cimm1979 wrote:
It will be interesting.
I would love for the MC to pick as many newbies as they can but too many raw recruits might get a bit of stage fright.
Glad it's not me choosing the side.
All I know is that Duigan, Twomey, Laidler and a few others are a great improvement on Bentick, Browne (who I liked) , Johnson, Bentley and Anderson.
Well I hope so anyway. I seem to remember getting a little excited by Callum Chambers pre-season form once.
Agree with every bit.
We have come a long way, but for many, who had the Carlton arrogance and swagger, knocked out of them by the allmighty AFL and reduced to a subsistence economy, well they are scarred from those types of misgivings such as the calibre of recruits, including Callum Chabbers.
We are back!
The new recruits over the last 2 years ...you just can't falter our selections and LUCK for a change...having secured 2 first rounders for Fev, in Henderson and Lucas...pinch me.
ALL the new guys, including guys who are peripheral have also impressed us all, players like Kerr, Tuohy, McInnes, Cachia..they're on the radar now.
We have a good list but whilst it's deep with quality, it is shallow in terms of experience.
If you take out the 3 best quality oldies from the line up we lose, Scotland, Houlihan and Carrazzo, we know we can cover them with this list.
We don't have much experience after the next 3 oldest which happen to be Judd, Waite, Thornton, so the window imo is open right now.
I reckon if we picked on form and not name, we could field a team that can push for the GF this year.
I don't think the coach (and the supporters) know what they are dealing with.
We'll find out this year. Fingers crossed.
If we're playing for finals wins this year ( abd the coach sure is) then we are going to need as many senior players standing up and playing like every game is their last finals game ...that's for the first 22 games to get to the finals in first the first place.
It's a long season, and we'll have injury to our top 6 oldies so I'm glad we've exposed the kids to the Senior level in the NAB, because I'm sure glad I've seen them, and because we are going to need them at some stage.
Our peripheral players 2nd 22 are better than our first 22 between 2005-2008.