Post Game Parley-2019 AFL Rd 2: Carlton vs Port Adelaide:

[crashlander]

Read for next weekend. I hope to be ready, but I'm organized if I'm not.
Hoping this thread is to celebrate our first win for the season.

[cookie2]

Use this one now guys.

[PaulP]

My sanity and liver can’t take much more of these signs though. If we’d had a respectable second quarter and lost I may have coped, but this was more proof we’re not on track.

Yes, I appreciate that it seems like a never ending rebuild. And it may indeed end up being that. But this year (to me at least) already feels like an improvement from last year. Even the ball movement in the 1stq and other times in the match are signs of improvement IMO. Our list this year is better than last year etc.

[madbluboy]

To answer professor, sorry if Murphy can't tackle then he needs to go now.

Bring in another Gibbons who will put in 100% and free up the cap for an actual gun not a former one.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Thought we would win as I dont rate Port but Weitering stood up, Cripps was his usual self, Harry's marking was great, McGovern contributed, SPS had a decent game and I'll even credit my whipping boy Polson witha good goal and he made a good tackle or two as well and wasnt our worst.
Philips was handy but Lycett and Ryder wore him down...Ports kids surprised as well....Butters, Rozee and Dursma are not a bad pickup......
Tough in the wet and the Port bigger bodies helped...Motlop's class finishing was part of the difference as well....

Losing Charlie hurt us more than Port losing Amon and Watts, we lost structure and it will be interesting how Bolton structures the team vs the Swans next week....

I dont see him being sacked this season either....think we need to acknowledge the comp is tighter than we thought and other teams have improved more than we envisaged...

[slikguy]

At this rate we’ll struggle to keep Crippa at the club. 2 weeks now we have been overrun by a side with a player less than us in the last qtr. Simply out coached. Bolton May be a great development coach, and yes I can see the improvement in the players, our game plan is simply not good enough. We are consistently the prey, the hunted, instead of being the hunters.
I was against getting rid of Ratten and I wouldn’t be against offering Ratten the job again.

[laj]

This all all good against decent sides. We do it often. It's only ok though if we beat the sides we should. Issue is we don't. 

[Thryleon]

Thought we would win as I dont rate Port but Weitering stood up, Cripps was his usual self, Harry's marking was great, McGovern contributed, SPS had a decent game and I'll even credit my whipping boy Polson witha good goal and he made a good tackle or two as well and wasnt our worst.
Philips was handy but Lycett and Ryder wore him down...Ports kids surprised as well....Butters, Rozee and Dursma are not a bad pickup......
Tough in the wet and the Port bigger bodies helped...Motlop's class finishing was part of the difference as well....

Losing Charlie hurt us more than Port losing Amon and Watts, we lost structure and it will be interesting how Bolton structures the team vs the Swans next week....

I dont see him being sacked this season either....think we need to acknowledge the comp is tighter than we thought and other teams have improved more than we envisaged...

Yep.

This sums it up.  We were ok for a young side.

The problem I'm seeing is that Walsh is already gone past many a seasoned player in our team.

He's a first year player.

Have we molly coddled too many?

Or is lack of competition for sports an issue.?

[laj]

5 successive Carltin matches from Europe, 5 losses. Best I get home...lol.

[PaulP]

Yep.

This sums it up.  We were ok for a young side.

The problem I'm seeing is that Walsh is already gone past many a seasoned player in our team.

He's a first year player.

Have we molly coddled too many?

Or is lack of competition for sports an issue.?

Just the difference between a genuine young gun and ordinary AFL footballers.