Judd is starting to look really imposing.

Jamison was outstanding.

Hadley showed what a valuable pickup he's going to be.

I wouldn't worry too much about the last quarter fade out. Maybe the players relaxed, maybe they tired a little, but they've been great for 2 weeks now. Lets forgive them for it.

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"The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent." Qui-Gon Jinn 15-05-2005

"there’s more chance of me becoming the full forward for the [Western Bulldogs] than there is of any change in the Labor Party." Julia Gillard 18-05-2010

Pro

No one is talking about the T word.
Our % is in the 90's

I wouldn't worry about the fade out. There have been plenty of games in the past where we kicked junk time goals to make the scoreboard look better, and we knew it meant nothing. When the game was there to be won, we won it.

Pros
2 wins (in a row)
2nd Q response
Judd - general play + kicking goals
Fev
No 1's courage - Kruezer & Murphy

Cons
Slowing the ball
Waiting for opposition to flood back
And then bombing it in anyway!
Foot off the pedal - beginning 2nd Q & whole 4th Q
Not using free men when 3 Demons on Fev

Pro: We won wearing the white strip.

Con: We were wearing the white strip when we won.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Pro: We moved above the scum on the ladder.

Con: But not above the filth.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Pros

Judd...class
Fev.....freakish ability to kick goals
Kruezer...smooth and skilled
Cloke...continues to compete well
Waite....getting smarter and wiser
Pfeiffer....hard at the footy and has given us depth
Hadley...see Pfeiffer..

Cons

To much reliance on Fev and when he is doubled team or blocked on the lead we mess around with the ball and lose it with poor disposal and decision making....

Bower frightens me at time with his decison making and ability to run into trouble...

Carrazzo...some sloppy disposal...is better than that.

Russell...too slow making up his mind what to do.....

Lack of fitness.......need a burst player like Benjamin to come off the bench and give us some speed and flair when some of our other players are spent...

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"When you have the attitude of a champion, you see adversity as your
training partner."
- Conor Gillen

PRO

WE WILL NO LONGER BE INTIMIDATED!!!

Melbourne clearly came out with a thuggish mindset to pit us off our game. But the leadership of Judd, Stevens and Fev stood up and turned the game on its arse when Pfeiffer got clocked.

CONS

That last quarter was a shocker and to be honest we looked like the team that was getting pumped. Hopefully Ratts will have a stern word to the boys about taking the foot off the gas.

This twit is the "A" typical DeBono black hat

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Go BLues

Bondi Blue, I enjoy reading your posts.

PROS
Judd - my girlfriend thinks I have problems... that was just an average day at the office for the great man. is there anyone else here who just cannot stop talking about him in conversation at all times. I even quoted a saying from one of his articles about the cookie crumbling the other day, and it was a conversation about the music industry!!! Thats when I suspected I had serious problems.
Fev - electric.
Hadley - Just what we have been missing, sucked in lethal...
Backline - Like I have been saying, zone defense takes ages to gel, and until you settle on a back six and let them settle it will always be leaky, but look what these 6 have done with just 4-5 weeks playing together. I really hope Ratts doesn't change too much down there. (I have finally conceded that they obviously feel that Setanta is good man on man, but just will not be able to pick up the zoning skill, because as far as I can see, man on man he is still in our top 6 defenders)
Setanta - I am going into bat here - 2nd week playing in the forward line, please just give him another month to try his butt off. Awesome defensive pressure, just needs to have one day out where a few of them stick and a few more leads are honored and we are good to go. At least until we lose one don't change the team. It is only my opinion and feel free to bring this back on me, but I just think Hartlett is limited at this level, great kick, but as a defender I know who I would like to line up on least and that would be Setanta. I think most AFL defenders would not be to worried about matching up on Hartlett in comparison to when Setanta hits his straps. Again, he has only played 2 games here, has been switched from every position on the park while apparently learning a trade.
Simmo - he's back
Cloke - love how he seems to be in the right place at the right time in defence, solid mark.
Kruezer - How? It is ridiculous how he can step into the ruck first year like this. Please protect him a little though ratts.
The rest of the team. great job boys, another week with a big smile on my face.

