AFL Rd 1 2020: Post Game Post Mortum: Carlton vs. Richmond

[Gointocarlton]

Tonight showed the footy world what I have been saying for the last 3 years. Our midfield is one dimensional, Murphy is a decent small forward but too small in the middle. Ed is a warrior but is no certainty to hit a 20 metre target leaving poor Walsh and Cripps to try and do it all.

Been banging on for years that we are going nowhere until we get 4-5 decent ball users that we can rotate thru the middle. I accepted we were unlikely to get a big fish as no one wanted to come but Instead we have group consisting of Setterfield, Dow, Cunningham, Fisher, Kennedy, Polson, Newnes and Lang  who not one of them looks remotely like a second or even third tier midfielder. Tell me one time any of these blokes got 25 plus touches. And their ball skills are under 12s standard.
Sick and tired of waiting. None of the above players have improved in the years we have persisted with them and I still here blokes on here trying to convince me they need more time. ENOUGH!!

You could always see it with Weitering SPS Walsh Charlie Harry and you just knew they needed game time as they slowly improved year after year yet but there js no improvement in the above lot mentioned and the time has come to move them on that is if anyone is interested.

And Newnes is yet another example of how far we have fallen. He is another reject who was going to be delisted by another struggling team- another ball butcher who will join the list of rejects we tried to convince was the player we needed because we could never get in the real footballers that we were desperate for to make a real difference, so instead like losers we talk up the likes of Lang Newnes, Kennedy setterfield......

Decisions like this is the reason SOS is gone and that after 5 years we are still a bottom team with gapping holes in our list.

The favourite son has made probably 40 or 50 list changes yet lucky if 5-6 are good ones. The rest are either jury out, unlikely or absolute howlers.

We play like we have accepted failure and supporters now are happy to accept losses and just try and find positives to hang out hat on. Be very surprised if Cripps is there beyond this contract.

We are not half the club I followed as a kid.

Cant argue with any of that, I have had a gut full of waiting and excuses. Give us a participation award because we didnt get smacked, f-that, I want wins I dont care who we are playing. Anything else is unacceptable. If I hear or read "The positives are..." one more time I'll spew up. With regards to the comment about Murphy being too small for the middle, Prestia is 5cm shorter. It's got nothing to do with size, it's about will, competitiveness and execution. He had the first two last night, his execution was woeful. We have one established elite player (Cripps), one truly on the way (Walsh) and if he keeps it up (Martin), he may well join them. The rest?