Carlton Supporters Club

could we just talk about the footy please!

OK.

I thought Bolton can across as a little deflated after the Freo game, particularly in regards to skill levels and turnovers. The man looked flat.

Yep
@ Kruds and Paul...I think that's pretty much sorted guys but if not you could probably take it to PM's.
Malthouse and Ratten are legitimate topics.... even if they probably have been done to death, but use one of the threads in the Coaches Box section to continue that debate.

Re Weitering. I've been saying it, play him at CHF. I know he;'s young but if you're good enough, you're good enough.

If they play him forward I'll be so pissed off, he's got a decade of AFL football ahead of him, we don't have to throw him to the wolves in his second season!

I think he has an enormous task on his plate and we'll probably see the effects of that on his demeanour as the season progresses.
Obama's hair turned grey with the responsibilities of the Presidency.
I suspect Bolton has a bigger job.

Re Weitering. I've been saying it, play him at CHF. I know he;'s young but if you're good enough, you're good enough.

He can still switch back if need be.

The team for me is Weitering at CHF and Marchbank at CHB. I'd have those two able to swap positions at times in those two key posts.

Think Marchbank will become more than a key defender. Onball/Forward for him at some point.

So from that much improved (yet still skills error riddled) games against Freo, we have found two legit young forwards to build around - Weitering and Pickett.

Young Pickett has some Jeffy Farmer about him. He's a natural up forward, as is Weitering, who I think has the Lance Whitnall footy nous. Invaluable.

x2....You need to kick goals to win games and we just cant do that with the players we have down forward, if Weitering can establish himself down forward its going to make it easier for
Harry McKay, SOSOS and Patrick Kerr to slot in when their turn comes.
Its a a fair load on Weitering but I think he can handle it as he is so mature and advanced compared to most newbie players...

I think Marchbank, and Plowman too, are more than capable up forward. Rowe is another.

So many basic skill errors, balls being kick OOF and dropped marks we should take.

They say they don't punish skill errors, but our gameplan and winning the footy seem fine, we just fail to execute over and over again. Marchbank the worst offender across these games.

Also anyone worried how often we are getting beaten over the back? This is a Bolton thing, and hope it gets rectified asap.

Someone said Sandilands killed Kreuzer? MK clearly won that battle and he looks to be in good form heading into Round 1.

Picket played himself into Round 1, Armfield played himself out of it.

Sandilands smashed Kruezer in the ruck but our man had more of the ball around the ground...37 hitouts to 15 is a fair beating in the ruck IMO especially as the Freo man had a decent amount of those hitouts to
advantage....I thought Sandi's hitouts were more effective than MK's possies......surprised to see Murphy had 27 possies, didnt seem that influential...