Rd 3: Carlton vs Gold Coast: Post Game Pain

[jeza]

First post this year, because I thought I would wait and see if we had improved.

The simple answer is, NO.

Firstly.

Jamieson is gone.
Rowe should never be allowed to play in the ones again.
Bokehorst is a dud.
Wiley is a dud.
Kreuzer is either completely out of form has lost confidence, or is gone and will never reach the heights that he reached prior to doing his knee.
Touhey is limited.
Thomas is a shadow of what he once was.
Buckley doesn't do enough.
Phillips doesn't take enough marks around the ground and is too easily brushed aside.
Gibbs, is Gibbs.
Murphys delivery to our players is terrible and always has been.
Levi tries hard and that's about it.
Simmo, ditto.

The positives are Cripps. On his worst night, he is better than all the above.
Weitering, an absolute star.
Curnow, will be a star.
Ed Curnow, gives his all, but some of his hand passing lets him down.

Our foot and hand skills are nonexistent.

As for our coaching staff and I use the term coaching loosly, I ask what sort of a game plan is it when whomever kicks out after a behind is scored, has got no idea what to do, where there is no forward line structure or a plan to maximize forward entries as far as possinble, where handballs fall at the feet of players, and players cannot hit a target when they pass, and where, if the ball is turned over, our players look up, and there is not ONE forward who has been told to stay within the 50 metre attacking arc for just such an occurrence.

What the FK have they been doing for 5 months.

We face yet another long hard season ahead. And yes, I know it's a young team and we are rebuilding blah blah blah blah, but when you are paying players between 150 and 500 grand a year and they can't execute basic skills, then you have to say that the club is going nowhere, and forget about a 5 year rebuild, it will be more like ten.

Sorry to be such a pessimist, but as a 60 year supporter, I reckon that I won't live long enough to see another flag in my life time.

And that absolutely SH!!!!!TTTTS me off.

The powers that be at the club tell me that they know what they are doing.

After three rounds, I have got very strong doubts about that.

I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong.

I feel your pain.

The administration did a lot right last trade period but in looking at this season so far I'd say they didn't shop Gibbs and Murphy around hard enough.

We need to cash them both in. Diabolical players. I can't remember feeling this level of contempt for 2 Carlton players before but there is something so lazy and cynical about these 2. Defensively they're determined to be as lazy as they can without doing so little that the coach will give them a spray.

Hate them.

Dale Thomas - if he had any integrity he'd hand back half his contract. He is literally useless.