2018 Rd 15: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs Brisbane

[crashlander]

CARLTON
B: Kade Simpson, Sam Rowe, Liam Jones
HB: Dale Thomas, Jacob Weitering, Caleb Marchbank
C: Zac Fisher, Patrick Cripps, Lochie O'Brien
HF: Matthew Kennedy, Charlie Curnow, Sam Petrevski-Seton
F: Jarrod Pickett, Jack Silvagni, Matthew Wright
R: Matthew Kreuzer, Marc Murphy, Ed Curnow
Int: Andrew Phillips, Nick Graham, Cameron Polson, Jed Lamb

Emg: Aaron Mullett, Darcy Lang, Pat Kerr, Harry McKay

IN: Dale Thomas, Caleb Marchbank, Lochie O'Brien, Matthew Kreuzer

OUT: Levi Casboult (Omitted), Paddy Dow (Managed), Jarrod Garlett (Injured), Aaron Mullett (Omitted)

I scratch my head. Marchbank hasn't played for ages and was down on form badly, yet he is in with no time in the VFL.
Lochie O'Brien was dropped and didn't play last week either, so he couldn't impress. Yet, he comes in for Dow.
Kreuzer: I just hope he is 100%, as I hate playing guys not 100%.

Levi had to be dropped, but the bye hurts his chances. It will mean he misses at least 2 weeks.
Paddy Dow: fair enough, he has to be 'managed' some time.
Mullett wasn't as ordinary as he can be last week, but hopefully Daisy can play as well as he had before his suspension.

I would have played either McKay or Kerr, with McKay more likely.

Maybe they Match Committee can be geniuses. I just can't see it.

BRISBANE LIONS
B: Luke Hodge, Daniel McStay, Darcy Gardiner
HB: Daniel Rich, Tom Cutler, Alex Witherden
C: Lewis Taylor, Mitch Robinson, Dayne Zorko
HF: Cameron Rayner, Josh Walker, Hugh McCluggage
F: Allen Christensen, Eric Hipwood, Ryan Lester
R: Stefan Martin, Jarrod Berry, Dayne Beams
Int: Nick Robertson, Rhys Mathieson, Oscar McInerney, Jake Barrett

Emg: Ben Keays, Jacob Allison, Cedric Cox, Jack Frost

No change for them. I wonder who Robbo will play on this year? He used to play on Gibbs and usually beat him. Hopefully we can squash him.
Stefan Martin usually plays well against our rucks, as does Zorko.
Another guy I would like to squash is Hodge. He is a thug. Now he makes the Lions run taller.

[Professer E]

If that named side isn't tanking I've never seen it.  Must think chuck can kick a winning score by himself.

Lions by 45.

Over it.  MC have serious issues.

[blue4life]

I can't believe that Polson is still in the side, I know he's a kid and I hate potting kids but last week he was beyond bad.
What happens this week if he's just regular bad, does he keep getting a game?
Kids need to be shown that there's a certain standard that they must achieve.

[laj]

I can't believe that Polson is still in the side, I know he's a kid and I hate potting kids but last week he was beyond bad.
What happens this week if he's just regular bad, does he keep getting a game?
Kids need to be shown that there's a certain standard that they must achieve.

As long it's not as high as McKay's standard for getting a game. As Terry Wallace said, players like McKay need to play and play and play to keep improving at this level. Not as if he was going badly.

[Barbs]

CARLTON
B: Kade Simpson, Sam Rowe, Liam Jones
HB: Dale Thomas, Jacob Weitering, Caleb Marchbank
C: Zac Fisher, Patrick Cripps, Lochie O'Brien
HF: Matthew Kennedy, Charlie Curnow, Sam Petrevski-Seton
F: Jarrod Pickett, Jack Silvagni, Matthew Wright
R: Matthew Kreuzer, Marc Murphy, Ed Curnow
Int: Andrew Phillips, Nick Graham, Cameron Polson, Jed Lamb

Emg: Aaron Mullett, Darcy Lang, Pat Kerr, Harry McKay

IN: Dale Thomas, Caleb Marchbank, Lochie O'Brien, Matthew Kreuzer

OUT: Levi Casboult (Omitted), Paddy Dow (Managed), Jarrod Garlett (Injured), Aaron Mullett (Omitted)

I scratch my head. Marchbank hasn't played for ages and was down on form badly, yet he is in with no time in the VFL.
Lochie O'Brien was dropped and didn't play last week either, so he couldn't impress. Yet, he comes in for Dow.
Kreuzer: I just hope he is 100%, as I hate playing guys not 100%.

