King is a bit like that.

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Bile E. Beveridge, the New Age of Stupid footy guru the AFL picked up on the cheap from some suburban dole office, is now contributing his last remaining brain cells to solving the Carlton Enigma. Punters may remember his recent plunge to the bottom of the sleaze barrel, when together with Klick Cornes, he released - on the AFL's flagship internet face - an exciting video reveal of Luke Shuey picking his nose in the West Coast coaches box. It is no surprise that Chump Data predicted that the chances of Klick being Riley's partner in this dive to the bottom as 100%.

However, in defence of Riley, it must be said that these stats-based articles are a godsend to those, and there are many of them, who know knob-all about football.

And I am one of them. I never realised until I read this article, that Carlton always kicked out to the boundary (sometimes past it), and IF we won the ball, we would creep around the boundary (stopping occasionally for a cigarette or a friendly exchange with one of the opposition). Sometimes we would attempt to confuse the opposition by kicking backwards (although the opposition mainly ignored this tactic and kept running, now unhindered, to our forward line). When, or if, within cooee of the forward 50, we would bomb indiscriminately to the crowd that had gathered there, hoping that one of our key forwards could mark it and kick the ball somewhere in the direction of the goalsticks, using, alternatively, straight kick (rarely), round-the-corner, dribbler, banana kick, combination round-the-corner-dribbler, mostly using our non-preferred foot (which for some players is both their left and their right foot).

I also never realised that if we ran and moved the ball with more speed, kicked accurately, used the corridor occasionally and kicked to some of our other forwards, we would have a better chance of winning.

Thanks Bile E. Looking forward to your next footy video showing, in a private moment, Pumpkin Head pulling his finger out of his backside and sticking it in Klick's ear. Or thereabouts...

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

:lol:

I don't watch the footy shows , but saw that post somewhere here....

Everytime I hear a commentator saying something that is clearly not happening, i want to smash TV, THUS i don't watch them... I'm not made of TVs you know!

TC is my only guilty pleasure... Thanks All!!

Go Blues

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The Age (Nial)...

"None of this is to imply that criticism hasn’t been justified, or that the Blues don’t have issues with personnel, game style or cohesion".

How quickly everyone forgets.
Why is the gamestyle last year so good and this year no good?
Why did we have the personnel last year but not this year? Who has changed?
Only value point raised is cohesion which I believe has more to do with personnel consistency than anything else
No one mentioned skills especially kicking for goal which if we were better we would have won last Saturday.

Agree

I agree we should have won last week but you can't compare to last season as a whole. Our game style changed markedly from the first part of the season to the second half. Early we had a field day putting players out the front of stoppages with looping handballs. Similar to Melbourne. Opposition teams soon worked that out once we had some success, and expectedly ran half backs in off the back of the square cutting it off. We had our half forwards dropping off but the opposition defenders ignored them. Hence our main strength was reduced. Look at the goals our mids kicked last year compared to this.

So almost all teams are doing the same now as an offensive move and take the risk of leaving a half forward on his own. Players like Daicos and Sheezel are making a career out of it. Half backs who don't consider picking up an opponent.

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Ah now now we didn't win, there is no such thing as shoulda coulda woulda won, we didn't win and that is all there is to it, we weren't good enough.

My personal view is the players are panicking now and that is affecting their execution.

I will concede we have played some good teams but tough luck, I mean this is a results driven competition. We have simply been short of what was needed.

We play some inferior (I think) sides in the second half of the year so we will get some wins but at the end of the day the coach has not been able to respond to opposition teams taking away his centre square forward handball masterstroke that gave us 8 wins from 10 games early last year.

Do we have a lot of quick players that could help move the ball quicker? No, but I have always been of the view that if you have players who handle and execute the ball well then you look quick. I mean Diesel, Ratts and Fraser Brown weren't quick but by jingoes they made the game move fast.

Sack him now

Why waste time?

Start training the players in a new game plan now

One that works

Let’s be innovative

Terminate some contracts

If we do that, who replaces him?

…and how has that worked anytime in the last 20 years?

How about we do something different and stick with a coach for six years?

How about we give Voss the opportunity to change the game plan over the next few years?

Totally get that
Stability
But I just don't think the guy has a clue about game styles
His tactical IQ is low
Personal view

He just has to be braver. Ask the boys to take the
game on. Move the magnets around.
Take Hollands off. Move Ed to Sidebottom.

This is my thought. We've sacked enough coaches, mostly prematurely, over the last 10-20 years. Why would this be any different? We'd have the usual short revival then fall away, again.

Even when we get on top of the contest we can't kick goals such is the hapless game plan

How's the stat they read out
Something about Coll 11 marks I50 spread across 8 players vs Carlton 3 marks across 2 players

That is all you need to know why our game style sucks the big one so bad
So predictable
It's a joke

Fish rots at the head
The primary fault rests with the board who keep appointing shit coaches

Very poor use of Kennedy again. Doesn't play him enough on ball.

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