Pre-Game Possibilities: AFL Rd 4: Carlton vs Gold Coast

[Thryleon]

I'm not sure about that, to be a premium player I would think the starting point is reliability and he is at best unreliable, even ignoring his poor ball use and decision making.

  Marchbank is a potential game winner.  He was very good against the Tigers in round 1 last season.  Hence his premium status.  The fact that we play him underdone (every single time he has returned from injury thus far) is the only reason he is unreliable because he gets hurt again.

Really, at the weekend, I thought we actually lost something by having Marchbank play the intercept and ball distributer roll instead of Weitering. In terms of distributing the footy Weitering is so far ahead of Marchbank it's not even worth discussing! So I would have flipped those roles and have Marchbank being the 3rd man up to hopefully feed Weitering with distribution opportunities.

It was just another rob Peter to pay Paul scenario, like rucking McKay!

Marchbank shouldnt have played EOS on saturday.  We dropped a player learning the caper but was otherwise fit in Garlett, only to play a bloke returning from injury.  This is the same old, same old for us, we do it every single time in an effort to ensure injured players stay injured (see Mitch McGovern and his "hamstring" injuries which will be linked to his pre season back injury).

Leave your ruck complaints out of it.  We have no fit ruckmen.  EOS.