jim, don't watch ch7

Just watching Talking Footy.

Lions had 309 uncontested possession and 24 marks inside 50. That's off the chart!

They were showing highlights of how we were zoning and showing how, as Carey said, we had absolutely no idea where we should be standing and positioning ourselves. Just totally lost as to what to do. He said the message, whatever he's teaching, is just not getting though using that style of play.

Bingo. My concern of late. It’s nothing to do with age but more confusion of our game plan. Real worry but some of us didn’t need Duck to tell us.

BB needs to address this ASAP!

Bingo. My concern of late. It’s nothing to do with age but more confusion of our game plan. Real worry but some of us didn’t need Duck to tell us.

BB needs to address this ASAP!

Bingo. My concern of late. It’s nothing to do with age but more confusion of our game plan. Real worry but some of us didn’t need Duck to tell us.

BB needs to address this ASAP!

Is this the same duck that said we should trade pick 1 for a few Melbourne fringe players?

That duck ?

Pay no attention

Really?
Rowe, Jones, Murphy, Lamb, Silvagni, Petrevski Seton, Thomas.
They've probably played a total of about 40 games in defence between them. How observant of Carey.

Put Docherty, Simpson, Alex Silvagni, Plowman, Williamson, Byrne in there and if they're struggling, get back to me. The smalls in there are our midfielders plugging holes. They've probably never played defence in their lives let alone having no experienced heads in there, giving them instruction.

BV, what about Weitering and Marchbank ( 3 quArters) playing the sweeping role. Thomas, Rowe and Jones have been our main defenders. That’s 5 of our defenders playing in their roles. The others rolled thru there and Lamb played back as needed. The zone defence isn’t working.

Just watching Talking Footy.

Lions had 309 uncontested possession and 24 marks inside 50. That's off the chart!

They were showing highlights of how we were zoning and showing how, as Carey said, we had absolutely no idea where we should be standing and positioning ourselves. Just totally lost as to what to do. He said the message, whatever he's teaching, is just not getting though using that style of play.

https://twitter.com/CarltonFC/status/1016285587152650240

Heard it all before. Actions speak louder than words.

actually, we've heard this since the ratten days. the players don't put in on the weekend, then vow to turn it around. rinse and repeat the cycle to where we never knew which carlton team would turn up for any particular weekend.

as bad as we're coached right now by bolton, there's been weeks this season (richmond, Essendon**, pies) where we've turned up to play. all of last season we played with mongrel. so... we're capable of turning up and putting in an honest shift. problem is the players look lost under bolton's game plan and/ or they're not willing to buy into it and put their bodies into the cause.


no matter how much blue vein goes on about our man power being down, these guys have played afl their whole life and all are capable of more than what they're currently giving us. if we were complaining about wins & losses, BV would have a point; our list is threadbare with key injuries. but we're not caring about wins right now. we're complaining about the lack of effort and interest and the lack of wanting to bleed for this jersey by the players.

Collingwood were tipped for bottom 4 with their list at preseason. buckley has them playing out of their skins, has them united and has them believing. never under estimate how a good coach can get teams playing above their pay grade.

it's something we're not familiar with here at cfc. we haven't played consistently united and overachieved since 1999.

Thomas and Rowe are constant defenders because Alex Silvagni, Docherty, Williamson, Byrne, Plowman, Simpson are not available.
If half of them were available, Thomas would be playing wing or half forward. As would Lamb, Silvagni, Murphy, Lang, Petrevski Seton, Wright and any other forward/mid who has been forced to play there. Not only does it totally @#$%&! up our defence, it removes any midfield depth we had which was probably worst in the AFL. They aren't rolling through there. Several of them have become our first choice defenders.
Our defence has been our strength over the past couple of years. It's been totally decimated this year.

Plowman. A Silvagni. Simpson. Byrne. Macreadie. Williamson. Cuningham. Docherty. Shumacher. All injured and all would be better than some of our defensive options. That also allows Jack to offer midfield support. It allows Daisy and/or Lamb to play wing/high half forward so Ed and Graham etc are trying to get their rest on the wing. It becomes a domino effect.

Heard it all before. Actions speak louder than words.

Thomas and Rowe are constant defenders because Alex Silvagni, Docherty, Williamson, Byrne, Plowman, Simpson are not available.
If half of them were available, Thomas would be playing wing or half forward. As would Lamb, Silvagni, Murphy, Lang, Petrevski Seton, Wright and any other forward/mid who has been forced to play there. Not only does it totally @#$%&! up our defence, it removes any midfield depth we had which was probably worst in the AFL. They aren't rolling through there. Several of them have become our first choice defenders.
Our defence has been our strength over the past couple of years. It's been totally decimated this year.

Plowman. A Silvagni. Simpson. Byrne. Macreadie. Williamson. Cuningham. Docherty. Shumacher. All injured and all would be better than some of our defensive options. That also allows Jack to offer midfield support. It allows Daisy and/or Lamb to play wing/high half forward so Ed and Graham etc are trying to get their rest on the wing. It becomes a domino effect.

Really?
Rowe, Jones, Murphy, Lamb, Silvagni, Petrevski Seton, Thomas.
They've probably played a total of about 40 games in defence between them. How observant of Carey.

Put Docherty, Simpson, Alex Silvagni, Plowman, Williamson, Byrne in there and if they're struggling, get back to me. The smalls in there are our midfielders plugging holes. They've probably never played defence in their lives let alone having no experienced heads in there, giving them instruction.

Point of order here BV - they smashed us up there last year and in the team was
Docherty Simpson Plowman Williamson Cunningham and MacCreadie Weitering

and we had Mackay Casboult Curnow forward
And just to shut Jim up - Kruezer was the only ruckman


Next excuse please


Tell me the man of steel wasn't available

So, let me get this straight.
Because the Lions smashed us by a whole 30 points last year,( without Cripps), but with Docherty, Plowman, Williamson etc playing, that means injuries didn't have a bearing on Saturdays loss?