Levi had to be dropped, but the bye hurts his chances. It will mean he misses at least 2 weeks.
Paddy Dow: fair enough, he has to be 'managed' some time.
Mullett wasn't as ordinary as he can be last week, but hopefully Daisy can play as well as he had before his suspension.

I would have played either McKay or Kerr, with McKay more likely.

Maybe they Match Committee can be geniuses. I just can't see it.

BRISBANE LIONS
B: Luke Hodge, Daniel McStay, Darcy Gardiner
HB: Daniel Rich, Tom Cutler, Alex Witherden
C: Lewis Taylor, Mitch Robinson, Dayne Zorko
HF: Cameron Rayner, Josh Walker, Hugh McCluggage
F: Allen Christensen, Eric Hipwood, Ryan Lester
R: Stefan Martin, Jarrod Berry, Dayne Beams
Int: Nick Robertson, Rhys Mathieson, Oscar McInerney, Jake Barrett

Emg: Ben Keays, Jacob Allison, Cedric Cox, Jack Frost

No change for them. I wonder who Robbo will play on this year? He used to play on Gibbs and usually beat him. Hopefully we can squash him.
Stefan Martin usually plays well against our rucks, as does Zorko.
Another guy I would like to squash is Hodge. He is a thug. Now he makes the Lions run taller.

So to summarise, we have two ruckmen, one true forward (Charlie) and a half forward/mid/back (SOJ), and 4 tall defenders.

They went with 1 ruck, 2 tall forwards (one of whom is a skinny kid) and a couple of tall defenders.

We are going to be run off the park.

[Lods]

It's a game we can win without "damaging" : our ladder position
With percentage we're effectively two games behind Brisbane.

Why not give it a shot.

[Gointocarlton]

I like it.
- I reckon IF Kreuzer plays, he'll play fwd alot and Phillips will have a crack at Martin. All Flip needs to do is break even with Martin (like he did vs Ryder). Mackay or Kerr will come in if Kreuzer doesnt get up.
- Dow needs a rest.
- Levi was bad last week, whether it was form or a sore hand, either way the omission is good.
- Mullet and Garlett omissions fair enough.
- Marchy straight in, I guess thats how highly he is rated internally and quite frankly, I happy to see him back. If he doesnt come up, Kerr may come in.
I think the game is winnable.

[kruddler]

I don't mind the changes.

Much rather see
Phillips + Kreuzer
vs
Casboult + Kreuzer or Casboult + Phillips.

Dow having a rest, nothing to prove.
Garlett (injured) fair enough.
Mullett dropped, he is not the future so good.

As for McKay...
Reckon he is showing why he was a 'reach' with our pick. Was always a speculative one. He is very raw and basically needs to learn how to play football. I don't have a problem with his development in the 2's as he'll be more of a target there than he will be in the 1's with Curnowfides.
Kerr...he'll get more time. Still only young too.

[cookie2]

I like it.
- I reckon IF Kreuzer plays, he'll play fwd alot and Phillips will have a crack at Martin. All Flip needs to do is break even with Martin (like he did vs Ryder). Mackay or Kerr will come in if Kreuzer doesnt get up.
- Dow needs a rest.
- Levi was bad last week, whether it was form or a sore hand, either way the omission is good.
- Mullet and Garlett omissions fair enough.
- Marchy straight in, I guess thats how highly he is rated internally and quite frankly, I happy to see him back. If he doesnt come up, Kerr may come in.
I think the game is winnable.

Tend to agree, the changes are fair enough imo. Not sure about winning though - we sure can't afford to go to sleep for a quarter as we did last week.

[LP]

Interesting for me will be to see Phillips against Martin.

Phillips should have him covered for reach and leap, Martin will be very physical so lets see how Phillips deals with that because it hasn't been one of his strengths!