Just imagine if byrne kicked it & you ruin your brothers 100th game because you're the one that gave away the free.

Peter would had kicked Josh out of the family

Elijah Hollands story looks very sad

That was Carlton’s Best Choke for the year, so far!!!

May it long continue

52 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

I think his problems run deeper than that.

Off his Box….

Just got home from watching the game, suck a lemon Carlton.

3 hours ago, bush demon said:

A just result, and a heavily dodgy free kick. I want to know who paid the umpire to give Carlton that free kick. It is not the umpires' job to decide games.

Tell that to ump, ah whats his name, seems to get plenty of our games, blondish hair!

Edited 8 hours ago8 hr by picket fence

6 hours ago, BoBo said:

Whoah. There was a shot of him on the bench with about 5 minutes to go in the 4th and he looked quite twitchy.

This clip is really odd stuff, I know where your heads at and it seems that way to me too

6 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

Elijah Hollands story looks very sad

The footage of him that someone has posted of him in the 50 by himself is a tad strange, even on the herald sun website there's footage of him at the huddle with Voss that seems odd.

9 hours ago, Macca said:

Haydn Bunton won 3 Brownlows in his first 86 games (5 years) That included a win in his debut season

He also ran 2nd, just 1 vote off winning, in his 4th year

One vote off winning 4 Brownlows (in his first 86 games)

And our very own Ivor Warne-Smith won 2 Brownlows and was 2 votes off winning a 3rd Brownlow, within his first 100 games😉

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Macca!

The footy me(h)dia's love of spurious guesswork best-ever-ing sends me 🤪🤯 (in a like vein I posted elsewhere, to a Dusty claim, Percy Beames's performances in the '39, '40 and '41 GFs).

When that media finally latches on to our #11, however, I'll make an exception...

Carlton’s predicament is worse than the Neeld era. At least we knew we were [censored] and had no hope or expectations.

Carlton conversely, are a decent list, but give their fans hope every week only to be ripped away in literal minutes. There are far more pressing matters in the world, but it must be literal hell as a Carlton fan. 😂😂

7 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Macca!

The footy me(h)dia's love of spurious guesswork best-ever-ing sends me 🤪🤯 (in a like vein I posted elsewhere, to a Dusty claim, Percy Beames's performances in the '39, '40 and '41 GFs).

When that media finally latches on to our #11, however, I'll make an exception...

As good as Daicos is, he has to be compared to others before him

Players like Bunton, Reynolds & Warne-Smith were regarded as young champions of their time

And with 8 Browlows and 3 or 4 runners ups all within their first 100 games as a collective, they'd have to be in the conversation

Dick Reynolds also won 3 Brownlows within his first 100 games played

10 hours ago, Pennant St Dee said:

You can’t be serious, if you think he’s just allowed to run free you’re wrong, his work rate and reading of the play makes him a very difficult match up.

If it was easy opposition coaches would have just shut him down every week

10 hours ago, Pennant St Dee said:

You can’t be serious, if you think he’s just allowed to run free you’re wrong, his work rate and reading of the play makes him a very difficult match up.

If it was easy opposition coaches would have just shut him down every week

Just watch the game again; it's easy to see that his opponent was never near him, with or without the ball, or standing metres away. The way you play him is to put a running player on him and forget about the ball. It's called negating a player. Langdon did it to an extent and frustrated Dacios. Sometimes, you need to lose something to get something, just like letting sides move the ball out of the backline to the wing unmanned, like last week—just like the Hawks transfer the ball across the ground several times until they get free to run onto it and attack. Sometimes, a little man-on-man coverage works to stop that.

The other aspect to Daicos' overall game is that he continually brings his teammates into the game with his dazzling play

Seems to lift those around him as well which effectively makes them better players

They can try and tag him but the chances are that it won't work. He's too quick & too clever

KB didn't take contested marks either but he never had to. Rover types just keep getting the ball

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Macca

Voss should go for taking Jagga Smith off in the last 10 mins. Was 1 possesion off winning a multi.

But seriously do Collingwood win that without Nick Daicos?

44 minutes ago, Macca said:

As good as Daicos is, he has to be compared to others before him

Players like Bunton, Reynolds & Warne-Smith were regarded as young champions of their time

And with 8 Browlows and 3 or 4 runners ups all within their first 100 games as a collective, they'd have to be in the conversation

Dick Reynolds also won 3 Brownlows within his first 100 games played

Well if we said it was the best first 100 games in say the last 50 years, that could be right.

You could make a movie about Carltons season

call it Groundhog Day 2

the same nightmare over and over

it would be fun to watch

Just btw, in the last minute, how were blatant holding the ball frees against Williams and Cripps not paid?

Cripps held the ball in one hand and had his other arm and body held, as he dragged his opponent 10 metres to the boundary line and ran over it.

It was deliberate out of bounds and holding the ball.

I won’t mention three Blues throws for a goal assist.

16 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Well if we said it was the best first 100 games in say the last 50 years, that could be right.

Phar Lap raced 95 years ago (around the Warne-Smith, Reynolds & Bunton eras)

But why just the last 50 years re champion footballers?

Why place limits? Why not recognise the past? Just because we didn't see the deeds back then?

Footy was rather big even going back to the 19th century

For instance, in a match dubbed 'The Match of the Century' approximately 30,000 attended a match between the 2 heavyweight teams of the day (South Melb & Geelong)

Melbourne's population at the time ... approx 300,000

That's 1 in 10 Melbourians attending a footy match. No cars back then either

The equivalent of 546,000 in today's terms

You'd need a rather large stadium to fit that many people in

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1 hour ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

The footy me(h)dia's love of spurious guesswork best-ever-ing sends me 🤪🤯 (in a like vein I posted elsewhere, to a Dusty claim, Percy Beames's performances in the '39, '40 and '41 GFs).

Yes, Percy Beames might have won 3 Norm Smith's if the award was around back then

Of course, in that 3peat of flags ('39, '40 & '41) Norm was stationed at Full Forward!