2018 Rd 15: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs Brisbane

[LoveNavy]

There's no doubt our performance v Lions and Freo and probably North were poor. Poor from MC to in game tactics and effort. Conspiracy theorists might say they are 3 of the sh£; teams heading into the season. They might also add our poor performance v GC into the mix to support "lose the winnable for pick 1 theory". Interestingly they are somewhat scattered across rounds opposed to consecutively played.

In between we've had some q's of very good football. That's at times despite injuries or playing injured / under conditioned players. We've played many games without our captain and our list week-week has had more changes than a chameleon.  No captain, no A grader (I.e Gibbs), no AA. No consistent contingent of B graders with experience playing together (ffs even mullet O'Shea have been in - out). At it's simplest performance could reflect the fact that too much change will not produce positive outcomes. Place that in the context of a novice coach leading a club rebuild in a club that has never (stooped so low...) engaged in rebuild processes.

Yesterday's performance could also reflect what Lamb spoke of post game. He evidently lost several kilos being depleted of fluid. 》dehydration 》 lethargy 》 cardiovascular compromise  (heart rate elevates). Is this what also happened to Merchant? I have no idea but I do know that we've got flogged in Brisbane consistently for 3 4 5 years. The optimist in me says this years no different and the club acknowledged this will be the worst year of the rebuild.

The pessimist, however, says our club's hit an all time low. It will be intruiging to see how the club AND the AFL respond. Amen.
Look after yourselves bluebaggers. Whatever is going down is burdensome to even the most optimistic of us ^-^ :'(