2018 Rd 16: Pre Game Prattle: Carlton vs St Kilda

[blue4life]

Down on troops but the obvious backups in OShea, Mullet and Graham are not playing...

I'm not unhappy about that EB, if young players the likes of Polson and Silvagni don't eventually measure up then at least we won't die wondering, we know what the others can deliver.

[LP]

Shaw is playing this week, to the best of my knowledge he's an average player and his VFL form hasn't been anything to get excited about.

I beg to differ.

I thought Shaw had quite a good VFL patch, partly from my direct observations and partly from mates reporting on matches, he was especially effective when Weitering was back in the magoos, run off him and worked well together, then Weitiering went back to AFL and Shaw copped an injury and hasn't been the same since which is why I have to question the timing. I realise there may be circumstances beyond the MCs control.

When SoJ got the recall from the magoos, in my opinion Polson was a mile ahead of him in terms of midfield influence and I also suspect kilometers covered per game. I would have said that in VFL SoJ was at best on par with Lang and neither of them set the world alight at VFL level! Many were very disappointed with Lang at VFL, but perhaps SoJ gets some slack because of his surname, if so I'm not sure that helps him because the reward might be unjustified! Yet when the crunch came SoJ came in and Polson was left languishing in the magoos for a few more weeks losing form, hopefully not losing heart! There was some irony we had Murphy out around that time, reducing our run, and we opted for SoJ over Polson.

Obviously having Cunningham missing hasn't helped, he was in reasonable form before injuries cruelled his season.

Of our regular AFL players, only Weitering has gone back and dominated at VFL, like an AFL player should. In that context, if McKay is kicking hard earned bags of 2 or 3 goals at AFL level, he should seriously be kicking bags of 6 or 8 at VFL, but he isn't and that is a tell!

[cookie2]

Down on troops but the obvious backups in OShea, Mullet and Graham are not playing...

Club seen enough?

[ElwoodBlues1]

Club seen enough?

Yep.....got the crosshairs on them and I think we are down to trying anything that has 4 limbs and a pulse ie Shaw.....

[LP]

Yep.....got the crosshairs on them and I think we are down to trying anything that has 4 limbs and a pulse ie Shaw.....

Shaw has mates at the Aints, do not be surprised to find this is an audition!

btw., A lot of talk about BB this week, but you wouldn't want to be Alan Richardson if we actually win, that would be his Ratten moment! :o

Some may think Richardson is off the hook after the Melbourne game, but that said more about Melbourne than the Aints! This week is probably the Aints last chance for a win in 2018!

[laj]

I beg to differ.

I thought Shaw had quite a good VFL patch, partly from my direct observations and partly from mates reporting on matches, he was especially effective when Weitering was back in the magoos, run off him and worked well together, then Weitiering went back to AFL and Shaw copped an injury and hasn't been the same since which is why I have to question the timing. I realise there may be circumstances beyond the MCs control.

When SoJ got the recall from the magoos, in my opinion Polson was a mile ahead of him in terms of midfield influence and I also suspect kilometers covered per game. I would have said that in VFL SoJ was at best on par with Lang and neither of them set the world alight at VFL level! Many were very disappointed with Lang at VFL, but perhaps SoJ gets some slack because of his surname, if so I'm not sure that helps him because the reward might be unjustified! Yet when the crunch came SoJ came in and Polson was left languishing in the magoos for a few more weeks losing form, hopefully not losing heart! There was some irony we had Murphy out around that time, reducing our run, and we opted for SoJ over Polson.

Obviously having Cunningham missing hasn't helped, he was in reasonable form before injuries cruelled his season.

Of our regular AFL players, only Weitering has gone back and dominated at VFL, like an AFL player should. In that context, if McKay is kicking hard earned bags of 2 or 3 goals at AFL level, he should seriously be kicking bags of 6 or 8 at VFL, but he isn't and that is a tell!

You don't often see bags of 6 to 8 anywhere. Last game he went well, right up in the best players, took 8 marks even if it was just the one goal.

The NB's don't often kick 8 so I wouldn't be expecting one player to come in dominate so suddenly in such a $hit team. Kennedy was never doing that great in the VFL for Carlton but now he's an absolute star for the Eagles.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Seb Ross out for Saints, Bailey Rice in...we should win easily IMO...no excuses given the team we are playing is devoid of any star players.....

[cookie2]

Seb Ross out for Saints, Bailey Rice in...we should win easily IMO...no excuses given the team we are playing is devoid of any star players.....

A big out - he always gets plenty of the ball for the Saints.

[blue4life]

Ross out might have tipped the scales in our favour.

[Robblues]

Would love us to kick 100 pts some how tonight.