Round #4 Carlton vs St. Kilda in NZ: Pre Game prognostications

[cimm1979]

Footy NZ must be in a state of breathless anticipation with the thought of these two footballing juggernauts coming to town.

[cookie2]

Footy NZ must be in a state of breathless anticipation with the thought of these two footballing juggernauts coming to town.

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The two ragged asses of the league banished to the outer reaches of the AFL empire.

[crashlander]

Bit of a danger game  ;D. That's funny.

Putting all the spin aside we lose again next week we are not a bottom 4 team but a bottom 2 team. End of story.

Enough of the excuses - 3 weeks ago the majority of us on here thought we would be a mid table team at worse.

Now we are finding reasons why we might lose to the clear favorite to win the spoon this year  :-\

Look what we have become.

You do have a point, Shawny. I know I thought we were a reasonable chance to be nearer the Eight. But at the moment I fear any team. Even now that we are 'favourites'.
I can only hope that the occasion will bring out our best, instead of our worst.

[laj]

Yarran and Gibbs will miss a trip across the ditch due to suspension. We don't need to play all of Ellard, Carrazzo, Curnow etc...so we keep Carrazzo. We bring in outside speed, Buckley, Beokhurst as we lack run big time. Hopefully Menzel is fit. If he fit I'd play Menzel, Walker and Cripps, who has marking forward written all over him despite being a mid, all up forward with Hendo, showed some form yesterday, and Casboult, our 2nd ruck. Surely adds something to the forward line. Jones out, prefer the other guys forward, Whiley in doing Cripps' job. Jaksch back in to shore up the defence.

Reckon we have so decent players but we're playing the wrong one's with the wrong structure. If we're going to rebuild do the bloody job properly.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Yarran and Gibbs will miss a trip across the ditch due to suspension. We don't need to play all of Ellard, Carrazzo, Curnow etc...so we keep Carrazzo. We bring in outside speed, Buckley, Beokhurst as we lack run big time. Hopefully Menzel is fit. If he fit I'd play Menzel, Walker and Cripps, who has marking forward written all over him despite being a mid, all up forward with Hendo, showed some form yesterday, and Casboult, our 2nd ruck. Surely adds something to the forward line. Jones out, prefer the other guys forward, Whiley in doing Cripps' job. Jaksch back in to shore up the defence.

Reckon we have so decent players but we're playing the wrong one's with the wrong structure. If we're going to rebuild do the bloody job properly.

I would leave Cripps in the middle were he is doing well extracting the footy...he also isnt a great converter at this stage of his career and his kicking needs work.
Look I know people want to drop Jones and I understand why but this week in the one where he will get a undersized opponent given the Saints really only have two tall defenders
in Delaney and Fisher unless they play Bruce back. I think he can beat up on the likes of Roberton or Shenton etc if we can get the ball to him and this could be his week....

[laj]

I would leave Cripps in the middle were he is doing well extracting the footy...he also isnt a great converter at this stage of his career and his kicking needs work.
Look I know people want to drop Jones and I understand why but this week in the one where he will get a undersized opponent given the Saints really only have two tall defenders
in Delaney and Fisher unless they play Bruce back. I think he can beat up on the likes of Roberton or Shenton etc if we can get the ball to him and this could be his week....

Not too sure of Cripps' conversion as he had his first shot for goal for the club yesterday. Not sure what it was like at the NBs though. I just feel he's a big boy (not feel in literal terms..haha), takes a great pack mark so from what I saw in the NBs, if a similar player like Whiley comes in, Cripps can be  good forward target. That's what I think anyway looking into the future. 

I'd like a couple of running, 3rd tall types on the forward, Walker and Cripps, with Hendo and Casboult. Casboult already has a huge job having to play two roles so a bit of help there would be good for him. Add Menzel there and we're just short of a small forward. comes down then to how the ball is brought in otherwise it doesn't matter how good a forward line in.

[LP]

I would leave Cripps in the middle were he is doing well extracting the footy...he also isnt a great converter at this stage of his career and his kicking needs work.
Look I know people want to drop Jones and I understand why but this week in the one where he will get a undersized opponent given the Saints really only have two tall defenders
in Delaney and Fisher unless they play Bruce back. I think he can beat up on the likes of Roberton or Shenton etc if we can get the ball to him and this could be his week....

Agreed, Cripps can stay there now, it's over for the other options he is a class above them.

Agreed, Jones would have benefited greatly from having Menzel in the F50 as well. If we can't put The Aints to the sword with our mix of Mids and marking options we have a big problem.

If Jaksch is fit does he return, I think so he is mobile enough to get Yarran's normal opponent and leave 1AW running off HBF!

[cookie2]

I agree that Cripps should be left where he is as he looks pretty good in the role and will only get better. Be interesting to see who else comes in and Whiley definitely looks like an option in the light of his NB performance. Let's hope he has ticked all the required boxes. Don't think we'll see Boekhorst or Buckley if MM's comments are anything to go by - rated both as not yet ready.

Hopefully Jaksch is OK to go, we need to keep playing him as much as possible IMO. I would like to see Byrne get a full game if he's fit enough.

I don't think there'll be too many unforced changes tbh.

[Sexybronco]

I agree that Cripps should be left where he is as he looks pretty good in the role and will only get better. Be interesting to see who else comes in and Whiley definitely looks like an option in the light of his NB performance. Let's hope he has ticked all the required boxes. Don't think we'll see Boekhorst or Buckley if MM's comments are anything to go by - rated both as not yet ready.

Hopefully Jaksch is OK to go, we need to keep playing him as much as possible IMO. I would like to see Byrne get a full game if he's fit enough.

I don't think there'll be too many unforced changes tbh.

Don't think we'll see Jacksch in NZ as flying is not great fro recovering froma punctured lung, expect to see him back against the Pies. Whiley is a certainty, the other ins an=re not so clear.

[LP]

Don't think we'll see Jacksch in NZ as flying is not great fro recovering froma punctured lung, expect to see him back against the Pies. Whiley is a certainty, the other ins an=re not so clear.

Some reports suggested Jaksch was close to playing yesterday, it must be pretty minor!