He's perfect....

The ineffectual forward for the ineffectual forward plan.

He fit's like a finger in a bum.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

I wasn't there live, so your judgement is likely better than mine. I thought he got involved in the game more and 30 touches shows he was at least putting himself in good positions a but more often.

I don't think he set the world on fire, but it was progress.

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@cecil_anderson

Still no Carlton player to kick more than 2 goals in a game this season

This is going well

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Cheats never prosper (except in the AFL)

Yes as bad as rowe and casboult are they're not a patch on watto.
The draft selections reflect that

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was he playing today synners?

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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.”

Casboult belongs in a lower grade of football unfortunately. The money paid to sav is a waste.

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Surprising that some people are praising Wood's effort. I only saw the second half and we were absolutely SMASHED in the centre square, as has been the case every game this year. Not all the fault of Wood though. If we had broken even and kicked straight we would have won. I think that it is brain dead logic to make a first gamer the sub. To go on, then pick up the tempo of the game and make an impact in your first game is a ridiculous ask. Thankfully the young Irishman did really well. Knowing our selection morons he will probably get dropped next week. If Malthouse has got half a brain he needs to stop coaching for his next contract and start coaching for the future of the Carlton Football Club. To do that he needs to dump the dead wood like Carratzo and Ellard , who are absolute hackers with zero future and inject some youth with a future, like Buckley, Broekhurst and Whiley.
I would not drop any of the forwards. When you are getting smashed at the stopages and the defenders are constantly fighting to rebound, all that our forwards are getting is long bombs to mark in a pack. Forget about marking on a fast lead, or even a one on one. The forward delivery is nearly always a hopeful hack forward or a long bomb. The boys showed some heart and spirit in the last quarter, now the coach and selectors need to do the same, a well as our leaders in Murphy, Judd and Gibbs, all of whom have been pretty ordinary to date.

Code for 'got a few cheap kicks after the game was lost'

Jones is a pretty astute trade, but right now he's not putting enough into each game. This week was better than last week, but he's surely run out of chances.

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29 different attributes,
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20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Murphy has been been dead wood with trade potential for years... What do we do? Make him captain

To think we almost turned it around in about 20 minutes of playing like we wanted to win in the last quarter.

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We won the clearances 53-30 and Wood was the main reason for that.

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Plenty of other players that missed set shots that Rocca could work with.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

No the game was over at 3/4 time. Essendon* had already been supplied their downers for the evening

Why blame Jones? The delivery to the forward line is shithouse. No one can drop it in front of a leading forward. Has been shit for years. No patience, no forward line pressure, cause we kick it straight to the opposition. We insist on playing around the boundary line, while the opposition go straight down the middle. Every single week, no wonder we are so predictable. Look no further to our last quarter, to see a bit of how we can play when we take the game on.


This is Malthouse game plan, slow movement. Has taken the flair out of players.

"We need to look at our clearance structure" ???? We have been getting SMASHED in clearances in every game and now we finally need to look at it ????? What have we got on our highly paid coaching panel - sleeping f-ing beauties ?
"We went against our system" ????? What system ? I couldn't see any and haven't seen any all year. At nearly every stoppage we lose and it is killing us. If there is a system in place scrap it and try something else because it is dog shit.

I didn't realise he had 30 touches, that is good going in fairness. I'll have to re watch it again, still hoping we get our Murph circa 2011 back.

Thanks for the stat. I must have been watching a different game. We must have done really well in the first half then, despite the scoreboard and I was only referring to the centre square and there weren't 83 contests there.

Cheers

Couldnt believe we got so close and shouldve pinched it . How many games in last couple os yeras we lost because of bad kicking. So many tiday so easy?
But more frystrating is seeing empty fwd 50 when we storm forward. Even more seeing ellard at CHF against two tall bombers"..........

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Not enough run and class, disposal efficiency not high enough, today we were outclassed by a middle of the road team who put the cue in the rack after their big win last week.

Season effectively over after round three is a disaster for the club.