Autopsy 2025 Rd 8 50-110 Adelaide holiday ends on sour note

[katmanblue]

McGovern, welcome back to whipping status.

How many of those kick ins were errors were because no one gave him an option to kick to?

 

[Blue since 72]

Shameful effort.

Said it in the game day thread, nothing to do with the coach, skills, fitness or game plan this sits squarely between the player ears as a collective.

Were beaten in every facet of the game all game.

 

[Blueing]

Horrible went back to looking slow and played panic football! Smashed in all areas!!!

 

[ESKIE]

Deplorable
I'm fuming

 

[2blue4u]

Players weren't great but tactically that was very poor. No plan B if plan A doesn't work. Just allowed Crows players to consistently run around on their own. The game plan was just nonexistent.

 

[HereComesJuddy]

Lost every quarter.
TDK cannot mark nor punish a ruckman that doesn’t jump.
Pretty poor everywhere tbh.
Jeckyl and Hyde rears its ugly head again…

 

[passmark]

we should get our legal team to nominate for the mid season draft

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Round 8 team review

Coffee
Hotel
Flight
Pool
Social Media
Food
Performance

 

[Murphkreuzmitch]

Really don't understand why we don't play younger players who we can build into our future, rather fill gap players.

I don't mind Young, but even when he wins a contest he takes heat off the ball and our attack is closed in on.

Doc, one of my favourite Blues ever, a great human, but would love to see him find some form for a while in reserves. Sadly AFL footy might have moved past the great man.

Some really soft efforts at the contest today, not going to name players, but 1 in particular played like Hercules against North & WC, and has disappeared the last fortnight.

Depth is a really big issues, particularly in key posts.

 

[Mondyboy]

Can we just give them the four points next time and not bother playing there.

More seriously, they lacked intensity from the first ball up and TDK let himself be pushed around. When our one wood doesn’t work we have no response.

 

[Opium]

You could tell the game was over inside the first 10 minutes. Didn't fire a single shot. That was a complete waste of 3 hours. Club should front up and apologise to its members and supporters for that performance.

 

[Michael Jezz]

Getting hard to make finals.
Didn't see it coming.
It is much more the list than the coach.
The recruited smalls have zero run, goal sense, skills and spread.
We turn our small fwds into lead up instead of crumbing fwds.
Acres, mcgovern docherty woeful
Weiters, ohollands, haynes good

 

[CCurnow3picks]

A horrible regression.

Come back SOS very soon! cotters also please.

Dithery, second to the ball, beaten inside & out - yuk.

Such a weird game.

Adelaide’s loss last week, their performance this week, worlds apart.

Same for us.

If you’re not on, it’s not on.

 

[SkyhorseTamer]

We are the mighty port Adelaide power Carlton blues.

Funny how we mirror...

 

[Murphkreuzmitch]

How many of those kick ins were errors were because no one gave him an option to kick to?

A hell of a lot. He made a lot of contests only to have nothing to kick to, back to 4 weeks ago.. Adelaide were lining up in their zone.

 

[Tjblues]

Lord 9 disposals 2 tackles 0 goals

Durdin 4 disposals 1 tackle 2 goals

Motlop 6 disposals 1 tackle 1 goal (while spending big chunks in the middle)

White 9 disposals 0 tackles 0 goals

Fogarty 8 disposals 3 tackles 0 goals

McKay 8 disposals 1 tackle 0 goals

Curnow 13 disposals 0 tackles 2 goals

7 forwards combined for 57 disposals, 8 tackles and 5 goals.

On a dirty day all round the complete inability to compete from this group stood out to me.

I’m so disappointed in the player Motlop is becoming. We know his best is more than good enough but he puts in far more shockers than he does good ones.

Willing to give the mids and backs a pass because they’ve been strong most of the year so far.

Saad, Haynes and Cripps the only ones near their best I thought

 

[Lukeblueboy]

Very poor today!
Obliterated on the outside once again.

 

[LanceRomance]

Fairly insipid... more insipid than I thought it would be.

 

[Just Kreuzing]

So what do they do with Acres??
New position or VFL…..

Doc gotta go back to VFL or retire, Motlop needs a rocket & VFL stint.

Gotta find some runners, really missed the versatility of Silvagni, Cottrell & Williams who is never fit !!

 

[passmark]

They just can’t back up.

 

[SurreyBlue]

Horrible went back to looking slow and played panic football! Smashed in all areas!!!

This.

 

[Accidental genius]

We need fluency in our game

Our ball movenent and transition is too robotic

Against slower teams like ourselves we are ok but against tge quicker and slick ball moving teams we get cut up and made to look 2nd rate

 

[Neese]

Deplorable
I'm fuming

Imagine bestie and I all hopeful after our awesome performance last week.

We turned up wanting effort and had to sit through that with Crows supporters cheering.

I am furious. Absolutely furious. 6 goals is pathetic.

**** you Carlton. I feel like I am in an abusive relationship with Stockholm Syndrome.

Adelaide papers will be fapping over the Crows. Umpiring was deplorable but we were worse.

Am going to read a book. This club is not getting any more of my energy tonight.

 

[Blue By Blood]

It's funny how we can run and move the ball when we take the game on and set up well structurally.

Yet when we dish up rank, pathetic performances like today we look like we can't cover the ground.

This team and this coach need to bring effort and bridge the consistency gap between performances. Because right now we're a team that can take a big scalp but can't back it up. It's a mentality thing. Our best is good enough, we just don't bring it often enough. And honestly.. so over it as most of us are. We can't accept that type of performance any more.

 

[CCurnow3picks]

Players weren't great but tactically that was very poor. No plan B if plan A doesn't work. Just allowed Crows players to consistently run around on their own. The game plan was just nonexistent.

Pretty hard to tell if it was game plan or players jumping at shadows.

Likely the latter - very reactive.