2018 Rd 20: Post Game Calm & Civilized Discussion: Carlton vs GWS

[Thryleon]

After yesterday injury excuse don't count. That was the most embarrassing thing I've seen in 55 years of watching footy and i'd say our worst ever loss given the circumstances. Despite outnumbering them we had no idea. We'd have spares out wide but kick down the line to an outnumbered situation, how is one outnumbered when your have 1-2 spares I don't know. Then GWS go forward to loose men every where in their forward 50 and kick goals as they please. They had 45 uncontested marks in that last qtr and outscore us 7 goals to 1. How does that happen? This is a side, after 3 years with this bloke, that had no idea,what they were supposed to do, How poorly drilled can a side get? Game plan so confusing, so poor, that we don't even know what to do when we outnumber a side by 2 players. It's not as if GWS are anything like Hawthorn 2013-15, or Geelong 2007-11. They laughed at us. They rotated off the bench still with 16-17 players treating us like incompetent idiots. We still had a number of very good to even a few outstanding young players out there as well as enough senior experience to at the very least stop such embarrassment like yesterday's like qtr happening.That's a Monday morning coach sacking not an end of the year sacking as it is purely incompetent. either that or the players aren't playing for the coach. Going no-where right now. What has been happening for 3 years?

Its not just injuries, its men vs boys stuff.

The blokes that played yesterday have played how many games together all in the same 22?  5? 6?  Using Polson as a litmus test, 10? 

That GWS team that took the field yesterday had one debutant, playing in a team full of mature players, whom played in a preliminary final last year, and should push seroiusly for the flag, whilst we sit dead last, with a team full of kids, our front 6 barely had 300 games combined (150 of them contributed by one player in Matthew Wright with the next biggest games played by Charlie Curnow who had a quiet night by his standards) all with the result that we got pummelled because our midfield got absolutely torched.  we play a man down every week thanks to the kids not being experienced and hard enough to compete for 4 quarters.

They highlighted a play where game number 17 Paddy dow was standing shoulder to shoulder with Josh Kelly whos 5 years older than him, and was on track to break posession records yesterday and all he did was literally read the play better and out position him to run off and score.

These kids we play are going to be guns, but we are sacrificing today for tomorrow's benefit.