Very disappointing last quarter. We try hard but aren't good enough. Not down on the boys but just disappointed. It will sting for a couple of days but then we have to get up for another challenge next week against Melbourne. Go Blues!

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Blue is the colour, Blue is our colourful conversation, football is the game, talking carlton is our aim, we're all together, we're all together, winning is our aim, arguing is a pain, let's debate for gain. .. .!

Beautifully put and apt for me

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That was highly disappointing albeit predictable.

JSOS going down seemed the real turning point.

Missing those easy goals in the third along with some cheap goals to them (Hunter you diving cauliflower) didn't help.

Love your enthusiasm and positivity, I wish I had that !!

In the famous word of Ned stark ,,,, winter is coming !!

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#sayerscouldbetheman!!

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You forgot Charlie Curnow

Jesus., but he didn't play today, otherwise we would've won.
He would've carried those 5 over the line with him

Someone tell Lloyd, Charlie is not Jesus, yeah he costs us too, and does nothing for the team

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...and very similar last year against us!

The difference is we've done it 2/3 games while Teague's been in charge.

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Yep. How bad are the dogs against high pressure. Tigers showed the way last week and we followed on. Unfortunately we carried injured and underdone players like Williams,Caz, Cripps and jSos so couldn't apply pressure for long enough to get the job done.

I wish I could say I've got to that point! I still hurt.. a lot. I'm so damaged, so beaten down by the years of crap I just can't bear to watch them anymore. I love watching footy, as long as Carlton aren't playing. I scan the tv guide; "oh shit, the Carlton game will be on". I never watch anymore, I wait until the game is over then find out the score.

Libba 9 centre clearances. Cripps 2, Walsh 1.
23 centre clearances to 7. Who saw that coming? Everyone but our @#$%&! coaches.
Considering we were starting the game from the backline, the players did remarkably well.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

We had a guy you last week had 4 clearances in 20 minutes before he went off

And this week , same guy , is fit but played In the reserves because he showed good form , and we to bring in a 900k unfit fatso into the team ... that makes sense , go blues !!

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Can you remind me of how many centre clearances Dow had in 15 minutes last week??

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Jsos going down had no impact on the result (8 touches to that point )

The easy goals he continually misses definitely a huge difference...

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Having said that we looked more comfortable absorbing opposition inside 50s (for 3/4 ) than I have seen for a while. And all those rebound 50s by us (well up on the 1st month) resulted in us using all the space ahead of us to score more efficiently going into our F50 than we have this season. That ghastly over press where we bang our heads against a wall for no score didnt really happen today.
Unfortunately there was a 4th quarter where we just stopped.

Our biggest and most glaring issue for mine. Been happening most of the year. We are pretty much automatically under the pump, have to defend for our lives, continually give up territory and have to start our attack from D50.

No doubt because a myriad of factors. However when your key ruck can’t jump and is probably really just the back up and your supposed best clearance player and contested beast is a shadow of his former self certainly doesn’t help.

We simply have to change it up. TDK can’t come in fast enough and we must rest Crippa and bring in Dow or Settlefield as an example.

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We are on our way back...

Today really highlighted how average our midfield is
Walsh is a star
Ed cracks in all day but he’s close to the end and has never been good by foot
Cripps is a shell of his former self. He’s either injured or just completely lost what he had in 2019 and before
We’ve invested in high picks Dow, Setterfield, SPS, Stocker, LOB, Kennedy as midfielders and all are either in the 2s our not in the midfield in the 1s. These are the guys who were meant to make us into a quality midfield. None of them are contributing as midfielders in the seniors
Now we’ve gone and invested big $$ in Williams to play as a midfielder and it’s not working
This is our Achilles heal at the moment and I don’t see much scope for us to become any good unless we find a strong midfield group. We can’t just rely on Walsh

Yep

4 ... not good enough to impress the match committee

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