Rd 9: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs. North Melbourne

[PaulP]

I just got tired of watching the tide of blue and white striped bodies surging away from stoppages offering a multitude of options to the clearer! They had a pretty handy quartet in Swallow, Zeibell, Dal Santo and Cunnington at work. 

I guess we now have a verdict in the old Yarran v Rich v Ziebell debate.

[townsendcalling]

Oh and that pathetic curtain thing they use as their banner... OMFG!! Is it a footy team running onto the ground, or the cast of the Phantom of the Opera lol.

No dissimilar to our 'curtain thing' that is still held up by poles and 15 people. (We went from paper to material when Juddy made us go 'green')

[cookie2]

I guess we now have a verdict in the old Yarran v Rich v Ziebell debate.

Paul you must be psychic! We actually said that at the game.  )

[cookie2]

No dissimilar to our 'curtain thing' that is still held up by poles and 15 people. (We went from paper to material when Juddy made us go 'green')

At least we don't have our own scale model of the Hindenberg to suspend it from.

[Slugger]

I think the loss will do us more good than harm,it puts into perspective where we are at as a football team the last thing you want is a lot of honourable losses so the club and supporters start to think we are already there,theses sort of losses will only make the club and coaching stall work harder to bridge the gap.As long as we have the likes of army,jamo,walker,jones,Rowe and a couple of others in our side we will never ever match it with the big boys.
We may beat the bottom half of the ladder but that's where we have been since 95.When Casboult,and down the line somewhere C Curnow ,McKay,Silvagni.are all in our team we may have a forward line and some structure.We really are a key backman short at the moment and a couple of hard nut inside mids,as soon as murph ,Gibbs and Cripps are off we really struggle and our only true ruckman at the moment is kruezer,I have high hopes for Philips as I thought he has got something going for him,let's hope he is not another Kruezer and injury prone.Buckly,Tutt and Graham are another three that will have there papers stamped at the end of there contracts as none of the three are anything special and never will be.They try hard and I love them for that but what top team would any of them get a game with.if you are judging our players judge them on who would make a Hawks or Swans side and that will tell you exactly where they are.
Like it or not at least it's my opinion.

[LP]

I haven't seen the incident, but I was told Harvey let rip a short arm jab to Gibbs as Gibbs ran past.

How the feck does Gibbs get a fine but the sniper Harvey isn't even investigated?

[PaulP]

I think the loss will do us more good than harm,it puts into perspective where we are at as a football team the last thing you want is a lot of honourable losses so the club and supporters start to think we are already there,theses sort of losses will only make the club and coaching stall work harder to bridge the gap.As long as we have the likes of army,jamo,walker,jones,Rowe and a couple of others in our side we will never ever match it with the big boys.
We may beat the bottom half of the ladder but that's where we have been since 95.When Casboult,and down the line somewhere C Curnow ,McKay,Silvagni.are all in our team we may have a forward line and some structure.We really are a key backman short at the moment and a couple of hard nut inside mids,as soon as murph ,Gibbs and Cripps are off we really struggle and our only true ruckman at the moment is kruezer,I have high hopes for Philips as I thought he has got something going for him,let's hope he is not another Kruezer and injury prone.Buckly,Tutt and Graham are another three that will have there papers stamped at the end of there contracts as none of the three are anything special and never will be.They try hard and I love them for that but what top team would any of them get a game with.if you are judging our players judge them on who would make a Hawks or Swans side and that will tell you exactly where they are.Like it or not at least it's my opinion.

Don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, but the bolded bit caught my eye.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I guess we now have a verdict in the old Yarran v Rich v Ziebell debate.

Yep Ziebell was the rank outsider but has left the other two way behind and has also progressed as a leader...I guess thats one reason North have progressed having got that selection right...

[DJC]

I haven't seen the incident, but I was told Harvey let rip a short arm jab to Gibbs as Gibbs ran past.

How the feck does Gibbs get a fine but the sniper Harvey isn't even investigated?

Good question but I suspect Gibbs will think it was value for money.

It's good to see our blokes not taking shyte from anyone.

[Brettie]

Question from the game - who played on Petrie? Was it Simon White? I forgot to take note of this match-up when I was at the game. I know Plowman started on Brown & got murdered early, but not sure if White played on Petrie or Waite.