Rd 1 Carlton vs Richmond Post Game Prognostications

[blue4life]

On the bright side, Collingwood's on the bottom, although Freo might give them a run.

[laj]

On the bright side, Collingwood's on the bottom, although Freo might give them a run.

Collingwood and Essendon are the bottom two. It looks very nice! ;D

[ElwoodBlues1]

Maybe Kerridge is having to do a lot more work in his role for us than he did at the Crows where game style is probably different and there were more mature options also available?

Dangerman, Thompson and Sloane is a fair lineup of ballwinning ability to be playing behind.....Thompson just doesnt stop getting the ball and absorbs punishment better than most..Kerridge looked knackered with the workload...the fresher Lambert and Townsend in particular hurt us and our 2nd and 3rd string mids didnt cut it in the last quarter..
Kerridge is a good footballer but you have to rest him at some stage no matter how fit he is....

[Professer E]

Kerridge gives 100% and goes hard but lacks a little polish e.g clean hands.  Was a bit fumbly below his knees on Thursday but looks a solid, decent player.  If he is the "Bell replacement" then he looks a more than capable replacement.

We still need more mids developing on slow heat.

[laj]

On the bright side, Collingwood's on the bottom, although Freo might give them a run.

According to my maths Freo are on the bottom.

[blue4life]

According to my maths Freo are on the bottom.

I can live with that.
Collingwood have only just given Buckley a two year extension, why is it that footy clubs keep making the same mistakes over and over again?
The only club champions as coach which have been successful in the last 30 years have been Roos at Sydney and Worsfold at WCE, and they only yielded a single flag each.
Despite his one eyed boosters Ratten at Carlton was a disaster, along with Hird at Essendon and Voss at Brisbane, and I'm tipping that Buckley will go the same way as the others.

[PaulP]

Yes, we should've got Malthouse much sooner. That Ratten, what a hack..........

[blue4life]

Yes, we should've got Malthouse much sooner. That Ratten, what a hack..........

Ratten had five and a half years, Malthouse a little over two, yet here we are now needing an almost total rebuild of our playing list.
They were both disastrous appointments, for different reasons.
We may have finally got it right this time but it's come over a decade late.

[DJC]

Choco Williams?

[bigblue]

Ratten had five and a half years, Malthouse a little over two, yet here we are now needing an almost total rebuild of our playing list.
They were both disastrous appointments, for different reasons.
We may have finally got it right this time but it's come over a decade late.

Rattan was far from a disastrous appointment.
Our board at the time was but not Ratts.