Hellish Inferno

The game is ridiculously over-officiated. You can just hear Carey cringe

Ling said Chaplin and McCartney earlier

ANB. Wow Jones. Jeeeeez So many players down on output and confidence

Shambles right now. No answers. Concerning

Playing with no structure and a complete inability to adjust the game plan to suit the conditions and what the opposition throws at us. Continuous fumbles and poor decisions puts us under pressure, allows Geelong to fill the hole and then break away from our players that are caught napping too often. So much space for them in their forward 50. Hard to see on TV why this is the case. Are our defenders pushing too high? Lack of accountability?

Gee Higgins looks pretty dim. Decent player though

Bruce - "it was Carlton's lowest ever 1st quarter score vs Richmond if you can believe it" They scored one behind. I mean Bruce there's only one other possible answer is there...

Wow the Blues have major fumbles and nerves. Curnow rubbish so far

Seems counter productive listing an injured player as an emergency

Surely if Jones may have trouble making it on the park each week for 4 quarters then co-captain with Viney makes sense. Only if he personally wants to step down then I would consider it Gawn VC for when both captains are unavailable, he steps up.

Right, so footy then? ? Let's hope these players on modified programs can step it up post-Christmas. I'm not worried so much now as it is quite usual for players to be eased back into pre-season before Christmas with mostly running drills, but I'd be concerned if the rehab group doesn't shrink significantly by then. Let's see! Thanks for the reports btw

Don't mind the draw. The key things that stood out to me on first view: - 6 day break from WCE game Sunday in Alice Springs with travel back to VIC to play the Saints. Why can't we play on the Saturday?? I guess it requires another game to shift to Sunday, perhaps Carlton v Suns - Very short break before the Anzac Eve game, although given Richmond also have the same issue I guess can't complain - Glad to have two away games vs Gold Coast and Brisbane, as they are very winnable and useless financially if we played at the MCG But to me most of the 'issues' stem from selling the NT games. Then of course we have some pretty tough double ups and have less games against the bottom sides, but that is to be expected!

I wonder what the players think about playing up in Darwin. Aside from the obvious physical effects, the potential impact on morale must also have some consequence. A happy team surely performs better. But then again the players may not have an issue with it and I have no idea of knowing...