Post Game Analysis: AFL 2021 Rd 5: Carlton vs Port Adelaide

[Thryleon]

It's a major worry if, after 6000 players in and out, we still draft and trade players who pick and choose. SOS picked a fair few players on our list, and if he, of all people, can't recognise blokes who will play for the jumper and put in 100%, then we really should hand our licence back to the AFL, and just relive the glory days over and over. If what you say is true, we are really just wasting our time. I don't believe it's true.

What point are you arguing here Paulp?

I have just outlined why the culture of the place is rotten , and you don't believe a word of it, yet the post itself is a summary of how the Carlton Football Club has performed its business since the year 2001.  We are still unable to exorcise the demons and behave the same way and I hear the fans saying it too "we are not a club to be feared anymore" is the line rolled out on these very forums, yet the reason why that is, is a cause and effect of our whole of club approach and that's what causes players not to buy in.

We have won more wooden spoons and had more high draft picks than almost any other team in the competition and still look much the same every week.  A haphazard approach to playing footy.

The repetition of that cycle causes what LP labels pavlov's dogs.  He points to the kids as being developed that way through adversity by the approach and to a degree he has nailed that.  The club is the one that is placing them in the position of adversity.  The thing is, it isn't restricted to the kids.  Its even affecting a guy like Cripps now.  Its like quicksand.  It eventually drags everyone down to a certain level.