I thought the Melbourne loss was going to be the making of us

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Yep.
And what's worse is they flower train for those moments. 6 days a week.
You know, I have a kid who is anaphylactic. I had one twenty minute training session 12 months ago......and when the time came and my boy needed me to call on that training, i remembered it. And put it into practice. And I'm a pretty simple, stupid bloke in all fairness.

Look at the pies. They train for the moments . It was only a few weeks ago they had the almost identical play when Elliott had the shot after the siren.
They did it again. They put into practice what they train for. Everybody knew their role.
So did the demons last week. Lever pulled the strings and they put it into practice. And got the job done.
Our boys completely forgot what they trained for two weeks running. It just does your flower head in.

Wow.

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Realistically after we lost to Adelaide the season was done.

I started looking to next year then. That was pathetic.

These last two weeks have been far from pathetic, just lacking the required belief to get it done.

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Wish there was a love button on here!

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Still bitterly disappointed after a night’s sleep. This one is going to take a bit to get over. Whatever way you slice it, this is a choke from an 8-2 start to missing the finals. The last 3 minutes against Melbourne and the last quarter against Collingwood were just diabolically bad. So many small failures, mental, tactical and skill wise, that added up to the crushing final result on both games.

The question for me is what is the club going to do with this. Can they use it as a springboard to finally develop some tough mental resolve or will they fall away again because it’s all too hard? No one on the outside knows the answer really.

Mentality and injuries are the two key things holding us back. Get this right over the pre-season, we may be able to right the wrongs of this year. Get this wrong again and forget it, it’ll be the same crap we saw at the back end of this year.

Went to bed angry, woke up angrier.

1 stage of grieving.
8 months to wait.

And now I'm even angrier...

If you don't kick a goal for 2 of 4 quarters then you don't deserve to win, let alone play finals.

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it’s not just that it’s forward entry method. as most of us have been documenting this season the long bomb to a 2 v 2 or 2 v 3 or 3 v 4 in or forward line hasn’t been working. if the alla were crumbing it and getting it out to goal kickers the. fine but that’s not what happens most of the time. many times it’s a contest near the boundary and it results in a boundary throw-in. do we have a great ruck at carlton? or a tomahawk? no. i’ve never seen a successful carlton team that doesn’t have six forwards who all know how to lead into space to maximise their chance of king a mark.

good forwards kick more goals than behinds. and kick goals when you really need them.

the momentum loss when Harry takes a big grab and then goes back to kick a behind is massive. we should be able measure it in Newtons. the number of times he and other key forwards do that and the opposition score a goal in response 60 seconds later with 88k people in the stands and 300k watching and listening on tv, radio & steaming watching on and knowing what that means for the game should be something the club focuses on.

they say they know the probabilities of the kicking from different positions in different ways and what the best kick is, well i’m calling bulldust on that. people might think with H and Charlie winning consecutive Colemans we have great goal kickers at carlton, but fact is these guys get a lot of supply, we always kick to them in F50 so predictably and they kick a lot of behinds. more than Sticks in his later years i’m guessing and at least Sticks knew when we really needed one and made sure of it. H seems to be the opposite this season. Charlie is a 50/50 on that at score at best.


i doubt these players would know much about probability in general given the decision making in the last five minutes of the last two games.


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Well, I'd rather it not be the Tiges or Cats. I have grudging respect for the Pies. The way they've played this year, especially considering where they finished last year, good on 'em.

But no, really I don't care much at all who wins. I probably won't even watch the GF.

I'm going to try to forget all about footy for six months or so, then around we go again. I'll try not to get too excited about our chances, try not to take it all too seriously, but I will (again).

when Bulldogs come from 18 points down to win by exactly the number of points they needed to pass our percentage and when we lose the last game of the year by one point after being 24 points up at three quarter time and lose by one point the week before after being in front for most of the final
quarter i’m thinking Carlton has really pissed off the footy gods in a big way.

you can make his shit up.

i’m still of the belief that taking blood money from Mathieson is tantamount to rolling the Carlton brand in spousal and child abuse, which is so often the consequence of gambling addicts putting their pay packet down a poker machine.


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Ditto.
Add in the constant injury battle we had.

Perhaps the redevelopment disturbed an ancient burial site and the ghosts are mad.

For me it was the St Kilda game. That told me all I needed know in terms of our mental daemons.

Dropping this game was why we missed the finals.

Vossy had a strut and an arrogance about him as a player. Can’t really blame him for not being aware of the fact that we’ve been St Kilda’s bitch for almost 20 years which is just plain embarrassing. The match day selections, attitude, and lack of urgency shown in the St Kilda match smacked of arrogance and entitlement.

No more of these inexcusable lapses please Vossy.


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carlton did a big promo for Charlie signing on for six years. i know they hoped it would be the news that got us the win. Charlie probably thought committing early would be good for the club, can’t fault him for that, great intentions. in the story they talked up how Charlie is just a big kid, instinctual player at his best. and doesn’t listen to the coaches too much. “just gimme the top four big ticket items, coach”.

well this needs to change. he’s getting paid a lot of money and has a lot of peoples fortunes and hopes riding on his fair-weather performances.

Harry is an even bigger choker in my opinion. has a serious case of the yips and needs to stop lock snaps when it isn’t the right kick.

one goal in the last quote would have silenced the collingwood crowd and gone a long way to sealing it. one goal. we need a methodical system that doesn’t involve long bombs to contested marks to shift into when the tempo is too frenetic or we need to work down the clock. it’s been missing all year.


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Such dumb footballers. Did we do any video work and lessons learned after last week? I'm not going to watch it again but some of the decision making in the last 5 minutes was just horrifying - no situational/game awareness. I hope it burns.

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They shit me no end

i’ve talked about that kick to motlop against a much taller opponent before. they do it every game and it’s a guarantied turnover. what is going on with the forwards coaches?! get Hamill in there.


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Does anyone else think our ruck division is a real worry? Yes, I know Pitto has been injured, TDK is still learning, but geeze, so often we get spanked in the ruck. We can't keep playing SOS in the ruck, well ruin him. And I get chills at the thought of Crippa rucking.

Pitto isn't right ...at times he looked like he was running in wet cement while others where running on pavement ...

We looked better with so's in the ruck.

For mine, he comes in when we play brutes ie Sean Darcy .. otherwise it's tdk and Sos for me.

Grab Goldstein for 2023 and put TDK on whatever legal growth hormones we can find for 12 months and chain him to the weights bench