When are we going to see evidence of improvement?
We went through another media fluff build up to the start of the season, with the theme of "belief" and other meaningless rubbish. Carlton is primed to play finals etc etc....
What have we seen? Here is some observations:
1. The usual suspects being gifted games despite their effort and/or form not being acceptable.
2. The continued inability to defend against small forwards
3. The continued inability for Teague and co to make effective changes to mitigate 5 goal runs (I think its now 20 out of Teagues last 30 games as coach this has occurred) and /or adjust to opposition players impacting the game.
4. The continued lack of connection between the midfield and the forward line
5. Zero two way running from the midfield to support the defense when needed.
I could go on....
We have been 0 and 2 for what like 9 years in a row. What do we get from the coach? The typical "belief" or some other silly meaningless description which holds zero comfort for supporters. Teague is far too passive. He should be seething. The supporters are. The team should be. Then we see the photo of Plowman laughing after the game with a Collingwood player. On the opposite side, we see the photo of Walsh who is clearly heartbroken. I acknowledge its probably a clever media action to get click bait, but the story it tells are a part of the issues with this team. No one should accept losing or brush it off with a laugh. There is a time for laughing and it's not after a shambolic performance in a game we simply should have expected to and delivered a win.
There was an interesting article in the age. It described Carlton as a paradox. Something along the lines of things seem to be going well but when it counts it isn't (winning games). For me, it's hard to be positive when we see the same issues.
Someone said
Quote:
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result
. In a year we simply must not expect anything less than finals it is insane the same stuff is happening!!
When is it going to change??????