2018 Rd 13: Post Game Prattling-Carlton v Fremantle

[crashlander]

Interesting tweet from Rhys Palmer today:

"Everyone talks about draft picks and developing youth but no one ever talks about culture...."

That hurts, especially from Rhys Palmer.

I knew nothing of what happened today until it was over: I was with my daughter at a dancing contest in Kyabram. It wasn't pleasant, but to find out that the team may as well have been with me is terrible.

And here I have been feeling that we've been on the right path for the last couple of seasons and we do this rubbish. It looks like we have gone nowhere.

I don't know if 'culture' is our problem. It is not something that is easy to measure. But I want to see a culture at Carlton like the Swans have. We cannot accept mediocrity.
We have had a number of top coaches go through our ranks and not one has made an impression. There has to be a reason for that. It is about time we dealt with it and dealt with it properly.

We need to look at the coaching staff. Again. This year we have lacked far too much and we have to fix this. I had a lot of time for Bolton, but he has to take some responsibility for the rubbish we are producing.

We need a new ruckman, one who is going to win us a flag. Too many of our rucks are going nowhere.

We need more good mids to give Cripps a hand or will lose him.

We need some spirit and desire out there on the field.

What we are producing is simply not acceptable.