2017 Rd 9; Pre Game Preparations: Carlton vs Fremantle

[LP]

Cunningham was weak today. White is way ahead of him at the moment.

Cunners has showed enough to get another 1 year contract though.

On today's game Buckley or Boehorst would have been a better choice, quite a few were surprised to see Cunningham get the nod ahead of some others and we saw why!

[ElwoodBlues1]

On today's game Buckley or Boehorst would have been a better choice, quite a few were surprised to see Cunningham get the nod ahead of some others and we saw why!

Would have gone Palmer vs his old team today.....Boekhorst in the dry doesnt enthuse me much but Boekhorst in the wet is even less convincing...Buckley's lack of tackling ability
wasnt missed today..

[LP]

...Buckley's lack of tackling ability wasnt missed today..

Not sure it would have made much difference, a 3rd of our list failed to lay more than one tackle which is a clear wtf? moment!

Buckley is quite a good wet weather footballer, does the wet weather basics well. Whether that would translate to AFL sized opponents I'm not sure, but he's played some good wet weather games in the past.

I must say I'm not a big Boekhorst fan, but he has been good in the VFL and based on VFL form he clearly deserved a run ahead of Cunningham who by comparison hasn't been much chop at VFL level for a couple of weeks now. It's like we waited until Cunningham's form ran out them promoted him, and we may well be about to do the same with Jones who hobbled off injured at the weekend!

Anyway, it looks like they are all going to have to come into the 1s together now, and when they fail as a group because they don't gel I'm sure supporters will hang them and completely ignore the lack of sensible selections in recent weeks!

It would be a very different scenario going into the bye if we had been rotating blokes out who were clearly sore, we would be in a much better place for the remainder of 2017. Maybe we don't want to be? :o