Carlton Supporters Club

Not according to afl.com.au, but it isn't like these people have been wrong before.

Ch9 News reports Walsh and Weitering have been cleared of injury after the Giants game but George Hewett will miss again with the back injury, an injury that will continue to make him a week by week proposition for the remainder of the season.

Give him a go now and watch him explode.

I'd say he's on the trade table, because that is the only thing that explains why he isn't being given a run.

People will be enquiring, and we'd be listening.
But to not play him now would be to the detriment of the team IMO.

Plenty of guys have been talked back in from the ledge. Until he jumps, there is still hope.

People will be enquiring, and we'd be listening.
But to not play him now would be to the detriment of the team IMO.

Plenty of guys have been talked back in from the ledge. Until he jumps, there is still hope.

I didn't get to see all of the last VFL game, I should watch the replay, but from what I've seen this season Dow still plays more like Motlop than his other AFL team-mates / counterparts, and I suspect that holds Dow back. It's not what he does when the ball is in range in front of him, it's what he doesn't do when we do not have the footy that I think is costing Dow a spot!

Fans won't see it, they see the contest at the footy, but coaches won't miss it because they see everything!

In this regard you and I had this very same discussion about another Carlton player who was a bit like this in years gone by, how things have changed, I agree they can change for Dow as well. He won't find a better example of that the person he should look up to!

Dow has no desire to chase down defensively just not good enough at AFL level hope to be proven wrong.

If Dow played like Motlop, he’d be in the 22.  Motlop is always at or near the top of the pressure acts tally, along with Durdin and Honey  (in Owies absence).

Again, not when the ball isn't around him.

When the ball isn't in range of a possession Motlop is pretty ordinary, Durdin and Owies work their guts out to control and close up the space around them, Motlop is a spectator. In this regard Dow and Motlop are similar. You find Durdin and Owies chasing to FB to defend a score despite both playing FP.

Motlop is a newbie he has an excuse, Dow has been in the system years and years! Dow spent seasons under BB who is considered an A-Grade defence first development coach, yet the aspect of Dow's game that lets him down is defence! Mind you Dow isn't the first or last to suffer this sort of criticism, some will just never have it!

It looks to me like under Voss effort is a non-negotiable, maybe Motlop gets a free pass as a newbie and Dow doesn't!

I remember about this time last season fans on this very site arguing with Kruddler and myself about our criticisms of Cripps not chasing, now we can no longer make that same criticism, yet I suspect some fans will still deny there was ever an issue! For me it's an example of how players of any stature can change, the why is irrelevant!