Carlton Supporters Club

Anyone else find it worrying that the NB's lost to Box Hill with 16 AFL listed players , and they had none? Not a lot to rejoice about this weekend

MMs been there three years, and later this season he will start saying we need to inject some pace and aggression to fix the deficiencies, we will be recruiting blokes like Robbo and Garlett! Let me sell you a ticket to the Merry-Go-Round!

Not really.  Box Hill are run by Hawthorn and ergo are picking up good habits from a club that has won more premirships recently than i have seen in my lifetime.  Im 32. 

Plus those 16 AFL players are not exactly stars of the comp.  you would struggle to count 200 games between them.

I live next to Box Hill oval and often watch the Hawks training.  While they train with an intensity that reflects Hawthorn's style, it is still a VFL side with a similar relationship to Hawthorn as the Northern Blues have with Carlton - and perhaps that supports your point Thry.

Regardless of the number of games played, our AFL listed players have been drafted because they are meant to be in the top echelon of footballers.  None of the players who represented the Box Hill Hawks are good enough to be drafted and, with the possible exception of their strength and maturity, should not have an edge over our players.  Of course, how they are coached could be a significant factor, and I suspect that it was.

Certainly sounds like we still have problems with our player development. Another area where we don't seem to have moved forward?

We haven't moved forward because we haven't moved Luke Webster on, we seen little progress and he been there a long time!

Stuffed if I know how the hell he still has a job, in my opinion his results are very, very ordinary and he comes across to me as a finger pointer. That won't help players develop at all!

Shows our depth is a long way behind the competition leaders

Well......this was predicatable.  One loss = 20 pages and counting.
What's the old saying ? "There's no news like bad news"

I'll make sure to come back 2 days after our first win & see how many pages we're up to.

We haven't moved forward because we haven't moved Luke Webster on, we seen little progress and he's been there a long time!

Stuffed if I know how the hell he still has a job, in my opinion his results are very, very ordinary and he comes across to me as a finger pointer. That won't help players develop at all!

Ed Curnow won a B+F with Box Hill after playing onky thirteen games with them due to a broken leg.  Became a walkup starter for us, despite what our recruits are supposed to be.

None of our recruits have shown that type of form at VFL level, so id almost be willing to just recruit VFL known quantities until we can prove we have tge ability to spot talent from the draft.