How frustrating was that?

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Don't know how you do it BS.... watching only on TV...

It's killing me not being at the games to see what other options are there...

Go Blues

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And one for those who like the stats and analysis
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/06/30/how-david-teague-has-re-shaped-carltons-midfield-in-the-last-fortnight/

Go Blues

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That's good, thanks for the link.

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Yep, thanks.

"It’s clear that Martin, Setterfield and Cuningham have been given Murphy’s snaps (to use an NFL term) and all three have shown they deserve the time in the middle."

And Murphy is playing better as well because of it.

I did laugh at "two game win STREAK"

The soft distortion of success at Carlton through consistent failure. Teague got this though.

G'day. Bill.

When I was a boy, I lived on Nauru (Yes, that Nauru). My dad was a mad Blues supporter. He used to listen to Radio Australia on short-wave on Saturday arvo. I'd be with him some days but I had better things to do.

Radio Australia covered all the sports of the day so they usually had either Footy (VFL) or Rugby League interspersed with race calling from the east coast meetings in season. A couple of times a year he would get the Blues but mostly it was around the ground scores only. His big fix was the monthly delivery of the Truth, Sun and Age newspapers, which he would pore over for days.

Fast forward to the sixties. i was at St Pats Ballarat as a boarder and it was the era of the transistor radio and so we could listen to the calls but there was only half an hour of footy on TV, which we couldn't see most weeks because there was NO TV the boarders could watch until about 1965.

Fast forward to the Seventies and eighties. My dad retired and moved to Melbourne and when I was posted to Puckapunyal Army base, we went every week to see them. Then I retired in the nineties and went to Tasmania where it all reverted to watching on TV with the odd trip to Melb, usually with my mate, Blue Beatle.

Fast forward to 2003 and it was like reverting to the sixties. I had to listen to a stream of the radio call during the night during the worst period in the club's history. Just so, I never missed a match. Then Camel put me (and other members of the foreign legion) on to a pirate stream that had a link posted every week and a password. Some weeks were better than others, let me tell you.

Now, of course, I get the WatchAFL legally-streamed package and it's a return to the nineties. I still have to get up and watch it during the night but for me it's luxury. I haven't missed a game for years even though my wife thinks I am mad to watch them lose week after week when I could just watch a delayed broadcast. My dad would have reveled in what I have.

Everything is relative. That's how I do it.

Cheers and Go Blues.

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That is absolutely awesome BlueSombrero! Much respect man!!

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Absolutely saint... I mean LEGEND... Well DONE BS, true blue blood....

I get that it's all relative...I'm a little younger, in the sixties I was jumping the fence (sneaking through the gates) at PP... and standing on beer cans to watch....

Been addicted ever since...

Go Blues

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This is the 12th time in 16 games under David Teague that Carlton has conceded a 30-point swing within a match. @AFLcomau

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wtf is a 30 pt 'swing'?

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Conceding one is a team kicking 30 unanswered points against us.

Whatever it is its a real worrying trend... jury very much out on the Teague train

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Inclined to agree.

Casboult goes OOF and Philp misses an absolute sitter inside the first 15 mins.
Teague can't go out and kick the footy on their behalf.

We shouldn't have been that far behind, The players have to take their chances.

Philp is not ready.

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12 out of 16 times Teague has been coaching we have been more than 30 points behind
Must rectify this isn’t good enough
So 75 percent of the games we play we are 30 points behind the opposition
Unacceptable

Always seems stoned in pressers, the casual laid back demeanour seems to infect the players

I thought Philip showed plenty tonight. Was clean, good disposal, a lot more composed.

He might not be ready, but he wasn’t our worst tonight by a long way.

Philp did improve once the heat was out of the game. We need another strong body around the ball. Possibly jsos.

Setterfield looked better tonight but he's not strong.

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Agree with the above Philp doesn’t look ready, but good to give him a taste.

If fisher is right, Philp will make way for him next week.

I think the 30+ point swing includes geelong as we led by 42 and only won by 2.

Encouraging thing is we do tend to keep fighting games out, which had disappeared by the end of Bolts tenure.

In terms of the up and down nature within games, I think It’s largely a by product of the team. We are so dependent on Cripps and Doch that if they are down the whole side seems unable to do anything.

We don’t have enough other good players to step up when our best are down.

Hrie Ratten!!!!

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