Maybe Walls should have mentioned Sheppard, Butcher, Moore, Melksham and Gysberts also, as all were selected before Lucas in the same draft, but no.
Very selective and small minded by Walls. Thought he was better than that.

Lucas has not fared well for 1. injury and 2. not being on the same page as the coach.
Could well sulk himself out of the club but he's a much better player than he has shown us to date except for his first year.

The subject was Carlton. Yes, all clubs have their failures but the good clubs make up for it. I'm yet to see enough success stories to make up for the failures.

Walls comes off better as a media commentator than someone who really knows the workings of his former club.
He has lost contact and really has little to add at this stage.

Not sure he'd even know the state of our squad at the moment, so it may just be nice not to say nothing at all and it may well be why he didn't follow through by being involved in The Hangout.
May have been wiped by some of the kids on it.

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Parkin is as bad if not worse than Walls when it comes to knowing the state of our list/who is injured etc....just listen to the Fox Footy shows and you'll see.

But Watson???..........................................................

BUST!!!

Some of you are questioning Pagan`s formula and the man himself? Thats incredible look at his record.
If you look at Pagan`s training you`ll find Pagan is dirty on anyone that breaks the long kicking plan. He doesn`t want any of the kids looking for shorter, yet better % options.
Is Pagan a fool to not allow them to choose a different option when they see it? No. The reason why he isn`t breaking the current predictability is because he is conditioning them to learn,think,breath,shit his style of gameplan. Till it`s second nature they will do it say in day out, If he gave them the freedom to handball short, go sideways, they will get confused. The line between his game plan and the old one will become grey. We dont have the smart skilled players to chop and change yet, and Pagan is grooming them for a brand of footy we will play for the next decade.Once these players know it inside out, and it`s first nature to them. And we bring in more skilled players into the midfield, who wont miss their targets when changing direction or going short when we have to(More highly skilled players and more unpredictable players) The side wont be as predictable but it will be well regimented.
Pagan is trying to keep it simple for them so they don`t have to think about short or sideways and get confused. Slowly when they know what they have to do more options will be introduced.
This isnt to win one or two games this year..its so they end up being a professional , well oiled army of footballers for a decade.
Sure Pagan would have prefered to be in the 8 right now. But we had 5 players in the side on the weekend who played their first game this season.Players who Pagan is grooming for years not games.
Next step is to get some mass on their light frames, as well as see who wants to play and who doesnt.
I said it last week, Carlton will be looking at an uncontracted player at the end of the season.We will take our next big step forward next season.
Keep the faith...

actually it reminds me of Pete Sampras spending a year at around 17 to change from a dbl backhanded player/ baseline player to a serve and volleyer basing his game on Rod Laver. Being a promising junior, people thought he was nuts. He lost a season as he struggled to learn the serve volley game.12 or 13 grand slams later he is and always will be the greatest. If he had listened to his doubting thomas`s who knows? maybe hed be like Jim Courrier and Michael Chang today, good past baseliner players but wont be remembered as the sporting legend Sampras is.

..it's not so much about our recruiting, as our development.. ..the majority of clubs are hit and miss with drafting, no more or less than us over the long haul.. ..our development however i believe is lacking.. ..and this makes our drafting look poorer than it is, in my opinion..

I didn't get to read the article Walls wrote, TBH, but any article that's negative about our recruiting gets my vote.