As painful as it is to watch, I'm really glad that Bolton is sticking to the plan.

We need to play all our older players to work out who stays and who goes at the end of the year. You can't teach kids by just throwing them out against men and have a chat to them during the quarter time breaks on what they are doing wrong.

I think Bolton is assessing who he can trust to teach the kids, as they come through, the game style that he wants them to play and follow the team rules during the game.

Our forward line is our biggest issue for 2 reasons, firstly because our lack of talent, but also because our lack of leaders. We have Doc and Simmo in the back half, Murphy & Gibbs in the middle, but no-one up forward.

Without someone directing traffic up forward, time after time we are bombing it to a pack of Casbolt, the resting ruck and Everitt / Walker. Silvagni impresses me in that he does not get sucked into the pack, but makes space for himself and his teammates, and considering that all our hopeful forwards are 1st year players, perhaps he may be the one to direct the forward line in the same way his old man did the back line in the future.

I have been hearing next season for 16 years or more.
You talk about me writing silly posts.
Its always next season

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I hear that we're rebuilding everything about the club (except the board, because they're all irreplaceable) and it will fix everything, don't know why we never tried this in the last 15 years....

Can't wait to see the results of the rebuild next year, or is it the year after, or is it this year........


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My interest in this season took a hit at the loss to St Kilda, then the bye happened and now I find that I look at the AFL website on Monday morning and realise that we actually played a game on the weekend. I somehow think I'm not the only one who is like that either.

Slowly but surely, I too find myself dropping off. I find the lack of skill too frustrating and now that I no longer attend games the temptation to go do something else too great.

I've even started following local footy.

I'm dead-set against trading Gibbs and have argued against it in the past, but I've never seen anyone float the idea of trading Cripps. What on earth? The idea of loading up on draft picks is that you may uncover a few guns that will carry the club for the next decade. In Cripps, we already have that. So what would possess you to trade him? You'd be taking a big gamble and yet the best case scenario is you end up with someone of similar quality.

Yeah but if we trade Cripps we can get a young player in. He'll be 30 soon

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Um, nothing.

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Essendon-Only team to have ever been found guilty of salary cap breaches in a premiership year!

To put into context Carlton's performance yesterday:

Adrian Polykandrites ‏@NABFW

Fourth-quarter points conceded by Adelaide the past 5 weeks: 10, 0, 7, 9, 9

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Absolutely. A 30 year-old 6 foot 8, plodding centreman whose only trick is third-man-up in the ruck.

Sakc! And while we're at it, play all Carlton-Collingwood games at Princes(s) Park.

Let's show the bastards!!!!!

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After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F .........
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Good to see that we didn't upset their average

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Clearly you can't count

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That's an amazing stat. Coupled with their scoring potency (apparently averaging 30 scoring shots per game), no wonder they're flying.

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We are on our way back...

yeah, right.

WOW

Just wow

Dropped off Carlton because the lack of skill is too frustrating ....... So you've started following local footy...... Ok. Skill in local footy must have picked up since the last time I looked.....

I didn't think Bolton had his best day yesterday. They constantly had a spare player in defense and we would always fall in to the trap of kicking it to an out numbered contest. He admitted that he was aware of this in the press conference when a reporter asked why he chose not to man up Rory Laird, he claimed he didn't want it to effect our other structures. I can understand if you start a game this was, but clearly it wasn't working for us and we needed to recognize this and make some changes.

or perhaps for Bolts at this stage winning isn't the be all.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

this

You just blew 80% of TC members minds. They are currently staring at their computers muttering "what?"