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isn't it funny how footy works. I thought Weiters was comfortably our best player on the night, a lot of others didn't have him in our best five.

And what if a so-called 'negative' opinion is also a reasonable one? We can't ignore the reality of the situation: our Club needs to be better. We need to expect better than what we got last year. It's simple: if we stagnate they lose goodwill.

No idea if this has been mentioned, but perhaps Neil Craig was far more important a piece of our coaching puzzle than we realised. Experienced head, a sounding board for Bolts. Might've been a good idea to keep him around at least one more year; the additions of Teague and Bruce certainly...

And so it again proves to be the case: structure and balance are so, so important. Our best performance in those two areas - key outs notwithstanding - since round 1 yields a reasonable result. We defended with numbers, we stood more or less shoulder to shoulder, we moved the ball quickly, we...

My concern right now isn't the list. I can appreciate we've a number of young players finding their feet, re-finding some form, having the punch above their weight right now and that, ideally, Marchbank, Williamson, Pickett et al would be out there as well; I firmly believe we've the makings of...

DOS. This rumour creates more questions than answers. Should Jo be worried? Has SOS been unfaithful? Sounds like the sort of thing Women's Day would be all over.

I wonder if Teague and Bruce have figured out their dynamic just yet. Or if either have the voice to say something about how their areas of the field are being undersold by our game plan.

The pre-draft selection is what we'd make a case for. This isnt the time or place - and I really can't be bothered to launch into a deconstruction of the draft and player movement in general - but the AFL's talent acquisition systems are broken and we're proof. They're set up as a antiquated...

I anticipate it'd be a pre-draft priority pick like the old days.

Josh Fraser is an interesting case, because the NB play more or less exactly the same as the seniors in terms of structure and set up, so in that regard he is satisfying our senior match committee's mandate. He may or may not be up to it, but our biggest issue right now is the structure and...

He, like all our defenders, are following instruction. Stand ahead of your man for the intercept. They're all doing it because they're being told to.

if you saw the two line-ups before the match you'd have known we were never going to win this one. Three rucks, countless key talls, a real unbalanced squad that was built more to give certain players minutes than win a game of VFL football. That said, we're a very sad and sorry football club...

Just got reading through a few pages of this nonsense. Lucky I didn't have any razor blades handy...

Wow... you don’t miss. Potting a second gamer for having “no composure” was my highlight.

Well, we bowed to public pressure on Silvagni after one game, a decision which ultimately robbed us of a little versatility in our forward line and a secondary lead-up target. Why not drop Weitering prematurely as well? I would hope our MC realise their laughably poor preparation and decision...

Genuinely shaking my head at the heat Weitering is copping. We’re going to drop him after one disappointing game — a game, mind you, where all our shortcomings were laid excruciatingly bare and we wouldn’t have had a single player who won his position. We forget it was only JLT 2 in which he was...

Murph had a shocker. But so did a lot of ‘em today.

In a week in which contrition and admission have been on everyone’s wish list it’s only fair that Bolton and our coaches admit they were the architects of our downfall today. Whilst undoubtedly and inexcusably sloppy on the field, our decisions at selection should be the tale of the match...

If the club is serious Keeping has to go. His two years in charge have seen a fancied side finish with s record of 5-1-8 from fourteen matches. But I’m not sure the club is serious enough to recognise that. They see the women’s program as a way to build women’s membership data, despite the...

It’s weird that no one - well, very few - people seem to care about this. The club have changed our monogram. Trainspotting type stuff, perhaps, but a change nonetheless.

Clash guernsey looks horrible. Just horrible.

There’s no chance Trigg’s departure has in anyway influenced the shambles that is our AFLW team’s on field performance; unless he was the one actually coaching the team.

Hey, it’s not like the guernsey a footy team wears is the very symbol - the incontrovertible branding - upon which it stands, eh. It’s not like the guernsey is some incorruptible trademark against which the entire organisation - players, admin, CEO, staff, fans, members - lean and take pride in...

What I’ve always found amusing is the Club - and by this I mean the administration and a significant portion of our supporter base - attitude about membership being a kind of be-all end-all. It’s all about the number on the tally board and a sort of arms race with other clubs. Being a member is...

The concept is an interesting one, but couldn’t be a regurgitation of a Press Red For Ed-type thing. That was funny as a one off, but would become grating very quickly. It would need to be a credible, professional broadcast that offers Carlton fans access they don’t get anywhere else. A player...

He’s such a smart player, much more naturally so than any of our other options down there. As such, he demands a very capable defender which ultimately frees up others. In the long term we need Curnow and McKay to force Casboult out of the side; in the short term Weitering forward might make a...

Weitering was magnificent at CHF that day, particularly in the first half. He made Grundy look second rate and straightened us up enormously. Because of his work rate, hands, disposal quality etc he needs to play there more often.

Given circumstances, Weitering is so far ahead of schedule it’s not funny. Surely I’m not the only one who watched him play centre half forward early in the year and thought, ‘My lord...’ But, hey, it’s just the day and age we live in. Schache, on the other hand, has done nothing. Nothing...

We wouldn’t be recruiting him against his will in this scenario; it’s not as though he’s thought ‘this isn’t for me, I’m happy to walk away... oh, for real Carlton?’. Sit him down, have a chat, if he can demonstrate he wants one last crack at it we give him a very basic one-year contract. We...

I’d be happy to take Menzel back on minimum chips. One year deal, one last chance. If he doesn’t show anything he doesn’t get another deal. Simple.