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Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - blue4life - 07-08-2018
(07-08-2018, 12:51 PM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:I know the odds are against us Prof but we have to show some spine and heart eventually....fingers crossed, we cant play as badly as vs Brisbane.
Saints are carp and weak with injuries too.....lose this week by a lot and the club will need to make some hard calls on its future.
This is backs to the wall stuff and we have to respond.....
Spot on, I thought that Freo was line in the sand time so we're a few weeks overdue.
If we don't show some fair dinkum fight this week the rumblings will be felt in Albury.
Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - LP - 07-08-2018
(07-08-2018, 01:08 PM)blue4life link Wrote:Spot on, I thought that Freo was line in the sand time so we're a few weeks overdue.
If we don't show some fair dinkum fight this week the rumblings will be felt in Albury.
It is not our culture.
We are the kinder playgroup of the AFL.
After the game every body gets a gold star and hug before going home for some birdie num nums and to be tucked into bed!
There is more chance of us stopping the game for a risk assessment on a tackle than having a serious crack!
If any of our blokes look like amping it up they'd be booked into anger management Monday morning!
Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - shawny - 07-08-2018
(07-08-2018, 12:40 PM)Professer E link Wrote:It'll taste like red wine vinegar after Jack Stevens gets 35 (and kicks four), Ross 23 contested, Billings runs amok, Gresham kicks three in a quarter....
Agree.
I've lost all hope as we don't have the cattle to field a team capable of beating anyone with our current injuries to key players. The back up players are no where near ready.
If we play close to our best it will be a 1-4 goal loss. Turn up like we have at times this year and it will be a another hiding.
Reality is we have won 2 games in the last 25 matches :-[ and this very fact means our opposition would hate to be the team to lose to such a club so getting an upset in these times is now even harder. Essendon are still coping crap for dropping the game to us. Heppell said this week that the loss to Carlton forced them to review every aspect of their football department. That's what losing to Carlton these days does.
Our bottom six we have been forced to field are 'barely' VFL standard and cannot provide any impact at AFL level. Asking the remaining players to carry 1/3 of the team makes winning near impossible....till we have the cattle to field a full team of AFL ready players a close loss is all we can hope for.
IMO our next win wont be till next season which means we will likely to finish the year as 2 wins from the last 33 matches. And the donkeys running this organisation come out and publicly say we don't need a priority pick.
Insane.
Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - cookie2 - 07-08-2018
(07-08-2018, 11:58 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Get on us this week Cookie and save a glass of that red to toast the lads at the end of the game.....went to a little winery called Hanrahans in the Yarra Valley where they do a nice Shiraz, going to have one ready to go when I return home victorious on Friday...well thats the plan anyway...:-X
Well we can hope EB. Personally I'm not optimistic but I will certainly enjoy the wine come what may.
Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - Shakin77 - 07-08-2018
(07-08-2018, 02:57 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Can't. We've signed them all up already.
Surely we have heaps that we can delist
Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - LP - 07-09-2018
(07-08-2018, 11:15 PM)Shakin77 link Wrote:Surely we have heaps that we can delist
If we are to catch up, it appears we should have done the deal with players from other clubs months ago!
Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - kruddler - 07-09-2018
(07-08-2018, 11:03 AM)LP link Wrote:Like Gowers or Holman?
...and the other 30 that have gone in the same time??
We've picked up other clubs delistees over the same period too.
FWIW, i'd take Wright over those 2 any day of the week.
Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - ElwoodBlues1 - 07-09-2018
(07-09-2018, 01:00 AM)kruddler link Wrote:...and the other 30 that have gone in the same time??
We've picked up other clubs delistees over the same period too.
FWIW, i'd take Wright over those 2 any day of the week.
At the time we got Wright I'd agree but not now...Wrights form has slipped and Gowers is young, strong and on the up, need to see more of Holman...
Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - kruddler - 07-09-2018
(07-08-2018, 11:15 PM)Shakin77 link Wrote:Surely we have heaps that we can delistDefine 'heaps'.
Given we are wanting to ADD senior players to our list, delisting senior players for senior players is probably not going to solve a lot. Not too many kids are available to be delisted.
FWIW here are the players we know our out of contract this year.
[glow=maroon,2,300]6 Kade Simpson 2018[/glow] - Keep if he is willing.
[glow=maroon,2,300]39 Dale Thomas 2018[/glow] - Keep if he is willing.
[glow=maroon,2,300]17 Sam Rowe 2018[/glow] - Keep
[glow=maroon,2,300]33 Jarrod Pickett 2018[/glow] - Keep
[glow=maroon,2,300]36 Pat Kerr 2018[/glow] - Keep
[glow=maroon,2,300]46 Matthew Wright 2018[/glow] - I'd probably keep
[glow=maroon,2,300]11 Sam Kerridge 2018[/glow] - Would any replacement on him be an upgrade? 50-50 i think
[glow=maroon,2,300]13 Jed Lamb 2018[/glow] - Given the above, probably gone
[glow=maroon,2,300]32 Nick Graham 2018[/glow] - Lucky to have got this year, hasn't improved, gone.
The following players i cannot get a definitive contractual status on. May be contracted, may not. :-\
7 Matthew Kennedy - Keep
16 Darcy Lang - Keep, at least give him a pre-season to see what he can do.
18 Aaron Mullett - Delist
24 Cam O'Shea - Delist
27 Matthew Lobbe - Delist
and all 5 rookies can go IMO.
So not including rookies, i think we could MAYBE get 6 out. I'm tipping we will get at least 1 or 2 via trade (free agency/delisted free agent) which means we might have 4 picks.
If we trade pick 1 for 2 picks (or 1 pick and a player) we'll end up with less picks.
Currently we have pick 1, 23 and 26 (68, 73)
How many do you think we would/should ditch? Thoughts on my delisted list?
Re: 2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda - kruddler - 07-09-2018
(07-09-2018, 01:05 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:At the time we got Wright I'd agree but not now...Wrights form has slipped and Gowers is young, strong and on the up, need to see more of Holman...
Wright has won a leading goalkicker award at the club. Granted, not much to beat, but what have the others done of any significance?