JLT Game 2

[laj]

All those posters saying we have half a team in today and using that as an excuse are absolutely delusional.

I'm not at all critical of the kids. It's our senior players out there today that are simply bloody awful. Their skills are deplorable! Well below local footy standard which is a bloody joke. Missing target from 20 metres more often then they hit them.

I'm no coach but Why the heck do we waste a spot on our list with these players that will never amount to anything!! 
Jones
Thomas
White
Kerridge
Graham
Armfield
Lamb
Smedts
Boekhurst
Buckley
Palmer

That's a fair chunk of the team that played today and an insight into how deep our woes are. 

And why the hell you would draft Parmer over Barlow is beyond me.

Thomas has already amounted to something. Ask Collingwood. Absolute star. Dead on the water here though.

Reckon Armfield always has some value and think Buckley offers a bit as maybe Kerridge. As for the other I wouldn't miss them if they didn't play.

[laj]

Keep in mind Richo, Mitchell, Worsfold, Lyon, etc., etc.. were all at Carlton and judged not to be up to our standard.

It turns out our standard was the problem! :o

We've had some damn good coaches at Carlton just that they were never senior ones here.

Maybe they were happy to escape...lol!!!

[laj]

Jaksch apparently kicked 4 in the NB's and Sheehan got though the game well.

Jaksch may be happy to stay there rather than try his luck in the senior forward line..lol.

[cookie2]

We've had some damn good coaches at Carlton just that they were never senior ones here.

Maybe they were happy to escape...lol!!!

Didn't Richo leave because MM arrived as Senior Coach? He had a good run with Hinkley at Port afterwards.

[laj]

Didn't Richo leave because MM arrived as Senior Coach? He had a good run with Hinkley at Port afterwards.

Yes, think that's how it went. Pity in hindsight we just didn't make Richo our coach at that point.

[LP]

Been saying that for a while too.

Last season Parkin said Carlton had the worst list in the AFL, a lot of us pasted him for saying that, treated him like a senile old bastard.

But he's laughing now!

I'm not sure what any coach could do, or how to fix that problem. But having a sh1t list doesn't help a beginner coach, and previously having an experienced coach didn't help the list at all!

[laj]

Last season Parkin said Carlton had the worst list in the AFL, a lot of us pasted him for saying that, treated him like a senile old bastard.

But he's laughing now!

I'm not sure what any coach could do, or how to fix that problem. But having a sh1t list doesn't help a beginner coach, and previously having an experienced coach didn't help the list at all!

Won't get too caught up in a practice match series. He said it last year then we won 6 of our first 11 games after woeful practice match series. Attitude has much to do with pre-season game. Just hope we don't bring that attitude to the real games then we will be in all sorts of crap.

Think we have more options with kids this year. Mightn't get us up the ladder but will help us develop.

[Gointocarlton]

I'm just gonna cool my jets for another week and ignore JLT 1 and 2. But if they dish up crappola like that in JLT 3 versus Freo after being told week 3 is when we stiffen up the side up in readiness for rnd 1? Then I will panic and resign myself to a very looooong year ahead..

[ElwoodBlues1]

Its a rebuild, I remember Dees, Saints all being smashed by other teams early on....this isnt going to be a pretty year IMo but thats what you get  in the first 2-3 years when you start again from rock bottom. Sit back and enjoy the journey but expect a few uncomfortable bumps and turns.
I like Marchbank, Pickett and Fisher as new players.....three for the future IMO.....


Note:...SOS may have missed one of his own in Jack Steele from GWS...big bodied mid in the Josh Kennedy mode....bit disappointed he isnt ours, thought he was very impressive today...

[townsendcalling]

Jaksch apparently kicked 4 in the NB's and Sheehan got though the game well.

Jaksch may be happy to stay there rather than try his luck in the senior forward line..lol.

Predictable!