AFL Rd 11 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney

[Lods]

Given the club website article you might find Akuei getting a run, usually these things follow a pattern.

The last game I saw him play was chalk and cheese to previous efforts.
He showed a lot more confidence.
But Gee, he's still a mile off it.
I'm not sure of his contract status (cat B rookie) but hopefully we can keep him for another year of development.
The article suggests we might.

[Gointocarlton]

Given the club website article you might find Akuei getting a run, usually these things follow a pattern.

Youth, exuberance, rawness, might be a good injection to our group to create some excitement. Take the reigns off him, no hard tasks, just say to him chase it and go, do whatever comes into your head.
You need abit of the unstructured madness sometimes.

[Professer E]

I'd drop Hewitt and Ed for Dow to answer your question.

[LP]

I'm not sure of his contract status (cat B rookie) but hopefully we can keep him for another year of development.

The Mid-Season Draft is coming.

[RiverRat]

Unless he can get the unforced errors out of his game, playing him as an intercept defender might not do wonders for his development. We have difficulty working the ball out of forward presses as it is. We don’t want to be handing the ball back or resorting to less challenging sideways or backward kicks. Once we’re out of finals contention, by all means play the kids.

If he plays and shows he can distribute well by foot after intercepting, then I’ll jump on the bandwagon quite happily.

Weitering is our best intercept defender but he is also our best defender against the opposition's best tall forward - I would like to see him used as an intercept defender.

[LP]

Weitering is our best intercept defender but he is also our best defender against the opposition's best tall forward - I would like to see him used as an intercept defender.

Agree, he's wasted as a FB, and he slowly losing all the kicking skills he already had when he arrived at Carlton, it's such a waste!

It's like we expect the backline to continually patch up the concessions we make in transition and across the midfield, we expect our Mids and HFs not to chase and catch, so we expect backline to work miracles!

I'd just concede goals if it makes it to fullback, and I'd put all my resources into stopping it from getting there in the first place! This also reduces the amount of transition running Mids and HFs have to do, leaving them to work harder in shorter bursts!

I remember when the Handbaggers were flying with Harry Taylor at FB, he spent half his game well forward of centre stopping the opposition run before it even got started and having the odd shot at goal, the Handbaggers at that time with the likes of Ling and Hunt were not overly quick. That to me is how we should use Weitering, in duo with McGovern, between them they should be capable of an intercept zone the full width of the playing surface! But to work, you must have HFs and SFs, that apply defensive pressure, SoJ, Motlop, Durdin, Owies, do they have it, to me the most likely to make a run down tackle is BigH?

If Young wants to be a rucking free defender, then with his size tell him to go be a FB.

[ElwoodBlues1]

The Mid-Season Draft is coming.

The Bulldogs must have something we want in their VFL team....

[LordLucifer]

Must admit that the prospect of Dow being selected does not fill me with great anticipation.  I can't remember the last time he impressed in the seniors.  I haven't seen him in the VFL but reports certainly aren't encouraging.

I am sure a lot of people are not filled with great anticipation about Dow but if he keeps picking up 40 touches in the magoos and doesn't get selected then it makes a complete mockery of the actual selection process.

We have guys in the seniors who are coasting with low tackle counts & low disposal numbers who keep being gifted games. You can't tell me there isn't a correlation between the selection policy & the onfield results !!!

[LordLucifer]

Says the person who has been breaking down our list to the cm for years proclaiming we need taller players ad nauseum.

Completely miss the point there Kruds ........  :o

[LP]

I am sure a lot of people are not filled with great anticipation about Dow but if he keeps picking up 40 touches in the magoos and doesn't get selected then it makes a complete mockery of the actual selection process.

Wouldn't be the first to suffer that fate at Carlton, McLean did even better. Despite multiple chances to pick him up we lost Kane Lambert for similar reasons.

Dow won't be the last!

PS; We have a long long history of taking highly in form VFL players and running them into the ground in VFL until they are on a form slide, at which time we give them an AFL gig so we can justify our earlier ignoring of them!