Jones should have had 4 goals midway through 1/3 quarter......,couple of deplorable misses.

However, when the balls on the ground he's incredibly bad. Besides effort, it's going to be hard to teach.....

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We are Carlton, @#$%&! the rest !!!!!!

That's two picks out of what Teague? I forget now, and am not going to look back. But four draft picks, four rookie picks, and three trades? That's not a serious effort to add pace. Plus we hear today our list manager doesn't rate Boekhorst, and Is Smith actually fast?

Mentally weaker than the flakes at Richmond....good grief

Did Gibbs get close to a target tonight?

Murphy delivered another "Carlton Captain's game"...

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"...the less you know - the more you believe..." - Bono 2006

A long year followed by a clean out followed by more long years.

how about that hovercraft eh?

fireworks were great, but too bad if any players have asthma.

they don't show betting ads on the big screen now..but when you kick a goal, they flash all around the boundary in super bright colours, instead of your team logo lights. just super!
the ads are incredibly bright and distracting during the game. if you suffer from epilepsy, you might struggle from the mild strobing effect.

the sound level of the ads during the breaks is ridiculous.

all this to marvel at, and then there was the game.
pretty much agree with Braithy word for word, except can't see how casboult in current form would make any difference.

I just hate our game plan.thought we'd turned a corner perhaps with the nab cup style, but no.
maybe next week .

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Carlton FC @CarltonFC · 29m 29 minutes ago

Malthouse: "There was some good and some not so good. It was disappointing."
Malthouse: "To lose a real class player in Thomas threw us out a bit."
Malthouse: "I thought White was excellent. He played on a class mid and did really well."
Malthouse: "Thomas dislocated his shoulder. I suspect we'll have an answer early next week."
Malthouse: "We got trapped out of position. A lot of those boys have never played together."
Malthouse: "Casboult has been out of form. You go in with form, not because your name is Casboult. He's a terrific kid - he'll fight back."
Malthouse: "The disappointing thing is that we couldn't control any of their players for the entire match."
Malthouse: "Tall, young players take time. We'll keep playing Jaksch when we need to, but he's probably 10kg too light."
Malthouse: "I've got great faith in Simon White. He's worked on his skill."

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..it's not the gameplan.. ..and the simple reason is this.. ..the game plan doesn't matter, because lazy selfish players won't adhere and Carry out Any gameplan.. ..too many weak links..

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..if you can't be good, be good at it..

Yep, a concern of mine with recruiting Jones, not good when ball hits the ground. Trouble is Levi is the same, a mark and kick player, he couldn't run out of sight on a dark night. We've got a real problem with opposition rebounding too easily out of defence.

Yep and Casbolt is such a big name... He could have landed us at least another 4 points tonight

MVP voting now open

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Looks like it's going to be a long season. Just couldn't match their run. Don't have the depth to lose good players.

Docherty and Judd were good. Jones showed a bit. But far too many passengers.

He loves White

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yeah, you are probably right BKB, but how do we really know where it comes from?

God we were awful
uninspiring and boring, dowdy football.
no heart.
chicken or egg.

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

..no player with more than one contested mark tonight, no player with more than one mark inside fifty tonight either..

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..if you can't be good, be good at it..

Not much has changed.

Watching the game from behind the goals in the top stand it was really evident with our lack of run and spread. We don't get it out wide quick enough to stretch opposition mids and backs. We struggle to get a series of handballs going because we lack natural runners.

We try to kick the ball out of defence instead of running it out.

Losing Thomas was a huge blow. Having said that losing Betts has been a bigger blow. He would have kicked 5 tonight there were that many loose ball opportunities in our forward line.

Murphy is building his game around doing flashy things ... needs to develop the will of a donkey by wearing the heavy saddle on his back. He lacks that thing that says "follow me" to his team mates.

Jaksch was overawed. He will get better.

White did his role well and Docherty was our best.

..but said that Thomas was his mate.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Unfortunately it is going to take more than a hovercraft to paper over the holes! Bit of a worry that the bloke who had his bags packed and retirement holiday booked was easily our best on the night! Docherty was good, White good, Simmo always good, Bell tried, Carrots OK, aside from that not much on offer! If that is the kind of stuff we'll be dishing up and we want to grow the membership we are going to need a Bigger Hovercraft!

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If he turns out to be right I'd rather hear it now instead of later; not for the player concerned, perhaps, but for my state of mind.

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The decision to play White as a midfielder was @#$%&! atrocious, and Mick's feeling the need to defend it which means he in part agrees.

Sadly, he may now look for a means to continue to play White in the team. I would happily drop White and Jaksch and bring in Watson and Buckley.

Boekhorst or Tutt for Smith. The sub should be a rotational position, not a place to hide players with poor fitness. We have [REDACTED] this up for too long.


Viojo-Rainbow is no slouch and adds an elite kick.

Smith's skin folds were awful pre-draft and he'll need a year. Still added something tonight despite that, but not ready yet.

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