Stefchook wrote:
Sidefx wrote:
It's how they respond as a playing group this week that counts now.
Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter all that much how they 'come out' this week. Because they're still basically no chance of winning. My point is they need to make sure they 'come out', when they play the Saints. Because 'valiant' competitive efforts against the top tier sides won't produce wins. The club desperately need some wins. The coach desperately needs some wins. The players desperately need some wins. Or else they're going to have to struggle to improve slowly and gradually
all by themselves. Because they're not going to get good senior players wanting to join them as wooden spooners.
Sidefx wrote:
If we get a few good wins near the end of the season to show they have grown as a group, that will be enough encouragement for me that next year should be a break out year and hopefully we can land an A-grader or two.
But we
won't attract mature A-graders if we finish bottom 4. If we had a better year last year, we probably would have gotten Shiel. If we'd had a better year the previous year, we might have gotten Kelly. If Coniglio leaves. He'll go to Hawthorn. Or perhaps the Saints. But he won't be coming to Carlton, unless he sees short-term hope and success. Why would he want to go through a GWS rebuild all over again?
That is exactly how I feel with these weird comments our players make. What kind of mentality do our players have if they get ahead of themselves after a close loss?
It seems they can’t handle any expectation at all so play better in games where they know they basically have no or little chance of winning. Even last year we only lost to the pies by 20 points.
Our lack of decent leaders hurts us massively, as it is now we are basically going to be pretty bad until the kids can perform consistently.
Murphy should be dropped to send a message, but won’t be as I’ve already read crap about him running further than all our players on Sunday.
Charlie obviously drinking his own bath water over pre season another one who should be on notice. Slight out given his injury niggles but hasn’t looked good at all.
I will be staggered if we don’t get a small forward in the mid season draft.