The MC have shown a lot of faith in White.

I have posted before that he's been let off the hook by his opponents inability to thread through goals from ample opportunities, but I have to say last week White really did take the next step imo.

He showed good speed and hard at it battering the Port players when he could; laid some damn good bumps.

He should be good for us against the Dawks as the 3rd man up. Perhaps he may be needed to relieve Thornton on Buddy.

The point being we need hard bodies for this contest. Hawks will be playing for their season. If we can play for ours, we should be better than them in the midfield if Carrots and Scotto put the heat on the oppositions tough mids Mitchell, Sewell and Lewis.

We have to get that nut befor they do. Must stemy the supply to Roughy and Buddy. Do that and we will win.

Despite my dream that we lost, and we are missing Waite, Bower, Walker, Houlihan, Hadley/McLean and Lucas, I am expecting a 39 point win on a fast dry track.

All peripheral-developing players selected for this game (Robinson, Anderson?, Henderson, Johnson, White, Jacobs ) have the goods to compete and excel against the not so inform Dawks.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Carlton
B: Michael Jamison, Bret Thornton, Aaron Joseph
HB: Bryce Gibbs, Simon White, Jordan Russell
C: Heath Scotland, Dennis Armfield, Kade Simpson
HF: Marc Murphy, Setanta O'hAilpin, Ryan Houlihan
F: Chris Yarran, Matthew Kreuzer, Eddie Betts
Foll: Sam Jacobs, Andrew Carrazzo, Chris Judd
I/C: Jeff Garlett Lachie Henderson, Chris Johnson, Mitch Robinson
Emg: Joe Anderson, Steven Browne, Rohan Kerr


Updated team list from AFL website. Would be nice to see another debutant

I guess they're leaving the decision on Houlihan right up to the last hour before the bounce.

How's all the Hawks articles in the Age. It should fire them up, but I think there's a few fractures there.
If we really put the heat on them and keep up the scoreboard pressure they may just self combust.
Should be a tough game with the tougher gut runners to prevail.
Redemption.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Its getting increasingly harder to find a live video stream ... if anyone knows of one can they PM me .. sometimes it really sucks living in Brazil!

Prepared to give my spare kidney to anyone that can help.

GO BLUES!

P.S we always win when I get a live stream!

You mean this one?

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/hodge-should-be-at-the-helm-says-brereton-20100522-w31v.html



Either this is a thinly veiled attempt to put a rocket under Mitchell that has gone horribly to far, or there is real strife down there.

He's basically said the Hawks won't play for Mitchell, and that's kinda hard to take back.

Yes if anyone can PM me for a live stream link also that would be great (better than great). I am in Albury and we get the 1 hour delay with heaps of ads.

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It is not as bad as you are lead to believe.......it is %$#^& worse!!!

..don't think he's gone that far, However i agree that Hodge should be there captain.. ..it's not so much that the players won't play for mitchel, but rather they'd bleed for hodge.. ....i reckon there's big trouble behind the scenes down there, and if we're switched on we could derail another club.. ..like we did to the tigers last year, or lions did to use a few years back.. ..clarko's time is almost up i reckon..

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..if you can't be good, be good at it..

I don't hold the same view either.

I think he is a sniping, diving, squealling, hair pulling little cauliflower who portrays himself as Mr Nice Guy

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Cheats never prosper (except in the AFL)

Houlihan out, Joe Anderson in. From AFL site.

Final Teams:

Carlton - Out: Houlihan
In: Anderson

Hawthorn - As Selected

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/94848/default.aspx

no surprises there.
Carn blues!

..and here, any help for a brother in remote WA????