Roast Drop Marc Murphy

[Big Red is back]

Murphy has been good for us, Gibbs is the one who needs to be given the rocket, and dropped to the reserves.

Gibbs has been terrible I agree ROFL

Apart from Judd and Murphy he is our friggin third best player on form and ability.

 

[blue gunslinger]

Nobody is enjoying it mate but remember 3rd tier has us in the 8 still

 

[bluepride]

Well at the moment we are playing like a 3rd tier team, hope you are enjoying it, obviously you are.

At the moment we are playing like one, but when we start playing good footy Carlton is going be something big.

Why would i be enjoying it?

 

[Alpha1]

Well not for long, like I have kept saying I don't care if we don't make the finals and get beaten every game from now on, as long they play with heart and passion, thats all I want.

 

[rp84]

Ridiculous.

Drop our 2nd and 3rd best players? Man, you guys need to watch some football.

We had 10 blokes worse than these two on the weekend. Gibbs has dominated half the games he has played, I don't know what you expect? Him to be bashing heads, getting 40 touches and kicking 3 goals every week? Some serious idiocy going on.

To even mention dropping Murph displays how intellectually challenged you are. He is comfortably second in the b and f. Yes, he doesn't lay 10 tackles a game, but it is not his job. The Rob Murphy goal was his fault, and it was a terrible play, BUT the team got smashed by 11 goals. There are bigger problems.

Players that would be dropped before these two:
EVERYONE bar Judd.

 

[Big Red is back]

Nobody is enjoying it mate but remember 3rd tier has us in the 8 still

Threads like this ease the pain of a lose to even suggest Murphy be dropped is beyond comedy.

Despite the guy having virtually no preseason I would guess he would be top 4 in the B&F if not top 3 in a side which is one game behind the bulldogs and on equal points with the hawks.

 

[bluepride]

You act like we are enjoying the fact we arent playing to our full pontential

Alpha

 

[KnaveyBlue]

...as long they play with heart and passion, thats all I want.

I'd be happy if they could at least pretend they care.

It's obvious they don't, and are only in it for the money, but still! I'd be happy with being decieved now and again. It's not much to ask.

 

[Alpha1]

No Im not, hate every aspect of it, I would love to meet some of you guys face to face nad have a decent debate, instead of this shit.

 

[Big Red is back]

No Im not, hate every aspect of it, I would love to meet some of you guys face to face nad have a decent debate, instead of this shit.

I would not call arguing over dropping Marc Murphy a debate... more like attending a night at the comedy festival

 

[Alpha1]

Not talking about this thread lol, just a debate with the fans who have the Carlton can do no wrong glasses on.

 

[IheartCarrots]

I rate Murphy as our most valuable player - Even more so than Judd. Why consider dropping him when he is contributing more than the rest of the midfielders/forwards?

 

[Big Red is back]

Not talking about this thread lol, just a debate with the fans who have the Carlton can do no wrong glasses on.

Ok issues I would love to debate probably my fav atm is the people who think Hamspon is the next Kouta or that Brett Ratten is a good coach

 

[bluepride]

Not talking about this thread lol, just a debate with the fans who have the Carlton can do no wrong glasses on.

Thats the thing, you cant convince them, i learnt that not to long ago. Its a lost cause, preaching to the converted.

Just find out the people who have a clue and those others take their opinion with a grain of salt.

 

[Alpha1]

I know some of the things I say are probably are off the mark, I accept it and admit it, but a few posters on here seem to think they know everything and take every opportunity to put others with an opinion that criticise the Blues down. That's why would love to meet these keyboard heroes in person and have a debate with them, let them call me names then, pretty funny how they seem to have no problem doing it on this forum.

 

[blues4flag]

I don't think there's any doubt Gibbs is having far less of an impact this season than he did last year. Probably due to him playing predominantly defence. Always felt he's far more damaging forward of centre than coming out of defence.

Hopefully with Bower back he'll be free to play more through the midfield. He's played his best footy in the last third of the seasons thus far in his career - hopefully that trend continues and he picks it up from here on in.

 

[Team Mo']

I've watched the game and cannot believe he had 30 something touches. Was one of our worst when it counted. I rarely bag a player but I saw screaming at him to at least look like he cared.

I can count numerous times where players not only ran throw his limp arms but just waltz away. There was one stage where a bulldog player got the tap on one side of the centre circle. He ran around Jacobs I think it was was and Murphy really should have seen blind sidedhim and just decked him. Rather he waited for him to get outside the pack where Murphy could look like he made an attempt.

I know people are "loling," "Facepalming" and etc. but if you base it on effort rather then their name then he should be gone.

Has had a poor year IMO. By his standards anyway.

 

[blue gunslinger]

OK I respect that but drop Murph - bring in who? All this talk about drop him fire him does not produce results that are better if you cannot offer up solutions

 

[Madblue]

Don't agree with dropping Murph but gee he has been poor for a number of weeks now.....is he carrying an injury maybe ?

 

[jimsta10]

I know a lot of people are going to shoot me down for this but so be it.

chick chick boom

 

[Stamos]

Don't agree with dropping Murph but gee he has been poor for a number of weeks now.....is he carrying an injury maybe ?

He was in the bests last week.

 

[ESKIE]

Such a happy little Ostrich you are TG, head so deeply buried up your own arse.

Lobotomy

 

[Go_Blues!]

To those that think Gibbs should be dropped due to his kicking efficiency. Perhaps you should start to look at where he kicks the ball too? When you are told to kick long inside 50 at every opportunity - certainly the most difficult kick to execute at the best of times - it is pretty hard to hit a target when we were getting killed in the F50. Kicking efficiency is a useful stat but really only means anything when you look at where the ball lands. Who would play that role. He, along with Yarran, and Houlihan, are the best kicks in the team and dropping him would make us worse, not better. There is no doubt he was way down from his best against Footscray, but really, come up with better arguments to drop him than his kicking. Ditto for Murphy. How exactly does dropping either of these guys help us beat Sydney. It was a particularly poor team effort on Sunday, and anger may well be justified, but at least make some effort in selecting the targets of your anger.

 

[AlecDuncan]

This isn't about winning next week, it's about changing a broken culture.

Bigger names than Marc Murphy have been dropped, and prospered for it. There's no room for pea hearts, and I don't care what pick they were in the draft.

 

[Setanta The Irish]

I think at some point we need to get a little ruthless with our ins and outs.
If a player is playing below HIS standard he should be dropped, no matter who he is.
When players know they might miss next week if they cant keep up the standard set for them it creates a huge amount of competitiveness to maintain a spot.