CONS
Lack of intensity once the game was over. Although, it was on the cards. If they had actually put Melbourne to the sword I would have been unbelievably excited and surprised. It takes time to go from just winning to murdering teams. It will happen though.

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Window = Open

You haven't met Abbadon, have you?

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Wouldn't it be better practice against the bye?

Pros:

- We won.
- My Man Jamo might get All-Australian in 2008?


Cons:

- We slacked off in the last quarter, bad sign IMO.
- Melbourne just played complete and utter crap football and never allowed the game to move out of fist gear, they shouldn't be playing half that team and blooding kids who at least want to have a crack and not pickup easy kicks.
- We need Hartlett is across HF. Carlos didn't do anything of note today.

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Mjonc signing off at 8888

PRO : we won
PRO : eagles getting pumped at subi
PRO : work tomorrow


CON: Work tomorrow

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Pros: Judd Judd Judd Fev Jamo Bower Hadley Kreuzer

Cons: Still too much bombing.
Can't handle the flood
Judd winning the toss & kicking to the main scoreboard end.
It was hard for our forwards to handle the sun in their eyes
during the last qtr

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Cheats never prosper (except in the AFL)

Pros:
-we won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Brett ratten's coaching: having the presence of mind of sticking to a game plan and persisting in players in specific positions for runs of games (ie: russel, ohailpin as a forward, waite in defence etc) despite their performance. i dont think that we will die wondering for example whether russel is gonna be a good player he is being given enough rope to hang himself with. I think we would be rueing the loss of josh kennedy a lot more if pagan had just left him in one position to develop, may also be the reason why setanta's development is so delayed compared to the other irish boys in the afl

-waite - has had 4 goals scored against him in 5 games against some genuine goal scorers

-DEFENCE looks so much better with a GUN MIDFIELD

- JUDD need i say more--
- FEV- see JUDD
-Grigg - thoutght he was ok, gee with how much leeway russel gets i think some are being too harsh
-a mentality of winning ??
-being confident at half time that we were gonna win regardless
-FLYING THE FLAG!!!!!!!!!
CONS-
-white strip
-we were winngin by 8 goals FFS, we should have beaten them by 12 at least, man i miss the days that i would scream out "PERCENTAGE" after every goal we score
-tackles are a bit soft
-fev really is our barometer
-depth, wasnt so scared on hearing gibbs' late reoval
-injuries, reports
-holding the ball up!!!! do we really need to signal our intentions so blatantly??? god it looks so stupid

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In america, first you get zee shugar, the you get zee power, then you get ze wemen!!!

Pros We Won, WE WON 2 IN A ROW,how we do that he ha
Cons I Can't listen to the game or watch it live for us to win

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Bang Bang.

Don't we all. @#$%&! you Collo for that TD deal.

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"I had to eat"

Pro's:

We won a game we were supposed to win
We stood up to yet another team that tried to manhandle us

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

pros
won by 6 goals and did not play well
judd
judd
kruezer
hadley
good depth through the midfield


cons
a decent chf would be nice

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Go Blues

Jeez, my eyesight's crap - I didn't even see Hadley out there. Pleased to read he had a good game.

The thing about today is that Carlton became one of those teams that only needs one good quarter to beat us - er ... a team. Nice.

1) Murphy - great 1-2 1-2 with whoever it was (bad eyesight remember - although it was right in front of me)
2) Kreuzer - I refuse-r to believe that a ruckman of ours is that good around the ground. Mature, skilled, legs like tree trunks, brilliant
3) Judd - especially that Eagles' era goal out of the middle - and the shimmy around a couple of Demon's to kick it to (probably) Fev (bad eyesight)
4) Cloke - I thought he worked hard to stick it up Collingwood but it seems he actually just works hard. Great player
5) Jamieson (sp?) - one of the best backmen in the league this year

There are no cons when Carlton wins

Fev had a meh day but jeez he's getting good at defense.

you didnt see hadley cos he was at the bottom of all the packs

fev had a meh day ??!?!

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.