Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 11: Carlton vs. the Drug Cheats

[townsendcalling]

Today’s problem: By 1/4 time, Cripps had realised that half the team he was playing with were spuds and decided, why bother....and I don’t blame him.  Once the others saw that Cripps couldn’t give a carp, that was it.

[spf]

Not only is the Adelaide Football Club laughing their collective heads off, so are two Perth based clubs at the prospect of picking up Crippa.

How many more blokes will want to leave our club if things don't change... asap?

You (and others), keep saying 'change'. What do you mean by change? Sack the coach, sack the assistant coach? Sack the President.....and do what exactly?

What is it you mean, and what is it you are proposing?

[rocky]

Geeez Marchbank was far from our worst.Newman played like spud. Bloody hell,we started with 2 players down in Lang and Fasolo. Played the worst wet weather football I've ever seen. Weitering was great today. Kreuzer cracked in. The more I see of Stocker the more I think he'll be real good.
The more I see of Kennedy the less I like. Another abject failure.
Cunningham looks OK. The baqckline isn't the problem, it's the way we butcher the ball into attack and in general play. 2 top rate forwards, solid backline, reasonable midfield. We should be better.
Coach is cooked.

[IvanAwfulbigone]

In fairness to Marchbank, Tippa had the momentum not Marchbank, and there was little or no contact in it.

Watch it again in slow motion. At the last second, Tipungwuti realises he's gone and basically headbutts Marchbank in the midriff.  Clever. Fooled the ump.

[LoveNavy]

Not only is the Adelaide Football Club laughing their collective heads off, so are two Perth based clubs at the prospect of picking up Crippa.

How many more blokes will want to leave our club if things don't change... asap?

I agree totally.
No Crippa. No Carlton.
We won't even have a decent first round draft pick. Just when we thought it couldn't get worse.

Today's highlight will be hearing what excuses BB will come up with  >
None of which, will instil the hope members have lost.
Dark day for Bluebaggers

[JonDorotich]

How do we find our way out of this mire?

E Curnow, Kennedy, Thomas, Newman, Fasolo, Plowman, Phillips, Garlett, Obrien, Lobbe, Lang, Polson and Silvagni all have next to 0 trade value, whilst Docherty, Kreuzer, Pickett, Williamson are perennially injured. And, Simpson & Murphy are in the twilight of their careers - that's half of our list.

So hard to find a way out.


 

[LoveNavy]

Even our media staff have lost interest. From our website:

CARLTON has suffered a disappointing loss to traditional rivals on Sunday afternoon at the MCG.

Wet weather conditions made it a fairly lacklustre affair between the two teams, while Essendon’s energy around the ground and the Blues’ inaccuracy in front of goal saw them go down by xx-points.

Not only is that propaganda. It's completely lazy and unprofessional. Sounding familiar  :

[IvanAwfulbigone]

Miserable day. Miserable result.  Made more miserable by another anti-Carlton rule being added to the statute books:

Rule 124.2.1:

If a Carlton players looks like they have inadvertently been afforded an advantage through good luck or happenstance (e.g. all opposition players stop from the impression that the ball is no longer in play), the nearest field umpire is to blow the whistle, stop play, and recall the ball for a bounce close to the position whereby the said Carlton player took possession (note Rule 124.2.1a below).

Rule 124.2.1a: This rule does not apply to any team other than the Carlton Football Club.

[cookie2]

I agree totally.
No Crippa. No Carlton.
We won't even have a decent first round draft pick. Just when we thought it couldn't get worse.

Today's highlight will be hearing what excuses BB will come up with  >
None of which, will instil the hope members have lost.
Dark day for Bluebaggers

We are not strangers to these kind of days. I hope the board is in emergency session as we speak to come up with the plan for extricating us from this death spiral! Urgent decisions required - the players are demoralised - first priority would be to address that imo. Open and brutally honest sessions need to be held with them as a first step, asap, by impartial people, to ascertain where the playing group see the issues and then take it from there. We are in crisis as a club and we need to take action accordingly.

[spf]

How do we get our way out of this mire?

E Curnow, Kennedy, Thomas, Newman, Fasolo, Plowman, Phillips, Garlett, Obrien, Lobbe, Lang, Polson and Silvagni all have next to 0 trade value, whilst Docherty, Kreuzer, Pickett, Williamson are perennially injured. And, Simpson & Murphy are in the twilight of their careers - that's half of our list.

So hard to find a way out.

I think the kids are not as bad as we make them out to be, but they are not ready to step up. Dow needs to iron out some deficiencies in his game, and Samo is ready to join the senior team as regular but NOT be the senior player yet. Outside of that, it is Cripps and then our older injured brigade. We need some older quality senior players to take that load and ensure we can develop under them. The problem is we cannot find them and get them to come across.

Honestly, can we get a Steele Sidebottom to cross over to us? What about Luke Shuey? Where is our Andrew Gaff or Dayne Beams going to come from? It is that calibre of players that turn up week in and week out and would have been the difference today. Cripps would have run riot - or they would have. We would have to pay the moon to get these guys, so realistically we need the next calibre down or find the older guys coming to the end you can still get some worth from AND who would want to come over to us.