Carlton Supporters Club

There are a couple or lucky guys named this week. With the weather expected to be poor, windy and wet, I would have played Kerridge and Graham. I think they would be physically better capable of dealing with the conditions, even though their disposal can be suspect. Dow and O'Brien may not be the best options, but ... Weitering is very lucky to be there. Had any of the other defenders put their hands up, you would have expected them to push for spots.
It will also be interesting to see how Mullett goes against his old side: my expectations are low in the conditions.

Congratulations L O'B.


It appears to me that the club have decided 2018 will be development year more than a push up the ladder year.
Not playing Kerridge and Graham in conditions that would suit hard scrappy football says that we are not necessary chasing a win.

I'm OK with that, but am looking forward to 2020 when hopefully we can be in finals contention.

Hmmm!

Atley 189  -  O'Shea 193
Waite 194  -  Weitering 195
Anderson 179  -  Simpson 181
Ziebell 188  -  Plowman 191
Brown 200  -  Jones 198
Simpkin 182  -  Cuningham 183

I wouldn't want to go much shorter!  Not that we will match up like that too often during the game.

I don't understand what the posters here are on about, Norp look bigger and heavier than us on paper, and a centimeter or two means diddly squat!

They way Kruddler carries on you'd think that a 2cm difference is like swimming across the Atlantic!

The bigger problem for us is we are carrying too many slows players rotating through our midfield and forward line that cannot hit a target. They miss targets by hand and foot then get run off by the opposition defenders on the turnover. This creates havoc for our defense as that have to deal with unmarked and unhindered opposition players streaming into 50m.

Banging on about our defense is basically complaining about the symptom and ignoring the cause!

Agree. Therein lie too many of our woes. We are too often totally wrong-footed especially now we are trying to be more attacking.

Norp look bigger and heavier than us on paper, and a centimeter or two means diddly squat!

It's a fair point
Height is only one variable, and if were talking centimetres....leap, reach, weight, strength, maturity, speed all have a bearing.

In the first couple of weeks our guys seem to have been out-bodied and out positioned many times by shorter players.

Form, confidence, awareness and effort are other factors.
All seem to be in play at present.

Some are fixable short term...others may require a season or two of experience, training and maturity.
Still others will be measured and found wanting.

North have a lot of weak bodied players like us, they dont play a physical game, Goldstein is one of the more gentleman like ruckman, their toughest player is Cunnington but he isnt a sniper type.
They dont have any real A grade superstars and their coach isnt the brightest either.....no excuses this week, I expect to win and comfortably, if we cant beat North then we have gone backwards.

I will stock up on a few frothies EB, based on your confidence! I guess I'll drink them anyway.

Cookie, I just think the club have to draw a line in the sand and say this is a winnable game and our experienced players need to lift and drag the kids along
for the the ride. No more green shoot excuses or synergy cliches, this is a simple game of footy to be played in real football weather more than likely, between two clubs who probably lack real
depth in talent and its going to come down to effort more than pretty skills.
This is backs to the wall stuff, members/supporters want a win not another cliched press conference of excuses.....if we can harness the same effort we displayed vs Richmond that should be enough to win over a very ordinary North Melbourne team also stranded in the wilderness....Bolton needs to do a Moses, buy a compass and take us to the promised land....

On a side note it will be interesting to see how Dow v Davies-Uniacke go in this game. Neither has set the world on fire so I'm expecting one or the other to improve significantly to earn some cred re their draft order selection. Hopefully our boy shines through.