Carlton Supporters Club

I hope Will Hayes is available this week. His dynamism was much appreciated, even if his disposal is a bit iffy. A lot of our present VFL team is pretty iffy on the disposal front.

Hayes is exactly the sort of player the Magoos need; knows the VFL like the back of his hand, leads by example and always gives his best shot.  Not quite good/big/fast enough for AFL but perfect for VFL.

I’d love to know how we convinced him to pull on the navy blue guernsey 🤔

Mates with Luke Power I believe and now back in the city after being up in the country somewhere where he played some footy  asked if he could train with the VFL team to help keep his fitness up and said he was up for a game if  needed.

The Dogs are 3rd, but on the decline. Their losses have all been recent.
Have we improved enough to challenge them? I wouldn't think so. Too many guys not producing enough.
Monahan, Moir, Sam Durdin, Akuei, Mirkov, Lemmey: too many doing not enough.

Just a wee bit harsh on Durdin, but the others I agree with.  Monahan very much a project player, Moir and Lemmey young and show a bit but both need to get some fire in their belly if they are going to make it, theu have the tools.  Mirkov and Akuei experiments coming to a close I would think, although the last 2 weeks Dom has shown more than in his entire previous career, but his problem is I think he has to come off category B rookie status and I don't think he has done enough to warrant a standard rookie much less main list place.  Would love to see him keep up the good work and make me eat my words,  and his form of the last 2 weeks replicated consistently might just do that.

Are we not able to let our more project players develop at a suburban club?  Or do those not picked for the 2s have to sit the round out?

That’s where Sam Durdin’s presence in the team is important … and his form has been OK.

How do you take someone who is not quite up to fulltime AFL standards, but has the leadership quality you need, and keep them happy playing VFL?

I thought last game Young was better than Durdin, but is it Durdin's presence that made Young better?

Also Marchbank was back out there, as much as fans might be dismissive his presence matters.

If so that is a problem, because Young has the physical capabilities exceeding Durdin, but as a replacement for Weiters whoever goes in must stand up in a leadership role.

How do you take someone who is not quite up to fulltime AFL standards, but has the leadership quality you need, and keep them happy playing VFL?

Our line-up for this week:
B:  [38] Sam Durdin,  [55] Lachlan Young,  [33] Lewis Young
HB:  [74] Logan Prout,  [41] Domanic Akuei,  [34] Rob Monahan
C:  [29] George Hewett,  [25] Jaxon Binns,  [28] David Cuningham
HF:  [43] Ashton Moir,  [14] Orazio Fantasia,  [3] Jesse Motlop
F:  [21] Jack Martin,  [31] Harry Lemmey,  [40] Hudson O'Keeffe
R:  [45] Alex Mirkov,  [36] Cooper Lord,  [16] Jack Carroll
Int: [53] Will Hayes,  [54] Ned Cahill,  [52] Liam McMahon,  [77] Will White,  [72] Oliver Badr,  [64] Archie Stevens,  [62] Hayden Gill

Em:  [51] Heath Ramshaw,  [50] Zavier Maher,  [63] Kristian Ferronato,  [71] Callum Verrell,  [69] Hugo Nosiara

The centre line looks impressive, and the small forwards look dangerous.
Monahan has been named as HBF: there have been calls for that on here.
Somehow I doubt we'll line up this way, but the game is the day after the AFL games, so it isn't impossible.