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Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - spf - 06-10-2024
We need to stop wasting list spots on 'developing ruckman', and go and recruit them when we need them. Scour the national leagues, find the best available we think can offer a bit (play back, forward and Ruck), then recruit them in to try to force out Pittonet. If they can't then we either delist and go again, or if they show they are capable, then they stay as the understudy.
Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - kruddler - 06-10-2024
This game showed that Mirkov and Akuei have had 4+ years of developing and have developed into average VFL footballers at best.
Time to move both on and find someone who may actually play a game of AFL footy one day.
Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - Gointocarlton - 06-10-2024
(06-09-2024, 11:23 PM)Baggers link Wrote:I suspect, as Curley's boy mentioned, that we recruited Cooper with a more long-term view. So the high-performance team probably want to put a block of training into him before giving him a gig in the Magoos.I thought the mid season draft is about picking players up for the now and given our injury list, we could have did a lot better than a boy who is tired. Thats a fail for mine, especially if we get another injury or two.
Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - ElwoodBlues1 - 06-10-2024
(06-10-2024, 06:39 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:I thought the mid season draft is about picking players up for the now and given our injury list, we could have did a lot better than a boy who is tired. Thats a fail for mine, especially if we get another injury or two.Mick Agresta said we were picking with the future in mind. Lord was close but overlooked in the draft and obviously a player we had on our list of potential draftees..
Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - kruddler - 06-10-2024
(06-10-2024, 07:18 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Mick Agresta said we were picking with the future in mind. Lord was close but overlooked in the draft and obviously a player we had on our list of potential draftees..
Which is smart recruiting.......until you see the position he plays and that its not a position of need at all.
With our draft capital in this years draft largely going to be taken up by the campo twins, it makes you wonder when we will get some kind of tall timber onto the list. Only been asking for it for about over half a decade now...
Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - Thryleon - 06-10-2024
(06-10-2024, 09:36 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Which is smart recruiting.......until you see the position he plays and that its not a position of need at all.So long as we get some talls in the next couple of seasons the timing should be fine.
With our draft capital in this years draft largely going to be taken up by the campo twins, it makes you wonder when we will get some kind of tall timber onto the list. Only been asking for it for about over half a decade now...
The bulldogs have a bit of an embarrassment of riches down forward and whilst I can fathom more talls equals better trade deals the ability to keep them all happy and playing can be a problem.
Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - DJC - 06-10-2024
(06-10-2024, 06:39 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:I thought the mid season draft is about picking players up for the now and given our injury list, we could have did a lot better than a boy who is tired. Thats a fail for mine, especially if we get another injury or two.
No, Agresta made it very clear that our MSD pick would be a long term prospect.
It’s interesting that Lord was ‘sore’ after one week of AFL level training, particularly since we wouldn’t be working our butts off at this stage of the season.
Learnings from that: Our AFL-listed players should dominate when they play VFL.
Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - DJC - 06-10-2024
(06-10-2024, 10:11 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:So long as we get some talls in the next couple of seasons the timing should be fine.
The bulldogs have a bit of an embarrassment of riches down forward and whilst I can fathom more talls equals better trade deals the ability to keep them all happy and playing can be a problem.
If you do a comparison, we have slightly more talls than some teams and slightly less than some other teams. Where we are in better shape than many is that we have injury cover talls and developing talls and no real angst from talls who think they should be getting games.
We should definitely be looking to refresh our talls at the end of the season given that Mirkov and Akuei probably won’t work out. Of course, we will get Silvagni back and Duffy should take up his rookie spot but another developing tall and a mature injury cover tall would be good.
Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - laj - 06-10-2024
(06-09-2024, 07:46 AM)Professer E link Wrote:Reminds me of Robbie Warnock.Warnock generally played his best footy in September. He was lucky enough to play when we were playing finals in our 20 years of dark days.
Re: VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon - LP - 06-10-2024
Mirkov is miles off, he's not even in the debate at this stage, if Pitto isn't an AFL in after the bye, Mirkov might not even be playing VFL!