Rnd 1 Carlton vs Richmond - Pre-Game

[kruddler]

Here is a question for you: how many new recruits will line up for us in Round #1?
Docherty and Gibbs are certain outs from our team last year. We also blooded a number of kids. Armfield played at the end of the season: he is also a certain non starter. That leaves 3 spots before we think about anything as crass as form.

You can go the other way and say we will get Curnow, Cripps and whoever else back from injury too.

It's simply too early to tell and we recruited a lot of mature age players to the club. The likes of Kennedy, Lang, Garlett, Mullett, Shaw, Lobbe and O'Shea would all be AFL ready in terms of body size/shape....but are they good enough to get a game?

Alternatively, some of the new draftees, Dow, O'Brien etc are probably good enough, but do they have the body size/shape to play?

What you'd be best doing is trying to rule players out of the team and see whats left.
Schumacher, De Koning, Polson...