Football followers are a fickle bunch.
When issues are clicking the solar is shining they usually don’t have a care on the earth. But when their crew is delivering poor performances, the world is darkish and gloomy and all the pieces that may go improper, will.
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It’s the latter the place Carlton followers discover themselves after having fun with the sunshine and lollipops all through the opening 4 rounds.
After spherical 4 Blues followers couldn’t assist however speak about September motion as they sat second on the ladder with three wins a draw and 14 factors to their title.
On Friday night time, after their spherical 11 conflict towards the Sydney Swans, those self same followers had been dropping their minds and burning their memberships.
The loss places them in twelfth spot on the ladder, in the intervening time, with 4 wins, six losses, a draw and 18 factors to their title.
It makes it 4 straight losses for the Blues with their solely win since spherical 4 coming towards the underside positioned West Coast Eagles.
The insipid show underneath the lights on the SCG left followers seeing pink as they took to the airwaves to vent their frustration.
“We just left the SCG, my god we are a disgrace of a football club at the moment. We need to clear out absolutely everyone, a complete change of culture,” one caller to 3AW mentioned.
Another caller unloaded: “For gods sake when are they going to wake up, I’m not going next week. My dad isn’t. We haven’t missed a bloody game in years. I got married and the next day I watched Carlton and Essendon, I had to watch that before I went on my honeymoon … that’s what this club means to me. Then they dish that bulls*** up tonight.”
A Carlton fan revealed simply how brutal the loss was because it resulted in him smashing his telephone out of anger.
“Let me tell you something, I’m at home and I’ve smashed my TV remote, I’ve smashed my phone I’ve smashed a couple of wine glasses and I am showing 10 times more passion than these pea hearts that are out on the field,” he mentioned on SEN.
The Friday night time contest formed as one of many greatest of the season up to now for the Blues, however they failed to fireside.
Going down 11.11 (77) to six.15 (51), the loss marked probably the most dire performances for the Blues this season, seeing them criticised from all sides.
AFL nice Jason Dunstall criticised Carlton woeful kicking in entrance of objective with their 15 behind show, giving them a mark of 41 behinds of their final three matches, asking “what is the work they are actually doing?” on Fox Footy.
Former Hawk Ben Dixon mentioned: “You’ve got to finish the job, that’s why you get paid $800,000 a year, to finish the job, it’s your craft.”
Former Coleman Medallist Harry McKay bore the brunt of the criticism, spraying the ball in all instructions as he kicked no objectives and three behinds.
SEN’s Nic Negropontis mentioned: “If Carlton had a viable next option on their list, Harry McKay would probably get omitted this week.”
Salt was additional rubbed into the wound with captain Patrick Cripps injured midway by means of the fourth quarter.
Midfielder George Hewett was additionally concussed making an attempt to deal with Lance Franklin within the second quarter, which activated sub Ed Curnow.
Coleman Medal chief Charlie Curnow noticed loads of the ball and took some sensational marks, however like his teammates couldn’t convert the alternatives.
At the opposite finish of the bottom it was one other quiet night time for Lance Franklin who was held goalless for the third time in 4 weeks.
Franklin endured a sluggish begin to 2023 earlier than he appeared to have discovered type with three objectives towards North Melbourne final week.
But it proved one other quiet night time for the veteran who is nearly definitely within the closing season of his embellished profession.
The 36-year-old is averaging simply 1.25 objectives per sport this season, effectively down on his profession common of three.03 per sport.
Franklin wanted one objective towards Carlton to leapfrog Doug Wade into outright fourth on the AFL/VFL all-time objectives checklist.
Source: www.news.com.au
