Surely we have a spot open now with Carroll injury.

I'm making an assumption that what happened to Lij was self inflicted, which is why I think he'll be delisted.

I hope I'm wrong, because I bloody love him.

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We killed at CB against Port. even in Q3 and Q4. made a difference to our territory game. If only the inaccuracy missing from Q1 and Q2 didn't bite us on the arse in Q3 and Q4 we could have won by 100 points. Port would have probably dropped their bundle if we'd kicked straight in Q3.

ok, I'm prepared to think the Collingwood players were talking shit, or Lij was talking shit to them b/c he was in an altered state. but I've heard the same rumours you did I guess.

Strong point you make.

We could still put him on the LTI (doesn't look like they will), and give him another chance, like we did this year if the AFL has fixed their mess....and the AFL can return the unjust $75K penalty

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I really doubt an LLM is up to the job this year or next year. If somebody properly trained ML/AI on all kinds of AFL transponder data and it had some core architecture with Energy-Based Models (EBMs) model or whatever is best for team ball sports then possibly. The Noyron TKL-5 was programmed to assist aerospace engineers and for one of its first assignments designed an exceedingly complex rocket engine with an aerospace nozzle and it spat out a very innovative design which a scale model of worked first firing. But there was a head coach or three, it wasn't just an "AI" chatbot. if they really could train something with some physics laws into it and train on a tonne of game stats (and vision?!) could possibly be first assistance coach, but AFL is a pretty conservative place. it would take a Richmond or Essendon* going from 17th to GF in a season to convince the old heads in football land, I think. Or a soccer club or NFL team going stratospheric in a season rallying on training patterns and game day tactics and positional structures pulled from an AI/ML model.

Elon Musk will be releasing his bots soon, and he says they will replace most humans in the workspace. Does he have a 212cm bot that can jump and hit the ball exactly to the blokes on the floor wearing transponders? Mmmmmmmm

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Elon Musk is too busy telling all the lies in the world to get his dodgy AF SpaceX IPO into orbit. That thing has crash and burn written all over it, it's already leveraged to hell and back and behind every milestone NASA ever set for SpaceX by many years. Landing on Mars in 2028… oh sure, not even a manless lander on the moon by then using SpaceX technology — i'm sure of it.

'Charlie wins memberships and Weiters wins GFs', don't you remember?

keep bringing the hate Braithy

MSD tomorrow

Carlton have Pick 4

Carroll on LTI.

Obviously Harry O'Farrell will be welcomed back this year.

I'm guessing he will be back playing in the VFL in July, 11 months after he did his knee on August 3rd at Freo.

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Seemed like the obvious decision.
Looking forward to seeing HOF and Dean in the same back line if I'm to be honest.

Thankfully, recruiting footy players isn’t rocket science… not unless you want it to be.

Definitely not a game for amateurs.

All I’m saying is that, as of last week, the recruiting team is:

Chris Davies - an obsessed data nerd
Glenn Luff - formerly Champion Data
Brent Manson - list strategy, previously opposition analyst

Things are about to get mechanical.

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Missed this post last night.

Read what you like in our two recent wins. You can’t blame the Voss or Game Plan for our CB performance in second halves in every other game we played, including our win vs Tigers. There’s evidence shows we lost second halves to CB dominance from opposition rucks which was the source of 5-6 goals kicked against us in a row. It’s a nightmare etched. Surely you recall a bit of that. Happened every other game.

It’s already been said that we won the midfield battle in the last 2 weeks, but have to be mindful against Bulldogs with no English !!! no Libba and Bont and Richard’s on one leg, and a lone Lobbe in the ruck making them short in the backline… and against Port against Sweet who isn’t tall and doesn’t jump Pitto won that 10-7 HO to advantage, and Harry rucking 10 mins every quarter, robbing us a KPF whilst we bombed it forward 15 times before we kicked one goal. Our shots at goal in the 3rd were rushed except for Byrnes howler. Go have another look. The benefit of robbing our forwardline of our sole KPF was preserving Pittonet for the last quarter.

There’s a trend we must be mindful of. The ‘sugar hit’ against weak opposition shouldn’t mask our reality. Harry has rarely won a CB against better bonafide ruckmen and Pittonet can’t compete against jumping rucks as the game wears on.

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That’s a great reminder Cru.
A scientific approach rather than a gut feel.
List Management and recruitment is not for amateurs.

I can howl and cry about our gaps, but I’m sure the above are all over it. Outside of Game Plan, they would know where we lost, why we lost, what we needed and the shortfalls of those we have.

I’m sure Manson and Luff would know exactly who our FA, Trade and Draft targets are to fill the gaps.

I’ll shut up now…..and excited to see who they pick today.

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Why don't we put Elijah on the inactive roster? I mean realistically the troubled young man who needs our support , will never play for us again.

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https://x.com/danbatten_/status/2059136937802481785

Dan Batten
@danbatten_
Carlton is eyeing Tigers VFL forward Sam Toner in tonight’s mid-season draft. Had 25 disposals and 3 goals in his final audition.

Toner had a medical and interview with the Blues on Monday.

Late mail with @PaulAmy375 + @chriscavanagh1: http://bit.ly/4fHtHTS @superfooty

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Maybe they need someone to help out with the photocopiers up in admin.

At a guess we might be looking at him for better wing coverage.
This video has him on the wing for a lot of his disposals, presumably as a HF pushing up the ground.
So he could be at HF so Hayward can get a run on the wing or to give Ainsworth more of a run in the middle.
Seems like a flexible option, he must be better than F Young in their eyes.
Either way, good to see we are adding more speed and someone who can hit targets and kick goals.
That's if we can get him.
His nickname should be Xerox.
https://www.afl.com.au/video/1525622/vfl-showreel-r9-sam-toner-highlights?videoId=1525622&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1779519111001



https://central.rookieme.com/afl/player/sam-toner/

I'll call him Al.

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