Rd 3: Carlton vs Gold Coast: Post Game Pain

[JonHenry]

Have no players with trade currency,  That is the main problem.

Remember Henderson & Menzel.
We also have the advantage of every other club seeing Waite, Betts, Garlett and Robinson at other clubs

[laj]

Wow, we stink. Only round 3 and we have lost by 9 goals and scrubbed just 40 odd points on our side of the ledger. GC even had two men down for half the game.

Weitering was easily our best player. Poise, good decisions, read the play well and kicked to the right option time and time again. He is already plugging the gaping holes in our backline in just his third game. Jamo and rowe are so slow and without the ability to kick well they dont have much to offer.

Curnow worked hard in the middle, but he was the only four quarter player. Cripps played well in the second half. As for the rest of the midfield, they seemed to melt away. Kerridge tried hard, but fumbled terribly. We seemed to not get numbers around the contest well at all. On occasions it seemed we have the judd problem with cripps, with team mates hanging on the edges waiting for cripps to dish it out but not getting involved enough.

Forwards, what forwards. They simply dont move enough. We so rarely get a forward seperating from their opponents, so it is little wonder kicks get intercepted so easily. 50 inside 50s tonight, mostly to see it coming back with interest. Buckly, whose job as far as i could tell was to keep the ball in may as well go back to the seconds for good, along with whiley.

Really concerned about Kruezer, who just has no idea forward, hardly getting off the ground. Is he injured now or just battling the culmative effect of his many injuries.

Awful night, already on the bottom of the ladder with a terrible percentage.

Alot I agree with.

As for the forwards, we move the ball in to the 50 sooooooooooo slowly with sooooooooo litttle system that the forward couldn't find space if they tried. The forward 50 is so full of numbers. There's no Fev's or Whitnall's in there who can read it find space anywhere.

[PaulP]

Remember Henderson & Menzel.
We also have the advantage of every other club seeing Waite, Betts, Garlett and Robinson at other clubs

Fair point.

[PaulP]

Cue.....my pet interest

ITS THE BOARD

You could save yourself a lot of repetitive typing - just write "it's the board's fault" as your signature and be done with it.

[PaulP]

My concern with bringing Plowman is in the injury risk if he's not ready to play at this level. If he's assessed as ready then I have to agree with you.

Regardless of the team changes, next week against a very good and well drilled dogs unit is looming as a major flogging.

We seem to be a very slow team, which gets highlighted against teams like the Suns and Dogs.

[laj]

Remember Henderson & Menzel.
We also have the advantage of every other club seeing Waite, Betts, Garlett and Robinson at other clubs

No matter what anyone says, losing that group of players hurts. Essentially gone from one of the best forward lines in 2013 to comprehensively the worst. Waite's 32yo admittedly but in fine form. There's nothing like experience up there with the youngsters.

Henderson and Menzel got us good picks, no problem there, but the other's we lost for nothing, all 4 of them.

[bignic]

AND, if I hear Bolton say, "it's a learning process" or "it's a fkn journey" one more time, I'll throw up.

I'm getting sick and tired of hearing it.

I want him to be honest and say, "we are not up to it, our skill level is non fkn  existent, and I'm sorry to say this to the 47,000 people who have parted with their hard earned to buy a membership, but it's going to be a long hard year."

If he then adds, "we are putting every player on notice. Improve, and show us that you have got some ability, and are prepared to put in every week.  If you don't, you are out at the end of the year. There is no way that we can ask the same 47,000 people to part with their money in 2017, and have to put up with the craap that was on display tonight".

Bolton may actually win the respect of the supporters if he said that, rather than the same bull dust and buzz words and cliches symptomatic of a school teacher or a politically correct lefty that he foists upon us at every press conference.

[jeza]

Have no players with trade currency,  That is the main problem.

We somehow turned Tom Bell into C Curnow this year. Early days and all that but that shapes as such a massive win.

Hendo for McKay.

The player doesn't have to be a world beater - or in Bell's case even competent - to have some trade value.

[MosquitoFleet]

You could save yourself a lot of repetitive typing - just write "it's the board's fault" as your signature and be done with it.

I will try and be more constructive....but pratts mathiesons elliots must release their collective hold on this board and let the club grow with new people in charge. ..its our only chance..because I suspect something will happen to carlton in 6 months. .

[Professer E]

For a bloke that weighs over 100 kg Phillips would get knocked off the ball by my 6 year old... falls over all the bloody time.  Too many of our blokes get knocked over or fumble fumble fumble....AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH.