Tells it like it is!

He's gutted
He's concerned about those around the club Pissing in Fev's pocket.
Thinks the CLUB should be HURTING, not enough to say they are... Make a real statement early in 2010.

IS A CARLTON MAN!

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He has never been a lover of Fev so he is blind to him. Fev did more than most forwards do regardless of whether Wallsy thinks the 1% are expected. Not all forwards do it yet it's EXPECTED of Fev.

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Loved the way they told us Walls would explain why Carlton lost, and then all they did was go through Brisbane's goals in the last.

I must admit I was a bit surprised at the large amount of praise Fev got from Ratts

interesting they hi lighted some of the slackness of the players in the last
hope they were watching

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Walls is way out of touch with the game, you only need to listen to 5 minutes of his commentary to realise that.

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but he tells it how it is....

funniest thing i ever heard on radio is parkin...he said he would rather have cam mooney than brendon fevola ... cos mooney is consistent....and professional...

(consitently bad)

that was 3/4 of the way through this year..on the radio.....

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Liked this segment, but would have been interesting to analyse how all of their goals were scored.

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

I was at the game and I have to agree with Walls and Co's analysis as I mentioned most of them to fellow supporters afterwards.
- Merrett running off Fevola to create an overlap for a goal
- Walker ball watching leaving Rich to run free at the stoppage and giving up the chase way to early
- Bower was on one leg and should have been benched , Bradshaw ran off him too easy
- I said to the Mrs at siren - Daniel Rich has just won them the game - Those 5 possessions were all quality - best kick on either team - just imagine his delivery to Fev? ( OK - hold the Rich vs Yarran to other threads please)
- Judd on the bench in the last and they kick 2 goals and Black is on one leg for the whole match and gets the most posses ?????
- Clark was also carrying an injury and still lifted to play an awesome last quarter
-Voss dropped the zone in the last and went one on one and our guys didn't gut run and make enough space so we played too much close in footy which we are not well drilled in.

For me it was a combination of 1) work-rate 2) coaching moves 3) Daniel Rich

Wallys is mostly captain obvious in his commentary but he got it right in how the game was lost

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Yeah, that was a bit odd I thought. So on that point, at least, I can see where Walls is coming from.

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I like Walls, Matthews and Blight as commentators as they are the only ones that give game analysis...can't stand the cliche style commentators that just report the match in cliches... "they gave it their all, they are hurting now etc"



Everything he said was spot on on One Week At A Time about the match, Ratten's comments and the fade-out.



Demoralising to see in the replay how disinterested Walker was in the contest. Not sure where his head is. Might not be in the best 22 in 2010 unless they can find a good spot for him - perhaps backline or forward pocket?



He didn't show enough endeavour in the midfield in this finals match. Maybe others (eg Yarran) can be groomed as midfielders in front of Walker or maybe Walker will recover his poise... a lot of variables to the equation.

he wasnt alone

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

the only reason I can see Ratts saying what he did was to cover his on arse - I think there was a clear directive not to kick it to Fev on Saturday night and it back fired - There were several occassions where he was one out or in the clear where players had a ping or tried to spot up someone else - I think Ratts raping up Fev the way he did was a deflection from a coaching tactic which clearly didn't work on the night

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He did what???

alright wrong word should have used pumping

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We really need to recruit the best forward line coach out there...

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I've previously been quite a vocal critic of fev but would have to say that I thought the final was one of fevs better games. Created several goals (3+) for others through pressure and team play

I thought Fev's pressure was outstanding. If all our guys could chase and tackle as hard as him we would have won easily.

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Think you'll find Ratts' BOG comment related to the best forward on the ground context....

His right too...Fev was the only foward running around, chasing and tackling.... Bradshaw and Brown didn't have to with only Bower and T-bird to contend with.

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Whenever Carlton lose the cameras get a shot of Fev with his hands on hips and that transcends to poor body language and not working hard enough. Ratts is just making sure that everyone knows the fact that Fev puts more pressure on defenders than Brown, Franklin, Reiwoldt etc.

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Fev's performance was very positive on Saturday from a team perspective.

The tactics out of the coaches boxes is what lost it for us. The players were slack in the last and dropped their intensity which is poor. But better coaching would have enabled us to choke up the game..... Poor tactics. How Browne and Bradshaw were allowed to present to an open forward line for the whole 4th quarter was piss poor.