AFL Rd 12 Post Game Passing Carlton vs Melbourne

[laj]

The most disappointing season of the last 20 as we were ready to go and expecting so much better. Such a letdown. At least other years we knew we were crap or not quite ready. Playing the worst brand of footy imaginable, can't kick a goal and seemingly don't care  where the ball goes when we have it. Thought we were good for top 4 to 6 this year. Instead we will be 14th by the ending of the weekend with 5 successive losses.

How far backwards can one side go.

[madbluboy]

Motlop pressures but he can't tackle.
Owies has really improved this year.

Cripps and Walsh have no defensive side and their offence is C grade at the moment.

[LP]

I thought this game was big moment this game for Young and SoJ, and I'm afraid neither stood up.

Stupid stupid MC decision to go into this game with TDK and SoJ, I assume Mirkov and pretty much any other ruck option is injured and unavailable.

I'll be surprised if we haven't lost another 3 or 4 players tonight to injuries.

[madbluboy]

I thought this game was big moment this game for Young and SoJ, and I'm afraid neither stood up.

Stupid stupid MC decision to go into this game with TDK and SoJ, I assume Mirkov and pretty much any other ruck option is injured and unavailable.

I'll be surprised if we haven't lost another 3 or 4 players tonight to injuries.

TDK did well considering he was battling the double Gs all night, showed he belongs and we were stupid to drop him.

[Macca37]

Shawny summed it up in the in game thread when he said we are a middle tier side at best.

[LP]

TDK did well considering he was battling the double Gs all night, showed he belongs and we were stupid to drop him.

I doubt we'll retain him now.

We would have been slaughtered tonight if not for Weiters, McGovern and Kemp, Kemp's best game for the club.

It looks like Cerra is our only fit midfielder, all the others look broken! Walsh had no pre-season it's catching up on him, Cripps looks injured, Kennedy is injured.

[LoveNavy]

The most disappointing season of the last 20 as we were ready to go and expecting so much better. Such a letdown. At least other years we knew we were crap or not quite ready. Playing the worst brand of footy imaginable, can't kick a goal and seemingly don't care  where the ball goes when we have it. Thought we were good for top 4 to 6 this year. Instead we will be 14th by the ending of the weekend with 5 successive losses.

How far backwards can one side go.

We have the credentials to go all the way - backwards.

[ElwoodBlues1]

The most disappointing season of the last 20 as we were ready to go and expecting so much better. Such a letdown. At least other years we knew we were crap or not quite ready. Playing the worst brand of footy imaginable, can't kick a goal and seemingly don't care  where the ball goes when we have it. Thought we were good for top 4 to 6 this year. Instead we will be 14th by the ending of the weekend with 5 successive losses.

How far backwards can one side go.

Yep.....it was a crap standard game and we didnt have to be on by much to beat Melbourne who were not that great and would have got smashed by a lot of other teams but we are just so off at the moment we cant play one solid quarter of football that isnt full of silly costly mistakes.

[Gointocarlton]

Motlop pressures but he can't tackle.
Owies has really improved this year.

Cripps and Walsh have no defensive side and their offence is C grade at the moment.

Cerra was our best mid by a very long way, almost played a lone hand. We just need more centre clearances and goals from the mids, small fwds are non existent and we dont have a HFFer who can be dangerous.
In the end, they kicked more poorly than us in front of goal (if that's even possible) and should have won by 5-6 goals.
Oh well, they can sook it up tonight, get up tomorrow morning and load up again.

[LordLucifer]

Every freakin' time O'Brien took a mark, he stood still and slowed everything down and then more times than not, kicked it directly to a Dees player.

WTF ???

Who thought it was a good idea to give him a rookie contract ?? Whoever you are, you should be sacked straight after O'Brien is !!

We need to scour the land in the off-season for another two fowards, not midgets, players of mid-size who can mark & kick goals. Every time we looked like we were going to get on a roll, Fritzch or Van Royen marked and kicked a goal. We need players like them, we are two predictable with the current Curnow/McKay combo because if they fail, so does the whole team. The move of Young to the forwardline completely changed the whole dynamic which exemplifies why we need another couple of capable soldiers..

I'm really struggling with Acres, turns it over too often for my liking.

And Dow is not out of his depth at this level, he just looks like he lacks a bit of confidence which is to be expected after the way he has been sent to purgatory.

We do have some dumb footballers though, wrong options kill us every week.

There was some very good passages of play which was an improvement on previous weeks but until we find a way to kick at least 10-12 goals per week, we are never a chance.