It’s a cunning plan….

the AFL can change the F/S rule as much as they
want…when we finish bottom…?

he’s ours…here’s your hat son…


kindest regards tommi

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The only spot for him might be playing as a second ruckman that will at least let us play another mid with a bit more pace

I couldnt sleep all night wondering what the hell happened after we were 22 mins up 2 mins in the 3rd qtr. We just stopped. I mean how.

Everyone stopped running, tackling and were in bunches leaving them all alone.

Cripps escapes criticism by a lot. He was terrible.
Hewitt was terrible
Reidy is slow as anything
Kemp unsighted after the 1st qtr.
Hayward unsighted.
Our midfield unsighted.
McGovern. I told you all, better off getting games into Derksen.
Fogarty. Shocking. Better get games into Byrne
Williams. What does he actually offer at this point?

What could the backline do when they were under siege with their midfield busting through the middle.

Far out, this all again.............. So deflating.

And dont look for changes in our genius Coach - Cause we are the new Carlton and we will sit in mediocrity as the media and the Australia wont be happy with us. So lets comply.

I cant see how this will be fixed to be honest. Last night would have been quite deflating for everyone. Players, Coaches and us members.

We are weak as piss. Its not the club i loved in the 80's and 90's anymore.

PS Charlie needs a big smack in the face that guy. I cannot believe i addorded him. He was trolling us the whole night. And he won. Bad guys do win dont they ?

World record third quarter

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The only way for some people to understand is for them to be on the receiving end

Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

RIP Charlie Kirk (was/were)

Score source

Kick in
Swans 1.1.7
Blues 1.0.6

Stoppage
Swans 9.4.58
Blues 6.2.38

Turnover
Swans 10.7.67
Blues 3.7.25

Defensive half
Swans 8.5.53
Blues 4.5.29

Forward half
Swans 9.5.59
Blues 5.3.33

Centre bounce
Swans 3.2.20
Blues 1.1.7

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

I'm not even angry. I just turned over and watched something else. Probably not great.

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The only way for some people to understand is for them to be on the receiving end

Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

RIP Charlie Kirk (was/were)

abysmal.

even with not the greatest list. rolling over like that in the 3rd. no leadership, no coaching (we've not had coaching in decades, tbh), no pride in the jersey and each to a player, no pride in themselves.


it's as bleak as anything served up in the salary cap penalty years.



every team knows ho to unravel us. flood back in defence and we will turn it over. we can't hit wide open, uncontested targets, so we ain't hitting high contested targets and threading needles.

then Cox hit the switch at HT. we are not going to chip the ball around and kick over them. we're gonna run it right down their throats. handball chains, get on your bikes and run these softcocks off the pitch.

.... and they did. the formula to beat us hasn't changed. it's just gotten easier to execute.

That game was always going to be a hiding to nothing for the Blues. Good to get it out of the way. Real season starts next week.
Selection will be interesting. Think we can still add more run.

Either way….

NO one kicks 13 goals in a quarter against the
mighty Blues…na-a…


kindest regards tommi

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Swans played the same way all night they just didn't connect in first half - they just run and spread and we were clueless.

Can someone please explain how in a meaningless jog around the park practice game last week we go out an lay 82 tackles with Cooper Lord laying 13 - Last night opening night of the season 38 all night and Cooper Lord zero tackles.

Tackling is effort - why put the effort in on a practice fame and not when the real stuff arrives

Swans kicked more goals than we made tackles in 2nd half

I dont care what game plan you have or cattle available to you if you lack effort you are no chance

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They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

That was embarrassing. You don’t fold like that and think you are doing a good job or are capable of being AFL quality.
The whole club should be ashamed of themselves after last night.

I’m worried about Cripps and Harry for different reasons.

I"ll cut 'em some slack . Seven players playing there first game for the Club . Give them time to develop a bit of cohesion before they gel as a unit . Having said that i think the Magoo's practise match this afternoon will be fascinating . Who will put there hand up ?

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You're more patient than most Mickstar... Problem was, it wasn't the 7 new players that were the problem. It was the same familiar faces rolling over when the swans came at them.

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Exactly, Cox didn't have to do a thing.
Our players looked cooked at half time, they were visibly more exhausted than the Swans.
Same as last year, we dominated with the ball for a half or a quarter but did not put any scoreboard pressure, giving teams a no pressure opportunity to run us off our feet and make them look like witches hats, especially in the middle.

IMO Geelong is a slower team than the Swans, so our tackling was a lot more effective because our slower players could get their hands on them.
But the signs were there with our ball handling and disposal, the practice video is looking more accurate of where the team is at after that game.

Patience ? 25 years of hoping will do that to you .

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Yes a lot of Carlton supporters seem upset that he wasn't in the 'top 50' players list.
To be honest I think he would struggle to be in the top 100 these days.

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H.L. Mencken

When we kicked the first 2 goals of the third quarter I started to think we might win. That’s ok, I’m a supporter.
Problem is, I think that’s what the players thought as well and changed their intensity and started taking some short cuts with effort and teamwork (a lazy kick or handball, a bomb for goal rather than eyes lowered, ignoring that extra handball to clear the traffic or shift the opposition etc…).

And, I think we’re better off using the extra bench player for a running player than for a second ruckman.
And we were too tall, esp down back.

We are very slow through the middle of the ground. Cripps, Hewitt, Lord are all very good players in their own right, but none of them have any pace and cannot chase when the opposition get the ball in space. Ollie and Chesser can both run all day, but neither particularly quick. We really need to inject some speed into our team.

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my brother in christ, they absolutely did change it up.

wayyy more focus on give and go, handball support and run in waves. Every stoppage they took a number from the immediate stoppage & put someone - gulden, heeney, chad or McInerney about 15/ 20m goalside of the stoppage. and the whole stoppage was about getting the ball to that point. toe poke, slap, handball, parry doesn't matter how, just get it to that point bcos they won't catch us. and we didn't.

at HT Cox took the extra player from the stappage and placed him goalside - he backed his players to win the stoppage with one less man ahead of the ball. and they did.

walsh, cripps, hewett - none of them ran backwards or chased. hewett and cripps physically can't, and walsh didn't.

cripps and hewett look another year older and another 3-4 years slower than last season, which is going to make for one helluva long season.

agree. it's time to make cripps our FT back up ruck. it's literally the only position left he can play. game really passed him by once they changed the HTB rule mid 2024 season. since thn, it's been a rapid drop off.


how long is left on his contract?