Carlton’s inglorious AFL campaign is finally over after a 104-point routing by Adelaide that confirmed their worst season in 117 years.
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Final score
Carlton Blues 8.13.61
Adelaide Crows 26.9.165
The Carlton Blues and Adelaide Crows will both be hoping to finish the year off with a win and give their fans some hope for 2019 when they do battle.
Join The Roar for live scores from the match in Round 23 of the 2018 AFL season at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night, starting from 7:25pm AEST.
Let’s call a spade a spade: this match is going to be entirely inconsequential in terms of the 2018 season.
In fact all but the most rusted-on supporters of these two clubs will likely instead turn the channel to the concurrent match between Sydney and Hawthorn, which promises to not only be a much more competitive spectacle but also has a top-four spot on the line.
That said, there is of course still a game of football to be played here, so let’s talk about it.
Carlton have the home ground advantage which is good because they will need every bit of help they can get to notch their third win of the season.
The club hasn’t finished a season with two wins or less since 1901 – a full 117 years ago – and that was a time where clubs played five matches less in a season than they do now.
Amazingly they didn’t even win the spoon that year, as St Kilda copped it with a record of 1-16 for the season a percentage of 32. Carlton’s percentage was just a tick below 47.
All thing considered if they lose tonight it’s going to be hard to look at 2018 as being anything other than the worst year on-field in Carlton’s history.
Adelaide too would be very disappointed with their season – last year’s grand finalists have ultimately fallen well short of finals, largely due to a bad run of injuries.
The Crows will believe they can bounce back next year, but that belief would take a hit if they fail to beat the league’s biggest battlers tonight.
Join The Roar for live scores from the match in Round 23 of the 2018 AFL season at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night, starting from 7:25pm AEST.
Macca
Guest
Steve - SPP averages more disposals, more marks and more metres gained this year than he did in his first and is 39th in the league for goal tackles . Weitering (who was pretty goo until he got injured last night) is still 20 and is statistically better than Alex Rance was at the same age in pretty much every category. Give the kids some time. I would also say I think we would have gone a bit better had Docherty, Plowman, Williamson, Jones, Kreuzer, Kennedy, Fisher and Dow were playing.
Steve009
Roar Rookie
SPS and Weitering are two examples of how Carlton are sending talented players backwards
Wayne Kerr
Guest
Putrid Apathetic Turgid Horrendous Excruciating Tragic Insipid Caustic Even the Suns could manage 3 wins in their dark years. There is no future for this football club. I get more joy watching Jacana in the EDFL. I am sorry to say it's time to relocate this club to Tasmania. Start the slate clean as the Hobart Blues.
Daniel anyonomous
Guest
Not sure what's going on.any chance I can call the game for next time.wat do you think roarers?