Like Flynn Riley, Reidy's a work in progress and getting thrown to the wolves as he was on Saturday (and as Riley was the week before) could help his development or shatter his confidence.
At the moment we have the best coach to manage this situation, you can't ask for better.
A lot of Carlton fans must live on a diet of instant soup, they can't wait for anything substantial, and they are obviously childless having thrown the baby out with the bath water!
I think how our F50 setups really depends on what happens with Hewett, if Hewett gets up Cripps will spend more time floating forward, if not we'll probably go the opposite and setup smaller.
Hayward plays quite tall, he's a bonus as a forward because he's out marking most opponents yet is ground level agile.
I've got a problem with Campo's lads, when they arrived they looked pacey relative to our existing jar of treacle, but it's only taken a coule of newbies to show some leg and now they look a bit off the pace.
With their run of injuries I'd be giving them more VFL time, they don't look ready to me, they look VFL dominant but not AFL competitve as silly as that sounds.
Brave footbllers, smart footballers, but what is their AFL trick, can they survive on brains alone? Will they displace Smith or Wilson?
Excluding the big names this season so far Wilson is a win, Byrne a future, Evans gets everything he can out of himself.
Rangers became the options because alternatively you were paying 10k more for a vehicle that had less. Thats an expensice badge the toyota were selling.
I think the Landcruisers are still the performance leader, but the price is the killer as @Gointocarlton points out, I think it's about a 30% premium. The new Landcruiser hybrid claims greater performance and load capacity than the traditional, this is typically the reverse of most hybrid models, so I'll be keen to see a genuine independant review.
You can build a car to ace any industry standard test, as Volkswagon proved!
In our area Tritons have become increasingly more popular with tradies, I see them on job sites everywhere. Rangers are now popular with the weekend warriors, they seem to have replaced the Landcruisers and Patrols as the weekend vehicle of choice.
I have been happy with Fraser in that respect. Despite pushing towards a wildcard he has kept the youngsters in the side. His main goal to leave Carlton a better place at season's end and may well do that.
So you agree he's leaving?
I won't argue with you, I think it's the most likely occurrence too!
Personally, I think the end of 2026 is going to see a lot of coaching changes, perhaps the most ever in a season.
I've had 12 Cruisers, Prados and Hiluxes over the years, the 08 Prado was the pick of them by far, but the Everest I'm currently driving is a far better vehicle - drives like a car, economical and still pulls a trailer and fords rivers.
Yep, those Prados, in the years when they were almost indistinguishable from the full Landcruiser, they are bullet proof.
The only dodgy thing was the half-ar5ed emissions controls, I remember a few years worth of those models being recalled because of the faulty system that dumped a load of soot at traffic lights! I was told by design it was supposed to open at highway speeds to diffuse solids, but some design fault caused it to open as you accelerated from a full stop.
To be honest, with a torn meniscus H shouldn't be playing this weekend.
There are people playing a career with a tear or even with a meniscus removed, they usually wear a brace?
But it's not ideal for a jumping / marking target, usually it's rucks who play with a damaged meniscus and they don't jump. I thought as much about Reidy at the weekend who wasn't jumping.
We are so easy to tackle, and not strong at tackling, it's a huge asymmetry.
Also, multiple times tonight we take the footy and dodge contact, contact that would ack of teh otherwise earn a free kick or even a 50m, it's contrary to the way the rules are currently implemented that we don't draw basic frees.
Further, look at that last clearance, a Filth player is pushing Cripps in the back of the head and it's play on. How can someone just a little short of 200cm get so much high contact and earn so few frees?
If that is all Acres has to offer put a line through him, stops and waits every mark, just long enough for the Filth to man up. He might offer the odd highlight, the cost of waiting for that highlight is enormous!
