That's not positivity....that's getting his ducks in order for a rant at the end of the season

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"I will rejoice in their anguish, delight in their failure and revel in our success"

We are Carlton, @#$%&! the rest !!!!!!

My mistake

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Great post!
I agree with most of your points... however not sure about point #2.

I think it's worth remembering that the first group of GWS players (KJ/Whiley/Dick) were offloaded by SOS (when he was at GWS)... whereas the second group were brought in to Carlton by SOS.
Obviously with GWS it's a unique situation because they need to turn over so much of their list...
But I will be very interested to see how SOS and the coaches manage KJ and Whiley/Dick, and whether they can maximise their potential.

GWS were always going to be selling off talent; they'd had huge concessions (still do) and have contracting list requirements.

If we wind up with KJ, Sumner, Plowman and McKay for 2014 Pick 28, 2015 Pick 28 and Henderson, that's a great deal.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Its going to take time to get us back up the top.
Whilst we aim to get there so are others, but there's also those at the top who will fall.

The 66 week thingy is something I've given a bit of thought to.

I believe and can see it can turn around, and like all recruits there's no guarantee they will become stars, but I think 66 games is enough with a bit of luck to get us back up the top from a few successes and a few failures, but we have to get our round 1 and 2 picks spot on, and trade a couple of beauties in and a attract a FA with the space Thomas will create.

I expect Byrne and Sheehan to be elevated at the end of the year.
I expect we end with a Pick 1 or 2, plus an early 2nd rounder.
I expect we get something valuable traded in too; maybe a CHF or a CHB.
I expect Casboult to be traded (if we can get his value up this year)...maybe a 2nd rounder or player swap.

I expect Plowman and Sumner to come good.
I expect Weitering and Cripps to be stars.
I expect Cuningham and Curnow to find a spot in the 22 by year's end.
I expect Jaksch will find fitness during the year, and is developed to break into the team.

I expect McKay to build strength this year and have a great preseason and play next year. He's a big boy and can run and present.
More importantly. he can kick long and straight unlike Casboult.

I expect to delist Tutt, Dick, Armfield, Foster and Whiley, maybe Viojo/Walker/Simpson...and Wood from Rookies leaving 3 rookie spots for at least one ruck to develop.

The following year I expect to delist Jones, Rowe, Jamison, White, Walker and Lamb.
So the struggling oldies will have been cleared out for at least 2 good draftees (1st & 2nd round).
I expect a great Trade for the midfield
I expect a great FA either KP or midfield.
I expect Glass to be promoted too because he can really build up over the next 2 years, and from what Ive seen of him he looks very capable FB.

So by 2018 season we will have a very good list with a good spine after turning over another 15 players in 2 years, if not more.

By end of 2018 players on the chopping block will be Everitt, Thomas, Gorringe, Curnow (old age), Buckley, Wright, Smith, Graham....in other words it wont take too long to turn the list over to get what we need.

Bolton and SOS will control all that, along with a new Recruitment Manager and the Board has nothing to do with that other than keeping our club going and brand growing in the northern suburbs, amongst the female species....Blue Skies.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Shuddup bondi. It's all doom and gloom.

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Yeah, but that was the past.

Things can change pretty quickly....if a couple of years is considered quick.

We've already recruited Weitering Cripps Jaksch Plowman Docherty McKay Curnow Kerridge Boekhurst Cuningham Sumner Wright Korchek and one of Viojo/ Gowers/Foster has to come good given that mirror Kernahan broke 7 years ago....

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I don't think SOS had anything to do with the Dick trade.

Doubly true considering he was a delisted free agent signing via the Swans.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Another Malthouse / McKay special ... didn't want to give Waite two years but they had no problem giving Dick 2 and Jones 3

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In WADA we trust

Great summation bondiblue and I concur the reset will not be easy and where cooming from a long way back, but Bolton & SOS are inspirations, professional and enthusiastic, love there mission and will put us on the right path.
Of course Luck has a part in it too, but overall there's light at the end of the tunnel , lets be very patient. Go baggers

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Go Blue Boys

If tonight is a guide, can we expect Murphy, Gibbs, Kreuz, Simpson, Thomas, Jamo and Rowe to be 'future endeavoured' at the end of the year?

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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

Rowe and Simpson are out of contract and Kreuzer is being used incorrectly, but I have never seen a team run out a regular season game the way the Suns did, they were insane

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Trade Gibbs..............

21 possessions tonight - none of them damaging. Just lazy and goes about it half-assed!

Imagine if we get the #1 draft pick again this year - FIVE #1 picks in the same team??? We'd be a flower laughing stock (moreso than we already are!)


And somebody please tell me that Dale Thomas is into his final year????

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
- Aristotle

We are a professional football team that delivered another wooden spoon last season.

So we went back to the draft, and we still do not appear to have one player on our list that is a half decent forward.

Not one...

Not in the seniors or the Bullants. Because if we did - he would be getting a game.

Not one player on our list, who might be playing down back, has been moved on to the forward line to see how things go.

Even if Simmo or Gibbs were rotating through the forward line, we could say "well at least we are trying something different".

This once great club, with all its expertise and experience, has chosen to bounce back from a wooden spoon & enter a new season with no forward...

We can not be serious...

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"...that's the thing about opinion - you don't have to know anything to have one..." Andre Agassi commenting on Pat Cash 2004
"...the less you know - the more you believe..." - Bono 2006

You cannot be serious.

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Harry McKay says hi , pretty nice of him to go out of his way to do so with the sore back and all.

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Liam Jones says hi

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It is not as bad as you are lead to believe.......it is %$#^& worse!!!

it is hilarious that all our injuries are forwards

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