He thinks we're playing Geelong this weekend.

Its funny how people see different things .. crazy aint it. I believe Russell has been very good for us this year ... hard to understand the nasty criticism. Sure he has his weaknesses ... but on the whole ... he has been good ... so there u go.

_________________
I am as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!!!

Well said, there would be quite a few more players on our team that should be dropped before him. A lot more...

_________________
when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Feelgood Hit of the Winter - GHRP-2, GHRP-6, CJC-1295, AOD-9604, Humanofort and Hexarelin

I don't mean to bait but I am curious who deserves to be dropped before Russell who had played every game?

_________________
Green Shooter

Players who have played every game this season and named again this week:

Fevola
Betts
Murphy
Judd
Kreuzer
Simpson
Russell
Gibbs
Joseph
Thornton
Bower

The only one who would come even remotely close is Simpson and at the end of the day, Simpson>Russell.

_________________
Lawrence Lawrence, The man who knows all the rackets and all the racketeers!

I will say it again
@#$%&!

Happy camper.

WOW. You're pretty passionate about Russell aint you? I've never bagged him but you must be blinded by man love. This kid has all the attributes to be anything yet he is nothing much at the moment. You also don't do yourself any favours bagging Stevens at the end of your post. I don't see the relevance.

But seriously tell opposition supporters that Russell has contributed more than Stevens and they will die of laughter. And if you do go back two years, you'll find that Stevens was recovering from a pretty serious neck injury

Excellent!

What the ...?

_________________
[Sam Jacobs] looks like a 7' Lance Whitnall, and [Mitch Robinson] looks like a 4' Lance Whitnall
(The SEN team during the Carlton v Cats 2009 pre-season match)

It's one thing to have an opinion, but I get very about the way some posters express their opinions...

I cannot understand posters that say things like 'the MC are a [REDACTED]', 'the MC is a joke' etc just because they disagree with a team selection

It's great to speculate, ponder, predict, but let's face it....none of us have access to all the information/data that the MC does, none of us are 100% privy to the inner workings of the club, none of us have spent all week studying the opposition's structure/personnel/gameplan, and most (none?) of us have the football credentials to be on an AFL MC.

That doesn't mean our MC are always right, but people around here who pass their (largely ill-informed) opinions off as established facts are the real 'jokes'......

......IMO

_________________
It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.

Newsflash verbs
Cam Croad is playing next week

_________________
#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

Because its so obvious that they are wrong on Jordan Russell
and Joey Anderson
Sometimes its a no brainer

go blues !

_________________
*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

This part - YAY!!!



This part, not so yay.... He hasn't had 100% blinders, but he's been solid, and he's had a heap of blinders in the last 2 years. Down on form at the moment, but crazy to say it's 2 years of nothing.

_________________
Now stalking Carlton on Twitter and Facebook!

Hey Gro don't forget the winter woolies mate, it is going to be a cold one tomorrow night

I'm not with you on this one Synners.

IMHO, Setanta doesn't quite have the football nous to play full back. As quick as he is, he doesn't quite have the reading of the play required to keep up with a full forward on the lead. I think Setanta has always looked more comfortable out at CHB. Here, his pace and mobility are great assets, but he doesn't have to be as precise to keep up with his opponent.

It's always been a question of where to play him. I think his best spot is CHB, although I am not sure that he is/will be our best option at CHB. This week, however, I would like to see him play as second ruck to Hampson, allowing Kreuzer to play all night at CHF.

_________________
Mens sana in corpore sano.

Bring back the laurel wreath logo!!!

I can understand the thinking of rotating Yarran with Garlett. At the moment we should try to carry one of them each week as an investment in 2010. Yarran looked better last week and is going to be a joy to watch. Garlett a little lucky but he does have x-factor. I hope he goes ok this week.

Setanta had to come in purely for his verstility. There have been at least two occasions this year when his versatility would have allowed us to cover a key position when one of our players went down early in the game.

Houlihan a bit lucky to be back in assuming the Ants reports are correct. Fev will be pleased though. I wonder is it a coincidence that Fev has only kicked 2.6 in the last three rounds? Ryan looked a much better player in the opening rounds when Robinson and Garlett were providing plenty of forward line defensive pressure. Not so good when that wasn't happening. Hopefully there might be a bit more collective defensive pressure in the f50 this week.

Hadley is one of a number of more physically mature players who haven't been able to get into it in recent games.
Looking at who is available after injuries (and there are a lot of them now) I am not sure who I would have selected to replace Wiggins.
Sensible to give Grigg another game in the 2s with his limited preparation. Don't want to risk a hammy, etc.

Would have gone with Anderson or Bannister to free up one of Austin or Thornton to play forward. Perhaps Kreuzer will get some time there. Last chances for Fish.

Indeed! Enjoy the game Grro - I just got someone's corporate tickets to next week's Lion slaying, so I'm only a week away from seeing the boys again myself!

Can't wait till we string some wins together so all these people can come back and say that they were only briefly concerned! Bring some wins, bring back some TC sanity.... I'm getting pretty sad of reading so many negative opinions on here....

_________________
Now stalking Carlton on Twitter and Facebook!