Carlton Blues vs West Coast Eagles: AFL live scores

The reason that Carlton didn't rove off Naitanui is because of his sublime skill in putting the ball in the path of his midfielders. And because the minute the Carlton player missed the ball you had a bloke of 110 kg and 201 cms taking his own clearance. Or roosting a 60 m torpedo. As a point of interest, Liberatore leads all-comers with a clearance every 11.1 minutes of game time and the most clearances overall. Naitanui is second with 11.4 minutes and fourth overall for clearances. Darcy Parish third with 12.5 minutes but second for most clearances. Laird is next on 14.5 but fifth for most clearances and Oliver fifth with 14.7 and third for number of clearances. Where are Gawn, Grundy or Hickey? Nowhere! Naitanui also leads them in hitouts per minutes played and is third in the total. Hitouts to advantage? Leads them all.

Geelong and Richmond conducted full scale reviews and re-evaluated support structures. Any good management structure empowers the manager (coach) where he/she has strengths and puts in compensating strategies where there are weaknesses. And every coach has weaknesses. Lastly Sydney, Geelong and Richmond put heaps of work into player leadership - making the playing group accountable one to another for performance and success. From the outside that looks under-developed at Carlton.

Not again?

I’m resigned to the fact we may not even make finals this year so let’s blood some young and much needed talent and hope that next year we will have access to most of our stars and aim for the big dance.

We may not beat Richmond but I sure as heck hope we give them something to think about. So many injuries but it’s a chance for the young lads to give it a real go. Hoping they do not smash us because yesterday’s win was good but a better team would have put us to the sword.

Lmfao. Done deal. :laughing:

No one I believe. The loser next week can not make the top 4.

The win was genuinely creditable and showed some class but it was overshadowed by how little opposition there was. The opposition (my team) was so bad that’s it really just 4 points for jam. And even given West Coast outs, I’m not sure this win says much as a decent time fighting to win would have made a win much less likely. If i was a WC supporter I’d take the away points with pleasure … but then I’d forget the outcome and focus on what needs to be done to challenge anyone decent outside WA. Nic Nat was fantastic. Why Carlton didn’t rove off him beggars belief.

That was the worst performance I have ever seen from a Carlton team. I've seen worse blues teams, and bigger defeats, but at least in those it was a lack of class or lack of confidence -- not lack of effort from about half of our players. The missed goals and skill errors I don't like but I can live with. But players wandering around doing nothing, leaving their opponents easy space, and wandering around the outside of contests looking in, as if a free kick has been awarded and their sole purpose is to prevent the player from playing on - terrible. Even when Carlton were ahead in forward 50 entries and looked the better team in attack - when there was a chance they might win - when there was a turnover there was no manning up and nowhere near enough tackles. I've been a supporter for more than fifty years and a member for many of them, but I've never seen a less committed or motivated team in a blue guernsey.

That calls into question the people appointing the coach! It could also be the support, or lack thereof, and unity that the coach received upon accepting the role?

Did you see our outs and the inexperienced team we fielded? The young kids played well, Good win, especially away. Admittedly, McKay out helped. Even though losing Shep was huge, McKay would’ve probably had a bigger impact for Carlton.

How would you handle K2K

Good point, if you go back you’ll see some of us did.!

West coast without 8 of their best is still a better side than carlton

Amazing people still dont give the Eagles credit for the win instead just blame the blues coach. How shallow and blind sided are you? West Coast won with all our guns out and with a lot of kids with miniscule lack of AFL experience , and losing Sheppard. Give credit where its due , have some respect and admit the Eagles won with guts and determination. Dont take the short cut and just blame the carlton coach , credit the Eagles like you should.

Im so proud of my awesome Eagles, 8 players missing , Shep goes down , makes 9 and the kids stepped up , how bloody fantastic is that! Hardly anyone backed West Coast to win but they showed you up again!! Go you mighty Eagles

Perhaps because they selected better coaches in the first place

Same old Carlton response. Sack the Coach! Three times as many senior coaches in the last 20 years as clubs like Hawthorn, Geelong, West Coast and Sydney - all of which consistently play finals and compete. Want another decade in the wilderness? Sack a couple more!

Just say it as see it your blue man seriously I’m sure you would thought they would be better this year very disappointing

Just watched the replay. Did we tackle and sports good?