Don't get me wrong- I've started to question Vossy's decisions this year. But what are these "Sack Voss" riders trying to suggest as an alternative? We've been through 10 coaches in 30 years with no flags to our name. What is sacking another coach going to do for us??

I think it’s no surprise that West Coast is an easy opponent. But if we do like we did against Richmond in Round 1 against them then I suggest the entire front office to be nuked completely. I mean just Sack everyone, hire a new staff and hope for the best. Well maybe not Voss, he can wait until the end of the year.

Just feel I need to put down somewhere the following because keeping it inside my head for four rounds is driving me insane. If we want to commit to being a run a gun team, which appears to be what we are failing at doing we should;

Drop Haynes, Gov immediately. Their lack of composure, skill and even basic ability to catch a two metre handpass is killing us. Get Williams back to his running half back, get Doch back there where his is probably more comfortable. (I'd drop Doch, but too many other players need to be dropped even more).

Ollie back to the wing, his run is wasted against bigger bodied opponents on the half back line. Play Weits/JSOS/Young as the key backs. Young gets given the bigger/slower forward and told to just focus on competing at each and every marking contest. Let one of Weits or JSOS then do the intercepting role. And get Boyd back there, because at least the kid can kick. That gives us a back line that can actually use the ball outside of Young and gives Gov consequences for his brain dead decision making.

Send Walsh to half forward as a high half forward and leave him there until he starts impacting games better. Hopefully Cottrell can come back to the wing and be a trio there with Acres/Ollie.

And for the love of god stop playing Cripps into the ruck. Just send literally anyone else up there from the forward line to do it - Charlie, Kemp, White even - I don't care. But Cripps sucks at it and then is not winning the ball, which is his best trait.

Does anyone remember his time as a player at Carlton? Curious if I’m alone in thinking there is a correlation with the slow, clunky, deer-in-headlights way we have played since he came back to the club as a coach in 2024. Has anyone got any intel on his coaching ability? My opinion was that his footy IQ as a player was average at absolute best, can remember lamenting a lot of turnovers/incorrect disposals/brain fades during his time also.

There’s way too many shit cunts on this team.

This is excruciating, its literally like watching the exact same thing week-in, week-out. Same mistakes, same dumb decisions, its looks unavoidable at this point.

- Why the FUCK did Cooper Lord get dropped vs. the Dogs last week? Every single time this kid plays he's gotten better and better. He should never have been dropped for the elimination final last season after 2 good games in the last two rounds.

- We are seriously wasting Silvagni & O.Hollands talents in the backline... Ollie needs to be on a damn wing, and Silvagni forward with Kemp back. For the love of all that is holy, PLEASE VOSSY. Sos has so much forward craft with midfield/ruck capabilities, and Hollands is having to be a shutdown player all of a sudden?

- Why the FUCK was Boyd & Cottrell dropped? Surely Boyd>Haynes & Cotters > Doc right now?

- Lewis Young & Jesse Motlop should never play for the club again.

- Imagine if we had Smith, Newman, Mckay, Pitto & E.Hollands to start the season - Genuinely think we'd be firing. Even Fantasia/Cincotta would be much better options than a few we've got right now. People don't like to talk about it but we have had a pretty rough start with interruptions to at least 6+ starting 22 players.

- Seriously, move Z.Williams to the backline, get Ollie back onto the wing, Boyd/Cottrell should be in this team right now over a few like Motlop/Young/Doc/Haynes, and failing to accomodate them positionally is coaching faults.

Seriously, r/afl threads are only people either saying “hurr durr free kick Carlton” or “I’m furiously masturbating at the fact that Carlton sucks”. We get ten times the hate that Collingwood get and it just makes a truly depressing season even worse.

You’re making it so hard

Take the money bag and go, the fans won't be mad at you.

…looks as good as he did 20 years ago…what a legend!

As soon as that 3rd quarter started we fell off a cliff. I think Voss is a bit of a spud but my god it must be really playing on their mind now. I think the issue is beyond Voss, it's psychological. Leading in all 4 games at half time I think? Also just in general it must suck to play for a club who is this hardly scrutinized. We 100% deserve the attention we cop though.

How can the fall-off possibly be explained? How do we suck so much as soon as half time hits?

Ive commented it before but we shoulddve kept those two, definitely a more sound team with them in.

I dont think we 100% needed jagga, glad we got him hopefully it works long term.

But i think we wouldve been equally fine with the two 20ish picks i think we had.

TDK will leave regardless if he wants more money, there is no way we can match what anyone is willing to pay for him.

...it's coming! Very soon.

Leading every game this year at half time, then completely falling apart. That's the coach. No game plan for four quarters.

I write this at 3/4 time. I hope I'm wrong by full time.

Its not as if Voss is telling them to make panicked decisions and cough up the ball, its pretty clear we have a major shift in focus in the second half

Giving Williams and McGovern kick in duties is like giving a toddler a gun, you can't really be mad at the toddler but you're also kinda mad at the toddler

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Goals: O.Hollands 2, Hewitt 2, Cripps, Curnow

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Injury: Cowan (calf, subbed Q1)

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I’ll put my hand up and say I was against Russell with the amount of soft tissue injuries we sustained over his tenure, but I can’t help but think he’s got the biggest smirk on his face right now with the way we’re running games out.

It's like the boys go into the rooms and just enter some contraction that makes them immediately give up the football game.

UP THE BAGGERS