2018 Rd 3: Post Game Platitudes: Carlton vs Collingwood

[BluePhantom]

We wanted to rebuild the long way so take the pain that comes with it. We all wanted the club to go to the draft and invest in kids and not take the quick fix approach. Well that sort of rebuild is slow and painful.

All those saying we need mature bodies, drop the kids and bring in Rowe, Asos, Kerridge etc make me laugh.

Then next week we will hear why are we playing those sorts, their slow, their spuds and not part of our future and why not get games into the kids

Weitering, SPS, Charlie, Cunningham, Fisher, Dow, Kennedy etc I’m very confident will all make it but give them time guys FFS.

We are 2 years and 3 games into this. No where near enough time to be so dramatic about performances like tonight.

Bla bla bla...
Sick of the politcal correct BS
The players are moddy coddled...Come on mate you'll get the next one... Better luck next time... Well done boys we won that quarter... We got more inside 50's than them, good work... It's okay, he is just a junior playing a man's game....Pick yourself up, come on you know it's okay to cry. PL eeease.
All go to Bunnings and buy a bag of cement.

This softly softly approach you all take makes me sick. We are shti and have been shti for far too long.
We have a sprinkling of good players that try to do all the work, we have a leader who cannot inspire, we have a coach who seems on face value to be a good fit but his message seems to be waning. Running out of catch phrases. And just maybe he might not have the mettle for match time initiative.
How does Wietering go from a world better to a WTF? What is our club doing to players off the field? We have zero development. When was the last time a player has come through OUR system to become a good player. Cripps you say? He already was good.
You say be patient. Frigging Patient!!!!  ALL blues supporters have been patient, no one has burnt their membership out the front of the club yet, maybe we should it worked for the Tiggers.

I EXPECT my Team of professional players to hit targets by foot (BOTH FEET) and by hand (BOTH HANDS)
I EXPECT my Team of professional players to kick goals (BOTH FEET Murphy)
I EXPECT my Team of professional players to be able to tackle and stick the tackles, at least pin one arm. They always get the ball away.
I EXPECT my Team of professional players to defend, man up etc
I EXPECT my Team of professional players stay on their feet, we seem to go to ground at each contest. (Liam Jones)
I EXPECT my Team of professional players to stand up for themselves, for christ sake you are a Carlton player, NO one should push you around. (You're a mouse Weitering)
I EXPECT my Team of professional COACHES to deliver a constant clear message that enhances players abilities so they play to their strengths. They are matched up on players of their abilities. This zone defence is all good, but too often players are mismatched or out of position and then the team zone falls down. How often do you see it on their kick ins after a behind. We zone off and they ALWAYS get two easy kicks because we are defend a space. Gee that sounds logical to me, isn't that what WITCHES HATS are used for?
I EXPECT my Team of professional COACHES to come up with a better forward line entry, when did we go back to bombing it in? Wasn't last year we were the thinking team of forward entires? Picking our way through, honoring leads. No we have a few talls that can mark, so we bomb it in only to watch them all fly for the same ball and spoil themselves. What happened to leading and running patterns??? No bomb it into the 50 so we get a stat. I only saw the game of the box but even I saw players were free but the ball carrier didn't lower his eyes or turn his head to spot a player in space.
I EXPECT my Professional TEAM to be competitive from siren to siren, I mean this is their job is it not?
I EXPECT my Professional TEAM to be proud.

Alot has been said about the days of Elliot, but we would go back there in an instant. He was ALWAYS front and centre defending the brand. The club is irrelevant now and is just making up numbers in the comp. No one cares about Carlton any more because we are not a threat.
For the last 17 years we have been saying, we are still 3-5 years off from being a threat. WTF? Yeah... No kid will be living in poverty as well!

I know I will get ridiculed for this post because it's not the players fault, they can't help what goes on between their ears but until everyone looks at themselves critically and is honest and call it how it is with themselves and those around them we will always stay irrelevant.
I am a life long Blues supporter and always will be but it BOILS MY PISS when I see another year down the gurgler.  >