I thought this was intentional. Plowman needs to play on mid-type forwards and not the bigger units. He will be asked to play across half back at times.

Fritsch is a bloody good young player and when he bulks up, with he’s height will be dominating. I wish we had him.

I thought I could take a “couldn’t care less” attitude to this season which will always have an asterix but ... dammit, when the navy blues genes are embedded in your DNA? Fat chance.

Sweet baby Jesus. Have the other teams figured us out or what? Sheesh. Seriously, they pore over the fixture when it’s released, their eyes scanning furiously for “Carlton”. If they see it once there’s a collective sigh of relief. Twice and the room* erupts with joy.

Eddie Betts? Yeah - flashy, exciting, good for a miracle goal or three per year. Guaranteed to fill the club’s cupboards with Premiership Cups. NOT!

And here’s a headline you’ll NEVER see:

“Murphy’s scintillating first quarter really set the tone for the rest of the match. He cut his way through the midfield like a knife through butter, leaving enemy soldiers strewn about the battlefield in scenes reminiscent of Polanksi’s film adaptation of Macbeth”.

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* er, Zoom meeting - Carlton aren’t professional or savvy enough to use Skype for Business or MS Teams


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JSOS to the midfield for the rest of his career
Teach him, develop him and condition him
He seems like a very coachable kid because he has no hidden agenda...he just bleeds navy blue
Could be a star by the age of 25

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After watching yesterday's ''performance'', and with memories of the final game of last season still vivid, I can't see reason to be optimistic about the return visit to Geelong. None whatsoever !!

What's left, being hopeful ? Nah, after awhile being hopeful becomes tedious.

Yesterday was shit, and we lost by a point. On that form if we lose to Geelong by less than 100 we will have ''done well''.

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Murphy got embarrassed by Petracca for the first 6 or 7 minutes, then went to half forward for a few minutes, then played on Brayshaw, Viney and then loose for the remaining few minutes. Covered a ton of territory but did little.

Teague shouldn't be asking Murphy to be a central figure of this team at this stage of Murphs career.

In the first qtr at least there were spectators at Marvel. About 14 of 'em wearing Carlton guernseys.

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I won't bother watching next week's game. There's more to life than watching this inept football team.

I’m still waiting for the Cripps midfield reinforcement.

3 years down the track and we have not added to our midfield with mature seasoned recruits.

Bloody hell even Rockliff rejected us!

You can never get enough quality midfielders in your team.

We are the proof of that.

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Players like Rockliff reject us because they don't want to be the next Palmer Smedts Lang Wiley or Kennedy rotting away in reserve whilst we were playing teeny boppers who should be learning their craft .

It is happening to a lesser extent now but it is still there for everyone to see

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When do we play Adelaide?

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AFL will schedule us against GC and Adelaide away so tgry can maximise the home team advantage

(cue piano-based commercial jingle) : as a busy dad with a @#$%&! off big mortgage, I don't have the time nor the disposable income to watch daytime Carlton matches on pay TV. So can someone with greater insight suggest why we consistently start so poorly? It seems the obvious response is that the players are not switched on, but is that really likely to happen every week? Surely our coaching staff are not OK with that? Is it more a tactical issue, where we don't assign tags until later in the game? In the free-TV games I do watch, our recovery always seems to involve Ed going onto the bloke who got 15 pozzies in the 1st Q, limiting him to 10 or fewer in the last 3. Are we stubbornly trying to "play our own game", just like Bolton stubbornly stuck to whatever the @#$%&! that was, even when we couldn't crack 50 points in most games? Is it only when being reactive that our quality shines through, and should we take pride in being a fast-reacting side rather than obsess over proactivity (sic)?

How many years now 0-3 to start a season ?

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I haven't checked but is it every year since 2013?

IMO it all starts in the midfield.

When the game is at its hottest, its in the first quarter from the first bounce.
The opposition have big midfielders going in hard, breathing fire till they run out of gas.
We put in two midgets Ed and Murph and a skinier version of Colossal Cripps to fight it out.

Cripps is nullified and the 2 midgets get smashed hard in close and overrun trying to win the ball.

When the damage is done, the opposition midfielders rotate out and we are left to adjust in the next quarter by tagging their most damaging player, get Murph out of the midfield and get Setterield Walsh to help out Cripps...and we slowly crawl our way back because we have superior running ability because we are light on our feet.

It might be as simple as starting with a big bodied midfield group such as Cripps, Jack and Walsh and possbily se Ed to tag after the bounce.

It looks too simple. There must be more to it. Breathing fire and an uncompromising attack on the ball and the man may quell the opposition's sense of dominance early enough to avoid the damage of a bad start.

We need a better mid field group, and I have to say its hard to believe but the opposition have worked out ways to nullify Cripps. Its up to Cripps to work through that. He is allowing the opposition to dominate him. He gets no chop out from the midgets.

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I really want the Swans to beat the Druggies today. I couldn't stand any more pain this weekend.

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Haven’t won either of our first two games since 2012. There’s maybe one or two 1-2 starts since then. It’s just so frustrating that we had the opportunity to get a win against a garbage side and we decided to not show for 1.5 quarters. The lack of pressure, intensity and effort in that first quarter was so far off the required standard that we shouldn’t expect to beat anyone playing like that.

I missed the first qtr, was driving. But it sounded horrible on radio

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