Pre-Game Potential: AFL 2019 Rd 8: Carlton vs. Collingwood

[PaulP]

Maybe managing him, they might bring Sier in, few clubs sniffing around him and might want to keep him happy and give
him a game.

Yes, possibly.

[WASurfer]

I too like Dow's dare and on a number of occasions he's grabbed it out of the middle, burnt off an opponent, had a bounce....and then put it out of bounds or through for a point or over the head of a bloke on the lead. You'd like to think that if kicking is one of his poor areas then at training he's doing specialist work on that particular element of his game? It gets increasingly frustrating for supporters like us to see it continually turned over because of poor skills. I accept it that they're young blokes who take time to develop and probably sounding like a broken record but we have so few blokes on our list that are elite with the ball by foot. Do we not draft any or do we focus so much on other parts of the game that a basic element like kicking goes out the window? If we haven't got any elite ball users then maybe go after a few in the trade period this year. Someone suggested Tomlinson recently and I think the club was into him a few years back but we went for Marchbank. Tomlinson is good by foot, either side of his body and a good size too. Williamson is one who can kick it so hopefully he can get some games under his belt in coming weeks and we can use that strength in his game.

[LP]

Someone suggested Tomlinson recently and I think the club was into him a few years back but we went for Marchbank.

We didn't choose Marchbank over Tomlinson, Tomlinson agreed to terms and stayed put!

[Thryleon]

We tried to get Tomlinson a year earlier, but couldnt get the deal done on the final day of trading because we were busy eyeing off another acquisition from memory.

[LP]

We tried to get Tomlinson a year earlier, but couldnt get the deal done on the final day of trading because we were busy eyeing off another acquisition from memory.

Tomlinson or his manager announced his intention to stay at GWS days before trading closed, the rest is just press speculation based around the delayed timing of contracts being signed.

As Carlton fans we a predisposed to believe we were still in with a chance, we want to believe it to be true.

[WASurfer]

It would be just nice to hit the jackpot with ONE of the blokes we've acquired from GWS.

[townsendcalling]

Reid will probably get Goddard and Mihocek might get Weitering or Marchbank...the brains trust might be tempted to start Weitering on DeGoey if he is just playing from the square.

Watch where McGovern lines up, we might be surprised.

[Hubba]

It would be just nice to hit the jackpot with ONE of the blokes we've acquired from GWS.

Id like to think Setterfield is the Jackpot.

[PaulP]

Id like to think Setterfield is the Jackpot.

Not sure about jackpot, but I feel all of them (Setters, Marchbank, Plowman and Kennedy) can become good players for us. Some just need luck with injuries, game time and selection, and someone like Plowman I think is suffering as a result of Docherty's absence. He finished 7th in the 2017 B+F, the last season Doc played.

[Thryleon]

Tomlinson or his manager announced his intention to stay at GWS days before trading closed, the rest is just press speculation based around the delayed timing of contracts being signed.

As Carlton fans we a predisposed to believe we were still in with a chance, we want to believe it to be true.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2017/10/15/t...e-mcclure/

It was the 2016 draft period, we did most of our trading with gws just before the deadline.