JLT Game 2

[Amers]

Plenty of opportunities for some 'green shoots' to sprout in this game. I look forward to seeing which of our young guys take their opportunity!!

[flyboy77]

Plenty of opportunities for some 'green shoots' to sprout in this game. I look forward to seeing which of our young guys take their opportunity!!

Exactly. Well put.

[Gointocarlton]

I'm keen to see how Polson goes. Macreadie and Williamson (could be a real smockie this one) too.

[Thryleon]

Plenty of opportunities for some 'green shoots' to sprout in this game. I look forward to seeing which of our young guys take their opportunity!!

If they don't sprout overnight that doesn't mean they are worm food and need to be turned back into the soil straight away.

Sometimes, they need time to sprout and its best we understand that this season, because it will be how things will go for our footy club this season.

[cookie2]

Well let's just hope we see a big lift in our level of intensity this week. Hopefully Cripps will inspire this and we can avoid a repeat of last week's disappointing effort.

[Gointocarlton]

I see Hamill is coaching the Aints tomorrow.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Well let's just hope we see a big lift in our level of intensity this week. Hopefully Cripps will inspire this and we can avoid a repeat of last week's disappointing effort.

Reading Ed Curnows comments today just reaffirmed my belief we are overly dependent on Cripps and if doesnt play then we are in real trouble given we lack big bodied mids with intensity...
The lack of another bigger mid will cost us down the track either when Cripps tires or even worse gets injured.....reckon we were crazy to ignore a player like Barlow who had the lazy 31 possies
for GC in their JLT game....

[DJC]

Reading Ed Curnows comments today just reaffirmed my belief we are overly dependent on Cripps and if doesnt play then we are in real trouble given we lack big bodied mids with intensity...
The lack of another bigger mid will cost us down the track either when Cripps tires or even worse gets injured.....reckon we were crazy to ignore a player like Barlow who had the lazy 31 possies for GC in their JLT game....

I'd much rather see Charlie Curnow, SOJ and others spending time in the midfield (as they did against Melbourne) than give games to Barlow in his retirement year.

My take on Ed's interview is that we have loaded up on blokes who can kick goals and Korcheck may knock a few Saints over on Saturday

[BlueAvenger]

Yes, we're playing the Saints at IP this Saturday.

It might be lambs to the slaughter, but this is exactly what we need.

No more hiding Nick Graham, Dylan Buckley, Blaine Boekhorst, Jed Lamb, Liam Jones, Billie Smedts, Sam Kerridge, Liam Sumner, Kristian Jaksch, Simon White, et al. Let's see if you blokes have even slightly what it takes to be a top consistent AFL-worth footballer that we can rely on and be an AFL Carlton man in our best 22. The heat is on, as the past legend Glenn Frey would say!

Time to be men, and stand up, not behind Judd (in the past), Cripps, Gibbs, Murphy, Simpson, Docherty, etc.

We'll get thumped, BUT, let's see who exactly does stand up.

We'll see some lads exposed on Saturday. And, we might see some become AFL footballers. It just might be the making of some. It's what we need IMHO!

100% agree. Good post

[cookie2]

Reading Ed Curnows comments today just reaffirmed my belief we are overly dependent on Cripps and if doesnt play then we are in real trouble given we lack big bodied mids with intensity...
The lack of another bigger mid will cost us down the track either when Cripps tires or even worse gets injured.....reckon we were crazy to ignore a player like Barlow who had the lazy 31 possies
for GC in their JLT game....

Yep, it's starting to look that way EB. Today's game should be interesting against tough opposition.