yeah..... evry disappointing archie.... what's the injury though..... does anyone know at all?????

Let De luca be.

Please refer to the De Luca should stay thread I created and read the reasons why and others think he should.

Given so, if it is longish term then put him on the LTI list and promote someone.

Maybe Sentanta.

However, he is the obvious choice. Is he going too get game time if he plays, or will he be on the bench more.

I say let him sit out the season in the bullants, playing four quarters week in week out.

Is there a smokey who might be worth a punt.

Of our rookies is Smith worth a look just too see if he has something small too offer.

otherwise then go with Sentanta.

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Strained fringe.

(Yes, PJ, I'm using the same joke)

got a lot of mates though.
Andrew Walker, Heath Scotland, David Teague, Brendan Fevola to name just a few.

Agreed!

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NOW YOU'RE JUST SOME CLUB THAT I USED TO KNOW.

I actually think it's a big shame that ADL is out for 6. Now he would be dangerous given that we have Bryan to help out Barnaby. ADL could stay in the forward line and we would definitely stretch a few defences out there.

All 6 week injuries should default to 8 weeks to allow the Irish beast to add some senior appearances to his CV.

Archie, take some leave and have a break!

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C'mon Blueboys!

Shame for Archie he'll be ok just never seems to have recovered post missing pre-season.
Another major disappiontment is Trent Sporn, carried him with injuries and still looking like guy on Collo's "crossroads".

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Green Shooter

Crap post MCB.

Good luck to Archie, hope he recovers real soon. He's had a tough year, missed a lot of pre season with injury and now this.

Some posters should have consideration that missing a significant portion of pre season was going to impair his development this year and take this into account in assessing his performance this year.

Website just says left foot and TBA

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Greg Lee

On the Injury Update Site

Player - Adrian Deluca
Injury - foot injury
Onset - Rnd 11
Estimated Return - Rnd 12

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Number 17 in Carlton's 25 Greatest Moments.

Next week? WTF?

Quick.........somebody get a Baseball Bat!

Nah - just kidding !

Where the hell is Tonya Harding these days?

IMHO if there is a Long Term Injury, Archie or anyone, the rookie to promote is Jessie Smith...this guy is a real footballer, and should not be lost to another club.

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A Life!.....Great....I wonder where I can download one of those.

Does anyone know what the sitaution is at the end of the season with Rookies? Do we get first bite of the cherry to re-sign our rookies?

Carlton have the first option over our rookies. All rookies can be kept for 2 years, then if you want to keep them you need to promote them onto the senior list. This year is Setantas last year on the rookie list, and if we are to keep him, we need to promote him onto our senior list.

Just as an add-on, to keep them you could try to convince them to stay as a rookie for another year too. If they have a hard offer from someone else, it may be difficult to keep them, but that player has to decide whether they trust anyother club to use a draft or rookie selection on them.

Thanks for the heads up!

Good to hear DeLuca may not be in too much strife.

SEN just announced that Deluca has a stress facture of the opposite foot to the one he broke earlier possibly 6-8 weeks

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Let the Fookin Hittin Begin

Ouch.

He must have been favouring his non-broken foot, thus causing the resultant stress fractures. Poor guy.

Does anyone know if he's still an accountant? And if he still drives around in that beat up jalopy?