I was curious to know what the ladder would look like if we calculated it from Round 4 onwards. Interestingly, very little change at the top, a little bit in the bottom 8.

What is interesting though is the points against...since Round 4, Carlton has the 5th best defense in the competition.

---- -For Against % Wins Points

Geel 959 775 124 8 32
Haw 998 808 124 8 32
Dogs 1071 841 127 7.5 30
Syd 909 683 133 6.5 26
Adel 865 752 115 6 24
Bris 1013 914 111 6 24
Carl 864 839 103 6 24
Coll 1049 887 118 5 20

North 858 924 93 4.5 18
Port 883 863 102 4 16
Rich 916 969 95 3.5 14
St K 852 914 93 3 12
Freo 813 910 89 1 4
WC 719 985 73 1 4
Melb 742 1086 68 1 4
Ess 745 1111 67 1 4

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Mens sana in corpore sano.

Bring back the laurel wreath logo!!!

It's a joke that people (opposition supporters) dont think our defence has improved, and think ours is near the shittest in the league.
We see the potential.

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Carlton Premiers '10

Not a joke at all jt...hopefully the opposition coaches see it the same way

As the article in todays paper pointed out, our defence (and more importantly defensive pressure through the midfield) has improved out of sight!

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

yea; jamison and bower have been amazing this year.
CARLTON DEFENCE
Round 1-3 Ave. against : 20.10. (130)
Rounds 4-12 Ave against: 13.14. (92)

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"You don’t get much more Navy Blue than Stephen Kernahan" - Marc Murphy

Our defense has one of the trademarks of our last great defense of the late 90's... SOS aside, most of those blokes were 'serviceable' until people (outside the club) woke up and realised that they had strung together 10 years of footy and won a premiership.

Sexton, Hickmott, McKay, Cristou, etc... Maybe Ang was different as he was quickly dubbed a 'cult hero' and was always in the public eye. Probably why some (including me) have been so hard on Eddie Betts. @#$%&! I love Eddie Betts.

You can just feel that something is happening - that there is a rock-solid foundation being laid.... Maybe i'm just delusional because its been so @#$%&! woeful for the last couple of years. I dunno...

GO BLUES.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

Nope.

Notice how switched on we were to not let Medhurst play-on?

And also we have Murphy working super super hard lately getting back to help out, aswell as Judd.

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