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I was wrong about Evans and I was wrong about Haynes.

If we were serious we would have beaten that mob by 20 goals, 6 goal run was embarrassing in its clumsiness.

Quote from: DJC – on August 21, 2025, 10:31:40 pm

Well, I think that the debate over whether we should have taken Flynn Young or Liam McMahon has been resolved.

I felt just a little sorry for Liam as he sat forlornly at the back of the bench; he was on a hiding to nothing against Weiters.

I've always been of the opinion that we had good reasons for not picking him up as opposed to players we picked ahead of him. McMahon was under scrutiny from our list people fo an extended period. They would have known his strenths and weaknesses and how he would have slotted into our team.

But his situation at Essendon in the last half of the season was a little different to the role he would play in a fully fit Carlton side.
He was asked to be the main man.
In a Carlton side he would be third tall at best and probably not even in the side.
At a fully fit Essendon side, he may also struggle for a spot.

Now for the ones we've picked up instead of him at the various points where we could add players-White, Carroll, Evans and Young.
Carroll has a contract till 2027
Young and Evans are both showing a bit.
I suspect we'll keep Evans. I'd like to think we'd hang on to Young as well, at least for another year.
They give us a bit of depth.
Frankie may be starting 22 even with everyone on deck.
What we need to see with both those guys is how they peform against the really top sides....(and we wont know that until next year now)
White's probably in most danger of not being kept on, and that's a bit of a shame because the kid has a really good positive attitude. He's just behind the others with a few tricks

Good to see that some of our players can deliver the ball accurately by foot when they are under limited (or no) pressure, which is what the Bummers offered for much of the match - even though we still managed to serve up many mis-kicks when we put ourselves under pressure - Hollands is one who is guilty of this.

Wasn't impressed by Evans in his early games for us but his ability to kick goals has clearly elevated him above Fogarty (who misses too many sitters) in my opinion.

Quote from: Blue Moon – on August 22, 2025, 06:18:54 am

I was wrong about Evans and I was wrong about Haynes.

You're not Robinson Crusoe there, BM. An entire barn of eggs on my face after my comments on these two in their early games for the club.

With aggot in hand Frankie showed up Durdin, Fogarty and others... Big time. Terrific disposal by foot and footy IQ, and he hits the scoreboard - how novel for one of our small forwards!!

And Haynesy showed his class and footy smarts down back, consistently.

No, we don't really need small forwards who kick goals and set up scoring opportunities.

Still don't get the fascination for Evans, Young & White.

I wouldn't take much notice of the last 2 weeks which were like practice matches.

Quote from: madbluboy – on August 22, 2025, 08:10:45 am

I wouldn't take much notice of the last 2 weeks which were like practice matches.

We came with the right attitude and right plan, that's what you can from it, not so much who we played. Something we haven't seen all year. Last 9 qtrs we have played good footy, starting with that scintillating last qtr against the Suns.  Attitude is what I want to see, we can then work on the rest.