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We might (will) see Jones and/or McKay doing a bit of ruck work.

I'd say we plan in Jones as relief ruck hence maybe why we still have O'Shea to go back. But why O'Shea ahead of Weitering.

A little bit of management I suspect.
The conditions won't suit him.
The last thing we want is to rush him back and have him struggle.
Let him have another game at the lower level to build his confidence a bit more... then bring him back.

Lang isn't fit enough based on what I saw last week.

Thanks for the vote of confidence BP but I get plenty wrong too , easier from the armchair and if you fire 100 bullets you have to hit something..

Cam O’Shea baffles me

And that reply is why you are my favourite poster.

N: Lang, Curnow, Lamb

OUT: Levi (Injured), Phillips Kennedy (Both Omitted)

CARLTON'S ROUND 8 LINE-UP:

Backs 20. Lachie Plowman 17. Sam Rowe 39. Dale Thomas
Half-backs 18. Aaron Mullett 14. Liam Jones 6. Kade Simpson
Centreline 16. Darcy Lang 9. Patrick Cripps (C) 35. Ed Curnow
Half-forwards 32. Nick Graham 10. Harry McKay 25. Zac Fisher
Forwards 21. Jarrod Garlett 30. Charlie Curnow 5. Sam Petrevski-Seton
Followers 8. Matthew Kreuzer 2. Paddy Dow 11. Sam Kerridge
Interchange 13. Jed Lamb 4. Lochie O'Brien 46. Matthew Wright
24. Cameron O'Shea
Emergencies 34. Andrew Phillips 37. Matthew Shaw 1. Jack Silvagni
29. Cameron Polson

In: Lang, Lamb, C. Curnow

Out: Casboult (injured), Phillips (omitted), Kennedy (omitted)

New: Lang (Geelong Cats)

Shocked at Lang's selection. Looked very underdone at VFL level last week. Tough ask for the kid. Lamb I'm not surprised, we need some mongrel and he has performed well on Goddard before, horses for courses. Charlie Curnow for Casboult is a no-brainer. Not surprised Phillips got dropped, we just can't play two dinosaur ruckmen in the current game. Kennedy is the worry for me. If he was out injured I would understand, I don't reckon his ankle is right. But omitted suggests not doing what the coaches want well enough to hold his spot (and replaced by either Lang or Lamb), that is an issue

Mullett, O'Shea, Lamb, Graham and Pickett would not get close to a game in any other AFL team in the comp IMO. Probably throw Kerridge into that group as well. They are not even the present, forget the future. Plus add to that Lang is seriously undone.

That's basically one third of the team right there. I just can't see how we are going to win games with this sort of selection strategy. I know the cupboard is pretty bare, but if that side doesn't set alarm bells ringing in the list management department then god help us all.

I pray I'm wrong [and I often am], and they have down on form, but I don't see enough ability in that team to compete against an AFL team and kick anything like a winning score.