(04-23-2017, 10:03 PM)LP link Wrote:Weitering has 2nd year blues, they all get it because it is caused by the opposition not the player.
If you think this year is bad, think about having 5 or 6 débutantes with 2nd year blues next season! :o
The more we keep turning over the harder it will be to climb the ladder. We need players to get to 4 or 5 years, still be interested in playing for the club and be contracted before we can even dream of some success.
It why I argue against removing too many old heads at once, and why trading out Cripps and Weitering to bring in another bunch or four or five quality players might be the fastest way forward. We don't need one or two superstars, we need 30 goodish players.
Well why didn't we bring in a couple of older heads last draft (Barlow?)
Saying we are too young then trading out two soon to be SUPERSTARS is crazy.
I wouldn't be putting Weiters and Cripps in the same basket as Smurph and Squibbs. Right from the start we all saw that these two couldn't take a game by the scruff of it's neck and change it's course. And we have spoken about it ever since.
Crippa and Weiters on the other hand, I know it's early days but these guys are good and to trade them I think we would lose a lot of members.
These are two players to build the future around because all Carlton talks about is the future and the past. For the last 15 years there has been no Present, no Now.
We are too far into changing course from this rebuild so we may as just keep going HOPING it is the correct course of action because everything else we have tried turned to poo.
The trading of Smurph and Squibbs would be in the Bulldogs trading of their stars a couple of years ago category.
Soul changing stuff, Culture changing stuff AND this is what we need.
Something still stinks at Carlton, maybe it's from what we were cooking but something else needs to change.
It could be culture
It could be leadership
It could be the pre game routines (how many games have we not shown up to in the first quarter?) Need a good old fashion fire up. Oh wait, that might hurt someones feelings from all the yelling. :
Not sure what it is but I'm tired of pretty boys with no mongrel playing for my footy club. Think of past players we had and if they were playing for some else we would've hated them because they were so tough and played on the edge. (Johnston, Williams) Who do we have now? Why do you think the Dawks were feared? Bloody errant elbows from you know who and they always tackled to hurt.
When was the last time you saw a Carlton player intently hurt an opposition player. Rhys Jones?
Spanner has touched on something here and it needs exploring.
Because you watch, when Squibbs goes to Adelaide he will become the player we all know he is capable of.
Then the AFL will see some non racial Booing >
2024... Moir of the same to come