http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-06-07/who-makes-our-midseason-all-australian-team

Cripps leads or is a leader of nearly every Award thus far in 2018. A top 2 or 5 in every poll.

Yet he doesn't make the Best 22 with the AFL staff writers at the mid point of the season.

These guys destroy the hopes of young kids following Carlton, who not only has a rich history dating back to 1864 but also one of the original founders of VFA VFL and AFL. Swans supporters in Sydney make fun of Carlton supporters with the only information they can glean: Foxtel and afl's website. I have to stop my kids reading the internet and 360.

They disgust me, and the effect they have on my kids. One of my kids just said, that the AFL really hate Carlton if this is what they think of Cripps. This follows all the negative propaganda the Barrets, Robbos and Whateleys have written or said about Carlton this year.

Are they suppose to be promoting the AFL to greatness or ruin the hopes of a generation of footy fans. They are doing a great job of the latter. Wake up Gill, this is happening under your watch.

The Carlton bashing, anti Carlton agenda is beyond a joke now.

Someone at the club, let alone Gill Mc boss of the AFL, must stand up to this crap, because I can't on my own, and I don't want my kids going to basketball or soccer...I've stopped subscribing Herald Sun because of the unbalanced and scathing reporting and I'm turning off Foxtel as soon as my contract is up. Ive had enough.

I'll look for that article the same buffoons wrote (unless someone beats me to it...please do) where the AFL staff writers had all their facts wrong about Carlton once again.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I think Cripps was on the interchange.

bravo Bondi!!!!
I hope you copied and sent that post to AFl,360, fox footy...general managers of fox...afl, sen..etc etc....!
sing it loud brother!

I'm gonna copy and post this to andy maher who is on air now.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-06-07/who-makes-our-midseason-all-australian-team

Cripps leads or is a leader of nearly every Award thus far in 2018. A top 2 or 5 in every poll.

Yet he doesn't make the Best 22 with the AFL staff writers at the mid point of the season.

These guys destroy the hopes of young kids following Carlton, who not only has a rich history dating back to 1864 but also one of the original founders of VFA VFL and AFL. Swans supporters in Sydney make fun of Carlton supporters with the only information they can glean: Foxtel and afl's website. I have to stop my kids reading the internet and watching 360.

They disgust me, and the effect they have on my kids. One of my kids just said, that the AFL really hate Carlton if this is what they think of Cripps. This follows all the negative propaganda the Barrets, Robbos and Whateleys have written or said about Carlton this year.

Are they suppose to be promoting the AFL to greatness or ruin the hopes of a generation of footy fans. They are doing a great job of the latter. Wake up Gill, this is happening under your watch.

The Carlton bashing, anti Carlton agenda is beyond a joke now.

Someone at the club, let alone Gill Mc boss of the AFL, must stand up to this crap, because I can't on my own, and I don't want my kids going to basketball or soccer...I've stopped subscribing Herald Sun because of the unbalanced and scathing reporting and I'm turning off Foxtel as soon as my contract is up. I've had enough.

I'll look for that article the same buffoons wrote (unless someone beats me to it...please do) where the AFL staff writers had all their facts wrong about Carlton once again, was it in their Best 22 or something like that?

I'm torn between whinging about bias (perceived or otherwise) and just riding the bumps just going about things trying to be unaffected by the outside crap.

As BV said, footy analysis usually works in 7 day cycles. The only real metric that counts is ladder position and given where ours has been for so long that's as much to blame as anything else for any media bias.

It's not really anyone else's fault that we've been a basket case for 20 years or so.

Fair enough, the salary cap penalties were too harsh, but at the same time we deserved to be punished. Further to that, we've had enough time to right the ship on our own. Our troubles today are mostly of our own making.

Whilst I sympathise, I feel that 'destroying the hopes of young kids' may mean kids are placing their hopes in the wrong places. I think Carlton finishing in the bottom 4 continuously has more impact but in any event I certainly wouldn't want kids to place much weight on the words of footy commentators....

Whilst I sympathise, I feel that 'destroying the hopes of young kids' may mean kids are placing their hopes in the wrong places. I think Carlton finishing in the bottom 4 continuously has more impact but in any event I certainly wouldn't want kids to place much weight on the words of footy commentators....

This.
Kids barrack for winners.
Once upon a time before TV covered every game and families could afford to go to the footy or they huddled together around the radio with dad or mum telling us who was who and then doing the follow up in the Truth (which had a great sport section after the other stuff), Globe or the Age, kids were 'educated' or brainwashed into following their dad''s or mum's club. Collingwood, Sandy Bay, Port Adelaide or East Perth. In those days, teen kids went to the footy by themselves in packs with their mates, all duffle coated up and knowledgeable. It was tribal, suburban and passionate.

Jump twenty, thirty, forty years to a National televised comp, and Carlton, Richmond, Essendon** and Hawthorn and after them, the modern power clubs, Sydney, Geelong and still Hawthorn are winning but the difference is, primary school kids can see who is winning on TV and they go to school and want to be in the gang. Kids in Tassie barrack for Hawthorn because Hawks are the power team of the modern era and are marketed in Tassie. My grandkids went to school and they had a day trip to Bellerive Oval and came home with a showbag of Hawks stuff. My daughter doesn't care about footy and her then husband was a Brisbane supporter. Nobody was there to make sure their Carlton ellegiance wasn't threatened.

When we are winning, the kids will all jump on and their parents will gnash their teeth because they want their kids to barrack for Hawks or Sydney like them.

The kids of today aren't tribal about anything. They have no need to be. They see all and they make their choices, in the main at a young age based on the herd instinct. Yes, we can start them on the true path but they will follow the masses. If we don't win, we will lose another generation.

Winners are grinners and losers can please themselves.