Carlton Supporters Club

North Melb are crap............................

Quote from: cimm1979 – on January 14, 2015, 11:47:42 am

North Melb are crap............................

North are better than us, so what does that make us?
North bat deeper in the midfield than we do, have a genuine marking forward who kicks goals along with a very dangerous small forward, a solid defence and a very good ruckman.
They finished fourth and it wasn't a fluke.

I just don't get how anyone that watches them play doesn't rate them. It's got nothing to do with how your list looks on paper and everything to do with the football you play.

While North Melbourne were a preliminary finalist last season, the Kangaroos were rated as having the eighth-best list in terms of quality. They even fell behind West Coast and Adelaide, who did not make the finals last season . . .

The Roos boast three elite players - Brent Harvey, Nick Dal Santo and Todd Goldstein - but have nine in the above-average category.

Carlton boasted two elite players - Kade Simpson and Chris Yarran - but Marc Murphy and Bryce Gibbs, the latter having claimed his maiden best and fairest last season, were deemed only above average.

There's a better way of assessing a player and determining which ones are A graders than relying on Statistical analysis....DJC's hinted at it.

....it's called "watching them play" 

There's a better way of assessing a player and determining which ones are A graders than relying on Statistical analysis....DJC's hinted at it.

....it's called "watching them play" 

Yet we still managed to beat them last season. 

Exactly what I was trying to say. I think many on here who don't rate North simply don't watch them, look at their list and go 'yeah they're crap.' I too would've written off someone like Dal Santo but he was enormous last year. Brent Harvey is in playing just as well if not possibly better than he ever has. Put simply, North play to the strengths of their list, they have great runners and like to take the game on. They are very even across the field. That troubles most sides more often than not. The fact that they're lacking possibly one or two stars is probably the only thing holding them back from making the big dance.

North have a lot of people fooled, they also play the media like a piano.  Apparently our blokes have a problem Fronting up with 100% effort all the time... North have the same problem but nobody mentions it.  Their best player is 38, they drafted an injury prone forward and their other main avenue to goal was FLOGGED by Rowe. And they're better than us?

Quote from: Professer E – on January 18, 2015, 06:08:10 pm

North have a lot of people fooled, they also play the media like a piano.  Apparently our blokes have a problem Fronting up with 100% effort all the time... North have the same problem but nobody mentions it.  Their best player is 38, they drafted an injury prone forward and their other main avenue to goal was FLOGGED by Rowe. And they're better than us?

Mate the media were all over North on quite a few occasions last year when they dropped games they should've won. They beat hawthorn and Sydney last year, Sydney was in Sydney. They then knocked off the scum and Cats in the finals. How could you possibly compare us to them? I think we should be doing better no doubt but results say they are light years ahead of us, regardless of who's on their list.