It's no different to some posters on here who for some reason desperately want Carlton or Elijah to admit there are drugs involved as some sort of weird see i told you moment and so they can then get on their moral high horse about drugs.
Whatever has occurred with Elijah it's a sad situation...
The only plausible scenario I can wrap my head around as a Carlton supporter is that it isn't the first time it's happened and they've managed it to varying degrees of success in prior games.
There was an article last year talking about his struggles and him having issues in a game against...
I don't give a shit about the impacts this had on gambling markets.
It would be a net positive for the sport if gambling had nothing to do with it long term.
Argue against a wall if you like.
I think Carlton has treated many parts of this whole thing poorly but what else do you expect them to say here?
You think they've had time to conclusively find out that he'd been under the influence of something?
Should they just jump to conclusions and say he did this or did that? How would...
Even if it is drugs and/or alcohol, how does that change things in terms of Elijah's state of mind?
Do you think someone who is mentally well drinks and does drugs before an AFL game jeopardising their career?
That would be bad enough for your 9-5 job rocking up off your face, let alone in...
The club delisted him because he had behaved badly off the field. Voss didn't elaborate why but he mentioned the club wasn't happy with him at all last year when the news of Carlton shopping him broke.
That doesn't sound like a player that simply wasn't in good shape mentally and the club...
I think it's an indictment on the Voss era and yet another sign of how clueless he has been throughout his tenure in managing players.
it's been well documented that Voss has made players play and train through injuries more than the average coach would. Andrew Russell and him disagreed over...
People probably wouldn't care as much if it wasn't for some of the ridiculous hype about some of their recruits.
TDK was a good player at Carlton but $1.8mil a year? Really? He was never that consistent at Carlton to be warranting that sort of price tag, plus he isn't as well rounded as you'd...
It truly is bizarre if this is what has taken place.
He looks like he’s off his head.
People saying coming off a bender last night but he’s moving more like someone who has done drugs very close to game time.
Incredibly troubling for Elijah if that’s the case and I’m at a loss with the club
There is nothing about how we are playing that is any different to any other year under Voss other than us having more spuds out there and zero A grade players
I don’t understand the Voss apologism.
This is a shocking side coached by a genuine fool.
This club is a joke and will be lucky to win a final in the next 10 years
Weren’t bombarded with loud music, flashing lights etc like we’re all attention deficit children that need constant stimulation.
Didn’t have to go through all sorts of hoops to sit in the seats you want.
Didn’t have to take out a loan to buy a beer, some chips and a pie.
Didn’t have to...
I’m not even that old but I can tell you right now it was a lot better going to Princes Park for Carlton home games than it is going to soulless Marvel Stadium
Because the AFL have effectively managed to create a game that’s even more unequal than the one that they claimed wasn’t years ago and required fixing.
There’s a massive gulf right now between the top teams and the bottom ones.
Free agency has just meant the rich get richer. The poor clubs...
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Nobody goes to their games. They don’t produce kids from an academy. Kids aren’t playing footy in Western Sydney.
When is the AFL going to admit GWS as a football club is a complete...
When you see previously talented players who are missing easy handballs, disappearing for periods etc you know the coach has lost the group and the system ain’t working
It may well turn out that we traded Curnow at a good point.
But it’s ridiculous how anyone was arguing it was going to be addition by subtraction.
We’ll spend the next 5 years looking for a key forward. It’s a clear hole now, especially with how pathetic McKay is
I don't even think it relates just solely to picking up Houston. I think some senior players were frustrated at making a prelim in 2023 and then effectively doing zero to improve the list at that point in time.
A well run side would have been in a position to top up and add some missing pieces...
The fixture's completely ****ed.
Teams with byes after two weeks game. Then playing teams who have played multiple games in a row.
The scheduling is just plain bizarre, I cannot for the life of me work out the logic. Why was Brisbane vs St Kilda on at 12:35pm on a Saturday? Why are West...
Not even smugness. Just flat out delusion.
For the past decade I've genuinely wondered if some of our fans ever watch other teams play or bother to look at their lists.
Because our team has always been miles off. The one tiny period we had under Voss where we went on a run, we still had a...