Carlton Supporters Club

They do not play in the same position, and never will!

The MC won't replace O'Brien with a Kennedy type, for Kennedy to come in the MC must be chopping Setterfield, Gibbons, Fisher, Dow, Ed, or Cripps.

You are thinking emotively and not clearly, if Kennedy replaces O'Brien a slow must become a HBF or a Wing, and we are already slow enough!

Macradie - started playing in the 2s when Willo did. Played two games then broke down again (Achilles I think) then selected the week he was to resume in the 2s....

Goddard was by far the better option - played all season and in red hot form.

Bolts tries to get cute (or the whole MC which to me suffers from a major dose of group think) and repeatedly makes bad choices.

Picking Lochie O'Brien to play was worse than stupidity.

x10..Not sure what we were thinking with McReadie......no real form due to lack of games, yet Goddard who was recruited as backup is ignored.
Goddard was the match for Finlayson IMO, same style of player, size, pace etc.......
LOB was a dumb pick and based on what...form?...dont think so, the non selection of Kennedy rates with other selection blunders we have made of which there have been many.

I never suggested they play the same position.

And if Kennedy gets the ball 25+ times a games, there's 25 times the opposition aren't getting it....

LOB plays outside and doesn't even provide run ffs.

Kennedy would indeed offer more playing the very same role quite frankly.

And he'd lay a few tackles that stuck.

It irks me to see someone like Mitch Robinson playing superb footy for Brisbane and using his body as a battering ram at every contest and we just don't have anyone remotely close to being able to play that role.

We have the bloke that was in the leadership group that sacked him tho.
He will keep us warm at night.

O'Brien spent most of the game on a flank, so if you bring Kennedy in for O'Brien how do you re-shuffle?

You're not giving the problem full consideration.

Given Ed was already a slower flanker, how many more slow flankers can we carry? Would you prefer we move someone with pace to a flank like Fisher, who also happens to be our 2nd best inside ball winner at the moment!

I accept you want Kennedy in, but the re-shuffle is not trivial given we are already top heavy with five relatively slow talls playing, in and around a relatively slow midfield which has Kreuzer and Cripps?

Don't just tell us what you want, tell us how you will make it work?

Sounding like a broken record but if we don't get decent support in their for Cripps he'll be a busted up player within 3 years from carrying our club and I won't begrudge him wanting to come home and play for someone like the Eagles who are in flag contention. We recruited Kennedy to play that role and he can't get a game ahead of blokes like O'Brien. Said it last year, O'Brien is not up to it and another high draft pick blown.

Charlie Curnow must've read all the hype because at the moment he's not worth having out there, albeit the ball didn't obviously get down there much yesterday. Thankfully I basked in the glow of the election victory and didn't want to dampen that mood by watching us get blown away yesterday which was a dead certainty. Give Curnow a run in the twos and give Kerr a crack at it....if Kerr's not up to it then get rid of him rather than clog up the list

4 years into a rebuild and we sit on the bottom of the ladder...again! It's looking highly likely we've blown the number 1 draft pick next year as well. Agree on the earlier comments about Goddard. Why get him into the club and then when your full-back goes down, don't even pick him despite being BOG in the twos a couple of weeks back and they have 3 big forwards!

We have far too many blokes that are injured all the time.....guys like Kennedy, Marchbank, Cunningham, Kreuzer, Phillips.

The mantra was 4 years of drafting kids and then load up with trades and free agents. Who in their right mind would want to come and play with Carlton as a Free Agent unless their sole reason was $$$ before retirement. It irks me to see someone like Mitch Robinson playing superb footy for Brisbane and using his body as a battering ram at every contest and we just don't have anyone remotely close to being able to play that role.

The club is on it's knees and simply can't continue on like this. It might've been offensive from Eddie but someone should be making a call to Clarkson's manager and just asking the question.

I don't know but was it just me or did anyone else think Bolts looked pale and like he was staring death in the face during his presser? He looked defeated for the first time. As for Lloyd on SEN this morning, he just sounded shocked.