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Re: 2017 Round 4 : Post Game thread - Carlton V Gold Coast - Thryleon - 04-19-2017
(04-18-2017, 11:52 PM)Pratty link Wrote:G'day guys...Happy Easter!
Would have loved the win, but gee how good was it to see the young blokes yet again stand up, improve and do more during an AFL game?
How good was young Zac Fisher?
Bring in Cam Polson this week for Daisy Thomas.
I know I got shot down from all corners a couple of weeks ago when I suggested to play the kids - but look how good they've been. The selection of Tom Williamson and Zac Fisher, along with keeping guys like Harry Macreadie, Jarrod Pickett and Charlie Curnow in the AFL team, shows Bolton is thinking along the same lines. Gotta play the kids. Good to see young Curnow do better. Why would you play him in the VFL right now? Crazy! Get AFL games into him early, and others.
I cannot see why anyone would want the likes of the tried and tested, and failed, 'mature bodies' in Thomas, Kerridge, Palmer, etc to play instead of the kids if you had the choice between the two. Bolton is doing the right thing.
I'd be getting games into the likes of Cuningham, Jaksch, Gallucci and McKay soon also.
Whilst I don't dispute that this isnt a good strategy, I think we may have been able to get the win vs Melbourne and Gold Coast with the odd more mature player.
Of course, thats no guarantee, but we would be having a very different conversation now if we were 3 and 1, instead of 1 and 3.
Re: 2017 Round 4 : Post Game thread - Carlton V Gold Coast - Pratty - 04-19-2017
(04-19-2017, 12:14 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:Whilst I don't dispute that this isnt a good strategy, I think we may have been able to get the win vs Melbourne and Gold Coast with the odd more mature player.
Of course, thats no guarantee, but we would be having a very different conversation now if we were 3 and 1, instead of 1 and 3.
No way of telling. However, I would go the other way, and say that we did as well as we did with the young blokes playing, and that we would not have done as well with the likes of Kerridge, Palmer, etc playing. Bolton has got it right IMO. You can tell that the clean hands, pace, zip and skills from the younger blokes is much better IMO.
Re: 2017 Round 4 : Post Game thread - Carlton V Gold Coast - Thryleon - 04-19-2017
(04-19-2017, 12:21 AM)Pratty link Wrote:No way of telling. However, I would go the other way, and say that we did as well as we did with the young blokes playing, and that we would not have done as well with the likes of Kerridge, Palmer, etc playing. Bolton has got it right IMO. You can tell that the clean hands, pace, zip and skills from the younger blokes is much better IMO.
We'll never know Pratty.
I think the team without any one player doing more than another got us in touching distance to GC, and you may very well be right depending on which player was interchangeable with another.
We could also argue that Palmer in for Thomas could have done it.
Re: 2017 Round 4 : Post Game thread - Carlton V Gold Coast - ElwoodBlues1 - 04-19-2017
(04-18-2017, 11:52 PM)Pratty link Wrote:G'day guys...Happy Easter!
Would have loved the win, but gee how good was it to see the young blokes yet again stand up, improve and do more during an AFL game?
How good was young Zac Fisher?
Bring in Cam Polson this week for Daisy Thomas.
I know I got shot down from all corners a couple of weeks ago when I suggested to play the kids - but look how good they've been. The selection of Tom Williamson and Zac Fisher, along with keeping guys like Harry Macreadie, Jarrod Pickett and Charlie Curnow in the AFL team, shows Bolton is thinking along the same lines. Gotta play the kids. Good to see young Curnow do better. Why would you play him in the VFL right now? Crazy! Get AFL games into him early, and others.
I cannot see why anyone would want the likes of the tried and tested, and failed, 'mature bodies' in Thomas, Kerridge, Palmer, etc to play instead of the kids if you had the choice between the two. Bolton is doing the right thing.
I'd be getting games into the likes of Cuningham, Jaksch, Gallucci and McKay soon also.
Pratty, said the same thing somewhere else that I reckon its going to be full on youth and the older tried and failed only making up the numbers through injury etc....I'm all for Polson
playing this week.
Re: 2017 Round 4 : Post Game thread - Carlton V Gold Coast - flyboy77 - 04-19-2017
Disagree, need to keep some old heads - and bodies - out there.
Palmer for Daisy the obvious 'swap'.
Polson's a small kid, seemingly without the gifts of a SPS (with all respect) or the size of a Curnow the younger or Weitering....
there's no real hurry. Fisher looks likely.
Re: 2017 Round 4 : Post Game thread - Carlton V Gold Coast - cookie2 - 04-19-2017
I reckon if Poulson comes in then probably one of the other kids will be rested. Port in Adelaide is a tough gig.
Re: 2017 Round 4 : Post Game thread - Carlton V Gold Coast - cimm1979 - 04-19-2017
(04-19-2017, 11:06 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Disagree, need to keep some old heads - and bodies - out there.
Palmer for Daisy the obvious 'swap'.
Polson's a small kid, seemingly without the gifts of a SPS (with all respect) or the size of a Curnow the younger or Weitering....
there's no real hurry. Fisher looks likely.
Polson has a very mature rig.
Looks like a slightly thicker version of Murph and a much stronger version of Murph at the same age.
Very powerful through the legs and arse.