Braithy wrote:
keogh wrote:
Braithy wrote:
do you watch much footy, keogh? bcos there's no way houston is overrated, and he has plenty of leg speed - would make a good winger. but at half back, he quarterbacks the team, gets on his bike and runs and delivers it into F50 the best in the league.
anddddddd ... picking kids and developing them? isn't that quite literally what we've been doing for the last 25 years?
this current list is so close to another prelim and beyond, i can smell it. we need to get after it this summer and bring home number 17. we have deadwood in the club, lets sift thru it, clear some out, upgrade some important areas and make 2025 something to remember.
I watch too much footy
That’s where Houston plays
The easiest position on the groundThat’s why he ain’t worth selling the farm
How many times does it happen early spring when Carlton pay overs
Look at Geelongvery interesting. Tom Stewart plays the same position as houston, and stewart is in the convo for their most important piece. he sets their whole attack up from halfback. and defends like a lion. and many people, including me, say they'd take houston over stewart bcos he's 4 years younger.
geelong's drafting is league best. no one comes close to them, and no one knows how they do it. as good as mannagh or humpheries are, they not anywhere near similar to houston. and to even say that, i'm not sure you've seen houston play or watch much footy.
but to say geelong aren't topping up in free agency is wild. cameron, tuohy, henderson, stengle, gary rohan, dangerfield, oli henry all free agents. all off the top of my head. and this summer they'll buy Bailey Smith. so save me the cats don't give up the farm for players - they give plenty up.
we've waited 30 years since our last flag. it's time to go all out and get another one, yeah?
I agree....Geelong are the best in recruiting, that Wells is a gun.... but how much of their success is due to the free hand given to them by the AFL? 30%? 20%? 40%? 15%? We will never know.. All we know is that their name is written on the premiership cups of 2007, 2009, 2011 & 2022.
The father-son debacle is a loophole they gleefully exploited. Yet another makey-makey uppy uppy rule the AFL introduced that distorted results.
Ablett
Hawkins
Scarlett
Without them, St Kilda would have won in 2009 and Collingwood would have won in 2011 (yes, I know Ablett didn't play in 2011 victory). It distorts results.
Carlton's best father-son?
Lance Whitnall.
Doesn't really compare, does it?
Oh but "the romance of it" all.
No more romance, just level the playing field. Either radically change the "father-son" or get rid of it. I've waited 30 years for my team to have success. I don't see "romance" whilst watching other teams with father-son picks win premierships.
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