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

[laj]

Why do we have an ex forward coaching the midfield, and we do we have an ex defender coaching our forwards ?

Teague did a very good job coaching the forwards at Adelaide. Coming to Carlton as an assistant is a death wish....lol. Coaching our forward line would be a nightmare. Essentially an impossible job.

But, anyway, I do see your point.

[rocky]

i though Weitering was great today, Levi tried hard in an unnatural position for him, Kreuzer played his heart out both in the ruck and on the ground. Besides some ordinary disposal, Dow’s ability to get the ball, footwork out of traffic and his acceleration away from packs makes me feel confident that he will become a very good player for us. Setterfield showed that he can find the football and doesn’t mind getting dirty. Stocker improves every week and Walsh is a lock champion of the future.  Cuningham needs continuity because he can play. Our spine of McKay, Curnow, Cripps, Weitering and Jones is a more than useful framework, with youth on its side. Lang, Fasolo and Kennedy don’t belong. 

There’s still plenty to work with, but they need to be guided and directed properly.  That’s the part we haven’t got in place unfortunately.

Great Post

[laj]

There is a fundamental coaching flaw if we have so many entries inside 50, but do nothing with them.  What has Teague given us in terms of strategies and plans?

Would you like the job of be a Carlton forward coach? Did a great job as forward coach at Adelaide for 3 years, very highly regarded at West Coast so what happens to he and others when they come here?. The way the ball comes into the f50 how do you coach that. Line coaches are at the mercy of the plan of the head coach. Get a bad one of those and everyone looks bad. Ratten probably looked pretty average under Pagan, until he got the top job.

[flyboy77]

i though Weitering was great today, Levi tried hard in an unnatural position for him, Kreuzer played his heart out both in the ruck and on the ground. Besides some ordinary disposal, Dow’s ability to get the ball, footwork out of traffic and his acceleration away from packs makes me feel confident that he will become a very good player for us. Setterfield showed that he can find the football and doesn’t mind getting dirty. Stocker improves every week and Walsh is a lock champion of the future.  Cuningham needs continuity because he can play. Our spine of McKay, Curnow, Cripps, Weitering and Jones is a more than useful framework, with youth on its side. Lang, Fasolo and Kennedy don’t belong. 

There’s still plenty to work with, but they need to be guided and directed properly.  That’s the part we haven’t got in place unfortunately.

Weitering competed well but gee did he just simply kick blindly out of defence so many times - without any thought whatsoever....that said, it was coming in thick and fast....

I suspect the players know or feel the axe is coming for Bolts....

[cookie2]

Shouldn't post this I guess but during the game there was a shot of a few of our players sitting in the stands and BT said "There's a number of the Carlton players looking on" and I thought, as the camera returned to the play, that he could have followed up by saying " and more of them out on the ground doing the same thing!"

[Inboltswetrust]

There is a fundamental coaching flaw if we have so many entries inside 50, but do nothing with them.  What has Teague given us in terms of strategies and plans?

I'm.going on sen tonight and will be calling for all paying supporters to boycott the Brisbane game until the board recognise change needs to be made. They will not listen otherwise.

[flyboy77]

I actually think we will lose Cripps if we move Bolton on.

I think we'll lose him if we don't!!

[dodge]

At half time I switched to Dr Pimple Popper- good couple of epidodes of gunk being squeezed and cut out of people - much more satisfying!

An interview with Harry McKay a week or two ago showed the out that the players have - we are young and learning.

While it is true,  it doesn't mean you can't have a crack and put in every week.  What I want to see is effort and skills on display every week.  How are skills attached to 'young and learning' - they should be obvious.

Yes,  injuries have really hurt what was looking like a steady and settled backline, but that should mean the midfield and forwards defend harder.

Draft picks won't get us out of this - a simple game plan and a rocket might.  We need 22 players doing their bit every week, not 5 or 6.

[madbluboy]

Fans looked devastated leaving the ground today, will be lucky to crack 20,000 next week although the Fitzroy fans might be back on board.

[PaulP]

Teague did a very good job coaching the forwards at Adelaide. Coming to Carlton as an assistant is a death wish....lol. Coaching our forward line would be a nightmare. Essentially an impossible job.

But, anyway, I do see your point.

Taking any position at Carlton is a death wish.

At any rate, I'm not sure the Crows forwards need much coaching to be honest. Betts, Tex, Lynch, Jenkins etc. - plenty of experience there, and they seem to be doing ok without him.

Teague was a back line coach at Saints and WC, which makes sense IMO.