Charlie Curnow
Kemp
May be able to help out in the middle next year

The game was lost at the selection table.
Moore should never have played.
Murphy is past it.
SPS is out of position.
Eddie isn't having an impact.
Harry McKay gets his marks too far from goal or too wide. He should stay at home, lead from the goal square and force the opposition defence to stay deep to counter it. There is no point your FF getting a mark inside the D50 and having to kick down the line because a fast break is impossible for lack of forwards on the end of it.

Teague looks like the most recent in a line of Carlton coaches who have refused to make any moves on match day, despite the fact defeat is staring us in the face. He was seriously given a lesson tonight on top of the poor selections.

Two weeks ago I was bullish about this season but I think it is now cooked. It's time to look to the future yet again and make some hard decisions with Murphy, Simmo and Eddie. They are all giving it a crack but they aren't really giving us a lot. Of the three, Simmo is the best. It's time for Dow, Philp. Honey, Fisher and others to show us what they have got and we need Jack Silvagni to play midfield every week to take over from Ed.

This was a disappointing game but not entirely unexpected. The Hawks 'ins' were very good and all had good games. Clarkson will be under a lot less pressure this week.

We have the talent base. It's a question of getting games into them and getting them to play 4 quarters.

List management will be critical this season. Cripps has to be the prime target for re-signing. We can't afford to lose him.

We get overrun because of lack of leadership, but yeah let's drop all the experienced players and put the kids in.

We needed to do what the lions did when they got Luke Hodge. An on field coach is critical this season.

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Who is our midfield?

Unfortunately Cripps response to the mediocrity around him was to try to do too much himself, rather than trusting others, and he made things much worse when we were still in touch.

Who is our midfield coach?

Remarkably, it was the 13th time in 20 games under Teague's watch that Carlton has conceded a 30-point swing within a match.

I don't understand why the coach isn't getting more criticism. His win and loss ratio hasn't got better since 2019, and to my eye he only has one gear. If we don't score quickly we look almost incapable of scoring. There's no Plan B. He's all one way traffic, down the slopes. Bit like the Crows when he was overseeing their forward line.

At the moment we have no midfield... when Cripps stopped dominating (through weight of numbers) we crumbled

When the game had to be won, we started the last quarter with Cripps, Curnow and Murphy....

I can't believe that David Teague was out coached by Alistair Clarkson.

Shocked to be sitting here.

Sometimes we need to think more with the head and not frustrations. Right now we're typical of up and coming sides.

2 days ago we were a loss to Melbourne and a goal after the siren from being equal top of the ladder. Would've been an over-achievement but 4-5 is probably slightly unders and a sign of our inconsistencies as up coming sides are like. 5-4 would probably be closer. Just got to accept they'll be frustrations along the way.

Get rid of the inconsistencies and that'll see a huge change. We'll see more like the Dogs and Geelong games and less like last night, Melbourne and St.Kilda.

We're 10-10 from the last 20. Bet we'd have accepted that after being 1-11, 2-20 the year before, and embarrassing. Too many want it to happen overnight and it just won't.

Maybe it's already been mentioned, but...




https://www.afl.com.au/news/478315/don-t-write-em-off-comeback-hawks-stun-fast-starting-blues

Your missing the point
If you want to pinpoint one thing it’s the quality and depth of our midfield
Teague does need to experiment in this area
Definitely play Pittonet and DeKoning in tandem
Play more youngsters

Has had a year in the job
Now is the time to try things
Having Curnow Kennedy Setterfield Murphy in the middle isn’t going to work long term
Not enough toughness strength willingness to take game on intensity etc

So you try different personal
What do we need in 2021 and beyond
The midfield is the key area until they change the rules that stops 36 Blokes in a confined Space