CARLTON coach Brett Ratten moved swiftly to address his team’s latest fadeout during its third successive NAB Cup loss.

Ratten raised the subject immediately after watching his Blues concede a goal in the last minute to the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium last night.

"We talked after the game how our last three games in the NAB Cup we've lost them all by pretty close margins in the last three minutes,’’ midfielder Ed Curnow said.

"So we've got to address holding onto the ball at the end of the game and trying to keep it in our forward half. But it's still reasonably positive.

all games are important!
habits are habits!

Rubbish. All games aren't important.

Habits in the season proper is all I am interested in not this pyjama game.

rubbish!
very hard to unlearn bad habits! so over a 2 game period, the team has picked up some filthy habits that they won't be able to get rid of by round 1
pyjama game as you call it is putting into place what youre learning in those secret practice sessions we lock supporters out of. do you think all clubs have played their hands in terms of what they want to achieve this season ie structure, set ups etc or are they just getting some games into the younguns and playing a few players in different positions just see something different being played in an intra club?

if you think were good enough to not knuckle down in the pyjama game and will suddelnly become heros when the real stuff starts you have been drinking the medias bathwater! we did really well for a few years in the PJ game and then went to bathwater [not the media bathwater either] in the season proper. Which would you prefer? I know what I would prefer

so far we have not achieved anything ,which means we are not forming all the desirable functions to achieve the ultimate prize! FFS did you want to hold the NAB Cup aloft in a few weeks so that we can say woo @#$%&! hoo - how good are our habits, structures and systems?

its nice you remember the eighties when we didnt care about night games but still won flags on talent. l wasn't born in the 80s so please tell me what it was like back then?

long time ago though!

and those winning habits those sides had have not been a constant.

Was an interesting discussion on 'on the couch' last night regarding Geelong. Basically talking about how a bunch of no names who have played ressies for a couple of years were developed and able play to the Geelong game plan in the NAB Cup. They were able to give a more experienced (by average matches played and age) Gold Coast side a touch up.

rubbish!
very hard to unlearn bad habits!

If the coach and players are concerned about it, I think it's fair to say perhaps we should be too.

"[Winning is] probably not as important as it is to try guys out in some positions.

"We'll probably want to go into the season with some winning form - who wouldn't want that? But we also want to try out guys in different positions and see how a few of the younger guys go."

"I think each week the group is definitely getting more excited to play in round one - that's what we're focusing on," he said.

"Each week we're practicing a different thing in our game plan.

"At the moment all we're focusing on is improving each week and practicing different things in our game plan to make us a different team to what we were against West Coast [who ended the Blues' finals campaign] last year.

Like being happy with losing? Those back end of season games in 04/05/06 meant nothing remember.

rubbish!
very hard to unlearn bad habits!

They don't sound too concerned with the result.

They're more interested in the process.

Don't judge us yet: Curnow

lol

horses for courses
we were a basketcase
we got murphy kreuzer gibbs and judd

but you mean to tell me years later we need bad habits?

so ur argument from what i understand is we dont need those players plus not improve bad habits?

right?

We probably should just copy Hawthorn. (it's Hawthorn we want to be like this month right?)