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C'mon Blueboys!

Carnage=apt

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

So what:

Tuohy
Hampson (Structurally)
Henderson
Walker
Simpson
Kreuzer
Laidler
Judd (Suspended)


Waite (Not fit)

All out of our best 22;

9 out of our best 22 out. That is incredible.......

No 'AFL' quality ruck man available with Warnock suspension.

Two 'first gamers' come in; one who has played twice this season - the other who missed most of the pre-season and start of the season.

A back line that consists of two inexperienced players in Watson & McInnes.

A forward line with no genuine forwards bar the little blokes.

I just can't believe this current and on going injury situation which has been unrelenting since pre-season......

We need a review of our fitness and conditioning departments. Is it all bad luck? OR has something gone horribly wrong?

Good luck to our debutants...you're gonna need it

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

This is working out quite nicely for Ratten

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"I had to eat"

What's wrong with Hendo? He was moving well all week.

Is this list official?

B: Joseph Jamison Bower
HB: Yarran Duigan McInnes
C: Scotland Robinson Gibbs
HF: Betts Watson Garlett
F: Collins Thornton Armfield
Foll: Casboult Murphy Carrazzo
Int: Russell McLean Curnow Bell
Emerg: Ellard White Dale

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

Many on here will still act totally blindsided when we lose and blame it all on Ratten...

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Formerly Blues-Back2003.

Sorry I meant out!
Alongside our chances

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C'mon Blueboys!

Ratten's flagrant coaching to save his skin by rushing players back when not ready is a disgrace and Kreuzer and Henderson are flowered because of it - Ratten should be ashamed of himself.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Thats the team that the Cats reserves took to the cleaners a couple of weeks back !

Casboult and Watson vs Minson Cordy and Williams

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

Sure makes Warnock's suspension for 1-game extra stupid.

He misses 2 AFL games because of the magoos spastic schedule.

Why do people talk about Waite as though he is a best 22 player?

The stats show he barely figures for more than half a season every year, having played 43 out of 86 games from 2009 until now.

The club needs to move on and build the forward line around someone more durable and more disciplined.

Stop pinning our hopes on someone who isn't out on the park often enough!

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

Not selected. Ratten is of the opinion that he cannot play Ellard, McLean and Curnow in the same side. So they play Bell?

You would think it wouldn't matter this week. We need every seasoned player we have.

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

FMD

What a 'ridiculous' comment. You just post crap on websites without thinking logically about anything. If it went horribly wrong v Collingwood Ratten would have got the chop - lets be honest. So what does he do? He brings in a first gamer McInnes and says play in the back line against the best team in the comp. He completely put the club first and continues to do so by blooding young players again this week - obviously forced but he could have played Ellard over Bell and we wouldn't have learnt anything different. He even through Duigan forward v the Pies, would have been smashed if it didn't work....

Watson has been terrible for 2 weeks now - and he still plays him and gives him a chance.

Kreuzer was BOG just about v Collingwood. Next week he after maybe 10 minutes looked completely [REDACTED] and now he is out - hardly Rat's problem and what would you have had him do last week?

Henderson was cleared by the medical team - comes back and is out again? WHY? Why is he out again? He played the entire game and he is [REDACTED]? Smells like a mis-managed player who is incapable of dealing with AFL loads. Every other defender, forward, KPP player plays over 90-95% game time - and Henderson breaks down. Waite breaks down. Kreuzer breaks down. Walker breaks down - a brilliant athlete... what is actually going on at Carlton???

I know we have had some bad luck aka Murphy, Carrazzo, Hampson etc... but what about those other blokes............

How you can blame injuries on Ratten is just mind-boggling.

We are going to be the laughing stock of the AFL when we lose to this mob on Saturday.

Actually, looking at that, given Bower's in, Watson may actually play forward. I hope not. Rather have Watson and Bower in defence, given the Dogs don't have real KP forwards any, and Jamison at CHF. Jammo can do less damage to us up forward the way he is going, and you never know, it might do him good. At least he's a target.

Cue in rack?

Ratt's presser on Tuesday said that a few blokes will be give a go in the next month
To start or save their career.

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I hope Essendon* folds.