Nasher

Out: Culley In: Sadness 💔

I hoped with Heath in the side again that King and team would look for opportunities to ease Gawn’s workload, and so it happened. Responsible player management.

Culley 💔

Poor attitude is the only way we lose this. Richmond stink to begin with, but on top of that are missing their best mid, best small forward, don’t have a ruckman, their only good key forward is undercooked, and their morale is at rock bottom. Yes I am accurately aware of the Essendon game, but Richmond are an order of magnitude less competitive, and I’m trusting the right lessons have been learned. Put them to the sword please, Dees.

Have any of you worried about fresh legs seen Richmond play this year? They’re awful. Woefully uncompetitive. And even with Lynch back, this week’s side is even worse than last week’s. They’ve made so many changes because half their side is injured. I know it would be very Melbourne to lose this game, but we won’t. No chance whatsoever. Been a good while since we’ve come up against a team in this much disarray.

This is based on absolutely nothing but gut feel, I don’t see him going. He’s just starting to hit his straps, a spot in the MFC midfield is ripe for the taking, and I don’t see the family factor being there (yet) like it was for ANB.

The worm in the Cats vs Eagles game is a great visual about how the difference between the good teams and the poor ones isn’t usually that much in terms of skill and capability, it’s about how long they can sustain effort and concentration for within a game. I definitely remember the years when we were really bad, and game after game where we were okay for most of it but had 5-10 minute periods where we were just blown out of the water completely. Watch the Eagles surrender now and have this turned in to a belting. I don’t like them much but I do feel for them.

Not sure what you guys thought, but I was a little bit disappointed by that.

Goodwin trying to move Trac and Clarry on in 2024 and not being allowed to by the club administration is a great example of how there’s 1000 variables behind the curtain that we on the outside have no visibility of. It’s why my approach to decisions I don’t understand from the club is to question but not criticise - because in 99% of cases there will be inputs into it that I can’t see. Who knows what would have happened if we hadn’t had those players at the club in 2025. If what’s happening this year is any indication, things could have gone VERY differently.

I absolutely do. I think it was @old55 who posted once that he was raised to hate Collingwood, but learned to hate Essendon through experience.

According to a caller on Dan Gorringe’s podcast, the Carlton cheersquad had a fight to the death with each other in the carpark under the ‘G last weekend. What you’re seeing is the weak stragglers who didn’t get caught in the fray.

Every now and then I have a thought that there will one day be a Melbourne squad that doesn’t have Max Gawn in it and it makes me legitimately emotional. I can’t and don’t want to imagine it. Wonder if this is how the fans of the 80s felt about Robbie. A sneaky Brownlow at 34 for a ruckman is absolutely not out of the question on current trajectory. No wouldn’t that be bloody something?

100%. I felt the scoreboard didn’t reflect the difference. Once we got in front it never felt like we were going to lose, but we never truly buried them either. The fact that they hardly missed when they had the chance to score was a big contributor to this.

Incredible that they’ve matched the losing streak they endured when they were playing a top-up side. Golden opportunity for us to assist in their record breaking endeavours.

Oh God, is that possible? Now that my age begins with a 4 I find I can trigger calf and hammy cramps rolling the wrong way in bed. Never had a groin cramp, or even really imagined it, but if that starts happening, I’m throwing in the towel.

Fritsch for Laurie if Fritsch is good. No change if not. I despise Essendon above all others and I take great pleasure in their struggles. Hope we pulverise them.

The free he tried to pay against Langdon in the back pocket when the boundary umpire had already called it touched out was the ultimate waving his d*** around moment. Nah, you clearly know better than the lowly boundary umpire who literally has one job and was standing two metres away. Infuriating.

Disco playing forward would make it add up better. Otherwise I can’t see how we’re having Disco, TMac, Petty and Lever all in the same back line.

Amazing. As I said earlier in the thread: cruel, unusual, beautiful torture.

I’m sure it’s a great interview but I listened to 4 minutes of absolute floggery from the hosts and developed a severe hatred for their voices before I even got to the bit I was there to listen to, and could go no further. Not sure if I’m getting old or what but my tolerance for this kind of “media” has never been lower.

I find both teams largely inoffensive and tend to barrack for both a lot in neutral games. As such I was watching with not much skin in it but a loose preference for the Crows. Absolutely intense finish. Love our game when it’s like that.

That’s a bit different though. Bedford was clearly behind a glut of other like types, including ANB, Chandler etc. He didn’t get tonnes of opportunities, but at the time we were hot off a flag, pressing for another one, and it was a hard team to get in to. McVee was a best 22 player who was clearly already being given every opportunity of success. The idea that he’d jump in to Freo as a running half back when they’ve already got the likes of Clark etc was ridiculously and obviously naive in my opinion.

If this is as it seems on face value, Guerra should resign. It’s easy to hold Richardson up as the scapegoat, but the most senior person in the room in a pre-planned meeting automatically becomes accountable for the content. I will reserve further judgement until the facts come to light, noting at the moment we’ve heard one version of events, but my initial impression is “yikes”.

Who couldn’t see that coming from a mile away? Remember Jeremy Howe sooking off to Collingwood because they promised him forward line time? Played half a season as a forward before they worked out he did his best work as a defender. Players who think they are better than they are get sold the “grass is greener” opportunity pitch, then end up just doing what they did before because it turns out, the original club knew their limitations.

This Carlton side has found a new, cruel form of torture for its fans. I’ve never seen anything like it, and I am 100% here for it.