Braithy wrote:
club29 wrote:
Id like to...just for a test that might shut me up... play with a team that has the bare minimum talls. Running players every shutting down space and applying pressure for longer...much longer than othewise possible. Score of the back of that. No need for an abundance of long tall targets. Just run it forward. If we get done by being outmarked then so be it. Pretty much the Dogs 2016, Tigers 2017 gameplan.
Curnow , JSOS, Cripps, Weitering and TDK and Pitt if we must. The rest all running players. I want to see us shutdown space and be impossible to play against. Similar to how the pies looked against Swans in the 3rd quarter.
i think this is the prototype of modern footy.
a skilled & athletic ruck, and a key forward to straighten attack, bring it to the deck, and 2 key defenders. and then a few mobile mediums, and the rest is fast, athletic and endurance footy players. the whole MO is about spoiling contests, swarming the opponent, and running and spreading in the other direction.
pies, hawks, suns, lions do this better than anyone right now.
You could be right. I like club29's thinking.
I've got my Carlton's "fastest" team". I get it.
We all probably think similarly about our favourite style of play.
But our list limits us to 10 years of drafting contested players.
We've been dealt a #@%& , but that's what it is.
I wish we had 2 TDKs. I thought we'd have 2DKs in 2026, but then again, we may have no DKs.
Space is created by speed, and speed closes space.
We've only got TDK, Harry, and in a way Young to ruck as the athletic types. Harry's out, and then we have Xerri to eyeball and clash with.
If it was a GF I'd play Pittonet and tell him its no holds barred and go for the man. There's no next week in GFs. He's either be injured or suspended.
But for North, I'd welcome a surprise from the MC if they went with O'Keefe, or Young. Pittonet is good fresh from injury. Usually lasts a game or two till lame again.