddenly they re the new black.
A few weeks ago, we were winning a few games, the kids were playing well, and there was a great vibe around the Club and amongst our supporters.
Then we run into a red hot Hawks side at the peak of their powers (probably the best side since the Lions 'threepeat' side) with over 1000 games more experience then us, and then lose Menz before the game even starts to make things worse, and get predicably flogged, and people lose the plot and start saying we have to tear the place down and start again.

Probably the level of flogging is the problem this time...Hawks are good but no team should get beat by 20 -plus goals IMO...

[Dominator_7]

True, but we re not that bad, just like as you said. Hawks aren't that good.
What's clear to me though, is that its obvious that Jones and Tutt were both MM inspired mistakes, and BB is looking like another Lucas/Watson/Bootsma howler type pick at this stage

[ElwoodBlues1]

Roughead 5 tackles, Rioli 6 tackles, Sconemaker 3 tackles....Gunston 4 tackles

Henderson donuts, Casboult donuts, Jones donuts, Everitt was the hardest working forward with one tackle....

Kruezer with 4 tackles was our best on the night...newbie Brad Walsh had 3 tackles along with a couple of other players....

We dont work hard enough and dont have the appetite for the modern game plan that includes having forward pressure to create turnovers and opportunities...

[cookie2]

That has to be the worst flogging of the CFC that I have ever witnessed in 35 plus years of supporting them. I will just settle back now with a very large scotch and read the rest of this thread. 

[MosquitoFleet]

That has to be the worst flogging of the CFC that I have ever witnessed in 35 plus years of supporting them. I will just settle back now with a very large scotch and read the rest of this thread. 

Im having a scotch right now buddy...