That's why I want Tom Elliott as Prez, someone visible, passionate, capable and media savvy. Until we get him or the like, it'll be a battle.

Think Eddie, Kennett, Dicker, Costa etc.

Only if Jeannie and Bruce "'let" him

you guys are funny.

I love how the media are protecting Malthouse. I wonder how long that will last. According to the media, we should be happy with these results, sit back and appreciate the lack of effort because it is Mick Malthouse coaching. Any other coach would be ditched by now. We might as well start the tank thread. Play for draft picks. We can only draft number 1 picks.

We are two rounds into a season. It comes down to each player having pride in their performance on the field every week and giving their all every contest every second on the field.
If they dont, they need to be dropped irrespective of name, we are losing anyway so we cant do worse.
Work out who gives a sh!t about the club and wanting to succeed and who doesnt

In my opinion its our so called best players that are killing us, when we get challenged they sh!t themselves.... Marc Murphy and Bryce Gibbs, im looking at you!!

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Matty Kruzer you star!

yeah i agree hollywood

i think what we were doing off season has been a disaster for whatever reasons

and no matter how we dice it.. the opening 2 rounds are tragic even my our mediocre standards over the years

the list is incredibly low on the kinds of players we need

but there must be a heap more to this than meets the eye

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That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,” she said. “He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

i say lets wait to half way into the season and we can judge on everything,players, coaches,board,fitness guru

I'm on board hysteria - we're [REDACTED]!

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Why wait...HYSTERIA NOW!.......AAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

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"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?" Billy Connolly

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

Best definition of self fulfilling prophecy - with 5 or 6 articles in the today's papers alone, its easy to see where the main source of the hysteria is coming from..... (apart from TC of course)

Whether the coaches, captain or players can sort themselves out of this mess is beside the point, the court of public opinion has been been adequately primed....

Pendlebury, Selwood & Cotchin (I'll keep dreaming)

The thing I don't get is that our players have demonstrated they can do far better.
We have evidence that :
Judd Gibbs Hendo yarran murphy simmo jammo are all capable of great games
Everitt Doc Menz Cripps Bell all shone potential and have flashes
Carrots curnow white rowe and 2e have all shown in the past that they can do their jobs
Thomas Kruze Walker can obviously play well

Just not this year. And certainly not at the same time....

I suppose one good take away is that is must be very hard for the club to pretend that all is ok

Ok Carlton. Bulldogs spend 3 mths searching for a CEO and sign an Australian who is a Nike VP who is currently working in the US.
We sign an ex CEO from a struggling footy club with average results during his tenure who was coming off a 6 mth suspension for salary cap cheating.
Discuss.

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Everything before the word "but" is horseshit - J Snow

We cannot attract players nor can we attract CEO's ???

I've had a lot to do with VPs of big American and European companies (including the odd 4am presentation to them via videocon from a hotel room somewhere), even have a few close mates that have made it to VP for big companies over there (as expat aussies). Simply being a VP is probably not a good way to judge. Just as there are great players in under performing clubs and there are over-rated players in great clubs, executives are exactly the same. I don't know either of the guys you've mentioned, only what I read in the papers but unless you have some inside knowledge into the way they have managed and handled the internal crises that they work very hard to keep from getting out, it is very hard to judge.

Additionally, without knowing which part of Nike this guy is the VP for it is hard to see how relevant his experience there would be. What if he is the supply chain VP setting up the global distribution of Nike stuff from factories in China to shops in Budapest? Additionally we are very critical of the media for being alarmist and embellishing every scandal at Carlton but we are ready to soak up and believe all the bad things they write up about other clubs? How do we know what to believe about what happened in Adelaide?

i am not defending anybody, just saying that you cant judge the scenario mentioned based on appearances. i am a lowly CFC Member and, for mine i have seen more communication and a better attempt to engage with members this year than any other i can remember. As somebody that is normally not able to get to any games so essentially just buys memberships as a 'donation' to the club I was genuinely pleasantly surprised to see a varied range of membership options this year, some with things that i might even get to use rather than just handing over $$ for nothing. My members hat was posted to my house this year rather than just the coupon that i could exchange for a hat (at one of the 22 games I've paid for but will never go to). I was so surprised i told the lady on the phone to upgrade me to the next level as i could afford to spend more than i needed for what i could use (not a very common thing for me!!!).

I don't have mates in the inner sanctum like Synbad and i don't rub shoulder with the hoi-polloi like the Pratts etc so i have no idea about how the club is run internally but as a 'Joe Average' member i think the new CEO has made a difference and i feel he is trying to make a better connection between the fans and the club!

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"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?" Billy Connolly

It's not just that we don't take KPPs early, it's the fact that we view them as afterthoughts. We've had chances to take quality tall players with later picks and we have failed to do so. 90% of our recruiting is patch-up work regardless of their age or playing position. We don't look ahead, it influences how we rate players as well as how we trade.

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Just because I'm offended, doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Do you know anymore?

I have been thinking something must be up off field, because with largely the same side which was playing spirited, competitive football in the later part of last year is now playing like Melbourne under Mark Neeld.

I predicted us to finish 16th but I thought we would be competitive most of the time just lack class.

no last time i heard.. prior to start of season.. we had got rid of the bad eggs and everybody was singing from the same songbook now...
and that whether we made the eight or not we would give a good account of ourselves

so far things have not gone according to plan....

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just prior to the start of the season... like inside the last week...

everybody was buoyant

since then though.... the assistants havent felt secure..... that was the first time i heard something was up in the playing group....

lol

what a shit club!!!

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