Hopefully 'Flip' can take a leaf out of the Tractor's book re second, third, fourth efforts...
I think the new 3rd man rule changes greatly improve Phillips chances against Ryder, they are both high jumpers and assuming Phillips is right to go he should be a reasonable match.
At the moment Port's ruck stocks are not high, but Trengove has got a ot of the ball as another on-baller. We must make sure that does not happen. Phillips was OK last week, but not at his best. I hope he has the stamina to go against Port. Otherwise we are down to Casboult and Rowe. That is a frightening thought.
Congratulations to Polson for getting his chance to impress.
Ryder's suspension is done, he should be clear to return this week.
He had 48 hit outs against Sam Jacobs in Rnd 3, not that Hit Outs really mean much, but that is a fair performance against a non-spud ruckmen!
That's because your opinion on the effects of glandular fever is nothing more or less than your own belief. Some of us rely on practical experience and medical literature.
My opinion is formed by first hand experience.
And you mean health authorities like the UK NHS;
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Prolonged fatigue. More than 1 in every 10 people with glandular fever will experience prolonged fatigue, which lasts for six months or more after the initial infection. ... This is a poorly understood condition that causes persistent fatigue and a range of other symptoms, such as headaches and joint pain.
Now I'm no medical genius. But it seems fair to me if posters and experts freely claim missing a pre-season with injury rehab affects a player in their subsequent football season, then having a dose of glandular fever is certainly the equivalent of a pre-season interrupted by rehab and should have equal effects on performance. I can't see how these experts and posters can excuse one form of pre-season interruption and blame the other without being two-faced!
Finally, Charlie came to Carlton as an elite athlete, a kid who could run the pants off opponents and do so with considerable ease. If I recall on his first attempt he finished high in time trials, equivalent to his AFL seasoned brother. That is a great sign for a young player, it not only declares aerobic capacity but work ethic because you obviously don't get that sitting on the couch. So he still has that in him, and if he maintains the work ethic it will return. But at the moment he can barely beat a pumpkin vine off the pitch and wouldn't have enough breath left to even try and blow out a candle! That is not the Charlie Curnow we recruited, if it wasn't the Glandular Fever what is the reason for it?
To be eligible for a 457 visa, one had to have qualifications in a field where there was a shortage of qualified local workers. Apart from the abuse of the system by employers looking for cheap labour, most of the allegedly qualified workers couldn't pass Australian first year apprentice standards.
So Turnbull is upgrading the skill requirements. Perhaps he plans to use the new visa recipients to replace the 350 researchers with about 3500 years of accumulated experience the Abbott kiboshed from CSIRO a few years ago! all those bad climatologists, socialist scientists, Lamarckists and Darwinists be gone!
After all, whats the point of offering a 457 visa for unskilled migrants to abuse??
I thought to get a 457 visa you had to be a skilled worker?
Wasn't one of the complaints Rinehart was using 457 visa workers to cut costs in highly skill employment areas like maintenance staff?
I watched a story in Statewide a few weeks back that described tomato pickers as skilled workers, that must take all of 5 minutes of training to get up to speed! So it all sounds like bunkum, so I have to ask why now?
I think the timing suggests the Feds are closing an avenue into the country in preparation for a conflict on the Korean Peninsula. Turnbull must have realised Australia could be crawling with VX2 terrorists, no more trains rides for a while I suggest!
I realise it's a long bow, but this seems to have come out of the blue!
Exactly....9 games. Add in a few injuries, glandular fever as well. And people are disappointed with certain parts of his game.
I was shouted down on these forums when I wrote that it might be 2018 before C.Curnow is fully clear of the effects of glandular fever. One year to get over it and another year to catch up on what he missed is completely reasonable and not beyond comprehension.
Though the result was disappointing, it was clear from the game that Carlton have nailed the past two drafts, despite what Mathew Lloyd says. The fact there were two or three bewildering umpire decisions which cost us goals, two skill errors that cost us goals and we missed five or six shots on goal that we should have kicked, maybe Sav should work on all our players goal kicking. We need to keep playing the kids, we need to bring in Cunningham, McKay & Polson in the near future, and we need to nail next years draft as well.
That's basically as I see it BM, if our kicking was better we'd have probably won, and we must keep playing a good mix of kids with experienced players.
Any updates on the poorly state of AFL commentary, or are BT and Darcy still a mile in front of the next worst in the competition?
Leaping Larry nearly got it 100% correct with this assessment, just one change needed as highlighted and the quote is perfect;
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BRIAN TAYLOR – The overwhelming impression I get from this caller is that the game gets in the way of putting over himself and his buddies in the booth. It seems barely possible that these priorities are not shared by those subjected to the entertainment stylings of the Brian Taylor Saturday Night Zoo Crew while trying to negotiate negate a football telecast.
I was listening to the 3AW crew after the game and it was interesting to hear the spud callers. Some jerk spud caller got on the blower and predicted McKay as a fail, Daisy, E.Curnow and C.Curnow rubbish with poor disposal.
Harf and the others highlighted to the spud caller the weird focus Carlton supporters had on Daisy, Harf said the Carlton fans booed Daisy before an during the game which in my opinion is disgraceful! If Harf notices it then it is obvious to all and sundry!
If someone is wearing navy blue, you give them 100% unconditional support or you can feck off!
If Carlton want to know why stuff all fans are not going to games, that booing would keep most fans away hands down and the club should come out and condemn it!
Further Harf highlighted that at about 65% efficiency from a reasonable number of possessions Daisy and Curnow were far from being Carlton's worst. We had a number of players who barely touched the pill all day, 8 out of 9 of the worst offenders were the first year players.
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