Mickstar wrote:
Back to earth with a thud hey ! first in,best dressed.Freo were in for the ball first simple as that...............we trailed 'em in all day.Cant win a football game like that.
Anyhow,Weitering ( a modern day Chris Mew for mine ) played a great as all the backline did.They were up against it all day.............Fisher at least got far more of the ball than usual is a plus for me.Gotta do that every week............Polson was at least lively and showed some dash.Far from the worst for mine.........Paddy Dow ? was quite deft in patches and showed class BUT not enough.Too much talent and ability to write off at this stage but he needs a circuit breaker to reignite him.I would get him to run with the opposition's best ball winner.Just shadow a natural ball winner and hopefully lead him to the ball.Anything,coz he's stagnating badly........................i agree the new kid Philp showed a bit and i would persist for sure...............
The lack of run and ball winning between the arcs was glaring and i am afraid if some of these young ones who should be emerging don't put there hands up its gonna be hard work.Fantastic time to be at Carlton if you are a young guy with get up and go.For faaark sake someone take the bull by the horns and put your hand.Perfect opportunity right now.
Often individuals you can look more into than overall team performances in these games, as obviously winning isn't the be all and end all.
Thats where it still remains worrying as I didn't see anything better from Dow, Setterfield, Cuningham, JSOS, Kennedy, Lang or Newnes.
Admittedly the last 4 I saw as so better than fringe players, and all things being equal of JSOS, Kennedy, Lang and Newnes no more than 1 should play Round 1, if any.
The first 3 are the concerning ones, Dow doesn't look any better than he did last year, still too small and doesn't get involved enough.
Setterfield was terrible, and see him as no more than a solid foot soldier at this point, at best.
Cuningham now in his 5th season has only shown glimpses, and there comes a point when you stop hoping or expecting anything better than what we have seen.
We will see how things go obviously over the course of the season, but no one has a 100% hit rate with nailing young players in the draft and we probably just need to keep bringing more and more in.
Likely R1 team assuming no more injuries
B: Plowman Jones Simpson
HB Newman Weitering Docherty
W SPS Walsh Murphy
HF Martin Casboult Fisher
F Betts McKay McGovern
Foll Kreuzer Cripps E Curnow
Int Gibbons Setterfield Marchbank Cuningham
Emerg Dow JSOS Williamson
Could throw a blanket over the interchange and emergencies really, depends who plays well V Brisbane and what kind of balance we want. Others in the mix could be Stocker, Philp and LOB.
Gone from thinking we had to fit 28-30 into 22, now worrying we have to play some of them in a best 22.
Makes moving on Daisy seem even more weird considering we aren't blessed with quality.