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(03-20-2017, 09:08 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Rance would be happy to let our forwards get the ball outside 50.
He'll just sag off and wait for them to come back in and pick them up on the way through. And when he does that, our other fwds need to work their defenders over to create opportunities, to where Rance aint, inside 50. He'll only do it once or twice before he has to pay more respect to his opponent.
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03-20-2017, 09:40 AM
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Quote:Former GWS players Caleb Marchbank, Jarrod Pickett and Rhys Palmer will all play barring any training mishaps, while former Cat Billie Smedts has cemented his spot in Carlton's best 22.
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New draftees Cameron Polson and Zac Fisher remain in contention, but they are considered less likely to debut.
While the Blues would like to settle Weitering in defence, where they see him playing the majority of his career, they are also aware of their inability to score freely.
The Blues are likely to start with Levi Casboult, whose struggles in front of goal have been well-documented, up forward along with second-year players Charlie Curnow and Jack Silvagni.
If that combination isn't potent enough, Bolton would like to be able to throw Weitering into attack as he did at times in 2016.
I'm not so sure Smedts is cemented, nor Palmer, but I'm certain Marchbank and Pickett will get a run.
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Rance is one of the most over rated defenders in the league when he has to defend, if we had a second marking target we could expose him, but we haven't so he'll get away with sagging off and essentially playing as a loose man. His man must make him accountable.
We are already being talked about as the "bye", I hope we really attack the ball and man manically and really put the wind up them. If we get a few goals up I reckon we'll break them because they don't come across as a mentally tough outfit.
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(03-20-2017, 09:40 AM)LP link Wrote:I'm not so sure Smedts is cemented, nor Palmer, but I'm certain Marchbank and Pickett will mget a run. HS has a story on BB who was on RSN. He said it would be a young side with Marchy and Pickett likely. Cripps is a definite starter.
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The media are akin to Lemmings, one shares a view (Lloyd in this case) and the others pile in. I see King has tonight shared his fears for our list rebuild and the reliance on players from other clubs. The lack of critical analysis is stark. Seriously this is what they come up with after five months off?
Should have traded Gibbs, for a 1st and 2nd rounder he said..... Just needed someone to offer that Kingy!
None bar Pickett of the incoming players look like making 100 games... none of them have played a single AFL game for Carlton....
Besides, he was wearing a terrible F*^@ing shirt.
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(03-20-2017, 10:02 AM)blueday link Wrote:The media are akin to Lemmings, one shares a view (Lloyd in this case) and the others pile in. I see King has tonight shared his fears for our list rebuild and the reliance on players from other clubs. The lack of critical analysis is stark. Seriously this is what they come up with after five months off?
Should have traded Gibbs, for a 1st and 2nd rounder he said..... Just needed someone to offer that Kingy!
None bar Pickett of the incoming players look like making 100 games... none of them have played a single AFL game for Carlton....
Besides, he was wearing a terrible F*^@ing shirt.
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When you trade players in, it seems that they always come from other clubs : 
I reckon that we have achieved a good balance of new players through favourable trades and what seems to be excellent use of our draft picks, not to mention maximising our involvement in the draft. The problem is that ex-footballers who set themselves up as experts rarely put in the work to ensure that their conclusions are based on sound analysis. As soon as King's and Lloyd's (and others) pronouncements are shown to be wrong, they'll write another article extolling SOS's genius as a list manager > 
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Marchbank will play 200 games and be AA at some point.
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(03-20-2017, 10:02 AM)blueday link Wrote:The media are akin to Lemmings, one shares a view (Lloyd in this case) and the others pile in. I see King has tonight shared his fears for our list rebuild and the reliance on players from other clubs. The lack of critical analysis is stark. Seriously this is what they come up with after five months off?
Should have traded Gibbs, for a 1st and 2nd rounder he said..... Just needed someone to offer that Kingy!
None bar Pickett of the incoming players look like making 100 games... none of them have played a single AFL game for Carlton....
Besides, he was wearing a terrible F*^@ing shirt.
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Yeah was typical BS from king
What I laughed about was he was very concerned with the recruiting of ex GWS playes saying its a massive risk as these players couldn't make it at GWS. Then as you mentioned above his comment that only maybe Pickett looked like we might have found a player yet wrote off every other trade we made this year.
THEN 15 mins later him and piggy were saying how amazing saints recruiters have been getting in top quality ex players that have all filled a void.
On the list was Nathan brown and Jake Carlisle.
F***heads they haven't even played a single game and your praising them for getting it right! :o
Yet they did the complete opposite with us.
Such poor bias reporting.......again. Yet you watch how they quickly change their tune if we string a few wins together.
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03-20-2017, 11:01 AM
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Listen, I know I bang on about this, but I do so because it's accurate.
In the media at the moment are a bunch of 40 or 50 something media types who genuinely believe their careers were partially cruelled by Carlton's salary cap violations. But reality is, they or their club was no fecking good anyway!
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Nafun Brown is only a game or two away from a significant injury. Relying on him is a high risk exercise, to put it mildly.
BTW, aren't Steele and Bruce ex-GWS... short memory Kingy!
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