Patrick Cripps smoked journalists while Carlton’s skipper was trying to give an assessment of the lamentable start of his team for the 2025 AFL season, dropping the “bombe F” twice in a furious and explanive diatribe.
But a large footy questioned the authenticity of the comments of the Blues skipper.
It was a terrible start for the season for the team of Michael Voss, who is without victory after their first four games.
This defeat sequence culminated Thursday evening after the Blues suffered a dark 17 -point defeat by the Rivaux Amers de Collingwood.
Cripps, a double brownlow medalist, was then asked for what was going on, after the loss.
“Mate, if I had the answers, I would have liked me to know,” Cripps told ABC News.
Patrick Cripps (second on the right) abandoned two F bombs in an interview with ABC Sport after the defeat of his team by Collingwood Thursday
Luke Hodge, however, thinks that Cripps comments were not authentic, the Hawks claimed that he simply said that to show emotion for fans
The concerns are now going to know if the Andrew Voss team slips out of discord for a place in the final this year.
And in response to these fears, the captain of Carlton was resolved on what he thought that his team could achieve: “I am very optimistic about what we can still do. Obviously, you don’t want to be zip and four but F *** that’s where we are at the moment.
But the quadruple premiere winner, Luke Hodge, did not buy the 30 -year comments.
“I think it was orchestrated,” said Hodge on the agenda.
“Patrick Cripps is a fluid media artist. He does not make these mistakes. I listened to him for years. Love him as a player, love him when he speaks in the media.
“It was orchestrated to make sure that supporters know that it is just as frustrated. Because I don’t think I never heard him swear.
He thinks that the fact that Cripps dropped the word F twice was a show for fans.
“So, for him to put two, I think it was orchestrated to show the passion that he as a player also hurts.”
Carlton endured a starting start to the season, but Cripps (before on the left) rejected fears that it could be a wasted campaign
The blues are 0-4 so far this season. They could not hold the gams and suffered several collapses of several half-time, such as Thursday’s defeat by Collingwood
Dale Thomas did not agree. He thinks Cripps had just relaxed in front of the journalist.
“I think this is the difference in radio interview against the television interview,” he said.
“Just relaxed a little.
Thomas thinks that Carlton was wrong, declaring: “Endurance and speed probably the two keys and there is not much speed.
“I’m going to give you power, but for the moment they really have to understand what is going on and the style they want to play.
“Because at present, this territory, launch it forward, no real system in front of the ball and you just have a crack is no longer the way to follow.”
Carlton has now been upgraded by opposition teams by a cumulative 110 points in the second half of the matches.
Having led at halftime Thursday, they were again punished by Collingwood for having removed the feet of the gas pedal.
The part of the west coast of Michael Voss this weekend in Adelaide for the 2025 gathers Round
The Magpies went out in the third quarter and scored four unanswered goals after the Blues.
“I have the impression that it’s quite clear – we had a good month of football now – what we need to work on,” said Cripps.
“But I have the impression that tonight, they (Collingwood) really made us pass the competition, that is to say … I feel like the few other games that we have equal or won this area of the match, but tonight, their pressure was really good.”
Cripps has developed on this point, declaring that he thought that his team must be better to “be courageous in these moments” around the competition.
“When the opposition happens to us right now, you see it when you watch the game, the boys tighten a little tight, so it’s an obstacle that we have to face and I know that we are going to pass, it’s just frustrating for the moment.”
But he does not think that 2025 will be a wasted year.
“You can’t look so far forward, to be honest. You do this, you can lose years and I have never been about it.
“As I said, (2023) is a perfect example – there is a lot of belief in this group and I have the impression of having a lot of football in me too. If you start to think like that, it’s a bit of a slippery slope.
Although a few scorching weeks for the club, they received very good news on Wednesday evening with the star striker Harry McKay likely to return to the match.
Official confirmations of his return must be made, but Riley Beveridge reports that McKay should go to Adélaïde this week for their confrontation against the Eagles, and could come back to play after being put aside for personal reasons.
