Makes sense and explains why hampson was used in most of the centre bounces in the 4th. Seems the coaches have more information than some know it alls on talkback and this site.

great interview!!!
most interesting thing he said was..the midfield group appraised him,and the feedback was given by Gibbs and Murphy.
What they like..don't like..what could be better..what is crap etc.
Ratts said everybody gets appraised, and everyone can do better.
That is how they will grow and challenge themselves as a group.
They told him another time that he was too tense before big rival games, and he changed his behaviour.He was happy with the defence group.
especially Duigan, who he had personally challenged after Collingwood.
He loved White's game..and Jammo.
He brought the sub on late because Warnock had an injury worry, and they weren't sure what would happen there..also..no too early so they could keep the advantage with 3 rotating on bench.
Praised Essendon*'s grit and determination.

Had the feeling they have bonded well as a group and coach.

ps. Jimmae...other teams are only putting their tough players right in the mid...and using players like our Murph/Gibbs to spread wide and go.
I heard Dermie addressing this last week.
it is being talked about a fair bit, and you'd reckon we will pick it up pretty soon???

I wish people would realize its not winning/losing/drawing. I expected to win yesterday but even if we had have won from what i saw I would have not walked away happy (except for beating Essendon*). The reason is because I think we should be top 6 at least - but that means we have to start playing 4 quarters of ruthless/balanced football. We never seem to get it all right. The defense was much better this week. The attack was woeful for the same reasons (I think) as last week and against Richmond. Wrong selections.

For me this year is about how we can become better. If we don't Ratts will be sacked. I'd actually rather he made it cos I loved Ratts as a player. I'd love to seem him hold the cup aloft.
He must make improvements in this team and I think that means his selections must improve. His and the whole selection committee. For his sake, he must. Carlton will be around next year and, if Essendon* is anything to go by, a change in coach will not set us back any time at all. But I'd like Ratts to make it. So he must bite the bullet:

I think Hampson is not working - but I see that with Cas out perhaps we have no other alternatives - still if it ain't working don't keep it the same and do it harder - change it.
Maybe Waite can relieve Warnock for a few minutes each quarter, Maybe Hendo, Maybe Bower - I do not know I just know Hampson is not working.

Betts has struggled. How many weeks do we allow him to struggle? Why not try someone else? Must we have some players who play regardless of form? Is that smart? And for how long?

Is Carrots instructed not to run past? Can you have that instruction? Must we accept his kicking or is it time to bite the bullet? Do we wait a year or two?

Are we an in and under player short? Ellard?

A runner short - Armfield?

Not worried about Hendo - first game back but 2 of those in a row and surely he'd have to get dropped to get his fitness/touch back.

Was really pleased with White so can Watson play as a marking target? Can White? He seemed to make a difference when he went forward for a time yesterday (if he did go forward, I thought he did but it may have been the sun in my eyes ) .

Who else can we try?

I want to see improvement. I expect it this year. We all do. But I am seeing the same tendency of this club to just keep going on the same way.

I hope the axe falls on 3/4 players - I hope those players then go back and show they have the right stuff

I just am sick of a forward line out of whack.

I think this list is so close it ain't funny but we must still get everything right. Are we doing that? Are those injuries just hurting us too much?

My points are all valid, without those player errors we would have won, carry on though

Look at the replay and watch Waite. He goes back to take his kick, glances slightly to the boundary as if he's heard something then immediately turns around and sees Simmo. As the camera pans for the kick back to Simmo you do briefly see someone with a blue top and long pants just in the corner of the screen. I really hope to God it wasn't Ratts telling him to kick it backwards. When I saw Waite do that I thought there must only be 30 secs on the clock.

Yet we have posters here during the week saying he needs to fire up more during the week before games against traditional rivals.

Just slowed it up on the IQ and watched it and I have no idea what on earth you are on about.

He doesn't glance at the boundary at all, in fact his only glance is behind and slightly to his right which is the opposite direction of the boundary and he immediately kicks it to Simpson.

After all the teeth gnashing and great fury from the less intelligent posters on here some things need to be considered. The following events happened yesterday that influenced the result, none of which were ratt's fault
Collins making numerous errors, ok we picked him but thats the extent of the selectors fault.
Simpson's on the full - simple skill error that cost us
Garlett playing on, we wouldn't be discussing this if he had have settled after marking
JR stepping over the line kicking in
Laidler (I think) stepping out of bounds while kicking
Hampson and Henderson underperforming, despite numerous opportunities they didn't step up
Inaccurate kicking early.

The only thing you can really complain about is using the sub so late, despite how badly we played we still didn't lose.

If we'd made less errors in the 93 and 86 grandfinal, we would have 18 premierships.

That would a million less errors compared to just one given the pumping we got in those GF's.

Just slowed it up on the IQ and watched it and I have no idea what on earth you are on about.

He doesn't glance at the boundary at all, in fact his only glance is behind and slightly to his right which is the opposite direction of the boundary and he immediately kicks it to Simpson.