2018 Rd 3: Pre game Palaver; Carlton vs. Collingwood

[PaulP]

Friday, 6th April
7.50 PM
MCG

Sooooo kiddies..............

[Rational_Expectations]

Kreuzer in, Weitering out.

[crashlander]

Collingwood were unlucky to lose to GWS. Their intensity today was fantastic. If they play like that next week, we are toast.
Brodie Grundy showed why I wanted to recruit him so badly. He beat the GWS rucks totally, almost as much as Witts did against us. If we have a ruck combination like we had today, we will get killed in the middle.
Can we find the defenders to keep Collingwood's small forwards out of the game? They struggled for key forwards today.

[crashlander]

Weitering needs to do some time in the VFL, to do an apprenticeship like we used to do in our heyday.
At the moment he isn't enjoying his football and it isn't hard to tell. He had 5 possessions (although he did take 4 marks).
He needs to work on his pace, which is his biggest weakness. Working on his strength would also be to his advantage. To be honest, he hasn't looked the same since he got his injury in his 1st season. It is about time he took him aside and trained him to be the answer, not the question.

[PaulP]

Hey crash, does it bug you that I occasionally start these threads ? If so, let me know. Don't want to be stepping on anyone's toes.

[LP]

So Weitering gets the chop, while ten years of accumulated sh1te just slides off certain experienced players after today's pathetic Rnd 2 effort! Players who should be standing up and showing the 20 years olds the way, not looking for the 20 years olds to give them an armchair ride!

The vacuum of accountability for some of our experienced players is to say the least bizarre!

Of course, we are Carlton, how disappointing!

[Lods]

Hey crash, does it bug you that I occasionally start these threads ? If so, let me know. Don't want to be stepping on anyone's toes.

Don't hesitate to start a thread Paul.
It's not just mods responsibility...in fact we'd like to see members generating as many threads as possible.
That goes for pre-match, post match and in game threads as well.

[crashlander]

Hey crash, does it bug you that I occasionally start these threads ? If so, let me know. Don't want to be stepping on anyone's toes.

Not at all! Quite the contrary, its great when others start the threads.
I just wanted to edit the title a bit to fit with the others. That was my only concern, and it was pretty minor.
No, keep going, please!

[PaulP]

Don't hesitate to start a thread Paul.
It's not just mods responsibility...in fact we'd like to see members generating as many threads as possible.
That goes for pre-match, post match and in game threads as well.

Not at all! Quite the contrary, its great when others start the threads.
I just wanted to edit the title a bit to fit with the others. That was my only concern, and it was pretty minor.
No, keep going, please!

OK, just checking. Thanks.

[LP]

We may as well give all the experience the ar5e and play all the kids at once, it won't be worse than today because we won't enter the game with any expectation of victory!

If only I were joking, but I think BB is not in a position to send that message, even though I think it needs to be sent!