Could still have 2 or 3 years left yet

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Certainly 2 seasons in him yet and could reach 350 mark yet.

Age is a bugger. When it hits, it hits fast.

Also, any player over 33 like Simmo is only one injury away from ending their career. Clubs don't hang on to re-hab older players. ie Judd.

6 might be available...could be his last.

6 might be available...could be his last.

CARLTON Football Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Agresta to the role of List Manager.

Agresta joins the Blues from the Sydney Swans, where he served in the role of National Recruiting Manager for seven years.

Reporting into the GM of List Management and Strategy Stephen Silvagni, the 39-year-old will focus on player acquisition and list management, as well as other key areas of the football department including TPP and compliance.

In a further boost to its recruiting department, Carlton has secured the services of Dale Bleach, who arrives at Ikon Park from his time at Hawthorn Football Club in the role of Recruiting Officer.

I think we need a slight deviation from the draft only/youth only approach and need to drop some proven AFL quality players with leadership into the side to give the kids some breathing space. Not every player you recruit needs to play in your next flag but they all need to contribute to your next flag.

People all over the forum saying this player or that player is a spud, is no good, is useless and so on. Look at what happens to spuds when they go to a team with support around them. They suddenly have a bit of extra space, a bit of extra time. They also have a bit of extra confidence. We need to develop the team around the so-called spuds to get to a level where they can strut their stuff. SPS is a classic example. Every commentator in the game says he is a super talent but because he hasn't won the Brownlow yet, he is getting calls here to be dropped, that he's soft. Dow is already 'Russell MkII' on some thtreads.

Much has also been said in various threads of our raiding the GWS fringe players and picking up rejects from clubs performing badly.

The GWS fringe players would have been picked up early by any of the other clubs had they had access to the compromised draft. If you can't get a regular game in the GWS midfield (see Kennedy) or the Geelong midfield for that matter, that doen't make you a second rate player. It means you can't force Dangerfield, Ablett, Selwood and co into the seconds. (Enter Lang).

Recruiting players from a poorly performing team doesn't mean they are no good. We raided teams for years and won flags with players from Fitzroy, South, StK, Sydney and Geelong. Now they raid us in return or pick up our discards and get spuds like Betts, Garlett, Waite, Sauce, Grigg, even Holman. Grigg was lambasted here for ages as useless before going to Richmond, becoming one of the biggest uncontested possession winners in the AFL for a time and now winning a flag. Spud. But Collins went OK.

Give the team a chance. Not every player we pick will make it but that doesn't mean none of them will.

stop making sense

hope you are well though

Ex Carlton players currently playing senior footy at other clubs Betts, Jacobs, Gibbs, Bell, Robinson, Henderson, Tuohy, Holman, Garlett, Waite, Grigg??
Is there any I have forgotten??

Ex Carlton players currently playing senior footy at other clubs Betts, Jacobs, Gibbs, Bell, Robinson, Henderson, Tuohy, Holman, Garlett, Waite, Grigg??
Is there any I have forgotten??