Pre-Game Possibilities: AFL Rd 7: Carlton vs North Melbourne

[flyboy77]

No disrespect to the young lad, but he has shown nothing to date to suggest he should have been a #10 pick...

At least with Paddy, the talent is obvious....O'Brien?

[Thryleon]

No disrespect to the young lad, but he has shown nothing to date to suggest he should have been a #10 pick...

At least with Paddy, the talent is obvious....O'Brien?

I agree Fly, but thats not his fault, and we need to be mindful of that.

He does have time on his side.

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/...mpson.html

Simpson took a little while to get going.  There are some similarities with O Brien.

He shouldnt be playing at the moment, and arguably, at another club he wouldnt be and he should be coming in this week, but there isnt much to say about that.

[LP]

Simpson took a little while to get going.  There are some similarities with O Brien.

Footywire is a great site to compare, firstly Simmo didn't get a game until he was 20 or so, O'Brien has played 20 games and he is not yet 20.

If I look at Simmo's 4th season of 22 games compared to O'Brien's 22 games so far it not much difference;

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_p...=22&fid2=C

[townsendcalling]

Philips, Curnow, Williamson, Stocker

No real surprises there.

Ruckman for ruckman
Tall forward for tall forward
Back flankers for back flankers.

[WASurfer]

townsend....I'm a bit surprised that Setterfield misses out. He was running into some form before being suspended. That said, rapt to seem Williamson back. His kicking out of the backline was a feature back in 2017 and will be a handy replacement for Newman in that respect. But that leaves us pretty "tall" down back with Jones, Marchbank, Weitering, Williamson and Plowman? North aren't exactly endowed with height up forward at the moment.

[Jack Burton]

I'm more concerned that I've been hearing/reading that Williamson needs another couple of weks to get match fitness and Stocker needs time to build his endurance up to AFL level. Hope they both have great games, but I'm worried if they both fade late in quarters and late in the game we could be exposed

[Gointocarlton]

I agree with the 4 ins, I picked them all actually. Really excited to see Stocker get a run, hope he tears it up and justifies the move made by SOS. Excited also to see my man Willo back, good luck son. Charlie needs to pull his finger out, been terrible thus far. Phillips is a C grade ruckman at best,  he needs to bust a gut, crack in, compete hard and make life very difficult for Goldy.

[ianh]

A little worried that with Willo and Stocker we have picked 2 guys who are underdone.  Would have preferred one of them and bringing back Setterfield who it seemed to me had done well before being suspended.

[crashlander]

CARLTON
B: Caleb Marchbank, Liam Jones, Lachie Plowman
HB: Marc Murphy, Jacob Weitering, Dale Thomas
C: Zac Fisher, Patrick Cripps, Lochie O'Brien
HF: Sam Walsh, Jack Silvagni, Ed Curnow
F: Sam Petrevski-Seton, Harry McKay, Michael Gibbons
R: Levi Casboult, Paddy Dow, David Cuningham
Int: Charlie Curnow, Andrew Phillips, Tom Williamson, Liam Stocker

Emg: Will Setterfield, Angus Schumacher, Jarrod Garlett, Matthew Lobbe

IN: Charlie Curnow, Andrew Phillips, Tom Williamson, Liam Stocker
OUT: Kade Simpson (Injured), Mitch McGovern (Injured), Nic Newman (Injured), Matthew Kreuzer (Injured)

NEW: Liam Stocker

Probably the right choices on the bench, but we will really miss the 4 guys out.

NORTH MELBOURNE
B: Jamie Macmillan, Robbie Tarrant, Jasper Pittard
HB: Luke McDonald, Scott D. Thompson, Shaun Atley
C: Trent Dumont, Shaun Higgins, Jared Polec
HF: Tarryn Thomas, Mason Wood, Jack Ziebell
F: Kayne Turner, Ben Brown, Nick Larkey
R: Todd Goldstein, Ben Cunnington, Jed Anderson
Int: Marley Williams, Taylor Garner, Jy Simpkin, Cameron Zurhaar

Emg: Nathan Hrovat, Luke Davies-Uniacke, Sam Wright, Tom Campbell

IN: Shaun Higgins, Marley Williams, Taylor Garner, Jy Simpkin
OUT: Luke Davies-Uniacke (Omitted), Sam Wright (Omitted), Aaron Hall (Omitted), Nathan Hrovat (Omitted)

Goldstein is still the worry for mine. Nichevo. I'm not surprised to see Hall dropped. Wish he was in.   > >

[madbluboy]

Shocked at Setterfield not being selected.