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Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne

Reply #105 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Quote from: Lods – on
Not sure if it's been mentioned but Hayward has been given a week for his hit on Wardlaw.
Probably save himself  and the club the embarrassment of dropping him...

solves the question...Who makes way for Flynn Young.?

Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne

Reply #107 –
Quote from: RiverRat – on
McKay is a shadow of his former self:
He struggles to take an overhead mark without juggling the ball at least once.
He fails to get separation from a defender on the lead.
Even when he does get some decent foot passes to his advantage, he seems to be unable to use his considerable body size and reach to prevent an opponent from spoiling from behind.
He remains an unreliable kick for goal.

Might as well use him as a back up ruckman to allow him to try and regain some one-grab overhead marking.

I agree. He has no presence at all. Like so many of his forward mates he has no forward craft - its like hes brain is incapable of anything beyond the very basics. He plays like an u12s kid. if he wasn’t physically gifted not a chance he makes it as an afl
footballer.

All the little things any decent AFL forward does naturally he just cant do it. And the amount of times he is flat footed in a marking contest where by jumping with his height would make it almost impossible for and opponent to get to it but he stays down.

Then when he gets a shot it literally could go anyway as he has no set goal kicking routine.

Hes a dumb footballer like the bulk of the team.

i would trade him if i could get anything decent in return - resigning him was another list management stuff up.

Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne

Reply #108 –
Quote from: Lods – on
Regarding not replacing the 'topliners'.

Serious question....
With who?
Who would we have taken in the last draft/trade period to replace them.

You can make a good case for not developing the repalcements long term.
But when DeKoning (expected), Silvagni (unexpected) and Curnow (umming and ahhing) decided to leave who should we have replaced them with.

To answer my own question...
In hindsight we should have wrapped up that Buku Khamis deal.
He wanted to come to us, he would have been handy.

Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne

Reply #109 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
Hayward was particularly poor and needs to be the coaches office at 9 am Monday to explain himself and his actions.  I'd drop him, publicly, because he needs an attitude re-set.
Suspended for a week. I'd start him back in the VFL.
Live Long and Prosper!

Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne

Reply #110 –
I must confess that I really don't see any useful point in, "If only we had Charlie, JSOS and TDK." We don't have them any longer. Right, wrong, good, bad... they aint at PP.

Seems to me the club had the long game in mind, bringing in draft picks and stopgap players when trading/letting go those 3... that's their strategy it seems and it'll be some time before they can be judged on that.

We have to work with what we have and so far this, in every game, we've been in winning positions... so, talent wise, we can do it, but then we blow it. Not easy to create cohesion between so many new blokes in 4 games!

Talk of sacking the coach is silly. Who is going to take his place? Ash Hansen **cough, splutter**? Patience Grasshopper.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17