I'm not at all happy with Bailey dropping a man back today and practically putting us out of the game. Fevola is the only Carlton forward who was likely to smash his opponent and as it turned out Carroll was beating him one of one alot of the time. So why did Rivers and 3 midfielders flood back the whole game, stopping us from scoring and putting us out of the game. Our forward line for fair chunks of the game was Robbo who was only going ok (better than last few weeks) and Davey and Aussie, so how the hell were we going to score with 6 Carlton players minding them. Rivers has the ability to drop off Kreuzer and O'Hailpin and get in Fev's way anyway, besides him Bell, Whelan, Sylvia, Bartram and Frawley could compete with their opponents and wouldn't have got belted. The end result was no midfield pressure (yet alone forward pressure) so Carlton could just bomb it in and score enough to beat us, if we did clear it we had no where to go.
If he went with Robbo, Dunn, Neitz/resting ruckman in the goal square, Sylvia, Davey and Wonaeamirri we could have kicked a score, we didn't want a shoot out like Carlton V Essendon but a game where our midfielders could back the backline to compete and then move the ball forward and actually have someone to kick to would have been a whole lot more productive for the education of the 22 who were out there today, and a whole lot more entertaining for the supporters who bothered to go the G and watch this farce.
I'll stick with Bailey (and his much hyped game plan) and with some of our players but you have to envy Essendon at the moment who are giving it a bit of a go. I don't want us to get stuck at the bottom and seemingly going nowhere like Richmond of the past few years (I don't say that having a go at Richmond).
SOME RANDOM POINTS
Davey must be injured, if not then the fitness staff must be sacked, he comes off every 5 minutes looking wrecked.
If I see another playing running off the ground only to be told to stay on there is no one else wanting to come on I'll be filthy, bloody idiots can't even understand how to rotate players.
I can't believe how much I missed Brad Miller today, how sad. I also missed Simon Godfrey, he made the rest of the players look better by being that unskilled, and we could do with a tagger (wtf is with dropping men back in the backline but not picking up their midfielders).
Mark Jamar is pathetic.
Nathan Jones and Brent Moloney were better footballers in 2005 and Jones only played a few games that year.
If he went with Robbo, Dunn, Neitz/resting ruckman in the goal square, Sylvia, Davey and Wonaeamirri we could have kicked a score, we didn't want a shoot out like Carlton V Essendon but a game where our midfielders could back the backline to compete and then move the ball forward and actually have someone to kick to would have been a whole lot more productive for the education of the 22 who were out there today, and a whole lot more entertaining for the supporters who bothered to go the G and watch this farce.
I'll stick with Bailey (and his much hyped game plan) and with some of our players but you have to envy Essendon at the moment who are giving it a bit of a go. I don't want us to get stuck at the bottom and seemingly going nowhere like Richmond of the past few years (I don't say that having a go at Richmond).
SOME RANDOM POINTS
Davey must be injured, if not then the fitness staff must be sacked, he comes off every 5 minutes looking wrecked.
If I see another playing running off the ground only to be told to stay on there is no one else wanting to come on I'll be filthy, bloody idiots can't even understand how to rotate players.
I can't believe how much I missed Brad Miller today, how sad. I also missed Simon Godfrey, he made the rest of the players look better by being that unskilled, and we could do with a tagger (wtf is with dropping men back in the backline but not picking up their midfielders).
Mark Jamar is pathetic.
Nathan Jones and Brent Moloney were better footballers in 2005 and Jones only played a few games that year.
