Carlton Supporters Club

I'm basing it on what my eyes see and have seen for 45 odd years watching football. Couldnt give a flying F#$% where they play, green grass, white lines on the ground with four sticks at either end, hostile supporters, same as every ground. IMO he isn't AFL standard or at least the AFL standard we require.

I'm basing it on what my eyes see and have seen for 45 odd years watching football. Couldnt give a flying F#$% where they play, green grass, white lines on the ground with four sticks at either end, hostile supporters, same as every ground. IMO he isn't AFL standard or at least the AFL standard we require.

I tend to agree with GI2C.

Cant understand why he gets a game.  Freo was an improvement on his previous match, but not by a lot.  I would argue, we gain more by playing others in his role. 

I'm basing it on what my eyes see and have seen for 45 odd years watching football. Couldnt give a flying F#$% where they play, green grass, white lines on the ground with four sticks at either end, hostile supporters, same as every ground. IMO he isn't AFL standard or at least the AFL standard we require.

Boyd is a newbie, there were many on here saying as much about Weitering in his first season, and some even in the 2nd.

Jones was written of by most fans as a deadset waste of time and money, for how many seasons, and now he's dearly missed.

sMurph never stopped being sledged by many Carlton fans as soft and each week was going to be his last, how many games?

Betts was rubbished early, much the same as Boyd, left as a traitor and returned as a messiah.

LoB rubbish, always was always will be apparently, now it seems things seem to have changed.

Plowman has been a spud from day one onwards to eternity.

I'll reserve judgement of players beyond the 3 game limit!

Boyd is a newbie, there were many on here saying as much about Weitering in his first season, and some even in the 2nd.

Jones was written of by most fans as a deadset waste of time and money, for how many seasons, and now he's dearly missed.

sMurph never stopped being sledged by many Carlton fans as soft and each week was going to be his last, how many games?

Betts was rubbished early, much the same as Boyd, left as a traitor and returned as a messiah.

LoB rubbish, always was always will be apparently, now it seems things seem to have changed.

Plowman has been a spud from day one onwards to eternity.

I'll reserve judgement of players beyond the 3 game limit!

Boyd was a mid season rookie pick from the Dogs VFL list...Weitering was a highly touted No 1 pick with different expectations.
Murphy see Weitering, LOB, and Plowman were all top ten picks so again different expectations and bars to set and reach.
Eddie was a good get but I think the messiah label was probably more appropriate at the Crows, when we got him back he was half cooked, winding down and was more valuable as a consul for players like Martin.
Why would we recruit Boyd when we had just taken on Saad and Williams and already had Docherty and Stocker as smaller rebounders/ defenders especially when the first three are that rebounding kick winning distributor type in the main like Boyd?

Boyd is a newbie, there were many on here saying as much about Weitering in his first season, and some even in the 2nd.

Jones was written of by most fans as a deadset waste of time and money, for how many seasons, and now he's dearly missed.

sMurph never stopped being sledged by many Carlton fans as soft and each week was going to be his last, how many games?

Betts was rubbished early, much the same as Boyd, left as a traitor and returned as a messiah.

LoB rubbish, always was always will be apparently, now it seems things seem to have changed.

Plowman has been a spud from day one onwards to eternity.

I'll reserve judgement of players beyond the 3 game limit!

Boyd is not a kid, he should be further ahead than he is.....and there has been limited improvement in close to a year now.....and in reality he has gone backwards despite being given plenty of 'airtime' to show his wares.

And yet someone like Marchbank plays VFL today!

I'm not pro or anti Boyd, but if we pick players up they should be given a reasonable run free of injury to make their mark. Now if I recall Boyd was flying in his first couple of VFL games and got a major injury and was out for a chunk of last season, the game he got injured those of us who watch VFL regularly stated he should have been an AFL in after just a handful of VFL games. I'm not even sure a COVID season counts as a normal opportunity to develop players.

Players need a trick to feature in AFL, and Boyd has a boot on him that is significant given good form and a run of uninterrupted development. Whether he turns into a durable AFL option might come down to luck, just like Marchbank.

Voss says he likes what he sees about Boyd, he says the same about Marchbank, I've no reason as yet to distrust Voss in fact I back him in because Voss is filling me full of confidence win or lose as each week passes!

If Voss has a spot for Boyd then Boyd has a spot, plain and simple.