When we got Bolton as coach, the Hawthorn features we thought may be replicated at Carlton from the Hawthorn model in our recruiting was:

Skilled players by hand and foot, Left footers, Unsociable footy, Highly Competitive.

I think you've singled out one there Don...interesting.

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Yeah that Hawthorn model was a good one..........worked 5 years ago...not so much now.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

That's because they gave up on that when they stopped rebuilding and have gone for ready made stars.

They aren't that far off the pace. Don't know why. Maybe Mitchell and Lewis were amazing once in a generation mids made for GF's.
Maybe they've held onto and depended on an ageing Roughead to long. Who cares about them anymore anyway? Not me.

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Hawthorn gave up on the draft because the landscape changed.
The AFL made it easier to get established proven players and they have taken advantage of it.
Carlton however are following the Hawks model of 10 plus years ago by the time we wake up the AFL will have changed the rules again

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Why will the rules work against Kreuzer?

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/08/15/ ... has-faced/

Walls will tell Bolton to give him a run in the ruck.

Yeah I reckon they and the media are kidding themselves, top 4 team lol, the media like to trot it out. The only thing that made them top 4 or top 8 even was a ridiculously easy draw.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

You're forgeting one part, and that is they started with the draft after nearly merging with the Dees.

You have to have a foundation of good young players which is what the Hawks did, as we have done.
Then after that came the foreign legion.

The landscape is the same for us moving forward. We didnt want to trade pick 1 for Shiel: that's all.

What makes you think we wont take advantage of the FA rules, let alone carlton becoming a destination club with all that high end youth on our list?

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Good point Smithy.

I hope the Hawks fall, along with the Cats, and then every other team in Black n White, or has a Scott as a coach or up themselves Tigers. Then there's Adelaide who I hope we pass this year (not likely but...)

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Interesting given our lack of run of HB last year that we essentially come into 2019 with 3 "new recruits" in this area.


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Hawthorn have fallen into the trap of believing that trading in mercenaries will win the premiership whilst moving out their club legends before they were ready to quit.

This years trade of Wingard and dumping of burton is the clearest example that they have abandoned the draft completely

Only time will tell if they are ahead of the curve or misjudged the value of developing a list through drafting.

Interesting how Mitch McGovern talked about the prospect of him maybe playing as a 3rd tall OR as the small at the feet of Charlie and Big H.

I thought about it, the checked some highlight packages of him and he is good on his feet, turns well, didn't strike me as an Eddie Betts, but can see him playing as a mobile Forward tall, medium or small.

He also made mention how "Setters, Newman, and Solo" (Fasolo), add maturity to a list which was decimated by injury last year, and are reason why we will rise up the ladder. Sounds like Solo is making a good impression at Carlton. We know he has kicked plenty of goals, has a hardened AFL body, can take a mark and knows where to go on an AFL forwardline.

He is pumped and has genuine belief our current list will rise quickly up the ladder.

McGovern as the small we all crave. IMO, probably not the small but he will be mobile as is Charlie, Harry, Solo and Setters....I think there's still a spot for a small, and it may be one of the rotating midfielders Murphy, SPS, Dow, Pickett, Fisher, maybe Lang....plenty of choice really with added depth to the midfield group. I just don't think its going to be LeBois or Polson in 2019.

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Yeah he is agile and very quick, I wouldn't mind seeing him doing stints up the ground 60/40 swapping that outlet role with Curnow and spending some time in midfield.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

Obviously injury means there's never a consistent best 22 playing, more like a best 22 of who's available. But it's one area we need to get on top of to improve our chances.

I added up, across the league, every player who's played ten or more games in a row as of the end of the 2018 season. Made for some interesting reading:

Collingwood 474
North 472
Geelong 417
Melbourne 410
Port 374
Essendon* 342
West Coast 331
Hawthorn 331
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Sydney 300
GWS 286
Brisbane 274
St Kilda 268
Richmond 261
Gold Coast 233
Adelaide 216
Bulldogs 164
Fremantle 121
Carlton 88

Our 88 are made up of just 5 players:
Petrevski-Seton 30
Cripps 22
Curnows both 13
Polson 10

GWS, Sydney and Richmond have overachieved. Port, North and Essendon* have underachieved. You'd think those three are a couple of injuries away from collapsing.

But, but, but...."Collingwood have been decimated by injuries"

Spot on Verbs. And if you delve a little deeper, the quality of player makes interesting reading as well.

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Nah injuries weren’t a factor in our shit season

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Very interesting post.

Carlton

B. Jones Weitering Simpson
HB. Docherty Marchbank Newman
C. LOB Fisher Walsh
HF. Murphy Charlie SPS
F. Fasolo McKay McGovern
R. Kreuzer Cripps Dow
Int. Kennedy WilliamsonEd TDK

Northern Blues

B. Schumacher Goddard Plowman
HB. Thomas Macreadie Cuningham
C. Stocker Setterfield Garlett
HF. Pickett Casboult Lang
F. O'Dwyer Kerr Jack
R. Philips Bugg Polson
Int Owies Ben Lebois Lobbe

I think we are missing a mongrel FB but we can make do for now.

I Prefer Weitering and Marchbank up around CHB where Weits kicking can set us up closer to F50 and Marchbank can intercept mark outside D50.

I would be leaving Jones at FB to do the spoiling, grunt work. His athletic ability makes him more than capable and he has only one job to do..........spoil his man and bring it to ground.

Regards Cazzesman

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Carlton

B. Bugg Jones Simpson
HB. Marchbank Weitering Newman
C. Murphy Cripps Williamson
HF. Fisher Charlie SPS
F. Fasolo McKay McGovern
R. Kreuzer Docherty Dow
Int. Walsh LOB Setterfield Ed

Northern Blues

B. Schumacher Goddard Plowman
HB. Thomas Macreadie Jack
C. Stocker Kennedy Garlett
HF. Pickett Casboult Lang
F. O'Dwyer Kerr TDK
R. Philips Cuningham Polson
Int Owies Ben Lebois Lobbe

Regards Cazzesman

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I hope Pickett can break into the ones. If he gets it together I think he has more upside than Bugg, Newman, Fasolo. But I agree that he is not there yet.