Form is temporary; Carlton's class is permanent.

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"In better news for Blues fans, Jarrad Waite was not named on the club's injury list."

D'ya hear that Yarran!

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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.

One thing I noticed about Jones on Friday night was on two or three occasions he leapt into a pack but didn't raise his arms. The one in the third quarter where Levi spilt the mark, jones was quite high of the ground but his arms were down by his side. I know he likes to mark on his chest, like Walker, but that is terrible technique.
Don't think he could make it as a defender without work rate and not sure he could instinctively spoil.

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"I'll tell you what I didn't do;
I never injected anyone."
AD 3/3/14

WAITEY'S 200th!!!!

(if he plays after being subbed last night)

Hope Menzel can train all week again and get up for the game.

She hot?

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Got a friend?

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dane's trolling again

You bet!

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I just want my old club back ... (edit) maybe I have!

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dane's trolling again

Tank is well and truly on - Smith is in this week. And if you've seen him in the VFL - it's a joke.

For those of us who have not watched a lot of VFL this season, what have been the main problems with his game?

I thought, despite not being ready, he showed some AFL attributes in the NAB Challenge and in his few games at the start of the season.

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Formerly Blues-Back2003.

Funny how Smith was picked by MM as the first of the new draftees to play AFL. Sub both rounds 1 and 2. And some 16 weeks later even his VFL form's shocking.

So does he give us anything to work with, or is he another wasted pick?

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O say does that star spangled banner yet wave.

He went back the vfl reserves a few weeks back. Same reasons Yarran was dropped a while ago.

Since coming back he has been horrible - does not play as a team player.

I know it's exciting to think he likes to hit people - but it's generally his sole focus to the point it distracts from his game, affects the team etc etc. He ignores his opponent.

Let's just say there are some people @ VFL level that are astounded he is playing v Norf.

Rd18 teams on http://afl.com.au Carl v NMelb; Carrazzo, Wood, Menzel, Smith in for Jones, Holman, Walsh, Johnson. NMelb unchanged.

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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

Graham mustn't have gotten up

I think there is something there. Fitness is the concern for me. Showed some good signs recently in defence but surprised to see him picked. Maybe he will be sub?

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

No problem with Johnson, and Jones. Would have liked have seen Walsh get a full game.

Maybe a late in, with Smith sub.

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"They're [REDACTED]'

Smith to punch Harvey in the guts?

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Smith won't be able to get in the same part of the ground as Harvey.

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

Winston Churchill

Maybe the club is punishing Smith by making him play in this game.

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It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.