2018 Rd 3: Post Game Platitudes: Carlton vs Collingwood

[hanwell]

29 Disposals
11 Contested
75.9 Disposal Efficency
9 Marks
8 Tackles
7 Inside 50's

That just doesn't cut it.  Back to the 2's


whose stat's?????

[ElwoodBlues1]

Probably Murphy's....plenty of the ball etc etc but not much effect on the game, remember Dane Swan having 44 one day and Malthouse not rating his game....it can happen...

[hanwell]

That would make sense, Murphy every week fails to inspire

[sydneybluesfan]

They scored 64 points to 3 in a 40 minute burst. It’s hard to conceive how we could be so poor at putting pressure on around the ball or in defence.

The simple fact is as a football club we are slipping slowly but surely into abject irrelevance. We are spiritless and spineless and the story of our demise is not even interesting in the media anymore. The rest of the competition expects an insipid performance most weeks and that’s what we consistently deliver. And the worst thing for me is I have an 8 year old son who loves his footy and the Blues who has to sit through that sh!t week after week. It’s heartbreaking to watch a team I loved watching as a kid turned into such a shell of its former self and their is only years more of pain on the horizon.

[Professer E]

Going through it myself mate,  kids are giving up on footy, can't understand why I hurt so much over it.

[hanwell]

My ten year old son asked me tonight if we could change teams............

[Gointocarlton]

We kicked the first 3 and I am pretty sure that they kicked the next 10.

Fact

[flyboy77]

And let's not forget in the corresponding game in 2017 (rd 7):

Collingwood 8.8 (56)
Carlton 12.7 (79)

[shawny]

We wanted to rebuild the long way so take the pain that comes with it. We all wanted the club to go to the draft and invest in kids and not take the quick fix approach. Well that sort of rebuild is slow and painful.

All those saying we need mature bodies, drop the kids and bring in Rowe, Asos, Kerridge etc make me laugh.

Then next week we will hear why are we playing those sorts, their slow, their spuds and not part of our future and why not get games into the kids

Weitering, SPS, Charlie, Cunningham, Fisher, Dow, Kennedy etc I’m very confident will all make it but give them time guys FFS.

We are 2 years and 3 games into this. No where near enough time to be so dramatic about performances like tonight.

[cookie2]

They scored 64 points to 3 in a 40 minute burst. It’s hard to conceive how we could be so poor at putting pressure on around the ball or in defence.

The simple fact is as a football club we are slipping slowly but surely into abject irrelevance. We are spiritless and spineless and the story of our demise is not even interesting in the media anymore. The rest of the competition expects an insipid performance most weeks and that’s what we consistently deliver. And the worst thing for me is I have an 8 year old son who loves his footy and the Blues who has to sit through that crap week after week. It’s heartbreaking to watch a team I loved watching as a kid turned into such a shell of its former self and their is only years more of pain on the horizon.

Yes, it's starting to feel like a long, lingering and painful death. I went along last Sat and was tortured and again tonight watching on tv. I'm actually starting to dread our games! Tbh, footy is the only sport I watch now and I'm rapidly losing interest even in that. Seriously thinking of taking an extended break from it - it's bringing me down.