Re: Round 9: Carlton vs. Sydney Post Game Pain
Reply #83 –
I believe some of prime guns have playing injured or are out. Murphy, Gibbs and Walker missed the later part of the pre-season and probably only played to help Mick keep his job. The way they've played it's looked like it. Some one said Murphy has been carrying that calf he had all season. Our full back missed alot of the year, our CHF is out of touch and missing time through injury too. Of course Judd missed as well. Coverage for that lot is a pretty tough gig. Those blokes playing in form give us a spine and a midfield.
Gibbs and Murphy give us much needed class but they certainly don't give us a spine.
Jamison and Kreuzer are the only two tall players of any note missing from last night and they are both terminally injured, we can't rely on either of them going forward and Jamison must be hitting 30 anyway.
Our stock of tall players is abysmal, by far the worst in the AFL, and unless we can do something to address it in the next three or four seasons all the run and carry in the world won't win us games of football.
We should see if there are any takers for Henderson for starters, he's as good now as he's ever going to be and it's nothing flash, the rest of them aren't worth a zac between them.