2018 Rd 17: Pre Game Pessimism: Carlton vs Hawthorn

[crashlander]

CARLTON
B: Kade Simpson, Jacob Weitering, Matt Shaw
HB: Dale Thomas, Liam Jones, Ed Curnow
C: Caleb Marchbank, Patrick Cripps, Lochie O'Brien
HF: Cameron Polson, Charlie Curnow, Zac Fisher
F: Sam Petrevski-Seton, Matthew Kennedy, Jarrod Pickett
R: Harry McKay, Marc Murphy, Paddy Dow
Int: Levi Casboult, Jarrod Garlett, Nick Graham, Kym Lebois, Matthew Lobbe, Sam Rowe, Jack Silvagni, Matthew Wright (Four to be omitted)

IN: Jacob Weitering, Levi Casboult, Nick Graham, Kym Lebois, Matthew Lobbe, Matthew Wright

OUT: Matthew Kreuzer (Managed), Jed Lamb (Suspension)

NEW: Kym Lebois, Matthew Lobbe

I'm surprised to be LeBois in. Only once has he had more than 10 possessions in a VFL game. The Match Committee must see more in him than I have seen so far.
I only saw him once in his draft year and he wasn't bad against other kids. But he isn't as quick as he thinks he is. He gets out-bodied far too easily and he doesn't get the ball enough for me. He can kick a goal out of nowhere.

I think Lobbe has to play: we need a specialist ruckman. I think I would prefer de Koning, but he is only just coming back from injury anyway.
I don't think Levi has done enough to get a recall yet, but the MC may think we need his strength and his ability to do some ruck work.
We are really at rock bottom with this side.

HAWTHORN
B: Ryan Burton, James Frawley, Ben Stratton
HB: Kaiden Brand, Jack Gunston, Blake Hardwick
C: Ricky Henderson, Tom Mitchell, Isaac Smith
HF: Jarman Impey, Ryan Schoenmakers, Harry Morrison
F: Luke Breust, Jarryd Roughead, Paul Puopolo
R: Jonathon Ceglar, Daniel Howe, Liam Shiels
Int: Teia Miles, James Worpel, Jaeger O'Meara, Brendan Whitecross, Marc Pittonet, Taylor Duryea, Conor Glass, Jonathan O'Rourke (Four to be omitted)

IN: Kaiden Brand, Ryan Schoenmakers, James Worpel, Marc Pittonet, Conor Glass, Jonathan O'Rourke

OUT: Tim O'Brien (Omitted), James Sicily (Injured)

If we had some guys available, instead of a Northern Blues selection, I'd be confident of beating this mob. This side does not look impressive, especially in defence. But we are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Ceglar usually plays well against us, but his form has not been so good. So maybe there is some hope.

[Robblues]

Have we ever selected a smaller forward line?

[LP]

Team looks 1000% better when Marchbank is on the wing, even though there is no way the rest of the team lines up like that!

There are a few of things I want to see this week;

Casboult stays out of McKay's way.
McKay plays more like Ben Brown than Eddie Betts.
Charlie isn't killed by Levi jumping into his back.
Lobbe shows he isn't done.
Weitering and Jones taking some marks.
SPS continues his improvement.

[LP]

Sunday Etihad, dry ideal conditions 15°C.

Dawks have named a small mobile F50, best have our D50 marking faces on!

[Lods]

McKay plays more like Ben Brown than Eddie Betts.

I wont care if he plays a bit like Brown and a bit like Betts ;D

[Lods]

Looks like the final team will consist of...

INTERCHANGE : Casboult, Lobbe, Silvagni, Wright

EMERG: Rowe, Garlett, Graham, LeBois 

[Professer E]

A lot of pace in those ins.....not.

[blue4life]

A lot of pace in those ins.....not.

No pace in the emergencies either so nothing lost really.
I would have preferred Kerr to Casboult, and Garlett to Polson, and just about anyone to Shaw.
Sam Rowe may have played his last game.

[laj]

Not sure we needed to play Levi given we have McKay. Would've picked another small.

[shawny]

How does polson hold his place.

And please don’t give me ‘oh but he trys or he runs hard BS’

Averaged 5 pos in last 4 weeks at 30% efficiency.

Club has to be tanking or we are stuffed.