7 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

David Parkin gave Cripps votes today in the ABC Player of the Year award.

He was good, but that’s a joke.

It’s “Nathan Buckley Syndrome”. When you’re the only good player playing a lone hand in a [censored] team you’ll always get a few votes so that the media pundits can still get them on their show. 

58 minutes ago, grazman said:

I have only one thing to say after that.

Suck Arse Jed Lamb you toe rag!

Nar got it all wrong......

LAMB 

MUTTON dressed as Lamb! 

2 hours ago, Jaded said:

ANB lost his grandad, hence the armband. Did him proud. Played some sort of game today. His kicking was excellent!

He certainly played well. 

Watching from the fence I thought he was in our top 3 players today. One of his goals was on the back of him winning the ball at half back and beginning the chain. Terrific reward for effort.

As usual, covered the most distance.

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1 hour ago, jumbo returns said:

WCE are going orright...

early days... 

but is the coach ?

2 hours ago, Jaded said:

ANB lost his grandad, hence the armband. Did him proud. Played some sort of game today. His kicking was excellent!

His last two weeks have been very good.

3 hours ago, MurDoc516 said:

Real test next week. will be interesting to see if the Crows still have key players missing, we might hit them at the right time. Weirdly i'd be more confident against them at Adelaide oval then in the NT.

How about just concentrating on beating whomever they put out there.  Best or second best, we just need to beat them  

3 hours ago, DaisyDeeciple said:

1st Win I have seen live since 2006 (I am officially not a jinx and can contemplate a return trip to Australia just before the racing carnival. Am trying to remember the last 100 point win.

Tom McDonald, several goal assists to go with 4, BOG for mine. that running back with the flight of the ball and putting his right hand out to juggle and gather the ball was the prettiest piece of footy all day. 

Saw Melksham at Jerry's milkbar this morning in Elwood, with his wife and kid, so left him alone, have always thought they made a good breakfast, worked for him. 

Oliver need a TV to see his work, I understand why the umps have no clue whether he throws, impossible to see sometimes he is so quick, his hands are up there with Muhammad Ali for speed.

Lever close to BOG, best game I think I've seen him play, getting better every week.

Smith got better and better.

Lewis is putting together his best set of games for Melbourne at the moment (sad to say, but I think he's playing like he might finish this year, he is really putting it all out there)

Vince needs a spell, couple of times when I thought he could chase and didn't, and he is under the microscope every time by the umps.

Hannan - I guess his defensive pressure is what justifies his place, he's not in for disposal efficiency.

Gawn, did some great things. 

We had the crowd I thought, for a Carlton home game, was seeing far more red. Loved the team game, they are always looking for the goal assist.

We were lucky with umps, got the rub of the green. I would have felt stiff as a blues fan, especially the free for holding the man when the Carlton player ran back with the flight of the ball (mark of the year that wasnt) super brave. Speaking of which , the umps seem to make it quite tough to call a mark a mark.

 

I have only watched the first half so far, but I was appalled b6 the numbers of incorrect disposals the Cheetas got away with and the inconsistency in the interpretation thereof. 

3 hours ago, Demonated said:

What a game that was. Even contribution across the field. Viney was pretty ineffective but will be much better for the run. For those saying that Hogan didn’t impact the game, I must insist that you look at our goals again. He must have directly assisted 4-5 which is a ridiculous number. 

He has become a supreme team player this year. Last year really transformed his from a boy to a man. Our best player wth Max so far this year.

We have momentum now. It’s a 50/50 game against Adelaide next week, win and we really set ourselves up for a good year.

 

Hogan officially recorded as 4 goal assists but in the first half at least he contributed in many other ways   This even spread has become a real strength 

Smart arse Cripps saying on radio how much he's going to enjoy playing Melbourne because of what happened last year. Well don't think he enjoyed the day very much at all.

19 minutes ago, DV8 said:

early days... 

but is the coach ?

Well, I know Simmo's not a great sleeper, but apart from that......?

49 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

David Parkin gave Cripps votes today in the ABC Player of the Year award.

He was good, but that’s a joke.

31 disposals, 8 Mark’s, 9 tackles and a goal is a fair effort in a team that lost by 109 points. 

Stats aren’t everything but Cripps was very good and, I reckon, deserved a vote particularly as we had an even performance across the ground

can't believe we only kicked 3 fn goals in the 1st qtr.....not happy jan

The 'Round 9 - All the goals' video should run about 15 minutes this week.  That's if they put them all in this time around.

22 minutes ago, jumbo returns said:

Well, I know Simmo's not a great sleeper, but apart from that......?

I suspect his security hangs on the remainder of this season.  They are going really well, right now 2018.

I just checked their draw to read who they've beaten, and most don't really impress me, but even the Tiges aren't a shadow of the old Cats and old Hawks. 

What this shows me is that the competition has evened up more, than i had realised last year.

Beware the Swans in 2018_

I don’t follow Carlton that closely, so it was difficult telling who these players were...

2 minutes ago, bringbackthebiff said:

I don’t follow Carlton that closely, so it was difficult telling who these players were...

Pretty sure that tall one is Kreuzer...

It genuinely feels odd to see a scoreline in which we won by 100+ points. 

And I love it. 

The big tests are still to come, starting with Adelaide. But, when we were 2-3 we all knew we needed to win these four games, and build percentage, to set up our season. We’ve done exactly what we needed to. 

1 minute ago, Mickey said:

Pretty sure that tall one is Kreuzer...

??

5 hours ago, TheCurseisBroken said:

We are now responsible for Carlton's biggest loss at the MCG, surpassing their 108 point loss to Collingwood in 2002.

Don't think so. I believe that our win in R6 of 2004 was by a few points more

40 minutes ago, FarNorthernD said:

31 disposals, 8 Mark’s, 9 tackles and a goal is a fair effort in a team that lost by 109 points. 

Stats aren’t everything but Cripps was very good and, I reckon, deserved a vote particularly as we had an even performance across the ground

He was B o G in my view. Look at his Fantasy points, 140 to Tom MCD 113

2 hours ago, praha said:

Largest win for 25 years.

No it wasn't 

13 minutes ago, bringbackthebiff said:

I don’t follow Carlton that closely, so it was difficult telling who these players were...

That's the MFC circa 2012/13

6 minutes ago, Farmer said:

Don't think so. I believe that our win in R6 of 2004 was by a few points more

That was 105 points. And it was our largest win since 1993.

I loved that today.  Everyone put in.  We kicked them when they were down.  I even saw a few players shepherding for each other which is virtually unheard of for us.  As an added bonus I saw an effort being made by our midfield to try to hit forward targets instead of just bombing every time. 

Also, What a game from Timmy the Bull!  No goals, but plenty of quality work crashing packs and fighting at ground level. 

51 minutes ago, FarNorthernD said:

31 disposals, 8 Mark’s, 9 tackles and a goal is a fair effort in a team that lost by 109 points. 

Stats aren’t everything but Cripps was very good and, I reckon, deserved a vote particularly as we had an even performance across the ground

109 points.

4 hours ago, SFebey said:

Is Bolton’s job under scrutiny tonight?

 

19 minutes ago, bringbackthebiff said:

I don’t follow Carlton that closely, so it was difficult telling who these players were...

The one on the left is Zac Fisher, Jarrod Garlett is the one next to him. The third one is Harry McKay and, as has been correctly pointed out already, the tall one is Kreuzer (lucky we lost the Kreuzer cup).