Carlton Supporters Club

I just saw some footage on TV of Kreuzer and Casboult undergoing 'secret' fitness tests.  It was a teaser for the news and they didn't give much away.  They weren't at Princes Park.

Carlton talls Matthew Kreuzer and Levi Casboult have been put through a rigorous testing session on Friday morning as the Blues consider a shock return for the key pair.

Kreuzer (knee) and Casboult (leg) were included in the 25-man squad to face Geelong on Sunday despite injuries that had been expected to sideline them for another three matches.

Both were put through a secret 20-minute testing session at the Power House Hockey Club in Albert Park on Friday morning before taking part in light handball drills.

Coach Brendon Bolton said the pair would be put through more testing in the next 48 hours and the club would take no risks with them against the Cats. 

"They got through a good session this morning and we'll have another run in a day or two and see how we go," Bolton said. 

"It'll be more about jumping and landing and a lot of the specific work that the talls do.

"There's still 48 hours, but we're hopeful.

"We'll just make an informed decision … based on medical advice and how they're pulling up from the sessions."

Its very easy to label someone as lazy, but these guys are working in a zone, and not being tight on a man can be a design, and simply following a man can be an oppositions method to open up a zone.

ergo, thomas's goal may have been to drag Simpson from the position he was in, rather than simply Simpson being lazy, and its much more difficult to allow a man to roam free and maintain your position than it is to follow him everywhere.

Now, on the flipside of that to find the answer to whether or not we were lazy, ask the following question.  Would his tight manning up have made one iota of difference?

The answer is simple, no.  Why?  Too much ball came in too easily, and they scored not from the smalls, not from the talls, but from the extra number pushing into their forwardline from midfield which created issues for us, as we had people trying to cover multiple players too frequently.

ERGO, they had a deliberate tactic designed to penetrate a zone defense, and we dealt with it poorly.


AFL 360 can give some good insight into the game, and perhaps a method around what happened would have been getting an extra number back, but I don't think lazy is necessarily the explanation of why it happened.

Thomas is a cherry picking cheat who plays for frees, pushes people in the back and generally has no concept of doing any team oriented play..

That is the best description for that seagull I've seen to date.

Both Kroooz and the Bolt are in!!  Gorridge and Jones are out.

Carlton's team to take on Geelong:

Backs 6. Kade Simpson 20. Lachie Plowman 15. Sam Docherty
Half-backs 42. Zach Tuohy 23. Jacob Weitering 39. Dale Thomas
Centreline 19. Liam Sumner 4. Bryce Gibbs 27. Dennis Armfield
Half-forwards 33. Andrejs Everitt 17. Sam Rowe 35. Ed Curnow
Forwards 46. Matthew Wright 41. Levi Casboult 1. Andrew Walker
Followers 8. Matthew Kreuzer 9. Patrick Cripps 3. Marc Murphy (C)
Interchange 43. Simon White 38. Ciaran Byrne 11. Sam Kerridge
  13. Jed Lamb    

Emergencies 14. Liam Jones 37. Daniel Gorringe 18. Kristian Jaksch