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It's a travesty that any club should play more than 50% of it's games at night.
B: Simpson Jamison McInnes
HB: Tuohy Watson Docherty
C: Judd Walker Yarran
HF: Gibbs Henderson McLean
FF: Menzel Waite Garlett
R Kruezer Thomas Murphy
INT Warnock Carrazzo Armfield Robinson
Scotland misses out for mine, if he does play on next year its to be in a development role mentoring Docherty, Graham, Cachia, Bell and Lucas
Casboult out, Watson in to step up and take CHB for his own next year, Hendo forward which is win win.
Walker to play in the guts week in, week out.
Two negative players each week in Carrazzo for the bigger mids like Pendles, Swan, Jobe, JPK types, and Army for the likes of K. Jack, Ablett, Rioli, L Thomas. So Army plays forward/back/mid at Different stages.
Thorp is one to consider with our pick 31 or 32 whichever it may be. If we can draft Rowe with pick 44? we can make a strong case for Thorp with our second rounder, eventhough he has played in a crap league this year he won em a flag on his merry lonesome, worth the risk.
Shaun McKernan as depth? Back-up Ruck/Fwd.
Lucas, Bell, Graham, Cachia, Curnow, Scotland, Buckley, Ellard and draftees as mid depth
As it stands Cas and Rowe are our only ruck/fwd back up which is extremely alarming in my eyes, should get another project from the state leagues. Could do much worse than McKernan and Thorp to replace Paddy Mac and Mitchell. Rookie Mitchell i reckon.
Duigan, Bootsma, Temay, White, possibly Laidler as well.
So, 7 spots to fill and i'm going to have a crack at it.
National Draft
#13 Marcus Bontempelli
#33 Mitch Thorp
#51 Dayle Garlett
#69 Trent Dumont
3 spots to fill. I'd like to rookie Luke Mitchell again , but i just haven't seen enough of him in the NB's.
Shaun McKernan to take 1 rookie spot, , i'd like a state league or mature aged ruckman, 18 to 21 years of age, and i'd like another KPP/swingman like Cam Delaney, Joel Tippet, Matthew Westhoff or something similar.
Be gentle people.
Bring it!So whereabouts have people gotten their seats for the game (as in bay number)? Reason I ask is that I've got a couple of mates thinking of getting some eBay tickets, but don't wanna be purchasing seats right in the middle of a Richmond bay stronghold, so if I can gauge where Carlton members have been allocated seats, it'll help me be able to pinpoint a bay where there's at least a few Carlton supporters for them to be sitting near.....thanks people!!!
Apparently more tickets will be made available on Thursday from unused club allocations. Yesterday 12,000 Carlton members purchased tickets compared to 26,000 Richmond fans. They will outnumber us 2-1 on Sunday.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, the first three quarters were embarrassing, the last quarter was inspiring.
A number of players showed that they clearly are not up to it and will certainly face the axe at the end of the year whilst a couple of them may have done enough to save their career at the Blues.
Another mid too for McLean?
Ellard. Surely.
Bell was doing a fair bit of grunt work in terms of spoiling and ball winning in the clinches, which I think we benefited from. He just needs to improve his disposal which lets him down atm. I'm confident that will get some focus as he's very useful to have around the clearances and contested ball situations.
Also let's the opposition know he's there - ask Cotchin.
Cookie...Glad to see you could see what I saw with Tom Bell....his big body is a must for the senior team.
No-one is suggesting he doesn't throw some weight around (hell, its the one facet of his game that I really like) but you have to question his intellect when he tried to clean-up Cotchin and came off second best.
Kicked away in the last to make it a big win. GC are still developing, and will be a little "one step forward one step back" for a while. 40 scoring shots to 22 is pretty food going though.
Well done lads.
Considering we had about 6 or 7 non contributors that's not a bad result.
Waite in for Rowe.
How the feck was that a free to Ablett...no wonder Walker went off!
In ~ ROWE, SCOTLAND
out ~ WAITE, LEVI
Didn't he start the season at FF.
Couldn't get near it!
However, has shown in patches that he has great potential.
He can certainly clunk a mark!
Three obvious things will help him:
a) better delivery into the forward line
b) better forward line coach
c) hours upon hours of goal kicking practice
Play Casboult forward. He can either play or not. We need to find out.
Kruezer can ruck most of the game anyway. The whole football world is watching us right now - do wave the white flag or take no prisoners?
Time for us to say Never again do we lose to this mob and have some pride.
