If it was the old days, Dominator and Jimmy Buckley would’ve given the snarta*** Jaspar Pittard his deserved whack. Hope the tryhard tough guy enjoyed the final result.

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Teague was a tough player but not in that manner.
I was thinking at 3/4 time he should say what Wallsy said about Clarkson.

We don't have anybody who will make these flower accountable. Cripps has never retaliated like he did last night so whatever set it off must have been pretty severe. The Pittard thing was right on the siren. After the siren went, someone should have charged him and sat him on his arse like he did to Murphy. No report, maybe a melee to follow but we can't be seen as soft cocks like we are currently perceived.
Remember how they pushed Weitering around in 2018? He just put up with it over and over again being called a sook on and off the field. If it had have been me and I was in danger of getting dropped to the twos on form anyway, I'd have broken someone's nose and taken the six weeks.
Maybe we can give Moore one final game with a bonus for weeks served. He has the tough haircut.

It's why I wanted us to go hard for Powell Pepper last year. he couldn't get a game at PA but he can play and he is a hard nut. Look at him now. One of their better performed players every week.

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To be polite I reckon you and few others are talking shit implying where superior to teams like North
They have no Cunnington and Ziebell and Jacobs is arguable the best tagger in the comp when fit
They may have won if it wasn’t for that flog Pittard
We are a middle of the road side at best. We were comprehensively beaten in the last 3 quarters.
Mc Governs loss had little impact on that
In saying that I do agree with King Kerna that we can make the eight
But a bit of perspective man
We are 4 and 4
Essendon* and Melbourne have played 2 games less
I like coming on here and balancing the opinions

I agree with most of what you say Jim
The club has been starved of success for a long time
I also agree there is light at the end of the tunnel
The thing is I find it amazing when posters write stuff like “when we play a shit side we play to our standard not theirs” I think that person is a bigger flog than Jasper Pittard
We not miles better than North

I won’t repeat the 3 blokes that North are missing

In saying all this we can make the eight in such a weird even season

As far as Ratten is concerned we appointed him after he coached a season in a suburban league and a short stint as an assistant I think at Melbourne
He wasn’t ready to be a senior AFL coach and it showed in 2012 when we got injuries, he had no plan
B and the club had over rated the list
He was ready in 2020 because he has done his apprenticeship at Hawthorn

Hopefully the days of the appointment of inexperienced club legends like Ratten Hird and Voss are gone
And guys over the hill and outdated flogs like Malthouse

Yes I know North had some guns out but we have Charlie H Newman Fisher Dow JSOS Marchbank Kreuzer not playing and McGovern off in the first quarter effectively
North are immeasurably better with those players but surely we would be immeasurably better with Charlie and H
Newman and Marchbank would also arguably be in our best 22
The fact that we had to play Moore shows we are a bit stretched for players atm

Our list is better than North but marginally at this stage however I think we have more growth and potential than them
Not our best performance but take the win after 5 years bank it
Hope next time the umpires don’t let Anderson and pittard block and hold our best 2 players and they don’t get an armchair ride with the umps then let’s see how they go

I’ll be there Friday
I’ll give you a comprehensive report on how Eddie plays

https://twitter.com/CarltonFC/status/1287157896698986496

Just saw the replay of North's free for their 9th goal.

No one will ever convince me umpires don't - at least subconsciously, possibly deliberately - make calls to encourage an exciting finish.

Lucky you!.. and thanks..

Go Blues!

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Oh I see what you are saying now Jim. Cheers. I won’t waste my breath/fingers.

Couldn't agree more Effes. Normally I don't notice the camera work too much, the odd glitch aside, but it was terrible on numerous occasions yesterday. It was like the cameraman was chatting to a mate and kept forgetting to keep up with the play. And what's with that picture-in-picture rubbish they keep doing that clogs up quarter of the screen and blocks the live play, driving me bonkers.

you think you provide balance?

if by balance you mean 95% of your stuff is negative and 5% is positive, and even then the positive is sprinkled with negative, then sure...balance

I like winning!
Go Blues!!!!!!

There is a difference between negativity and reality
The reality is we are 9 th with four teams below us who have played less games.

So in terms of the ladder that is where we are at.
Of course with sport anything can happen particularly in this crazy year
I think we are still an average side getting better.
How much better is the unknown.

I barrack for Carlton but I’m not one eyed and so utterly 100 % biased like some on here.
There were a few posters like me on here who have gone but I like giving the other point of view.
Example of that the umpiring yesterday
It was terrible both ways particularly when the rain came.
Clearly the umpires have been instructed to pay the holding the ball when the guy has a milli second to get rid of it. This is to keep the game moving because overall the game is an ordinary spectacle at the moment. Problem is when a forward gets pinged he has an eternity to get rid of it because the umpires shit themselves about handing a goal to a team.
In happened to both teams yesterday not just Carlton

In regards to being negative on players
I have Given a pat on the back to Kennedy and Setterfield two guys I have bagged
Kennedy has obviously finally realized how fit you have to be
Setterfield is growing in confidence which is good to see
They need to
They cost us pick 28 around a pick 20 and pick 43
They need to play like that on a regular basis with Cripps struggling

To call a team shit and imply that our brand is superior when we have a 50% win/loss record after being in the football wilderness for 8 years is such a biased retarded comment it deserves some response

I will be there Friday cheering the guys on but tempered with realistic expectations
That’s the way I roll
Yes we should beat Hawthorn on form but form fluctuates in a very even competition
If the players think “Hawthorn is shit” we are in serious trouble

We need to learn the art of pack brutality, ie. next time Pittard goes into a contested situation, he comes out feeling the full affects of the contest.

You're on fire Keogh

Retarded sorry typo
A slowing of the process
In this case Jim’s brain

I’m intrigued to think we could As easily be sitting 6 and 2 and clear top of the ladder, or 2 and 6 and only Adelaide below us - with The 4 games decided last second (of which we have a 2 and 2 record which is probably about right)

So our game play (apart from the last minute) is both the best and the worst in the comp and Half way through the season we have a chance to choose our destiny. 9 and 8 with an ok percentage should go close to making finals. Beat the teams below us like we should, and pick off one of the teams around us and we go close.

Week in, week out I’m interested In the games and it’s been many years since that has been the case

You take any win
After years of losing I am happy when we win.
I don't care how it is just better winning than losing

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The only fire is the hot wind coming out of his arse. He's not on my foes list for nothing.