No comment on Yarran's short steps on the wing going to a marking contest? I know it's only pre-season but it was a pretty pissweak effort.

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Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

Yarran's biggest flaw as a footballer, but you'd take that once a game as a trade off for him doing things that many others can't in the rest of the game.

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I wonder how Rowe would have gone if Carlton had played Rowe and Hampson in tandem to produce more one on one contests.

You can't stick a fork in a player who has played just a half of footy in his first game for a month.

Rowe hit the ball hard and created a crumb for one of our smalls after coming onto the ground.

Think that's what we saw in him.

Nothing's changed my mind yet on our KP forward roles in the short term. Thornton CHF, Waite FF. Rowe will take a few weeks to get his fitness back up after injury an while Casboult, I beiieve, will make it one day, is still getting there. The ruckman will be very dangerous resting where they won't get the same attention of the KP players hence can run straight at the ball when going for a mark. Their output will be diminished though if played in the KP. Too hard to ruck then try to be the key focal point forward.

I wondered if they were leaving Hampson in the forward line to see how he went playing solely up forward and on a decent defender.

The problem with our KP forwards last year (and likely this year too, looking how our early injury-fortunes have gone) is that since Fev's been gone, we've never been able to settle anyone into a prolonged spell in ONE position. We've always been left to patch up holes elsewhere, which robs our talls of any continuity whatsoever. Waite, Walker, Warnock, Kreuz, Hendo, Thornton, Hammer have ALL had interrupted spells themselves, or been moved around because we've had a hole to fill somewhere else. It's no wonder we can't establish a genuine key forward, because none get to play in one spot long enough, and when one does look to have turned the corner they get injured. Now with Waite, Jamo, Laidler, Mitchell, Duigan and Warnock already under clouds before a ball a bounced in anger, the cycle may just repeat again.

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#GUILTY

Ratten said exactly that at the press conference; they wanted minutes for Hampson as a forward this week.

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Ratten wouldn't take it once a regular game, but once a NAB game may just be O.K.

Wasn't speaking for Ratten

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I am now convinced that we will see 2 new faces on the TalkingCarlton Banner next year!

How the journo came up with that statement is beyond me. Article even says Ratten was concerned that we couldn't keep the ball in our half late in the game (i.e. score, forward press, not wind the clock down per se).

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

You actually have to be in front to start winding the clock down.

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Carrazzo offered a 1-week ban as the result of combining two penalties for striking.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Can we ask for 3???

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Would he serve it next week a la Rhys Conca or against Richmond

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appeal it immediately!

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Hehe!! Obviously didn't want to go to Queensland and can now stay home with the girls. Father of the year award beckons.

Craig Bradley was pretty soft and I wouldn't have changed him for the world.

One of the biggest misconceptions of all time.

If you call getting bashed from pillar to post being soft then Bradley was soft.

If you call belting players around the head a la Neil Balme 1973 Grand Final tough then Bradley was soft.

If you call running until you puked, and taking many many during a game of football tough then he was a very very tough player.

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