Carlton AFLW Review - Half Gone

[northernblue]

I think that in their review they concluded that “there was confusion and lack of understanding of the gameplan”
On the face of it, that’s on the coach.
Problem was there were few old hands and too many kids so you’d sort of expect that game knowledge would be down, or you should expect that.

[Baggers]

I think that in their review they concluded that “there was confusion and lack of understanding of the gameplan”
On the face of it, that’s on the coach.
Problem was there were few old hands and too many kids so you’d sort of expect that game knowledge would be down, or you should expect that.

Yep, and as Abe often quoted from Matthew (Bible), 'No man can serve two masters.' And when both masters are particularly demanding in terms of time and commitment, you're on a hiding to nothing.

The new regime at the good ship PP, has only been at the helm for a year and change, and they inherited a cot-case on many levels. The first priority was to fix the blokes comp, now to fix the gals comp.

[Lods]

The problem is that up until now it's been a bit like trying to make a jigsaw when people keep stealing your pieces.
The task should be a bit less difficult with a full set of teams and a reduction in movement (although that may still continue for a year ot two).
A full time coach will further add to that stability.
In some respects we're at 'Year One', so give it a bit of time.

[kruddler]

The problem is that up until now it's been a bit like trying to make a jigsaw when people keep stealing your pieces.
The task should be a bit less difficult with a full set of teams and a reduction in movement (although that may still continue for a year ot two).
A full time coach will further add to that stability.
In some respects we're at 'Year One', so give it a bit of time.

Its worse than that though. The puzzle itself keeps changing!

The fact you can only contract players for MAX 2 years means you can't plan a team or build around a player or players, because 2 years later they could all be gone! We have been leaking players for a while because we were good at picking them and developing them and its come back to bite us.

[LP]

Its worse than that though. The puzzle itself keeps changing!

The fact you can only contract players for MAX 2 years means you can't plan a team or build around a player or players, because 2 years later they could all be gone! We have been leaking players for a while because we were good at picking them and developing them and its come back to bite us.

Yep, rather than being penalised for adopting AFLW late, rock spiders like the Cheats have been rewarded, coming in late and picking the eyes out of developed talent.

Our club, in partnership with the Feds and State poured money in developing Princes Park as the developing headquarters of AFLW. Then years later the Cheats who ignored AFLW cry poor and get funding to bring a new facility up to gender neutral scratch!

Of course this is added to the already more complex environment that is evident in managing AFLW lists, because many of the girls seem incapable of checking personal relationships or conflicts at the door, this will always leave them in a semi-professional state. You can't have your cake and eat it, you either get the big dollars and work with who you are told to work with, or you pick and choose and accept less.

The lesson is next time the AFL float a new project, run away, let the others do the hard work first!

[Lods]

I don't know how much noise we make about it at an official level.
Do we just sit back and take it.

We had a review.
From a quick reading of the of the findings it seems as though the club is wearing all the repsonsibility for the position and laying no blame at all on the structures and restrictions put in place by the expanding WAFL competition.

As a result of that it then became a matter of which personnel at the club wore the blame and needed to be replaced.

But we always knew that was the objective.

[Professer E]

Funny, normally early adopters are 'first in best dressed', but in the AfLW universe normal rules don't apply.  Come on late and get concessions appears to be a strategy as well.

[kruddler]

Funny, normally early adopters are 'first in best dressed', but in the AfLW universe normal rules don't apply.  Come on late and get concessions appears to be a strategy as well.

I don't know if you are commenting on the recent announcements or if your timing is just a coincidence.
In any event, the AFLW have announced that the 4 new teams that raped and pillaged everyone last year get further concessions.
You may remember we lost Prespakis and Gee to the Bombers and as compensation we got to KEEP our first round pick.
Well it appears that those same teams can steal more players from teams. This time the amount of players depends on your finishing position. Due to us coming in the lower ladder region, we can only lose 1 additional player.

The 14 remaining clubs have limits on the number of players they can lose via PSP:

Clubs that finished 1-4 post-finals (Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, North Melbourne): no more than five players
Clubs that finished 5th-8th post-finals (Collingwood, Richmond, Western Bulldogs, Geelong): no more than two players
Clubs that finished 9th-18th (Gold Coast, GWS, Fremantle, St Kilda, Carlton, West Coast); no more than one player

Nothing of note coming from our camp as yet, but Chloe Molloy has jumped ship to Sydney under these rules.

Talk of Jamie Lambert and Steph Chiocci heading to the Saints in a trade for Tarni White as well.

[Lods]

I don't know if you are commenting on the recent announcements or if your timing is just a coincidence.
In any event, the AFLW have announced that the 4 new teams that raped and pillaged everyone last year get further concessions.
You may remember we lost Prespakis and Gee to the Bombers and as compensation we got to KEEP our first round pick.
Well it appears that those same teams can steal more players from teams. This time the amount of players depends on your finishing position. Due to us coming in the lower ladder region, we can only lose 1 additional player.
Nothing of note coming from our camp as yet, but Chloe Molloy has jumped ship to Sydney under these rules.

Talk of Jamie Lambert and Steph Chiocci heading to the Saints in a trade for Tarni White as well.

Steph should come to Carlton...or at least to the forum

[kruddler]

Steph should come to Carlton...or at least to the forum

......again