VFL 2024 Rd 11 Carlton vs Essendon at Essendon

[crashlander]

21st vs 19th, so we're not out of it.
However, having lost to Preston last week bodes poorly.

I doubt many of our emergencies will play, which is most of the talent we have available.

[Thryleon]

21st vs 19th, so we're not out of it.
However, having lost to Preston last week bodes poorly.

I doubt many of our emergencies will play, which is most of the talent we have available.

they'll fare better without our pretenders.

[blueianh]

they'll fare better without our pretenders.

Would expect we might hold Marchbank out as we need height cover if someone does an injury in the warm-up or the like and we aren't overtall anyway.  But unless there are injury queries I don't know about why we would rest any more?  Maybe Binns could do with a rest at some stage but Motlop and little Durds need game time.

[crashlander]

Our line-up. Note the number of Emergencies.

B:  [38] Sam Durdin, [22] Caleb Marchbank, [33] Lewis Young
HB:  [35] Billy Wilson,  [41] Domanic Akuei,  [55] Lachlan Young
C:  [43] Ashton Moir,  [25] Jaxon Binns,  [50] Zavier Maher
HF:  [80] Bailey Lambert,  [34] Rob Monahan,  [3] Jesse Motlop
F:  [52] Liam McMahon, [31] Harry Lemmey, [54] Ned Cahill
R:  [45] Alex Mirkov,  [71] Cooper Lord,  [51] Heath Ramshaw
Int:  [74] Logan Prout,  [77] Will White,  [57] Luke Nelson,  [63] Kristian Ferronato,  [58] Michael Lewis,  [64] Archie Stevens,  [70] Darcy Hogg

Em:  [69] Hugo Nosiara,  [62] Hayden Gill,  [75] Oliver Poole,  [66] Luca Goonan,  [60] Blake Kuipers

Interesting to see that Lord has guernsey 71: not what I expected.
[1] Our defence looks large and unwieldy. Not sure I like it. Now Marchbank might be held over, but...
[2] I would be interested to see Hugo Nosiara in action. He is supposed to be a decent talent. I like what I've seen of Poole as well, although his 2nd game was nowhere near as prolific as his 1st was. Also interested to see Ferronato.
[3] I was impressed with the Drug Cheats' Bryan a while back. He seems to have gone backwards, but I'd still expect him to beat Mirkov, who has also gone backwards.

[northernblue]

VFL game is live on 7, about to start.

[madbluboy]

Was the lawn bowls always next to windy Hill?

[townsendcalling]

All 3 emergencies are playing....... let's hope we don't have a warm up casualty.

[LP]

What's happened to Cooper Lord?

[Thryleon]

20 minutes in and akuei has been moved into the ruck.  Good move he isn't a good defender. 

Our afl types are very peripheral though. 

[laj]

Different to last week. We gave up the first 2 then kicked the next 6.