Carlton Supporters Club

Watching the Box Hill Hawks yesterday (and Footscray on Saturday),  I can't help thinking we are going nowhere until our newbies have a decent kindergarten to learn the craft.  Our development of young players has been nothing short of disastrous for many years, and we need to emulate what the successful teams are doing.

I think it's time to put a Carlton side in the VFL, play at Visy park every week, and get some mature bodies on the VFL list to give the kids a chance to learn alongside them.

Geelong, Collingwood, Essendon, Footscay and Box Hill (virtually the Hawks) are doing it now, and their AFL sides are showing the benefit.   Heaven knows the Northern Blues are hardly an attractive option for a VFL-level player.

Time we joined the party before we get left behind yet again.

Makes almost screw all difference. You're using the Box Hill Hawks as an example and yet we are copying their model.

Our seconds are ordinary because the list isn't strong, deep or healthy.

We lost our best three players from the NB's.

Just need to make that association strong. The fact they are not stand alone is almost meaningless.

Quote from: cimm1979 – on September 15, 2014, 10:04:24 pm

Makes almost screw all difference. You're using the Box Hill Hawks as an example and yet we are copying their model.

Our seconds are ordinary because the list isn't strong, deep or healthy.

We lost our best three players from the NB's.

Just need to make that association strong. The fact they are not stand alone is almost meaningless.

Spot on cimm, Box Hill is proof that the type of agreement we have can be made to work. If we go a stand alone team I wouldn't mind, but I don't see it as necessary or holding us back at all. We just have to find the right way to make it work for us.

Recruit some bigger midfielders for a start, the NB's have 16 players on their list @ 180cm or under. Now when you are playing games against AFL listed players, surly it has to help if they are at least a similar size to their opponents !!

@Baggers

Are you talking about the recent Mcevoy story?

If so, the same rules still apply at stand alone clubs vs affiliates.

You havent played enough games, you cant play.

I'm not a fan of the Northern Blues setup and also want a standalone team but to me the greatest problem is Luke Webster who I dont think is up to developing AFL players....