Carlton Supporters Club

Listen, i copped a lot of crap in the off-season for suggesting Polson would be high (possibly #1) on the delist list.
He has hardly set the world on fire since.
However, i've seen glimpses in him which i like.

He's just played his 9th game. Data for 9th game hasn't been updated yet
Some stats for people to consider though...

Stat	Player A	Player B
Age on Debut	19y 41d	19y 34d
Age on 9th game	20y 139d	21y 2d
Highest disposals (in first 8 games)	15	9
Average dispoals (in first 8 games)	7.63	2.75
Average tackles (in first 8 games)	2.88	1.22
Total Scores (in first 8 games)	1 goal 5	1 goal 2
Total inside 50's (in first 8 games)	11	4
Total rebound 50's (in first 8 games)	0	1
Contested:uncontested possession ratio	32:36 (47%)	10:12 (45%)
Draft pick taken	59	45
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Name	Polson	Simpson

Aside from the obvious contribution of our leaders, I was impressed with:

Lobbe consistent ruck effort and strong follow up
Kennedy's strength and composure
Samo's vision and delivery
Jack's nous and improvement in close
Dow looks like he's having a ball and loves the blues
Having Marchy and speedy Casey back
The return of the spirit of the old (young) Weiters
Team celebrations of every goal
Pressure in the dying minutes
Bolts pride

Hope they have a fun filled and full recovery on the GC, and that Weiters is ok

Harbrow had 13 possies vs the Swans and wasnt close to being in their best but had 24 possies vs us......
No one is saying to delist him.....just dont try and sell us the story he is some world beater either because the stats dont back it up.....he is the least impressive of our kids but is
acquiring some cult status because he is very school boyish and gets the sympathy vote because the game is a struggle for him.....good luck to him, hope he gets better but dont knock Shawny
for telling the real story rather than buying into the fairy tale....

They killed the swans for pace through the midfield usually starting off half back.

Don't come on here drawing conclusions on our 19 year olds who are playing forward pocket in a team getting thrashed usually and expect it to go unchallenged.

On another positive note... Adelaide and WB both lost. At the moment that's picks 23 and 25 to us. Not sure the crows would have expected their pick to be quite that high when they did the Gibbs deal. They'd have expected it to be a full 10 or 11 spots later.

Listen, i copped a lot of crap in the off-season for suggesting Polson would be high (possibly #1) on the delist list.
He has hardly set the world on fire since.
However, i've seen glimpses in him which i like.

He's just played his 9th game. Data for 9th game hasn't been updated yet
Some stats for people to consider though...

Stat	Player A	Player B
Age on Debut	19y 41d	19y 34d
Age on 9th game	20y 139d	21y 2d
Highest disposals (in first 8 games)	15	9
Average dispoals (in first 8 games)	7.63	2.75
Average tackles (in first 8 games)	2.88	1.22
Total Scores (in first 8 games)	1 goal 5	1 goal 2
Total inside 50's (in first 8 games)	11	4
Total rebound 50's (in first 8 games)	0	1
Contested:uncontested possession ratio	32:36 (47%)	10:12 (45%)
Draft pick taken	59	45
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Name	Polson	Simpson

I just re watched the game.
Our hand balling was a significant improvement on what we have seen especially in the greasy conditions
Also the physical commitment from all was a nice change.
One of the young guys, Cripps could be a player

They killed the swans for pace through the midfield usually starting off half back.

Don't come on here drawing conclusions on our 19 year olds who are playing forward pocket in a team getting thrashed usually and expect it to go unchallenged.

On another positive note... Adelaide and WB both lost. At the moment that's picks 23 and 25 to us. Not sure the crows would have expected their pick to be quite that high when they did the Gibbs deal. They'd have expected it to be a full 10 or 11 spots later.

I hope you don't think I missed Crippa.... he's in the leaders bit of course. In fact he needs a category of his own. The champion category!

I also liked the extra 0.5% effort to spoil, shepherd, or put ball carrier off balance. Many of us have noticed this missing previously.

Starting to get excited about the draft and PS.

Wallis would be a good stop gap in the midfield but he's a coach killer with his kicking.

I'd take Dalhouse though.

Dalhouse plays quite a bit of midfield and he'd be starting mid in our team.

You think of the good midfields say a Treloar, Pendlebury, DeGoey, Sidebottom and he is going to be useless vs that quality, I want more size and strength to help Cripps....not more Auskickers...
I can see a role for Dahlhaus as a small forward but not on ball....