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POSTGAME: Rd 19 vs Carlton

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4 minutes ago, BDA said:

Our skills are not good enough. How many times did we kick the ball over the head of the leading forward. 5 times at least

Infuriating seeing this happen again and again. Kick it in front of the player you morons not on top of his head, how bloody hard is it? Unacceptable and you're right on your next point, it is coaching allowing it to happen again and again.

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    We were the better team in my eyes. Both teams have their struggles and I rarely blame the umpires but tonight's game was officiated very poorly.

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    Just now, YearOfTheDees said:

    How can you win nearly every stat and still be behind on the scoreboard.

    A judicious selection of soft frees and 50s going one way while holding off on the whistle the other way.

    That and atrocious execution of those stat-grabbing possessions.

    And starting the game about 15 mins after the opposition.

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    2 minutes ago, DeeMee said:

    Tell me again how umpires don’t influence outcomes of games.

    Exactly. Have any of these morons calling for the coaches head seen the stats? Did they actually watch the game? That was appalling umpiring.

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    1 minute ago, Tom Dyson said:

    We win that game if that holding the ball is payed.

    Change my mind.

    It’s almost cheating, not usually fussed about those 4 bozos running around in green every week, but how can you follow this sport when one rule is interpreted differently every [censored] minute.

    The sport is unwatchable.

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    Worst umpiring I’ve seen in years.

    No advantage to Moir (Q3), no HTB to Clarry and tiggy touchwood to Curnow. That’s the game. Could name a ton of others. But those three were a [censored] disgrace. Sheer incompetence.

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    I don’t really feel angry or sad

    I’m just done

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    Poor skills costing us and the club is not fixing it. The blues looked cleaner and it made the difference.
    How many 50's did we give away. We can't blame some really poor decisions by the umps as we didn't score a goal in the 2nd and that cost us.


    Jeffo better in terms of presenting....but it just needs to practice marking above his head at training, everything was a chest mark and they didn't stick, he nearly dropped his first chest mark.

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    Just now, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    The apologists will blame the umpires but we just lost to a side missing 10 players that could easily play in their best 22.

    Are you fair dinkum?

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    Just now, bing181 said:

    How anyone can watch that and think it's the responsibility of the coach is beyond me.

    When it happens week after week that's were the fault lies.

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    Carlton eight players with less than 50 games. Pitiful performance umpires don’t change that fact. The loss was inevitable. Goodwin will say we know where we are at and building next premiership list. It a con job

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    How can you win nearly every stat and still be behind on the scoreboard

    How can you win nearly every stat and still be behind on the scoreboard

    How can you win nearly every stat and still be behind on the scoreboard

    Because your skills are poor

    Because you make dumb decisions

    Because your kicking for goal is shocking (went from 7.3 to 8.10) we should have powered past them but we missed chances

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    2 minutes ago, bing181 said:

    How anyone can watch that and think it's the responsibility of the coach is beyond me.

    U are kidding?? Right??

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    Just now, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    The apologists will blame the umpires but we just lost to a side missing 10 players that could easily play in their best 22.

    Are you fair dinkum?

    1 minute ago, Devil In Disguise said:

    3x 50m penalties to them & infringing on the area is a joke. The AFL can stick its rules as they have killed it. I hate this game now.

    Exactly. It's obvious when the match fixing is on. And it was well and truly on tonight

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    Why does Lindsay freeze in front of goals?

    Twice he was running into goal in the last and it’s as if he was trying to hit the top of the post. He’s usually a beautiful kick in general play.

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    We played a very ordinary side tonight and it just shows where we are at. We are a long way off and if players keep on missing targets and dropping chest marks like Jeffo and having a lumbering JVR in forward line we need a huge injection of quick smart skillful players from somewhere. Only thing we can do is keep playing the kids and see if they can improve themselves and help the side but I'm worried that none of them have any pace to break the lines.

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    How many coaches in their 9th year would survive two consecutive bottom 4 finishes? The club is cooked

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    We are now a mediocre team. Actually, scrap that - we are poor. Below average in most areas, our stars getting the ball but not excelling, our bottom 6 players so far from the standard required.

    The umpiring was bad, but let's be honest, that is not where we lose games. We lose games with ball in hand. It is OUR errors, especially kicking, that is absolutely killing us. And it is killing me.

    Tonight, beaten by a very poor Carlton team, when we beat them or equalled them in every stat that counts.

    Lots of things have to come together to produce excellence, but I am more than eager for a new President & CEO who can hopefully change what we are becoming.

    Perhaps most unsettling, some of 2-5 year players have stalled or fallen away.

    Well done Kozzie & Fritta, and a handful of others tried hard, but otherwise bland, fault-ridden and uninspiring.

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    Umpires willed Carlton over the line in the last (and all game really). I would love to know how the game would have played out with Clarry getting that Htb.

    All the stats say we should have won that game. Coulda shoulda woulda…didn’t. We are mentally weak as a team and that’s why this keeps on happening. Too many players rushing themselves, worried about being tackled etc etc.

    On the positive, thank goodness Koz re-signed. We are nothing without him (and Gawn) at the moment. And JVR is starting to look himself again.

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    Another dismal display of skills. Every attempted chain was painful to watch.

    The discipline was also junior level.

    Tholstrup needs a permanent rest, bring in K Brown so we can have a look at something with potential.

    We lost to an understrength Carlton. Seriously.

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