Ellard a liability??? You've got to be joking??

He was at the bottom of every pack, last man up with a Sydney player, awesome effort for his limited experience at this level.

Eddie had a shocker. If someone does not pull him aside over summer and get him to work on his set kicking for goal.....then we are a joke. Lack of development in this club is why we cannot break into the top four.

Will someone get Hendo some flower gloves..
How many times did he get his hands to the ball for it to just bounce off?

Waite cost us the game????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on VB, get real.

So who wants to tell me Hampson is a better bet than Jacobs? Try your best.

Waite misses 2 right in front.
Judd misses 2 running into an open goal.
Henderson drops 2 right in front. (He actually dropped 3 but still kicked the goal....)
6 goal turnaround.

amongst other things, WE REALLY NEED TO WORK ON OUR SKILLS over summer: kicking. handballing (too many go to the feet of teammates). picking up the ball cleanly.

very disappointing.
i would expect EVERY player, to play EVERY match, EVERY quarter next year with the eye of the tiger.

Haven't been this devastated since the 1988 preliminary final, god it hurts. Only place to turn to is here. Nobody else understands.

Henderson will be a very good player in a couple of years. The important thing at this stage is that he gets to the contests, he knows where to go (which is no mean feat in a team that doesn't have a defined game plan going forward). He will learn to hold his marks. He needs to learn how to use his body when playing in front prop before theball comes, stick his bum out and take the ball out in front of him. Impossible to spoil. He also need to learn to take responsibility for kicking goals.

I worry about Robinson, skills are suss and doesn't have a football brain.

Inexcusable first 15 minutes...how can you not turn up to play in a final??

I have no doubt that if Roos was coaching Carlton and Ratten coaching Sydney, the result would have been different. The Carlton coaching department has a long way to go.

The cold hard facts - we lost 8 out of our last 12 games, and the only 4 games we won were against the 4 bottom teams.

Gutted.

Pretty !@#$%& shattered, especially to lose to those red and white pricks.

We only have ourselves to blame really. I have no problem with Armfield's holding the ball as at least he was taking the game on and busting his gut.

We lost the game in our forward line by not capitalising on the scoreboard when we had the momentum. If Henderson had held some of those marks that he got his hands to.. If Simmo had kicked straight.. Waite had a chance early in the last to kick the goal for us to start kicking away with the momentum - and of course he missed. From that point on the game had a terribly familiar feel - as someone else pointed out - we simply aren't sharp and we don't win such close games. We lack the key individual in the forward line who can stand up and impose themselves on the game, capitalise on the dominance of our midfield and drag us over the line.

And Sydney, what a bunch of !@#$%&. Adam Goodes has to be the most infuriating wanker in the game. How he can continually pick up the ball in congestion, get tacked and drop it at his feet is astounding.


And to the rest of the football world - !@#$%& YOU!! NOBODY rated us a chance to win this game, even though our recent form has been strong. Even at half time old limp-wristed Brucey asked the panel whether Sydney had a good chance versus the Bulldogs the next week. When we were in front and the swans didn't even look like firing a shot, I was thinking that this is our opportunity to stick it up the football world who wrote us off at the start of the year, wrote us off for this game - but I think deep down I think I knew that inexorably, inevitably, this was going to happen.

Bring on 2011.

!@#$%&!!!

So disappointed on so many levels. I gotta say ellard was a liability in this game. Waite WTF missing three easy goals. Hendo those missed marks, last mark he took should have gone and had a shot.

Another narrow loss in finals, I saw this coming.

We lack composure

Ellard? Surely you watched a different channel?