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Or it could just be the status quo.
We are going up against a team that we haven't beaten since 2013. That team has won the premiership 3 times since then, and we have won the wooden spoon a few times.
They have become a bogey team for us. We have a few under an injury cloud, and they should account for us reasonably quickly.
They currently still have the bones of a premiership outfit, and we are coming up from a low base with a new coach, and a bunch of new players.
Can we win? yes.
Should we win? I don't know.
Are the pundits right for expecting Richmond to account fur us? Probably.
Do they expect us to show remarkable improvement? YES. That doesnt mean we should win though.
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03-16-2022, 04:33 AM
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I don't think anyone who has been indoctrinated by Sheedy, or has had the opportunity to spread or assert Sheedy's indoctrination over subordinates, will ever miss an opportunity to shiv Carlton!
It's followed the same fundamental pattern for more than 30 years, long long before we were such easy fodder.
To further that, we've had decades of an AFL Executive that is/was basically CheatsFC boosters, even someone like Vlad who turned out to be a CheatsFC closet booster, they painted him publicly as the bad man when all along he was really their man on the inside.
Then you add to that a layer of AFL media, that is basically the marketing division of CheatsFC.
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(03-16-2022, 03:14 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:^^
Or it could just be the status quo.
We are going up against a team that we haven't beaten since 2013. That team has won the premiership 3 times since then, and we have won the wooden spoon a few times.
They have become a bogey team for us. We have a few under an injury cloud, and they should account for us reasonably quickly.
They currently still have the bones of a premiership outfit, and we are coming up from a low base with a new coach, and a bunch of new players.
Can we win? yes.
Should we win? I don't know.
Are the pundits right for expecting Richmond to account fur us? Probably.
Do they expect us to show remarkable improvement? YES. That doesnt mean we should win though. I think if we dont beat Richmond this time then we wont be going anywhere this season. IMO they are ripe for picking and apart from Walsh we will have our best team available. Be terribly disappointing to lose after the good preseason we have had and I reckon Voss would feel he needs a good start. 2013 is a long time between wins and we need to break that cycle, first up win be be a great confidence booster and could propel the team finals bound. Lose this and then drop a tough one vs the Dogs the following week and you are playing catchup for the season.
We can win and win well IMHO....
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Teams is in....
FB - Saad - McDonald - Weitering
HB - Williams - McGovern - Docherty
C - Kennedy - Cerra - O'Brien
HF - Owies - McKay - Martin
FF - Silvagni - Curnow - Durdin
R - Pittonet - Cripps - Hewitt
INT - De Koning - Fisher - Newman - Setterfield
EMG - Carroll - Fogarty - Williamson - Young
Not picked....
Ed Curnow
Lachie Plowman
Paddy Dow
Lewis Young
Matty Cottrell
Jack Newnes
Brodie Kemp
Luke Parks
INJURED...
Walsh
Stocker
Cuningham
Marchbank
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Personally, i probably would've included Kemp over Setterfield but other than that, that is almost exactly the way i would've picked the side......and its probably been about 10 years since i could say that.
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Why wasn't Plowman picked? Especially with Jones out.
Didn't Voss look at our best and fairest results?
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!
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Why did he pick LoB?
All that went before is irrelevant now we have a new coach, some will wither while others will thrive.
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I thought last year the difference between the two sides was Dusty Martin. I am not sure that Richmond has improved their team from last year whereas Carlton looks like it has improved its side. Despite having Stocker, Walsh, Marchbank and Cuningham unavailable, we have a situation where Dow, Fogarty, Kemp, Plowman, Williamson, Newnes and Ed Curnow were not selected. In previous seasons three or four of these players would have been in the team. Last season Richmond endured the run of injuries Carlton has had over the past few seasons and they came back to the field. So I think we must be a big chance. The games we have lost to Richmond in the season openers have in the main been four to six goal margins. I can actually see us reversing this situation and winning by this sort of margin. Go Blues!
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Interesting analysis here:
https://youtu.be/G-i7HSlN1pg
Listening to a Pom wearing a Manchester United guernsey talking footy is a bit strange, but he talks some sense. And when I say talks, he could talk under water. If you typed out everything he says, you'd probably have a bigger book than War and Peace. But then again, I have to believe him as he predicts a 4+ goal win for us.
Seems the 1st part of his spiel rips off Kruddler's Coaches' Milestones bit. Kruddler should demand credit ;D
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