The Year in Review - 2015

bluedog · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:10 pm

Negatives:

Judd injury
All-time club losing margin
Wooden spoon
Everitt's one finger goal celebrations
Sacking of coach (maybe a positive)

Positives:

Collingwood not making the finals
Essendon* not making the finals
Essendon* drug saga
Hodge caught for drink driving (maybe a negative)
Collingwood not making the finals
Cripps

Feel free to put in AFL thread.

ryan2000 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:34 pm

Disgrace.

Hope everybody who was crying out for that #1 pick are happy. Like that's going to solve our problems.

Donstuie · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:39 pm

2015 didn't happen...understood?

Humpers · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:28 pm **Posts:** 4907

Positives:
Cripps
Kreuzer stringing together half a season unscathed
Getting pick #1 in the draft and PSD

Toranasaurus · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:58 pm

The culmination of 15 years of complete ineptitude.

camel · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:02 pm

It was shit.

/thread

TomAlvin'sWig · **Joined:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 12:11 pm **Posts:** 1654

Toranasaurus wrote:

The culmination of 15 years of complete ineptitude.

That's it really.

This has to be a complete reset.

I barely hung in as a member this year. I'm glad I did, but we can't afford any more stumbles.

And that Board, with Gleeson still on it among others, who's overseen two spoons now, is mind boggling.

bluedog · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 10:12 pm

Saints kick lowest score of the year (I believe).

Michael Jezz · **Joined:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:52 pm **Posts:** 2044

Annus Horribulus. I have supported Carlton since 78 and 2015 was the low point. The round 2 "everyone is tradeable" was an adminastrative brain fade of the highest order and then our club leaders started to redeem themselves
However, I truly believe we have hit the bottom of the J curve and have embraced modern AFL
Proper List management
Process for selection of a coach
Even selflessness of Germinder, Fahour resignations
We need 5 years of patience and hopefully impatience does not force us to implode.
We will get there.

grrofunger · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:47 pm

bluedog wrote:

Saints kick lowest score of the year (I believe).

I just sat through that at subiaco, was painful

toddkurnski · **Joined:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:27 am **Posts:** 3581

grrofunger wrote:

bluedog wrote:

Saints kick lowest score of the year (I believe).

I just sat through that at subiaco, was painful

Did you enjoy the Mexican wave? What year is it there anyway...

grrofunger · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:53 pm

it;s 1997 , we just learned the mexican wave, so many giggles and good times had by all whilst waving their hands in the air

Bluey44 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2015 9:14 am

Negatives
- the spoon - there's simply no good way to spin it.
- The coaching explosion
- The lack of leadership/competitiveness / spirit /mojo
- Hendo walking out, Yarran checking out, Kreuzer giving up
- no more Judd
- the Jones and Tutt deals
- Record losing margin
- Andy McKay
- the look on Carrazzo 's face after the final siren

Positives
- A proper recruitment process for coach
- SOS
- Cripps
- Bell, Buckley,
- the hovercraft
- a smaller board

WA Blue · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2015 12:49 pm

Negs;
Judd goneski
Yarran
Hendo
Malthouse
Embarrased to be a bluebagger

Pos;
Cripps I'll by another membership for his efforts alone
Essendon** saga continues. Biggest pos yet to come...
Season has ended

2ndeffort · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:14 pm

idle · **Joined:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:48 pm **Posts:** 931

I know people are stoked Essendon* are finished, and Collingwood got nowhere, but for me, when you have teams like Essendon*, Collingwood and Carlton failing to make finals, the GAME itself blows.

Year in review?

How the AFL has systematically ruined this once great game?

I for one cannot wait to watch Freo v Westcoast play off in a grand final ...

And I certainly cant wait for the upcoming grand finals of GWS v Suns ...

Another Brisbane era should be awesome ...

Does anyone remember the Richmond v Carlton final? Anyone remember the spine tingling ROAR of the crowd that day? THAT'S FOOTBALL!!!

Collingwood out, Essendon* out and Carlton with another spoon? Does anyone see something horribly wrong with this picture?

The AFL might think national expansion is the best thing since sliced bread, but when I see teams like Collingwood, Essendon* and Carlton going nowhere fast, I see the game going nowhere faster.

2015 for me is another example of how this once great game is being slowly destroyed by the AFL.

Interstate grand finals have ZERO importance in my home and will not be watched PERIOD! What do I give a sh*t about GWS, Freo, Sydney, Port, Westcoast and so on?

You want to see a spectacle that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end? Collingwood v Carlton grand final. Essendon* v Carlton grand final.

100,000+ mental supporters inside the MCG with the entire world hanging on the outcome. THAT'S FOOTBALL!!!!!

What is called football today, hell I don't know what to call it, but it ain't a camels butt hole on what I remember football to be.

The AFL can try as they might to promote and sensationalise the game all they can, grand final parade through the middle of town with GWS v Sun's players in the cars? HUH? what a joke!

I'm lucky enough to remember those parades when it was Collingwood v Carlton and believe me, the parades leading up to the big day were magical.

2015 another crap year were football takes a step closer to nothingness ...

bluehammer · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:39 pm

Well said idle

toddkurnski · **Joined:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:27 am **Posts:** 3581

The Good
New Coach
Cripps
Graham before his injury
Buckley's improvement

The OK
Touhy seem to get back some form
Murphy's solid form
Seeing Walker play forward again
Boekhorst showing signs
Casboult's goalkicking improvement
Kruezer stringing games together
The failure of the Pies, Dons and now hopefully Tiges and Hawks

The bad
Thomas shoulder Rd.1 - Betts dominance
Our injury management (just from the outside seems awful)
The gameplan
Our skills
Henderson
Yarran
Jones
Tutt
The two Irish boys struggling to get on the park

The Horrible
Mick Malthouse
The Friday night beltings
Not a single memorable victory
The record loss
Wooden Spoon
The Round Two Rebuild
Judd's Knee - Kennedy's Coleman

Thanks Ellard and Carrazzo. Bring on 2016.

london blue · **Joined:** Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:08 pm **Posts:** 3248

positives

1) hopefully this WS is the catalyst for real change
2) cripps
3) buckley and bell
4) cas's kicking
5) blooding young blokes and giving them a regualar game ( i guees we had no choice in the end)
6) no bullshit from J Barker
7) krooz's return

dannyboy · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2015 1:51 pm

So it was the AFL that made Essendon* hire Hird and then the whole drug saga?

It was the AFL that told Carlton to trade for Brock, for Warnock, for Watson, Lucas, Mitchell McCarthy Mcinnes Jones, Tutt (just to name some)? To throw away draft picks like discarded paper at a ticker-tape parade? To always want what others have and never think about developing what we have got? To waste money, to waste talent, to waste years?

Truth is Essendon* and Carlton are 2 shit clubs.

Has Carlton finally begin to turn it around? We'll know in about three years I think. Will we finally draft and then develop? Have we finally found a modern coach?

I know the AFL have done some crap things but compared to this club of ours they are the smartest, most well run sporting organization in the world.

The Year in Review - 2015

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