AFL Rd 18 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

[blueianh]

[member=311]ianh[/member],

Part of my post which i didn't really include (that i was using to make my arguments) was everyones age.

That is....
The 4 oldest players on are list are...
Newman - 31y5m
Docherty - 30y8m
Saad - 29y11m
Williams - 29y9m

so in a couple years, they may all be gone.
Then we would be left with the following players who will all be 2 years older than their listed age here....
Cincotta - 27y6m
Boyd - 25y9m
Cowan - 19y7m
...and even if you include Billy Wilson - 19y you can see what i'm talking about.

Remove the top 4 from our 'best 22' and suddenly we are in all sorts
We need to ensure we have a couple lockdown players available to go in a couple years time. Cincotta will be 29-30 by then, so its not really a viable option long term either.

Well that is another matter, I was thinking pretty much of the now.  Agree that there isn't a lot in the small defender basket to come through.  Cowan is young and Wilson younger.  One or both of the Camporeale twins might end up running off a back flank.  As we lose the older 4 over the next couple of years we will have the opportunity to bring players in and small defenders aren't the hardest roles to fill through trading.

[LP]

In fairness to all of them, if the mind remains strong, medical technology and sports science is making 31 the new 27!

If they have the will, the utilities have a good 4 or 5 years left, the big blokes maybe even longer!

You can't defeat the accumulation of time, but you can often delay it's impact!

[kruddler]

In fairness to all of them, if the mind remains strong, medical technology and sports science is making 31 the new 27!

If they have the will, the utilities have a good 4 or 5 years left, the big blokes maybe even longer!

You can't defeat the accumulation of time, but you can often delay it's impact!

Yes, but those blokes have probably had more injuries than entire lists between them.
Not exactly fresh bodies we are talking about.

[WASurfer]

Marchbank and Pitto in for Fantasia (dropped) and McGovern (injured).

[kruddler]

Marchbank and Pitto in for Fantasia (dropped) and McGovern (injured).

Still Hewett is listed as an emergency. Surely he can't be right.

Reckon TDK is a 50-50 to play, i'd rest him and remove all doubt.

Sub from.....
Hollands (x2), Owies, Kennedy and Boyd.

Reckon it should be one of the Hollands.

Worth noting too that the emergencies is...
Hewett, Motlop and S. Durdin.

No Lewis Young to be seen.
Surely he must be trade bait. Having your whole backline (and a ruck) under an injury cloud, including 1 out, and you can't crack a spot on the emergencies??

[Professer E]

Gees we're skinny for height on our list at both ends. 

[blueday]

I would really like to see SOS return and a defender in 2025, obvious hole in our list that I think he can fill.

[madbluboy]

Marchbank lol.

[pertz]

Fantasia out, hopefully that's the last we see of him.
If he gets another game, it means we are not serious contenders this year.

[WASurfer]

I'd prefer to see Owies into the 22 and Ollie Hollands as the sub this week.....Cottrell can run the other wing. With Fantasia out, and Motlop still out, really only leaves Owies as the genuine small forward. I know Williams, Fogarty and to some extend Elijah Hollands play that role but Owies is our 3rd leading goalkicker by some margin.