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I have posted before, if we can come away with a solid back half after year 1 of a rebuild we're doing very well.

Docherty, Weitering, Plowman and Byrne. That's a 10 year backline, we need to add a lockdown small defender and another big and we have a group that will grow together.

With the forward line, they are mostly speculative - Curnow, McKay and Silvagni could be anything or nothing, add in Boekhurst as a HFF/Wing and we have building blocks. Again need another big and two small forwards, and this draft seems to be full of small forwards with pace who can pinch hit in the midfield.

Mids is where we need the most help, quality ball users with speed and grunt x 4, cause they're soooo easy to get  

Jeza, as I was watching the final stages of that last quarter, i was thinking back to some of the great half backers of past great Carlton eras to compare Docherty to.  I went back to mid 90s...Mackay, hmm......sort of , but not quite, seems silkier than Macca...similar to Secca ? in his composure, yes, but his delivery is better.

So, what about back another 15 years to the late 70s/early 80s ?  McConville ?  nope........., Hunter (when he was at half back)...yeah, closer to the mark, Geoff Southby......well....now I think we're getting pretty close to the mark...he was composure personified, a brilliant reader of the play, great runner & pinpoint kick up the field.....

But, then I saw how much time Doch seems to have at times, almost as if he's pressed a slo-mo button on the rest of the game....and there was only one other bloke I've seen who could look like that.....Doull.  The thought entered my head almost against my will, I mean surely that's a ridiculous (almost sacreligious) comparison.  He's got along way to go of course, but in those few moments of the game, that's the player who Docherty most reminds me of among those greats of the past.....

And it's been a long time since I've been as confident about someone in our back half !!!

cheers

Mal.

It's amazing how much better players appear to be when they can play with some freedom.

It looks like they know what they are supposed to be doing, bizarre, just bizarre!

Also amazing how much better they play when all the team has a crack for 99% of the game.
If you have 2 or 3 guys that are lazy and won't chase it becomes infectious

Jeza, as I was watching the final stages of that last quarter, i was thinking back to some of the great half backers of past great Carlton eras to compare Docherty to.  I went back to mid 90s...Mackay, hmm......sort of , but not quite, seems silkier than Macca...similar to Secca ? in his composure, yes, but his delivery is better.

So, what about back another 15 years to the late 70s/early 80s ?  McConville ?  nope........., Hunter (when he was at half back)...yeah, closer to the mark, Geoff Southby......well....now I think we're getting pretty close to the mark...he was composure personified, a brilliant reader of the play, great runner & pinpoint kick up the field.....

But, then I saw how much time Doch seems to have at times, almost as if he's pressed a slo-mo button on the rest of the game....and there was only one other bloke I've seen who could look like that.....Doull.  The thought entered my head almost against my will, I mean surely that's a ridiculous (almost sacreligious) comparison.  He's got along way to go of course, but in those few moments of the game, that's the player who Docherty most reminds me of among those greats of the past.....

And it's been a long time since I've been as confident about someone in our back half !!!

cheers

Mal.

Docherty now known as Doullherty?

@ Malo

The guy I always think of when I see Doc is Peter Dean - even looks like him from a distance I think.

i think Saturday showed exactly the gulf between Weitering and Jamison - the latter a shadow of the player he was 54 years ago.