Finals a must for Blues - The Age's Carlton Preview

yibbida · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:23 pm

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/finals-a-must-for-blues/2009/03/11/1236447300566.html

The Age have a crack at our best team, at least they have Grigg in the team.... :smoking:

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CARLTON

Coach: Brett Ratten

Captain: Chris Judd

Last five years: 11-16-16-15-11

Premierships: 16 (1906, 1907-08, 1914-15, 1938, 1945, 1947, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1979, 1981-82, 1987, 1995)

Star five: Chris Judd, Brendan Fevola, Nick Stevens, Marc Murphy, Bryce Gibbs.

One to watch: Chris Yarran - He's new to the AFL and only 18 years old, but the slick forward was a star playing senior football with WAFL side Swan Districts last season and could provide some exciting moments.

Ins: Michael Jamison (rookie elevation), Chris Johnson (Melbourne), Rhys O'Keeffe (North Adelaide, SA), Mitch Robinson (Tasmania VFL), Caleb Tiller (Murray U18), Robert Warnock (Fremantle), Chris Yarran (Swan Districts, WA).

Outs: Cain Ackland (delisted), Clinton Benjamin (delisted), Luke Blackwell (delisted), Ryan Jackson (delisted), Aisake O'hAilpin (delisted), Darren Pfeiffer (delisted), Jason Saddington (retired).

Best line-up:

B: Paul Bower, Michael Jamison, Bret Thornton

HB: Shaun Grigg, Jarrad Waite, Heath Scotland

C: Kade Simpson, Marc Murphy, Nick Stevens

HF: Simon Wiggins, Brad Fisher, Ryan Houlihan

F: Eddie Betts, Brendan Fevola, Andrew Walker

R: Matthew Kreuzer, Bryce Gibbs, Chris Judd

I: Cameron Cloke, Andrew Carrazzo, Chris Johnson, Richard Hadley

bluedog · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:37 pm

Surely an oversight in the listed team.

JR is not there.

Cheezel · **Joined:** Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:04 pm **Posts:** 2

I'm not sure that is an overview, JR is consistently rated by those in the know either 'just' in our best 22 or in the next group of 5 players just outside our best team. Assuming everyone stays fit, he'll have to fight very hard to retain his spot, which is really what we have needed for a long time.

Presumably he'll make the team for rd 1 as both carrots and scotland have been listed and they definitely wont play, walker is a 50/50.

jimmae · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:54 am

Swap Fisher and Cloke around and I might just let that team slide

dane · **Joined:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:14 am **Posts:** 22357

much better attempt.
enough of the fisher as CHF though.

Blue Sombrero · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:31 am

jimmae wrote:

Swap Fisher and Cloke around and I might just let that team slide

Almost. We'll have to find a spot for a ruckman eentually.

Virgin Blue · **Joined:** Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:32 pm **Posts:** 3021

Yup, better, but Fish at CHF??

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17222

I have Eddie Betts / Simon Wiggins rotating as my preferred CHF. Depends on where we play. If at the Dome - I don't feel the need for a conventional CHF...so the AGE / HUN just plucking tallish forwards from the list and putting them there. No harm in that.

kingkerna · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:04 pm

How does Warnock not get a mention?

teagueyubeauty · **Joined:** Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:28 am **Posts:** 6450

kingkerna wrote:

How does Warnock not get a mention?

Contrary to popular belief, Mr 206 hasn't done much in his career thus far.

camel · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:13 pm

teagueyubeauty wrote:

kingkerna wrote:

How does Warnock not get a mention?

Contrary to popular belief, Mr 206 hasn't done much in his career thus far.

Well, he's made it to 206, so what else is left to achieve?

jt · **Posted:** Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:44 am

kingkerna wrote:

How does Warnock not get a mention?

Are you being serious?

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