Last year's draft and trade ins are starting to worry me
Boeky DVR Smith Whiley Tutt Jones and Jaksch don't seem to be pushing for selection
I know some are injured but it could be a bust year that could hurt us long term

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They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

I don't think Bolts cares about a players age but what they bring to the team. I thought Army was gone but after the last 2 weeks who knows.

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It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.

No love for Foster and Gowers?

They definitely have their work cut out for them, if not for this off-season, then definitely the next.

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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.

It gets worse

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They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

I think Boekhorst, DVR & Jaksch can play a role long term. I'm not sure any of the others will though.

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@cecil_anderson

IMO, the list of players below will be in trouble come years end.
Wood, Dick, Tutt, Whiley, Jamison, Foster, Smith, Gowers, Gallucci, Jones and Rainbow.
Some may reprieved and placed on the rookie list.
Some may have contracts and survive because of that.


McKay, Jaksch, SOJ, Curnow and Casboult will provide a good base for our forward line.

Weitering, Plowman, JGM, Docherty, Tuohy, Rowe and Byrne will provide a good base for our back line.

Murphy, Gibbs, Cripps, Kerridge, Cuningham and Curnow, good base for our mids.

Kreuzer, Phillips and Gorringe, all three can play.

Thomas, Wright, Boekhorst, Lamb, Sumner and Armfield can rotate through the wing and forward line.

Walker, Everitt and Simspon will play maybe a year or two at best.
With our first pick we always go BEST AVAILABLE.
Our needs in no order,
1. 2/3 more mids who can kick
2. A quick small/medium forward
3. Another tall forward
4. Another tall defender

Something tells me, Adam Thomlison will be our target this year.
I have been keeping an eye out this year, he has been dominate in the twos, gets a run in the ones and had 18 touches and 4 tackles and gets dropped, interesting....
Anyway it's time to smash the saints and have a few frothies, thanks Bolts..

2 or 3 mids totally agree kick and SPEED very important.

No judd , no carrots, so our clearances rely on cripps and.........? With a decent opposition ruck and midfield, cripps effectiveness is curtailed too easily as we have no other big body in there. Is there an alternative setup given our current list?
Could charlie curnow play as that second inside clearance mid? He has the body size and fitness (pre glandular) but does he have the quick clean hands?
Or alternatively we could have kreuzer as a ruck rover and philips takes the tap. Again does kreuzer have the necessary quick clean hands in close? At the moment he bullocks his way through the contest with his second efforts tackling and shepherding, but can he dish it out like cripps?

Big k as an extra mid will leave us exposed on the defensive spread in my opinion. He would have to play a blinder in close to balance that out.

Posters here trying to turn players into something they are not. Sound familiar?


Play players to their strengths and recruit for what we need whether through the draft or smart trading as last year.

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we need 5 new midfielders asap - some A graders and high B...murphy gets punched up week after week and gibbs cant sustain it week after week

One of them can be Docherty, Cunningham/Boeky need to develop and then it's just a good draft away

I was shocked when when we put Ratts into the guts for an extended period when it happened, when was the last time we turned a running defender into a genuine midfielder?

Back pocket has historically been the spot to earn the right to go into the guys... Reckon they should have tried it with Tuohy already

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We are Carlton, @#$%&! the rest !!!!!!

we need to load up on mids - im saying 5 more than we what we have now

Boek is not a mid- in fact i dont know what he is

Re: Armfield, been my thinking for a while cecil (remember he was our last player signed for this year). And at a guess I reckon we could be looking at drafting another 5 new players in what is meant to be a deep draft.

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Essendon-Only team to have ever been found guilty of salary cap breaches in a premiership year!

Lewis Taylor would be a good get...toxic environment up in Brisbane, still very young.

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We are Carlton, @#$%&! the rest !!!!!!

Not sure about him. This is the guy who walked around Mortlake vanadalising car(s). Excuse offered was he thought he was in a wrecker's yard.
He is from Mortlake, it's his home town, he would know where the wrecker's yard was located.

Fair chance he's a flog.

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O say does that star spangled banner yet wave.

Is this the bloke who runs around in circles?

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I just want my old club back ... (edit) maybe I have!

After 500k a year according to Caro/Pierek in The Age.

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