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Absolutely that was the case. Just look at where he stands on the Nick Daicos goal with a minute to go. That was Nick’s role in the first half of last season.

For anyone hand wringing about the prospect of Carlton finally having a somewhat relevant year, please remember to stop and smell the flowers in the good time. There hasn’t been a single team as shithouse as Carlton in the past two decades (most weeks at bottom of ladder). I know some of you...

It’s a tough call as I think it’s very rare to have ‘fully fit’ players as you say. But you can pick up the times it happens and the player seems on fire. Eg Jordy prelim last year was just so explosive and focused. On the flip side I agree that sometimes the better call is to give the player...

The confirmation of Jordy and Mitchell’s injuries certainly is bad news, but in some way it made me feel better about our catastrophic midfield performance last week as they must have been playing hampered.

In some way, yes. And we got Titch to try and fix it and again brilliant short term move but doesn’t even solve the medium term issues with our midfield mix. Pray for LDU.

Haha I don’t know if that says more about how I felt about the result or the general vibe I was responding to. You could say we left two points on the table. But in reality I just don’t think you can win games with that awful of a stoppage performance so I kinda felt relieved at the end...

I’ll be honest and say I have only quickly read through the thread but I saw some impossibly bad takes in it. Blaming McReery and Schultz when our midfield was applying so little pressure whilse these two were? Blaming Moore or any of the defenders when the ball was coming in relentlessly due...

I don’t think we’re solving any of our long term inside midfield mix problem this year unfortunately (not big on Smith in that position… and not that excited overall either).

I’m a big yes to LDU. Mitchell is doing as best as he can in his first touch position and it netted us a flag so can’t complain but I don’t see the future of the game having these limited inside mids types when more and more of your generic inside-out mids are getting bigger and impossible to...

You can argue it’s one of many reasons the competition struggles to stay relevant without Collingwood in it ;). 13: nothing GF 14: nothing GF 15: nothing GF 16: rigged GF 17: nothing GF 18: epic GF 19: nothing GF 20: irrelevant year 21: Perth GF 22: nothing GF 23: epic GF Though being more...

I’d like to see Crisp in the middle this week and matched with Rozee as much as we can (Rozee sweeps the back of stoppages a lot and break defensive lines as a result), and Nick predominately at half back going into the sweeper role for us himself. Would counter their speed with ours.

Yep and the biggest absurdity of it all is that the entire system is based off outcome versus intent, when outcome is much more heavily influenced by sheer luck and by the actual individuals in play. Tu use your example someone like Brayshaw, especially after taking a hit to the head a few...

Forget about comparing teams and how bad they each were at a point in time to receive extra assistance from the AFL, just for a sec. The idea of assistance in the form of priority picks isn’t or shouldn’t be simply linked just to poor performance. That’s what the regular draft is for. It...

Nick’s game underrated here probably because of a couple of his risky corridor kicks that didn’t pay off. He’s a big reason we won because he rejuvenated our rebound scoring game (he and Noble as they were the main combo early 2023 too). 7 score involvements, 650m gained from 22 kicks makes...

I don’t know what to make of his game. Never been impressed by him until our practice game this year where he had a great clearance and linking role but he seems off the pace at AFL level. Slow, hesitant. Could be athleticism or could be confidence b it either way we are carrying him. I’d give...

Most pressure acts on the ground, 6 tackles and 4 score involvement. Clearly bringing energy, he just needs to nail the set shots and snaps when he gets the opportunity. Still very confident it’ll work out. We are a systems based forward line without stand out stars and it takes a while to...

Agree on Mitchell and McReery, I’ve only ever seen Pendles play like this when physically hampered (including 2018 GF sadly) so I’m assuming the same even if we haven’t heard what specifically is his niggle. Hill I’m disappointed because I think he had the potential to take the next level and...

As you put forward yourself our form even taking into account our finals series wasn’t as strong as the first half of the 23 season. But Crisp was the opposite, he was extremely strong and played the system really well in our finals series. I think that buys him a ‘I’ll make you the sub to put...

I haven’t had time to read through the whole thread and I don’t want to sugarcoat our terrible start to the year but one question I had looking at our performances was on our training regimen. We have gone from the team that can switch gears and run teams off their feet in last quarters to a...

Has form with dirty shots. Breaking Howe’s ribs in the GF is case in point.

Sorry very late to respond but the head knock to Brayshaw happened with 18:52 left in the first quarter, three minutes before the collision with Maynard. Brayshaw is in a scramble and ends up getting pushed into Tay Adams’ knee. Kinda similar to how Murphy got hit in the GF. Brayshaw gets up and...

The editing was awesome work. That footage of the entire G erupting on the prelim’s final siren gave me goosebumps. Was overseas for that game but for those 95k+ of you who were there… FMD that must have been something else.

To be fair you are doing it specifically to tease the reactions. I think on talent and potential you could be right that he’ll end up in the mix, the same way I thought Messi might end up up there when I first saw him play for Barcelona as a 17yo, but so much needs to happen to even be...

Honestly at this stage would anyone cry if this type of bump disappeared off the game entirely? By that I mean a bump once the ball leaves the boot/hand where in any case the ‘defender’ wouldn’t have had time to tackle anyway? For example Charlie Cameron’s bump on Howe in the GF after he kicked...

Considering we’re reigning premiers and sitting on top of the flag tally I guess some people have to clutch very very hard at very very thin straws to try and dismiss our record. You could say we should have more flags considering how many times we’ve been in the GF but we’re already up top. On...

And people will see why he’s a much better fit at half forward to this Collingwood team than Adams was (though not criticising Tay he did very well and as best as he could in the role but he’s not elite there by league standards).

More like people made up their mind and refused to look at new angles of the incident nor the Maynard defence arguments including the fact that once in the air there is nothing a human can do to change direction and not enough time to change mind. It really has nothing to do with a bump and...

Except a few of us were at pain to describe his efforts in the prelim and GF as really strong and promising for the future. Well us and the main coach. What he had as a weakness was the physical ground ball contest, maybe impacted by the shoulder and he’s got stronger there he’s just not losing...

Sad news. I’ve always loved watching him play. Regarding the hysteria on Maynard what gets forgotten is the reason Brayshaw was so completely knocked out by an attempted smother is mostly due to the head knock he got from a knee while contested the ball on the ground 3min earlier. Not to...

Wonder if one day the more rational AFL watchers will realise or remember that the reason Brayshaw was so completely knocked out by an attempted smother is mostly due to the head knock he got from a knee while contested the ball on the ground 3min earlier. Seems to have been forgotten in the...