But while watching I kept on thinking that Waite stupidity last week also cost us...

Tell me they contributed and I am in massive doubt over the recruitiment policy at the CFC.

J&TK as much as we want it the MC can't just flick a switch and mentally get the players switched on. It is the players responsibility to be in the right frame of mind.

You could tell in the first 5 minutes that we hadn't turned up to play and the Hawks came with the right attitude and gameplan to make our day very difficult.

We like throwing the ball around at half back to free someone up and move it forward quickly. They swiftly shut us down on the mark with the way they jumped up and down and crept over the mark without giving 50 away. They flooded the wing/centre of the ground so we couldn't move the ball through there with any flow. They also had players on the other side of the ground so that we couldn't switch the ball.

However for all this to fall into place they needed their workrate to be right up there and it was. Compare it to our workrate which was very poor for most of the first half. So tactically we couldn't cope with the way the Hawks setup and in terms of the actual contest we didn't have the hunger or desperation to force them into errors.

Unfortunately we will still have games like today while we are a young team and also when we can't cope with certain styles of play. Collingwood squeezed us up through the middle of the ground and we gave the ball up...similar thing happened today. When it's a shootout and we turn up to play we will most likely win more than we lose.

Can I just add the criticism of Henderson is completely ridiculous; it just highlights once more how fast supporters are to write off young key forwards who haven't the strength/engine/experience to dominate games.

You would think given the countless examples of key forwards in their past needing time to develop that supporters would learn...surely the concept of them needing more time isn't that difficult to understand?

Shsssh...you'll get me started!

You can't blame injuries for losses because list depth is all apart of being a top team. It's clear that we don't have it, we just don't have the depth to cover 1/3 of our best 22 injuried.

You can't blame injuries for losses because list depth is all apart of being a top team. It's clear that we don't have it, we just don't have the depth to cover 1/3 of our best 22 injuried.

You can't blame injuries for losses because list depth is all apart of being a top team. It's clear that we don't have it, we just don't have the depth to cover 1/3 of our best 22 injuried.

can someone please tell me what constitutes holding the ball these days, because i have no flowering idea!!

We'll just blur the issue by saying that it happens with other teams as well. It does happen with other teams but we are particularly vulnerable and, perhaps, think we are further along than we are.

I'll give them until next year with the 'young side' chant, which is fair enough but one thing I want to stop now is this talk of 'having the talent to beat any side'. Next year those naturally conflicting statements should be aligned otherwise it's bollocks or something must be amiss behind the scenes.

I'm not sure list depth helps on match day when you have two in the 'dugout' well before half time and Yazz with a hip injury just before three quarter time. I strongly doubt it had anything to do with the loss but I suspect it would have had something to do with the size of the losing margin.

Teams like the Blues are still a 10-6 (ladder position) team list wise so injuries to our better players are always going to take its toll over a season.

Regards Cazzesman

David MacDonald - 4:59 PM Sunday, 23 May 2010What the hell was that?


Why are we so good against the Cats & Saints but absolute crap against the Hawks, Bombers & Magpies?


Can't we just have a consistent run of wins for a change?


My answer is the coach can not keep the team up. If that's the case then he has to go.



Kristian - 4:49 PM Sunday, 23 May 2010Where did we go wrong this time?

michael - 4:29 PM Sunday, 23 May 2010My question, when are Carlton going to play with heart week by week instead of when they feel like it.

No doubt like a 30 year old Victor lawnmower

Regards Cazzesman