Post Game passion: AFL 2021 Rd 6: Carlton vs Brisbane

[shawny]

We lack a hard edge in many players, it's not thuggery but that ability to lift and dig deeper much like a marathon runner who can't get themselves to the finish line.
Walsh has it, Lachie Neale chased and pressured on one leg, Robbo cracked in with an eyeball hanging out but a lot of our players won't give that bit extra when the pressure goes up. Gut run till you drop, run back cover for your mate... Robbo on Harry summed it up for me.
Call it culture or pride but not many of ours will bleed for the club..

And Harry tapped him and said sorry when he saw the damage to Robbos eye. I said to my daughter at the time that is a soft too nice approach. The best teams would not have that mindset to feel 'bad' for the opposition no matter what.

I hated Clarkson when he flooded back to prevent Fev from kicking that last goal to get his ton but in hindsight while i still hate the bloke he is a winner, he is a ruthless coach who feels no empathy for the opposition no matter what the situation is.  Its in his blood.  He knew we would look to Fev at all costs in the last to get him the goal he needed so even though the game was done he still knew he had to counter our plan which then prevented Fev from getting the goal he needed. Hes a pr1ck i know but its also part of the culture that lead to 4 flags.

If our current team was Hawthorn that day we would have kicked it to Fev to hand him the ton and then would have gone up and congratulated him. Same as chairing Gibbs off after losing - its the wrong culture the wrong look and any serious successful culture would not be part of that look.