03-22-2018, 01:20 AM
(03-21-2018, 10:35 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:The team for Rd 1, 2017:
CARLTON
B Lachie Plowman, Jacob Weitering, Kade Simpson
HB Harrison Macreadie, Sam Rowe, Caleb Marchbank
C Sam Docherty, Bryce Gibbs, Jarrod Pickett
HF Dennis Armfield, Levi Casboult, Matthew Wright
F Ed Curnow, Jack Silvagni, Dale Thomas
FOL Matthew Kreuzer, Patrick Cripps, Marc Murphy
I/C Sam Petrevski-Seton, Billie Smedts, Charlie Curnow, Simon White
To me, the team for tonight is better.
No army, Smedts or White, no Pickett (who this time last year was pretty unfit) and the young blokes eg SPS, Charlie, Weiters are all that extra year more experienced, fitter etc.
Moreover Kennedy, Garlett, Mullett are all experienced at senior AFL level. Indeed Mullett has played a finals match.
Thomas too, looks in good nick and in form.
Our backline looks formidable, our midfield deeper and better balanced.
The Tigers will be short favourites - and rightly so.
Doesn't mean they'll win though.
No Gibbs, Docherty and Rowe either FB.
However, I do think that it is a more evenly balanced team with our lesser players a step up from last season’s opening round 22. The addition of Liam Jones is a huge positive - and I never thought that I would say anything like that about him!
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball