It was also the year Melb won the flag

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If my dad weren't already dead, this year would have done him in for sure.

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The only thing more disappointing in 2018 than the performance on field has been the "performance" by supporters online.

The english premier league season is 15 days old and my team has already won more games than carlton has in the last year. That's my pro and my con. Plus i can turn off channel 7 for the year and take a long, hot shower. Pass the dettol.

but wasn't this the year that bolts promsied we would be more attacking after two years of being defensive to contain the opposition scoring - we were expected to start scoring more having perfected our degfensive game.........but they seemed to relax after kicking the first five goals againstr richmond in round one thinking how good is this?

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PROS: Essendon* still haven't beaten Carlton since my son was born

+2

+3

Fair call. I used to go to both Rich and Carlton games with my mates (Tiges and Filth fans) each year. Haven't been for a while now, and attendances for those games are nowhere near what they used to be as we're so shite. There's only so much the fans can take. Time for the club to give them a reason to come back through the gates.

AFLCA Final Leaderboard

97 Max Gawn MELB
91 Patrick Cripps CARL
88 Tom Mitchell HAW
82 Brodie Grundy COLL
72 Dayne Beams BL
72 Jack Macrae WB
72 Clayton Oliver MELB
70 Dustin Martin RICH
70 Lachie Whitfield GWS
68 Dyson Heppell ESS
67 Shaun Higgins NMFC
65 Andrew Gaff WCE
65 Rory Laird ADEL

Carlton Leaderboard

91 P Cripps
37 K Simpson
22 C Curnow
13 E Curnow
6 Kreuzer
5 M Murphy
3 Fisher
2 Plowman
2 D Thomas
1 L Jones
1 D Lang
1 Petrevski-Seton

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Very telling stats.

184 votes and nearly half went to one player.

And our “captain” got 5.

For a season.

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https://www.theage.com.au/podcast/the-a ... 5002e.html

The afl might have to intervene at Carlton!

The season is over and I am sure we are all glad about that.

I know all in my house are.

the season was always going to be tough with the losses of Gibbs and Docherty off season but we were then cruelled with injury especially down back early in games and in warm ups.

Not sure if it was a lack of bench rotations or poor conditioning but really struggled to run out quarters let alone games.

We won as many games interstate as Richmond this season

This is the best I've seen yet !

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BRING BACK PERFORMANCE BASE PAYMENTS !!!

We are everything that StKilda was in the VFL, in the AFL.

Totally agree with this order.
I think this top 3 order will be the same as our Best & Fairest too.
I will be disappointed with the coaching staff if their votes ended up getting Murphy in the top 3 of the best & fairest.

Murphy missed games through injury and was subsequently unfit for those he did play in. He'll be a good player next year, captain or not.

Confidence!! Brisbane go into the preseason with the knowledge they can not only compete but their game style stands up and their young guns are already turning into stars.

We go into preseason with no idea if our gameplan will ever stand up, massive question marks on our coach and many of the players and no confidence we can kick a winning score!!

Sorry Scottopee.... I meant going into LAST year's pre season... ie without Gibbs and Doc and the thought that we would probably tread water (thus 6or 7 wins) while the youngsters developed....
That's what I meant about this year, only two wins, could be neither here or there.
I agree with you though, there now should be clear aims of what we should be doing, assuming we'll have players back on the park...
Will be an interesting pre-season and first 5 to 7 games...

Go Blues

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