Wasn’t that our win-loss record??


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Or simply frustrated we had 3 or 4 changes a week for the back half of the year.

Bridge built...just looked at Round 15 side that flogged Geelong. Out: Fog, Cinc, Charlie, Boyd, Owies. In : Pitt, Doc , Young, Motlop, Cerra. Don't know what it all means but ball would not have come out of our forward line as easily as it did on Saturday.

Yup….

just Cinc…Boyd…Fog and Owies…we have a lot
of speed and tackle power right there…!


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Who doesn’t love tackle power…!

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The rot started when Cerra and Cottrell walked straight back into the side as though they’re the second coming of prime Judd and Cousins. Dropping Hewett, Kennedy etc. as sub or even completely omitted - of course that’s gonna create factions and unrest.

And apparently this is the draft to have a good hand.
Deep into the second round there should be good talent.
We only have picks 11 and 31 in the first 3 rounds with 2 father-sons to pick up.
Hopefully we get something for Martin and we manage to trade out some players, even a player with value if we can.
Another first rounder would be great or early second at least.

Maybe GC will want to shift one of this years into next. They’ve got 3.

They will have to give one up for Rioli, most likely pick 6.
They also have Leo Lombard who should go before our pick, but they do have 2 in the 2nd round at the moment as well.
They might give us Lukosius for sweet FA though.
Time for Austin to show his worth.

I think TDK's 10/10 game was the main reason we won that game. So you can add 50%TDK time.

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Pressure and contest.

We laid 42 tackles in a whole Finals game. FMD.
Those blokes would have helped improve that stat alone.

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GCS will want to get rid of No 1 picks before Lombards selection.
Lucosius is on a back ended contract.
If we want him cheap, we have to fit him into the cap.
He'd be handy at CHB.

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A replacement for McGovern? Is that an upgrade?

the whole world could see we didn't select enough players who could and would apply pressure.

cincotta and lord would have helped to no end.

and selecting doc was just self indulgent and dumb.

100%

I've been saying for ages that something stunk in the locker room (and not just farts and BO) because of the Cerra Cotterel inclusion

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In the backline he'd be a replacement for Kemp I'd have thought.
Can go forward and can play wing.
Maybe GCS could cover part of his salary (Grundy like deal), unlikely though given the deal they just gave Mac Andrew.

i posted at the the time we hit second on the ladder that we didn’t feel like a legit top two side. i’ll be more careful what i say in the future!

when a team has scored 0-0-0 v 60 at two minutes to half time it’s a truly extraordinary occurence, as if designed by the footy gods themselves to send CFC a message. (to me it’s the AMPOL sponsorship but that’s just my deeply subjective yet principled view) .

and i hope the club codifies this embarrassment into a code word which can be uttered in its stead to mean “go to jail, do not collect feel good vibes as you pass september 2024. whatever this is a symptom of, it must be rectified before anything else can be addressed. it’s foundation level stuff.”

so you can say playing Carol, Cinc, Moir as a supersub for a start wouldn’t have been *enough*. but by the same token we can say that something was has been so rotten in Denmark in 2024 we clearly selected a team for an Elimination Final that was going to make us the laughing stock of the AFL in 2024. injuries or not, 0-0-0 by two minutes *before half time*. is as bad as it gets. the broadcast commentators were laughingly invoking a record set in 1908 for scoring no goals in the first half.

carlton have to study the entrails of this loss as a coaching group. it’s not enough to be deeply disappointed but in the other hand keen to learn from it and move on. that’s not learning. that’s going through the motions of wrote learning. that’s having lines ready for the journalists asking hard questions.

i think either the most of players didn’t turn up mentally (hard to believe) or the footy gods were against us for whateva reasons. karma in other words. Brisbane dominated from the first bounce even though it took a while for the dominance to show on the scoreboard. can’t think of one player who beat a direct opponent in the first half, other than Ollie possibly if he was on Lachie Neal (i’m guessing about that) Neal was quiet by his high standards in the first half. but he wasn’t needed given the team domination by Lions.

i’ve always rate the Lions list as being one of the best in AFL for sheer talent and players with ₓx-factor and versatility to positions and adapting to new game tactics. but they somehow don’t gel enough, in spite of going a kick short of a premiership in 2023.

but to not score for nearly two quarters is a message the Blues hiérarchy need to decipher. carefully and with wisdom.

not that i disagree. was a bad selection decision both on principle and in hindsight. but i honestly can’t believe that we dropped the bundle against GWS in the second quarter simply because of that. no way. there’s more to this demise than one pair of entitlement picks to underdone players. even if it was symptomatic of deeper problems in our coaching and MC team. there’s no shortage of players from previous successful eras around the joint to be a sounding board on selection principles (e.g. never risk underdone or seriously injured players, never select on reputation over form etc etc). none of this is making any sense. hope we find out one day what’s going on and who’s laying cables in the swimming pool.

I think we dropped our bundle during the GWS game mostly because we thought we’d done enough. Basically, we bought into the hype.
And then we rationalised it away because we were still 2nd with a buffer. And then we were still 2nd even though we’d lost the buffer. And, you know, we will just flick the switch when we really need to. And then we ‘should’ have beaten the dogs and whilst we scraped in against North, well, they’d been playing good footy.
And we can just flick the switch when we need to…

I sincerely hope that the whole team is laser focused on what happened in the first half against Brisbane. That pretty much encapsulates most of what our deficiencies are: game plan, on field performance, injuries/player mgt, selection, messaging, cohesion, psychology… everything!

As John Howard famously noted, you can’t fatten a pig on market day!

(I would also note that elite sportsmen should not muck around with other ball sports on game day! #mcGrath #Curnow)


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We dropped our bundle in the Giants game because
Charlie rolled his ankle pregame
TDK copping a knock spending most of the 2nd quarter on the bench
Weiters copping corky in 1st and didn't return until late in the 2nd and played game out sore
McGovern spending most of the 2nd quarter and part of the 3rd in the rooms being treated.

When they all got back on the park in the last we came home strong to only lose by 2 goals.

You can't have that much talent injured and sitting on the pine and expect to beat a top 4 side.
We out scored them 13 goals to 4 when they were all on the paddock

We got out scored 14 goals to 3 when they were mostly off field

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