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Very disappointed with our centre-square work. Nankervis smashed Pitto, and hence they doubled our clearances. No wonder they got 75 inside 50s - 19 of them came directly from centre square bounces....
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?
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03-18-2021, 01:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-18-2021, 01:05 PM by LordLucifer.)
I'm really concerned that a number of our players are just not good enough and may never be. They all tease us with little cameo efforts but they make errors in decision & disposal that kills us everytime.
Many people have high expectations for Harry McKay but he keeps making brain-fade decisions (eg. playing on 10m from goal after marking and then getting caught) plus he refused to stick his arms out at full stretch which allowed Balta an easy spoil.
O'Brien drops a sitter of a mark under no pressure whatsoever, recovers the ball and then kicks it straight to an opposition player .... this is completely unacceptable on every level.
If Paddy Dow wants to be taken seriously as a player, then he had to nail that shot in the last from 30m out that would have put us in front.
Pittonet ran under the ball which allowed Lynch to mark unopposed and goaled, that is just rubbish and unforgivable.
The one player that is really worrying me more than anyone else is Docherty, he makes way too many fumbles & bumbles and disposal errors for a player of his experience.
Williamson looked lost for most of the night, Casboult wasn't ready, Jones made some horrible blunders (getting pinged for the deliberate point was a travesty though), Fogarty did not impress me & Setterfield has not kicked on to the level we'd like to see.
Thank god for Walsh, he was the complete 4-quarter player and Weitering was relatively quiet by his standards but did not make an error. It was a shame Silvagni got injured because he was trying his heart out before that.
Our players kept giving one too many handballs and they always came unstuck which let Richmond back in. Also, I'd like to know how many goals we kicked from set shots as opposed to the Tigers, I think you will see that there is a rather big gulf between the two.
I think the 25-point margin flattered us in the end and we are desperate for some of the guys missing tonight to get back into the team.
Disappointed on many levels and feel resigned to another year of "maybe", "what if" and "great potential" being heard.
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A win would have been a bonus. Too many injuries up against the premiers. More interested in how we go next week.
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Looks like yet another year of my wife saying. “They did well to only get beaten by that much!” and I can hear the same thing in the comments on here. Too many players just not good enough, yet I read comments about give them a few games in a row! I thought development was over this was the year blah blah blah would rather have a go hard at it like Cottrell in than timid over the shoulder looker O’Brien. Fumbles, poor kicking missed tackles week after week year after year from too many players. Richmond did what they do to us every year held us at arms length then stepped on the gas and pulled away. Yet we think we did alright, they knew they would win from the opening bounce and only toyed with us. Result was a four goal win, not a scrapping pressure four point anyone’s game till the siren. 4 goals.
First bloke sacked should be fitness guru Russell, been there long enough to make an impact yet we never have our best team available, never. Richmond had Cotchin out with food poisoning no injury just crook. We always run out of gas at the wrong time and bleed easy goals from tired errors.
Too many cameo kids who we hope will come good. Hope is a bloody painful thing after twenty years☹️
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I'm 100 % hearing you Tommy. WTF are we gassed in red time relative to other sides, why aren't we fit enough? These are serious questions that need to be asked of Russell and the so-called conditioning people.
We've also got too many blokes that don't contribute anywhere near enough often enough When are blokes like Harry or SPS ever going to deliver on their potential? They've had enough games now, no more "potential" bs. I've never seen a player burn as many chances as Harry, plays like a millionaire but really all he's delivered is hype.
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?
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Clarkson won't tolerate SPS not putting in defensively, Doherty constantly fumbling, LOB looking around instead of just doing what's required or Harry spraying it like a 2 y.o. toilet training.... Seconds the following week and culled end of the year.
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?
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I was also expecting a bigger loss, and those last couple of goals by the Tigers gave a false impression of the gap between the teams. There's still work to be done, but our best 22 would have made it very interesting. The Tigers will do a lot more damage than that to better teams than us this season, don't worry about that.
Good effort, and at last we have a few decent raw materials to work with.
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Still too many doing too little....
Could have, arguably should have....didn't.
Finals, then 4 in a row!
