refer Yarran v Rich.

Pointless comparing Darling to Watson at this stage.

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Considering the holding on Judd and Murphy, it should have been 60 -13.
Might have made a difference.

I thought you were more footy savvy than that Dom. That's the sort of thing a few other 'world renown' crystal ball gazes here on TC would have posted.

Not saying I am disappointed (but really I am).

Regards Cazzesman

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I've known your feelings towards Houla for 5 years now...I know it's personal. Your call.
Nothing will change that even if he's BOG in a final. Drewgirl claims Houla's a ball watcher.

Bottom line: Did Houla do his job on Sunday?
I ask that question of anyone who thinks Houla should be dropped.

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Thought Houlihan's job on Hurn was first rate, and it will be reflected accordingly come the B&F polling at the end of the year. What could put him under scrutiny was an inability to hurt the opposition the other way. Missed two absolute sitters that Houla, as recently as last year would have slotted them in his sleep. At the moment, I think he's still a couple of weeks off readjusting to not only the tempo of senior footy, but also the increased tempo in which we go about our footy.

As such, I can't see sending him back to Preston as doing him that much good. He'll have Deledio in the crosshairs this week I suspect.

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BLUES 2010: PAV AND JUDD = FLAGS. DOING IT FOR THE LOVE OF DICK PRATT.

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR TALKINGCARLTON SUPERCOACH 2009 YET?

It's known as the 'Keogh sausage factory'...............as one whipping boy shows him up and moves down the conveyor belt and another one comes along.



Regards Cazzesman

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Ricky Gervais - “Everyone has the right to hold whatever beliefs they want. And everyone else has the right to find those beliefs f***ing ridiculous.”

I just hope the one thing that doesn't come out of this is the caving to pressure, internally and externally to change our 4-2 defensive setup that has been so successful thus far.

Playing a smaller backline arguably should have won us the game against Geelong. Collingwood game would have been interesting had we not chosen to experiment with Watson that night too.

Won't come across too many forward lines as tall as West Coast, especially with Hawks missing Roughead for the rest of the year.

Whilst Essendon* have shown that a stubborness relating to changing a misfiring structure can curtail a season, and Jamo going down may bring about a need to overcompensate until he gets back in, you've got to have faith in what got you to the dance in the first place.

It's just as likely that teams will try and overcompensate and stack their forward line from now on in, and get caught out. Having key forwards in Henderson, Waite and Setanta that can all go back if required is of great assistance here..

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HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR TALKINGCARLTON SUPERCOACH 2009 YET?

What a farce the MRP is. Lynch gets only one week for 2 incidents against Murphy. Both times he got a discount for a 5 year good behaviour record, fair enough for one but not for the second one. its a joke. Murphy was an obvious target on Sunday.

Bloody hell, it's like a sausage factory in here.

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@ Keogh, you know I am generally supportive of your opinion but have to disagree with you on this one. Houlihan as a youngster was lazy but I seriously believe it s not the case anymore. Watch him closely in a game and he works hard. He does however have that motion that makes him look a bit larthegic and I believe people judge him harshly.

The point now is that if you are lazy you wont play. He has been injured and it was his first full game all year and I thought he played a role. Hard to really judge anyone on the weekend given our lack of intensity as a group.

His class with the ball is undeniable. Form will dictate whether he's in our 22 by years end!

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Murf, was a target, but to be honest they bashed us up like the Bombers used to and we just let them.

Also T Bird is very lucky not to get at least one for head butting.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

You're always one of that group who go on and on with emotional post-match ranting and sniping...

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Poor thought processes and analysis.

You don't even need to read the username to identify the "wrist slasher" who had lost it yet again.

I think it's a valid question, unless you think there is no vacancy on our list for an AFL-ready potential top 3 pick!!

And its not a comment on Watson or McCarthy and how good they may or may not be. Its about the distribution of the list. One is probably another 2 pre-seasons away, and the other could be longer. Juddy, Waite and Scotland might be hanging up the boots before those guys are ready.

Arguably, a more AFL-ready KPP is what we needed to smoothe out our list a little bit. AFL-ready seems to gets a bad knock but Geelong keeps picking them and are making out like bandits.

Yep we didn't stand up for ourselves and that was unlike us in 2011. Mentally we weren't ready for the challenge and paid the price.

Really missed Robbo.

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WC and the 16 other clubs passed on Darling too.

If Darling wasn't the best available footballer and person, why would you pick him?

Carlton still needs to take a long term view beyond the careers of Judd and Waite. Even the Eagles didn't want a ready made KPF in Fevola via the Judd trade, but a long term one in Kennedy. Fast forward to 2015 with Watson, McCarthy, Laidler, Tuohy, Russell, Yarran and McInnes holding our backline together minus Jamison (inj).

The umpires missed a lot of Eagles free kicks.

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Feelgood Hit of the Winter - GHRP-2, GHRP-6, CJC-1295, AOD-9604, Humanofort and Hexarelin

If it is true that we have to hope for them to be productive, it doesn't say a great deal about our depth - in the talls department at least.

But I too think we need to hope.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Ok, I'll humour you. I'm closing my eyes and picturing 2015. We've got some great young KPPS pushing through, but we're getting smashed out of the middle every week cause Juddy's sitting on beach in Karabi drinking pina-coladas.

If we were taking a long term view, we wouldn't have traded Kennedy in the first place, he'd have been the focal point of our forward line on Sunday and we wouldn't need to be debating the relative merits of passing on Darling, would we?

We chose door number two, so pretending we don't need a ROI on Judd is a bit silly in my view.

And if the Eagles had been about to spend 3-4 years contesting finals, rather than 3-4 bottoming out, they'd have taken Fevola off our hands.

Reality check game

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You can just smell that fresh Carlton arrogance coming back into the air