AFL Rd 10 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

[LP]

I am 100% convinced that players, coaches and clubs in general must find supporters to be a mixed blessing.

This may be the differential between the marketing and football departments, one profits from hope and expectation, the other needs performance.

Historically, at Carlton it looks to me like marketing rule$, profit before performance. It's the only thing that explains the coaches getting it in the neck so frequently. This recent outburst from Mathieson confirms to me that the Old Carlton still hasn't learnt it lessons and let go, they think they can abuse, bully and buy the way to success, pretty much like those callers!

This is why the Filth have it over pretty much every other club. Rain, hail or shine the Filth supporters support the players, it's drummed into them from early days you don't sledge your own. They turn on their own for sprouting the type of vitriol some Carlton fans want to openly propagate. But it took 30 years of Colliwobbles to beat the negativity and vitriol out of them.

Maybe we can learn from that, or we can ignore it and perhaps suffer the same fate, but there is no buying or bullying our way out of this, those days are long long gone!