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Plowman gets 8 kicked on him and we drop Williamson lol.

I'll quantify it.

118 deaths per million. Pick a country of any significance, India's done way better.

#120 in the 'rankings'.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

All that in a poor country with many extremely high density populations.

And that's before the classification of deaths fudge that seems prevalent globally.....

Not wanting to sound like the 'prophet of doom', if GWS roll the Dees tomorrow and we can't get over Freo, then we will be in 17th position on the ladder alongside the Kangas as the only clubs without win thus far.

Thought the same thing, GTC.

How come this is a focus ...NOW! Why are we STILL so damn reactive? Is there anyone in the place with vision, initiative and foresight - in other words, prepare the side to be a ruthless team before the season starts. Ah, yes, ruthless... we talk it better than anyone, but do the players know what it REALLY means to be ruthless? The sacrifices? The mongrel persistence? The uncompromising attitude to take into every single contest? The powerful standards to uphold as if it were your life depended on it? Sheesh... well, better late than never, and, as ever, the proof of the pudding will be in the eating over an extended period. But, it does start with this Sunday. Here's hoping. I'll be watching with a near exhausted optimism.

You can tell Teague is over weak non aggressive performers who want to play pretty boy football only but wont get their hands dirty and wants more mongrel in the backline.
Think he is getting the message that 22 Von Trapp kids wont get it done and we need some players who will bleed for the jumper.
Good luck to the kid and hope we have found a diamond in the rough.

Should have added we lack that leader down back to organize such team defense....the good Carlton teams always had your Peter Dean/Michael Jamison types similar to Grimes who could work it out on field.
Poor Doc has had a bad run with injury /illness and isnt playing with any confidence to do that and a few things have transpired against us like they usually do when you are a mid pack team.

Our selection committee is very conservative, although a number of players deserve the chop owing to poor defensive pressure from previous outings.

SOJ, Betts & Parks for Martin, Fisher and Willo. Though if we were fair-dinkum, Casboult would also get the chop for, maybe a Kennedy.

If you look at the numbers, and you look at Champion Data, the imputation is quite clear that the defensive problems are further up the ground. Plowman won't be dropped for the Freo game, and you have to ask why. Betts is being touted as an "in" and you have to ask why. Just my 2 cents.

Think its been in the media recently and on this forum that apart from Weitering and Jones our other defenders dont defend very well. We seem to have got obsessed with attack and run from defense and forgotten all about a defenders primary role.
Saad is the only one capable of doing both jobs IMO.  Docherty, Plowman and Williamson couldnt guard an elephant if it was trapped in a telephone box...
We can blame mids not getting back but those three players have been poor in both games and I think the likes of Newman, Stocker and even new boy Parks might be worth a try.
You look at Richmond and their mids really dont get back or chase that hard either, they just have boring defenders like Grimes, Astbury, Balta, Vlastuin and Broad who defend well...

Daniel Hoyne and David King were both pretty clear on this. No defence can do much when the ball comes in so effortlessly.  I don't think they blame Plowman, and they're right, and I think the coaches will see it that way as well.

Why are there no reports of significant adverse side effects with the Pfizer vaccine ? Surely, someone somewhere must have become ill, died etc. It's all very one sided IMO.

6 months ago I would've put my house on Cripps staying at Carlton for the entirety of his career.....now, I'm not so sure. And who could begrudge him really? He's busted his @rse and carried the club for years without too much meaningful support....he's starved of success. If he decides to go, then hopefully it's similar to us and the Eagles when Judd chose Carlton....agreement was reached in a way and the Eagles respected his decision, but still drove a hard bargain.

And the situation with his partner only complicates it and he's totally within his rights to do what's best for him and her....some of that online stuff is just despicable.

That all said, Cripps will be giving it his all this week and every week for the club....you wouldn't expect anything less. It's about time a few others put their bodies on the line as well.

IN: McDonald, Betts, Kennedy, Stocker
OUT: Casboult, Martin, Fisher, Setterfield

Plowman probably survives because of the smaller Freo forward line. And Murphy probably only survives because of Martin going out.

If Silvagni is fit, then bring him in as well and probably drop Newnes....Silvagni can play off a wing and push into the middle and the forward line.