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I couldn’t fit Lord into my midfield but he’s a lock for my interchange bench.
Cooper provides a point of difference to our other midfielders with his ability to negate opposition guns and willingness to do the real grunt work.
Whos the director of coaching? We dont have one.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/carlton-blues/afl-2025-adam-simpson-joins-carlton-blues-what-is-his-role-coaching-return-latest-news/news-story/f00471974fb0c5f3853a5ecfdd0ad2a6
It seems like a casual, part time, low key role. I guess you can quibble about titles - is he a director of coaching, a coaching mentor etc.?
I'll disagree on the list coverage for those departed players, the players we have brought in are either throws at the stumps or handy B graders but I dont see any real dial movers that will be keeping other clubs up late with worry.
We lost an athletic ruckman with potential, a dual Coleman Medalist who was playing like he didn’t give a toss and an injury-prone, slow defender with all of 12 games as a KPD under his belt. Only Tom was part of our late season return to form. We’ve more than covered their loss with blokes who want to play for the club and give us greater depth, versatility and goal scoring ability.
We’ve brought in experienced assistants with new ideas, a director of coaching to wrangle the assistants, and Travis Boak to take a dedicated leadership and culture role. Voss has more support than ever and a better list than he had last season.
Director of coaching....not a fan of the position or the incumbent for reasons I have discussed previously and the Assistants cant really be judged until seasons end and we can see what went right or wrong during the season in their areas of responsibility.
Boak hopefully can improve our leadership and find some new leaders for the future....
I also dont see many of the top teams falling away apart from Collingwood, and expect the competition to be even tougher next season making it even harder to make the top 8.
Not sure if you've read these very forums, but i can understand where the pressure is coming from because many around here think we've improved our list in the off-season.
If those same people make enough noise when things go bad, then it gets really bad really quickly.
My issue is not opinions on here. My issue is a certain cadre of individuals in the media who talk sh1t. The default position for any Carlton coach is the rotisserie, even if we recruit a bunch of U10's from around the corner. One hopes the club can adjust expectations accordingly, either up or down, in way that fairly represents our position, not this "no excuses" crap.
On the politics and broadcasting of F1, you have to be very careful what you believe.
Sky are doing a Caro at the moment following reports that Horner could rejoin Newey, this time at Astin Martin. It wasn;t that long ago Sky claimed Newey was so appauled by Horner that they couldn't be in the same room together, blaming Horner for Newey's departure form RBR. Now with Horner tipped to get the prime Aston Martin CEO job, apparently they are all luvy again with the miracle cure claimed to be a shared Oasis concert.
Sky are full of sh1t, they see Horner and Newey as the "dynamic save UK F1 duo", so it has flipped from hangman to talent agent.
Assuming he isn't injured, Zac Williams has to be one of the small forwards.
Perhaps also the political influence of Red Bull, it brings Max back into the game.
There seems to be a lot of people at the top end of F1 very unhappy with the McLaren situation, and perhaps a few who are a bit unhappy with Zak Brown, ultimately F1 is a sport and many people want it to at least retain some semblance of being a competition fair or otherwise. Brown comes across as pure on the Sky broadcast but you have to keep in mind the Sky broadcast is as biased as any broadcasting crew you will ever find, the sophistry knows no limit.
As much as I want Oscar to do well, the situation at McLaren is so distasteful I'll probably end up barracking for Max as to me if he gets across the line at least he has deserved it. When you watch the season considering what happened to Lawson and Tsunoda, it's obvious how far ahead his compatriots Max really is. I really hope Norris' title hopes collapse in the final race.
Very poor batting. The game might well be over tomorrow.