when we win the ball..... our game plan dictates that we give it straight back

36 players in a half - no body to kick to, no where to run , no forwards

bomb it to space or to a heavy contest

turnover

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

youre dragged back because you dont win the bal

its ultimately about the depth of talent you have....

look at our midfield

rookies and cooked footballers

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We win it
We just cough it up
Malthouse bemoans there is no run but the way he has instructed them to play is not a running game.
A different way of going about it might actually make this midfield look better

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yeah ... we win it.. but thyre not classy enough

there are no A grade mids in the team

there is no depth of mids


Syd are you seriously trying to say any other team is green with envy of our midfield squad of players??

there might be players within tht group all times would like.. but as a squad its horrible in the midfield

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oh and the reason why there are no A grade mids in the midfield is because of the lack of depth... not because some players are not potentially A graders....

But there is a shortage of help not just in the coalface but also once youre spreading defensively and offensively

just look at our drafting history if you dont believe me.. and look at the names named each week.

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No not at all
Just think they are made to look worse than what they are by the style of game we actually play.

They are bad but not that bad

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its a D grade list of modern day footballers....in the aspects of the footy that clubs need their players AFL standard

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ok what teams are we ahead of in the squad that is about finding the ball.. executing and spreading defensively and offensively

you need to look at it that way.... not idealistically lala land

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Syd ... what clubs would rather have what we have than what they have...???

Go!!!

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They might be a D grade list but Malthouse and the rest of the coaches are getting nothing out of them and they are performing like F graders.
The players actually look confused

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..........and out of gas.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

D grade footballers will always F for Fail....

and yeah i agree Cimm... they dont seem to have the legs to run out of the first quarter

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..lazy, they look fit enough when they can run ahead of the play.. ..they looked ok in the first quarters cos there was no pressure applied to them, the other team put on the heat and they ran out of steam?, they ran out of heart..

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This comes back to the coaching again.
Players are leaving Carlton and having reasonable careers elsewhere which suggests its not all about recruiting and more about the development and game structure and coaching

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Said it the day he was hired, Buttifant is viewed as a dinosaur in the sports performance circles.
But that's the least of our problems.

yeah... but it does come back to CARLTON shit club

no magic silver bullets for shit clubs ....

its years in the making not 2....

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We need a trainer of HUMANS not a trainer of dinosaurs.

Idiot Carlton.

Only Carlton hires dinosaur trainers !!

hummus

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they won't admit it SB, they know it they just won't admit it

wont admit what?
that we have a midfield the competition is jealous of??

lol

yeah... ok i admit it.....

our list is the envy of the competition

and our drafting makes everybody green with envy

feel better???

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