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He played on the ball effectively all last week and played his best game for ages. But his relative lack of physicality did tell: he still gets out-bodied too easily.
Early in the year he was mooted as spending more time on the ball and less up forward. Things didn't work out that way, but maybe we are seeing a glimpse of the future?

Elevate any one we can and get rid of those who've shown they don't want to be there.

We can't control the fixture anyway. We must become the surprise packets 

I think many of us thought that NB.  Isn't there a thread about what spuds our assistants are?

My point was about the fact that assistant coaches are closer to the players than the senior coach and that may have enabled Barker to see something in Graham that Malthouse missed.

Good to see that we have some astute judges when it comes to Graham's ability 

He has certainly been one of the players to benefit from the change of coach.  I suppose that being closer to the players enabled Barker to see what Malthouse was missing.

Anyway, let's hope Graham continues to improve and becomes an integral part of a top class midfield.

Not sold on the coyote, if he fails to get a game and continues to do okay in the twos, that would tell me SOS doesn't rate him.

Ablett is under pressure to resume and has unofficially being labelled a sook for not being able to play with injury...it will either be he is no good and wants to show he is really injured or he will come to play and probably flog us....dont see any inbetween IMO..

Yeah I am related to Callan Beasy...in some way...lol...both Swan Hill boys...also related to Doug Beasy from the 50's

Is that for real? Who said that?

No
Ahead of that must come which player offers the most in terms of value to the senior side.

Normally I'm all for rewarding effort.

Had Yarran sulked around in the VFL I'd support him having some more time at the lower level.

But
Ellard 23
Yarran 23

Which player is likely to reproduce that at senior level?
If we play a similar style of football to last weekend which player is likely to fit better into the senior team?

Yarran is at a really important stage in his Carlton career.
How we handle him could be the making or breaking of him as a Carlton player.
He appears to be playing angry and frustrated at the moment.
That seems to be showing through in his attitude at other times.(punctuality etc)

I understand the reasons for taking a stand and keeping him in the lower grade.
It might work.....but he might also drop his bundle in which case he's probably finished as a Carlton player.
Fair enough some might say.
That's the simple solution...pack him off.
We'll get something for him.

But if we play it the other way and promote him and support him through this period, getting him playing with a bit of enthusiasm again, the benefits to us are obvious.

At the end of the day it's really up to the "people managers" at the club and Yarran's own attitude.
We can't do much about the latter and we've proven to be pretty hopeless at the managing the "troubled player" side of things.

This is a bit of a test for the club.