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(05-03-2016, 07:11 AM)cimm1979 link Wrote:So why didn't JGM, Smith or SOS play?
Cuninghams hip flexor reported this week but he missed last week. No mention in the NBs Thursday selection.
You get half a story.
The injury list is never up to date.
The weekly selections should list who's in and who's out and why. They wait till the week following to say why a guy didn't play this includes the NBs.
Also.
Is Jamison available for selection after a concussion .
What's Billy Gowers mystery problem
Is Sheehan available this week.
We also had a guy called Whiley , remember him.?
Just really poor dissemination of information .
Agree Cimm, its been the MO for years now. It may well be a tactic (not sure what purpose it would serve), but its as frustrating as hell. The only common denominator over all these years is Andy McKay.
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(05-03-2016, 08:32 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Agree Cimm, its been the MO for years now. It may well be a tactic (not sure what purpose it would serve), but its as frustrating as hell. The only common denominator over all these years is Andy McKay.
Yeah , well I get the impression Macca wouldn't tell us anything if it was up to him.
I almost don't care if they just put "soreness" or "management" for guys who don't get selected but there should be some acknowledgement that the guy isn't playing for a reason. If they don't want to tell us what it is or they don't know, I'm fine with that.
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Tom Langdon for the Pies ruled out.
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(05-03-2016, 10:02 AM)cimm1979 link Wrote:Yeah , well I get the impression Macca wouldn't tell us anything if it was up to him.
I almost don't care if they just put "soreness" or "management" for guys who don't get selected but there should be some acknowledgement that the guy isn't playing for a reason. If they don't want to tell us what it is or they don't know, I'm fine with that.
I reckon the injury updates are pretty comprehensive.
The timing is an issue as injuries may not detected/identified until Wednesday or Thursday. That makes it after the fact and McKay is often explaining why players were unavailable rather than who is going to be unavailable. However, McKay was on the front foot with both Weitering's injury and Curnow's glandular fever.
I don't think it's McKay's role to explain what's going on with the Northern Blues but it would be good if their website was a little more informative.
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Members are like shareholders...entitled to information about how their company is performing. IMO the club are duty bound to tell members about how their investment ie how players are travelling with injuries etc and they should not receive the same non answers the normal public or media get..
AS DJ said Mckay was forthcoming with info on Weitering and Curnow and he should be the same with any Carlton listed player..
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Dare I say this but for the first time in years, I don't find myself saying:
"We've won two in a row by some miracle, we are no chance this week to make it three"
or
"We're due for a loss"
or
"We haven't beaten the Filth in years"
Instead, my optimism grows every week with the confidence that sufficient planning and strategy will occur and give us every chance to win the game. Yes, there will be bumbs and there may be one this week. I would like our injury list to be a little shorter but it is what it is. I just feel different approaching games now.
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In addition to Langdon as previously mentioned, other possible outs for the Pies are Travis Varcoe, Taylor Adams and Ben Sinclair. If these outs eventuate, this, combined with the fact that the Pies aren't traveling well at the moment, should give us a good chance of three wins in a row.
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(05-03-2016, 11:10 PM)PaulP link Wrote:In addition to Langdon as previously mentioned, other possible outs for the Pies are Travis Varcoe, Taylor Adams and Ben Sinclair. If these outs eventuate, this, combined with the fact that the Pies aren't traveling well at the moment, should give us a good chance of three wins in a row.
Mate, I'm seriously thinking of tipping us this week.
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I do give us a sneaky chance, but we might need to kick more than 10 goals this week... we have actually kicked the exact same score in the past two weeks (10.12.72)!
I'm hoping our confidence is up and we can play similar to how we did in the Richmond game.
