Toast Pick #19: Welcome to Carlton Blaine Boekhorst

[thylacine60]

Didn't another club try to poach Rogers and we promptly promoted him?

That was Gibbs' first year........

 

[DaVillaBlues]

Loved Mick's good natured reaction to that tweet, most other coaches (esp Mr No Personality Buckley) would have towed out the old party line 'We will sit down and have a talk with him' but the manner Mick has done puts the young man and everyone at the club at ease.

Its important that new recruits/draftees are made to feel welcome at the club, something which perhaps wasn't as good as it could have been previously at the club (dating back to the later Brittain/Pagan era)

 

[HARKER]

Holman will have a break out year in 2015, I see the talent and necessary desire and mongrel to get there.

I like Nick but he'll need to improve kicking on his right leg.

Whereas Sheehan has some tricks to maneuver himself so to get on that left leg, I'm not convinced Holman has, yet.

 

[DamoESP]

Funny that, the way they reported it on the radio this morning as "New Blue in hot water with Coach in first meeting since tweet" I thought Mick had grilled him, but everything I've read its been the opposite, that Mick has taken it in good stride, had a laugh (hence the nickname) and we move on.

******* biased WA media hahaha.

 

[Sector 7G]

The biggest relief is that it looks like he has got rid of the top knot. Would have been hard to support him if he was running around looking as ridiculous as Grundy or Hurley.

 

[Dramoth]

I'm rational enough to acknowledge my irrationality in questioning this pick...but yeah, I'm a little uneasy with it.

Rogers trying to soften the blow a few days out from the draft suggests, at least to me, that we had zeroed in on a player regardless of the how the cards were to fall. I don't like that.

Nor do I like that Rogers appears to be acting on the directive of the coaching staff rather than conducting a more independent talent identification process. Again, my impression only.

Feels a bit like 2010 where a perceived need for type saw us overlook plenty of other likely types.

I think that Rogers was advised of the clubs needs... i.e. the club knew that we were delisting Lucas and wanted someone else with outside run and had very good hand and foot skills. Rogers settled on Boekie and played fox and hounds with the other clubs. We knew who we wanted and we got him. We had to take him early because I reckon that Essendon were after him because of their incoming bans and their future needs of mature aged footballers who are ready to go.

 

[zeeCFC]

Maybe he's just really good at football and the 19th best player on the market.

 

[thylacine60]

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Didn't another club try to poach Rogers and we promptly promoted him?

He's a good egg Rogers. Not surprised another club tried to poach him.

 

[thylacine60]

oh God......

 

[Big Sim]

He's a good egg Rogers. Not surprised another club tried to poach him.

Got his picks scrambled last week though.

 

[Dramoth]

Maybe he's just really good at football and the 19th best player on the market.

Dont try and bring logic into the argument some of the guys trying to knock him will just get upset with you.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Got his picks scrambled last week though.

Okay, I started it. I had a comeback about not being traitorous and eggs benedict Arnold but I don't want this to be an egg joke outbreak (or yolk outbreak) so I will do my mea culpas and keep this about BB.

 

[thylacine60]

Shelling out mea culpas ain't gonna keep a lid on the entire albumen of yokes heading your way.

 

[Kramer1]

Christ...keep it on track mods.

Think he's of dutch origins. Heard the name a lot when I was working OS...back in my holland-days

 

[Mezzoculo]

Didn't another club try to poach Rogers and we promptly promoted him?

Northcote FC?

 

[Mezzoculo]

The biggest relief is that it looks like he has got rid of the top knot. Would have been hard to support him if he was running around looking as ridiculous as Grundy or Hurley.

Glad its gone. With his playing style and THAT topknot, he actually reminded me a lot of Sharrod Wellingham.

 

[Dramoth]

Christ...keep it on track mods.

Think he's of dutch origins. Heard the name a lot when I was working OS...back in my holland-days

Yup... at least 3rd generation dutch Australian

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Glad its gone. With his playing style and THAT topknot, he actually reminded me a lot of Sharrod Wellingham.

The jumper didn't help just quietly.

 

[Sector 7G]

Maybe he's just really good at football and the 19th best player on the market.

Would be interesting to know who else we might have passed on to get Blaine. Langford, Durdin, Lever, Garlett?

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Would be interesting to know who else we might have passed on to get Blaine. Langford, Durdin, Lever, Garlett?

Possibly. The way I see it is we think his best is right up there with most others in the draft, only he has developed later than the others. Because we are lacking outside run, and he is a mature player, he seem a tailor made fit for us to have an impact in 2015, rather than 2016-17 like most other first rounders. Nobody else did that so we may well have had a lot of excitement over him no matter who was available.

 

[Sheephead]

Christ...keep it on track mods.

Think he's of dutch origins. Heard the name a lot when I was working OS...back in my holland-days

Isnt that a sauce??

 

[Aphrodite]

He's a good egg Rogers. Not surprised another club tried to poach him.

You are yolking aren't you!

 

[ferrisb]

Isnt that a sauce??

Must...... Not......give.... In......

Ah, bugger it......... Eggs-actly...

 

[Aphrodite]

Christ...keep it on track mods.

Think he's of dutch origins. Heard the name a lot when I was working OS...back in my holland-days

You absolute idjiot!