Choko

Did Robinson really say that about Green? If he did, he is an arrogant little turd who will get what's coming to him. A player who has been playing football, pretty poorly, for 5 minutes, coming out and kicking the captain of a football team while he is down to the media after the game.... what a dropkick. Typical Carlton arrogance and disrespect. We'll have our time.

As a chess player, you need to start the game without 6 key pieces. If you're half worth your mettle, you will start by working out how you think you can protect your king, rather than how to knock the other king off. If everything goes exactly right in your defense of your king, you may have a chance to counter-attack. If it doesn't, then the inevitable occurs and you lose. That was friday night.

Worry not. They're called 'shrooms.

I would love to blame drugs.

At the same time?

True. I think he is really low on confidence. I am prepared to back him to come good.

I am putting it on the line and saying that I am absolutely certain we will bash the Bombres this week. Hard earned will be splashed on my blind faith! I have watched Essendon this year with some interest, given their somewhat meteoric rise under pretty boy Hird. I think that they have the nucleus of a good spine, but they are hardly there yet. Their start of the year was all emotion, and they have great leg speed, so that when they get their tails up, they can be hard to stop. However, they are actually ordinary and I predict that they will miss the 8. The way they play I reckon suits us, because they will let also us play our way. Dees by 20!

And his name in capitals, so there can be no confusion if there is a lookalike somewhere.

Agree except Joel Mac

Interesting. There has now been a full review of the FD, so if that is a problem, I would hope it has been picked up. I think it's unfair how people are putting it all on Bailey. It seems to me that we would have the worst assistant coaches in the league. We lost Wellman, who was our best. I've heard average things about West, and Royal isn't a forward coach.

Agree 100% with this.

Do you know that the FD spends a disproportionate amount of time in meetings, or are you just guessing/speculating?

Sorry if not u. Most.

I agree to a large extent regarding the year. I haven't said otherwise. But people, including youm have been critical of last night. And last night in context was not so bad.

hahaha... I love ur post Crompton's. Awesome.

Well, firstly, we are terrible in forward pressure. Refer Jurrah, Bate, Petterd. I'm not gonna defend that. And it's Carlton's greatest strength. But, you have to remember we spent under 15% of the first half inside our forward 50, which makes pressure in the forward line pretty difficult.

Entirely agree. Our inability to lay tackles in our forward 50 is a massive issue. I actually think that is clearly one we can blame Bailey for. He keeps picking blokes who are not defensively minded in the forward half. Bennell hasn't become the defensive forward Bailey was trying to make him. He doesn't play Davey down there. Spread requires personnel.

Who didn't want Worsfold's head at the end of last year? Have a look at the WC forums. They took 3 years to get their players to execute the game plan. Very good example. Just not for your point.

That is our problem. Juice and Bennell are only in the side bc of injury. Bennell hasn't even come close to earning a spot, and Juice isn't AFL standard. Davey was just shocking in his effort last week - no excuses. He was "injured" last night.

Haha. Nah, but you have to see it for what it is. If we had played an attacking brand last night, Blind Freddy could see it would have been worse, not better. I was much more critical of our form against the Swans, Hawks and other early than last night. We definitely did get our hands dirty last night, we were just undermanned against a very good side.

I can tell you Newton's niche. And the game has changed since Bate was drafted. Just ask Brock McLean about that.

We had 12 less tackles - 69 to 81 on afl.com stats. I think we were close at half time on tackles as well. Yes, we have too many passengers. No doubt at all.

Sounds like Frawley and Watson. And Tony Shaw.

Haha. Ignore the post. Talk crap. You should be a tiger.

Mahoney is by all repute a very good assistant. The others I'm not sure about, Viney included.