Rd 20; Carlton vs St Kilda: Post Game Profanity

[Raydan]

While I agree to a point, I expect the decision to play Walker was out of Bolts hands.

Possible but playing Daisy with him made a slow and unskilled team even worse.

Is it a coincidence that Daisy and Walker have been out for 3 weeks and in that time we have pushed the grand finalists from last season and a favourite for this year?

[laj]

Pies/Dogs viewed his previous medical reports/scans etc..there were no medical tests conducted by those clubs....

Saw them and decided no I take it.

[laj]

While I agree to a point, I expect the decision to play Walker was out of Bolts hands.

Team selection has been ordinary for a while, actually for a few years.

[PaulP]

Possible but playing Daisy with him made a slow and unskilled team even worse.

Is it a coincidence that Daisy and Walker have been out for 3 weeks and in that time we have pushed the grand finalists from last season and a favourite for this year?

No.

[Gointocarlton]

While I agree to a point, I expect the decision to play Walker was out of Bolts hands.

Well it feckin shouldn't be!! If it was, nothing has changed and all the good work has been undone to some extent. Initially, I thought great, he gets a farewell game after all the years of hard work and great commitment to the CFC. Having watched him today? I would imagine both Andrew and the Club would have done it differently. Hindsight is a wonderful thing however I would have been prouder saluting and clapping Andrew on a wonderful career whilst he paraded around on the back of a car. I felt sad watching a man who wasn't a patch on his former self. His team mates did him no favours whatsoever which is the biggest dissapointment for mine. AW deserved a much better send off.

[Gointocarlton]

And can I just say this. Whilst my expectations were fairly low for this year, the patch where we won some games made me reset (no pun intended) my expectations. I thought that we had finally clicked and that we would finish the year strong. i thought the more the year went on, the better we would get at the plan. We did that somewhat, efforts v Syd, Haw and WC were pleasing. Today? Can only be described as a train wreck. Extremely disappointing.

[LordLucifer]

Reading all those comments about permanently booting off so many of the players warms the cockles of my heart.

I can handle losing but 71 points to St. Kilda ......... really, they were that much better than us ???

[PaulP]

Reading all those comments about permanently booting off so many of the players warms the cockles of my heart.

I can handle losing but 71 points to St. Kilda ......... really, they were that much better than us ???

We made it much easier for them by being knackered / sluggish / disinterested. They're a 1 week on, 2 weeks off type team, and we've struck them twice in their 1 week on phase. Either that, or we're becoming their bunnies.

Having said all that, they would have troubled a number of sides today.

[LoveNavy]

Very disappointing send off for 1AW :'(
Gee that was our worst performance this year. Bolts says they're tired after keeping up with the ladder leaders over the past couple of weeks. Maybe. If that's so, we should see something in the next couple of weeks. If we can't recover and reload, its going to be a slippery slope that will hurt player and supporter confidence.

Like others, I have reservations about our structure. Whilst I get that we lack talent, this sees us start the game disadvantaging ourselves :-\ I can't work that one out, oh well...

This game sounds similar to what's reported for NB's. Our cracks were exposed . The positive then is the LM team know what they've got to work with (or not work with - game over for some).

The class we have, again had to bust a gut. Simmo, Docherty, Cripps, and Gibbs were solid. Despite doing well in clearances, we were totally out-run and outclassed. If we're not defined by W-L but by our pressure...  Today we were indefinable. Here's hoping its a one-off. I do have faith that our progress this year will be recaptured. (please no repeat of our 2015 late round visit to the Gabba).

Enough of my grizzling. I wish 1AW happiness and success and say Thanks for the 202 one club attainment.

Go Blues.

[townsendcalling]

What is the point in a guy who has not played senior football for weeks, who admits he has a chronic injury, playing a match that embarrasses him and the club? Dumb decision!!! 

If he's injured to an extent where he is incapable of performing, don't play him.  And if he insists, over ride him!! 

A retirement lap at the last home game, a lap on Grand Final Day and we all leave with positive memories, not sitting there thinking WTF are we doing this for!?!!!