2018 Rd 11: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs Sydney

[ElwoodBlues1]

Nic Newman is a player I would like to take off the Swans......great left foot kick, ex Frankston, been burning in the NEAFL but the Swans dont make many changes
down back...

[Jack Burton]

Do we really need more half back flankers?

[dodge]

Liked BBs interview today - it was good to see the acknowledgement of some things and elaborating/different slant on a couple of others:
- all kids will need a spell in the 2s at some stage - it is just part of their development
- the kids are playing more games in the 1s than they would at a stronger club due to necessity
- media brought up the priority pick - not in our thinking at this stage
- Jack will spend time in the midfield (but not much)
- Q re: Weitering basically told the journo to look at last weeks game, because he was OK
- was happy with the back 6 last week

Having said that, i don't expect us to get too close tomorrow night even with the rain.

[flyboy77]

Rain, rain, rain in Sydney tomorrow!!

Not really.

Sydney area
Partly cloudy. Slight (30%) chance of a shower. Winds southwesterly 25 to 40 km/h increasing to 30 to 45 km/h in the morning.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Do we really need more half back flankers?

We need good footballers especially ones who kick the ball well and are composed... some of our half backs are either injury prone or not good enough.
I'd rather Newman over Mullet, OShea and Byrne....Daisy and Simpson will both retire, Shaw wont be at the club and Williamson appears to have serious back issues.....

[Thryleon]

Was a speculative pick at best, lazy and chooses when to put in. Fark him off at years end IMO, no more hanging onto crap trucks. Lang in the same boat, if they don't show something straight up, show em the door.

I said Lang wasn't going to be at his best this season because of the ankle injury and I reckon its showing.

Garlett is a quandry.  He looked better early on.  Hes a draftee so its an automatic 2 years, and I think hes shown enough attributes to make it.  Don't forget that he basically had a year off last season because of the mental health aspect.  Its hard work playing for Carlton at the moment, and Garlett has looked more deer in the headlights rather than lazy, and SPS has done similar at times.

I think we need to be a bit patient, and give these two some time, rather than write them off altogether.

Garlett has shown some glimpses of good footy and I back Bolton to get them going.

[DJC]

I said Lang wasn't going to be at his best this season because of the ankle injury and I reckon its showing.

Garlett is a quandry.  He looked better early on.  Hes a draftee so its an automatic 2 years, and I think hes shown enough attributes to make it.  Don't forget that he basically had a year off last season because of the mental health aspect. Its hard work playing for Carlton at the moment, and Garlett has looked more deer in the headlights rather than lazy, and SPS has done similar at times.

I think we need to be a bit patient, and give these two some time, rather than write them off altogether.

Garlett has shown some glimpses of good footy and I back Bolton to get them going.

Garlett went back to Perth because his brother had what was thought to be a terminal illness - nothing to do with mental health Thry.

He's still finding his feet as an AFL player and I'd cut him some slack this season.

[Gointocarlton]

Garlett went back to Perth because his brother had what was thought to be a terminal illness - nothing to do with mental health Thry.

He's still finding his feet as an AFL player and I'd cut him some slack this season.

Lets park the discussion on Garlett and Lang for 12 mths then, I'm not holding my breath on either of them though. Happy to be proven wrong, but...

[townsendcalling]

Not really.

Sydney area
Partly cloudy. Slight (30%) chance of a shower. Winds southwesterly 25 to 40 km/h increasing to 30 to 45 km/h in the morning.

90% chance of rain Showers, top of 14. Doesn’t sound great to me!!

[Thryleon]

Garlett went back to Perth because his brother had what was thought to be a terminal illness - nothing to do with mental health Thry.

He's still finding his feet as an AFL player and I'd cut him some slack this season.

IMHO it has everything to do with mental health and perhaps putting your career on hold to spend time with your brother is more about his own mental health than his brothers.  Let's not forget he didn't jump ship to a WA footy club he took the year off because focussing on footy might have been hard (fair enough too).

He did go back and play with south Fremantle but that's besides the point as AFL clubs don't have as much wiggle room as the next tier down.  Less scrutiny and more time to go through life and focus on what's important.