Carlton Supporters Club

They won't do that.   It's Levi or Oscar until TDK returns.

lol, reminds me I've got running club tonight, 5km followed by a bbq and rehydration...

Tigers and us have different recruiting criteria when it comes to potential problem players....they took Ben Cousins, made Jake King a local hero and Pickett was a easy choice for them given they have such a strong list and have a higher risk tolerance.
We have the Von Trapp policy where SOS liked nice kids from nice backgrounds who went to nice schools and had Golden Retrievers as pets..

Pickett was clearly the best WAFL player on long form but was also injured and not due to play for 8-10 weeks...we needed an instant sugar hit and Deluca had been BOG in the recent state game and was also AFL ready after spending time at Freo. Deluca also had a delayed start but not the delay that Pickett was going to have.
I get the logic and dont blame SOS on Pickett but we do need to lower our eyes and get a bit more nasty with our recruiting selections every now and then and pick the rough diamond over the choirboy.

This one was different, we had our eye on him but the jail thing ticked the no box.

You can play the 'what-if' at every draft.

Why was Eddie Betts passed over by every club at the ND, only to be left to us in the PSD?

Some of us are a little (greatly) concerned after the practice games.
Others are a "wait until the proper stuff starts" type of supporter.
I've always been in the latter camp.
There's nothing wrong with either train of thought...it's just different.

I remember when we used to win, or go very well, in the pre-seasons only to fall in a heap once the season proper started.
It's chalk and cheese.
Have  a look at the results in some of the other practice games and tell me that's a true indication of the relative strengths of some sides.

We won't know which way it goes until the first shots are fired in 'anger'....and for me that's the main difference between practice games and regular season games.
There's no anger., no intensity and very little pressure in these games.
It will increase dramatically when 4 points are on the line.
Some clubs will thrive under those conditions, others will falter.
That's when we'll be able to see where we really stand.

We don’t have him yet and, on 2019 form, he’s not in our best 22.

The best I’m hoping for, if we do get him, is that he joins with Kennedy, Dow, O’Brien, Stocker, De Koning, Pittonet and others in putting selection pressure on those in the 22.

It’s interesting that we seem to be picking bowlers on form and pitch but remain reluctant to change the batsmen ?

He's putting us in a difficult spot.

I reckon he was odds on to be delisted only a month ago. Now?

Tricky part comes because if we want to keep the latter additions of Gibbons, Cottrell and DeLuca, then we still have to delist 3 others from our list. NOT including Pickett and Bugg who both retired.

Australia lost with nearly 110 balls to spare. Poms could have scored 400 at that rate. Very humiliating.

We don't have a lot to protect with 224 the target