Jabba73
Hall of Famer
Nah, chopped liver is fancy stuff. You are the 'good, honest trier' type.
-
Mobile App Discontinued
Due to a number of factors, support for the current BigFooty mobile app has been discontinued. Your BigFooty login will no longer work on the Tapatalk or the BigFooty App - which is based on Tapatalk.
Apologies for any inconvenience. We will try to find a replacement.
Who's likely to be our best small forward?
- Thread starter 1981
- Start date
- Tagged users None
🥰 Love BigFooty? Join now for free.
Not been this excited about a whole bunch of youngsters together at the club since Wayne Johnston and Robert Klomp joined the club in early 1979 to give us Klomp, Johnston, Harmes, Sheldon, Buckley, McConville, Peter Francis, Michael Young and Peter Brown as the new look side Jezza was moulding together. As a little kid hung on every word the magical Jezza would utter on Club Corner every Sunday.
If only the ride to the top of mountain could be so quick now.
Going to have to be patient for this journey but it is just as exciting.
Last edited:
ferrisb
Brownlow Medallist
Poll is for best small forward, not smallest small forward....
Log in to remove this Banner Ad
thylacine60
Post-Human
- Banned
- #80
Kudos to footyfan78 for posting an uplifting mix of retro and current material - enjoying your work. 
- Dec 22, 2006
- 10,535
- 13,045
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Other Teams
- Tottenham Hotspur
Excited about LeBois and reckon he should be given a chance in the NAB cup..
Unless they do change the rookie playing eligibility, LeBois and Gallucci unlikely to see action anytime soon. Surely Sheehan or Silvagni will
be our nominated rookie under existing guidelines.
- Dec 22, 2006
- 10,535
- 13,045
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Other Teams
- Tottenham Hotspur
We will have a LTI between now and the start of the year, that is almost a certainty.
ferrisb
Brownlow Medallist
Already have one in Byrne 
Hope he is up and running ASAP. Good luck Casey
Hope he is up and running ASAP. Good luck Casey
Byrne may well be out and the rules may change anyway.
Already have one in Byrne
Hope he is up and running ASAP. Good luck Casey
Agree. Interesting that he has been seen at training and without strapping.
Kudos to footyfan78 for posting an uplifting mix of retro and current material - enjoying your work.
ha ha, thanks, if only I could post from the past into the future, I would have done it yesterday.
LanceRomance
Brownlow Medallist
Matthew Wright anyone?
TheCoach16
Brownlow Medallist
- Sep 16, 2015
- 17,135
- 44,419
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Banned
- #89
Let's hope we never see another Milne playing for anyone...
- Mar 1, 2005
- 7,766
- 15,778
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Other Teams
- carlton
I am quite excited with our forward setup this year. We all know about our 2015 influx of tall forwards, which I expect will all take a big leap in output . Charlie, McKay and SOS could easily show massive improvement.
But to go with these talls , I see some excitement amongst our smalls and their ability to exert forward pressure and hopefully lock the ball in our F50 for much longer this year. I see three new players that could excel in this SPS, Pickett and LeBois. All super quick , agile and hopefully can become great tacklers
1 Pickett http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...r/news-story/5fced45ce8c9e42c66e188ea6b124911
“Jarrod Pickett up the other end is a very small livewire, knows how to find the goals and his tackling pretty is outstanding and speed is very elite."
2 SPS http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...t/news-story/21c21660ffd3134d7a27896b5494332e
"Sam Petrevski-Seton has speed, polish and, just like Rioli, a tough tackling streak."
3. LeBois- very evasive himself, and fast. He will need to learn the defensive game this year but with his speed and tenacity he could be a real weapon.
Now consider that we already have sumner and wright and we have the makings of a nice defensive but also highly skilled goal kicking unit
But to go with these talls , I see some excitement amongst our smalls and their ability to exert forward pressure and hopefully lock the ball in our F50 for much longer this year. I see three new players that could excel in this SPS, Pickett and LeBois. All super quick , agile and hopefully can become great tacklers
1 Pickett http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...r/news-story/5fced45ce8c9e42c66e188ea6b124911
“Jarrod Pickett up the other end is a very small livewire, knows how to find the goals and his tackling pretty is outstanding and speed is very elite."
2 SPS http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...t/news-story/21c21660ffd3134d7a27896b5494332e
"Sam Petrevski-Seton has speed, polish and, just like Rioli, a tough tackling streak."
3. LeBois- very evasive himself, and fast. He will need to learn the defensive game this year but with his speed and tenacity he could be a real weapon.
Now consider that we already have sumner and wright and we have the makings of a nice defensive but also highly skilled goal kicking unit
- Mar 1, 2005
- 7,766
- 15,778
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Other Teams
- carlton
Levi broke his leg last year and only missed a game. I expect that Byrne has had long enough out . Needs to learn to endure.
Jimmae
Brownlow Medallist
Whoa now; big difference between an ACL tear and a minor depression on the articular surface of part of the knee joint (and let's not forget Levi wasn't able to leap regularly for the rest of the year).
A lack of tape in early pre-season doesn't mean anything with injuries. Tape is for injury management to push through the pain of impingement or slight misalignment, not some magic device that somehow fully reinforces healing ligaments.
Players should be tape free as much as possible at this point in the season precisely so they don't overwork themselves as they build strength, conditioning and rebuild fitness.
- Mar 1, 2005
- 7,766
- 15,778
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Other Teams
- carlton
me thinks you take things too seriously Jim
Jimmae
Brownlow Medallist
Your grammar was too dead pan
🥰 Love BigFooty? Join now for free.
Although i think Lebois will develop in to a genuine star small forward what is exciting is that we have so many mids that can go through the forward line and kicks goals. Makes us very hard to match up on. Have big Mckay up forward with Silvagni, Charlie (Maybe Kerr) & Lebois and then names like SPS Murphy Gibbs Cripps Cuningham Palmer Polson Fisher Kerridge Sumner Pickett Wright all rotating between the midfield and forward line. They all have the ability to kick multiple goals. Very dangerous
SPS, JP, KLB can all produce the mercurial and sublime as small forwards, in time as midfielders as wel. SOS had been competent and delivered so much young talent in 2016 trade /draft it's astonishing.
In the next few years the potency of our forward line will prevail.
In the next few years the potency of our forward line will prevail.
Jabba73
Hall of Famer
Options are a luxury we haven't had for a while
- Mar 1, 2005
- 7,766
- 15,778
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Other Teams
- carlton
Possibly, but I feel that we are only playing catch up with what the other better teams have already worked out. Most if not all players have to be able to play multiple positions, and , given the physical demands of the game now, it is such an advantage if your forwards can also run through the middle, and equally if your mids can kick goals. The greater the number of individual goal kickers per game on average, the more successful the team has been- for the past decade
Football operations manager CEO and boards are all there to make sure the coach doesn't do it
ferrisb
Brownlow Medallist
Unless they are all drinking the same water.
Which in Adelaide, is highly inadvisable...
Which in Adelaide, is highly inadvisable...
