Rookie 36. Cooper Lord

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Voss imprint on this selection.

Endurance beast, loves tackling, one touch, smart user, buy lacks a yard

An endurance player lacking pace you say? We definitely needed one of them.

 

[Aphrodite]

Just a reminder that this is a Welcome thread & Cooper’s player thread.

Play nice.


Thank you all.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

No tatts, clean shaven, well groomed and a nice kid.

Great. He can take my daughter to the prom.

 

[Arr0w]

I'm guessing he is eligible for our VFL team this week? Any chance he plays or will he need more time to settle in. We play on Sunday so assuming he will get through a couple training sessions with the 2s

Suspect he will play VFL with us this weekend

 

[Bamboo Harvester]

I'm guessing he is eligible for our VFL team this week? Any chance he plays or will he need more time to settle in. We play on Sunday so assuming he will get through a couple training sessions with the 2s

I could be wrong, but I think he's allowed to play VFL for all games with the exception of when we play North again.

 

[ferrisb]

A King (TDk), a couple of Princes (Charlie and Harry) and a Lord. We have some nobility down at Carlton.

I think you'll find there was a coronation last year.

After winning a Coleman medal, he is now King Charles!

 

[ctwenty1]

Great. He can take my daughter to the prom.

My eyes are going.

Thought you wrote “room”

 

[Gethelred]

Welcome, Cooper.

 

[T2B_]

Welcome Coops, great name and looks like a good kid

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Rough haircut. Who's the club barber these days?

 

[Aphrodite]

Rough haircut. Who's the club barber these days?

Definitely not Ciccone’s

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Definitely not Ciccone’s

210 Barbershop seems to be the one now.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Welcome, Cooper.

TL;DR

 

[agro]

Good luck Cooper hope you can play 10 or 12 games for us in the VFL and AFL this year - any combination

 

[Michael Jezz]

Voss imprint on this selection.

Endurance beast, loves tackling, one touch, smart user, buy lacks a yard

If he can kick to targets, which it appears from the footage, he looks ok....he gives the optimist in me Sam Mitchell vibes, the pessimist a vanilla feel

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

So Pros = long kick, quick hands, high footy IQ, high production

Cons = efficiency needs work, lacks pace, doesn't really hit the scoreboard.

 

[tarczonandjane]

A King (TDk), a couple of Princes (Charlie and Harry) and a Lord. We have some nobility down at Carlton.

From memory, the Melbourne sides of the 1950s had some very regal sounding names, including a Lord.

I have a vague recollection of a cartoon in the Argus (I think?) where the cartoonist made a play on it

 

[V23]

 

[PatsFitztrick]

So Pros = long kick, quick hands, high footy, high production

Cons = efficiency needs work, lacks pace, doesn't really hit the scoreboard.

There are two types of pace - one generated below the hips, and the other between the ears.
The quickest player I have ever seen?
Greg Williams.

 

[HomerThompson]

Lord, help us

 

[Coona Blues]

Love seeing a kid who matched the “guns” statistically in the Coates League, and lacked the hype of his midfield partner Sanders. Has the scope and likely the hunger to emulate his more vaunted compatriots.

Hasn’t been lauded through his junior years, no entitlement and a willingness to work.

Remember reading about him after Coates League final and wondering why the stats didn’t produce “appropriate” hype. Don’t particularly like the subterfuge, but pleased with the selection.

Welcome to Carlton Cooper Lord. Look forward to seeing you in “the twos” and in the top team when the time is right.

 

[tarczonandjane]

20 March 2005 (his birthday) would have been roughly when I was telling people we were a sneaky chance for the premiership. I wasn’t far wrong.

 

[passmark]

Cooper hey.

I’ll be expecting a few barrels from outside 50!

 

[9874123]

So Pros = long kick, quick hands, high footy, high production

Cons = efficiency needs work, lacks pace, doesn't really hit the scoreboard.

I would say two-way running, tackling pressure and spread from the contest are his main pros based on what I've read of him tonight.

 

[WyntersGame_]

I'm happy with the clubs approach on this selection. We are missing in midfield depth at the moment.

Yes we have those who can rotate through the midfield to help out, but when one of our primary inside mid players are injured, we don't have alot of depth there to play that role.

Billy Wilson is a half back we are hoping turns into a mid and Carroll unfortunately doesn't appear to grabbing his opportunities with two hands when given them. This puts more pressure on them to learn and grow as players and also gives an opportunity to a young player who may have been overlooked in the draft last year because he wasn't quite ready

For me he is what you want to see as a mid season rookie

Wouldn't have been unhappy with a Half Forward / Small forward though

But most importantly Welcome to the Blues Cooper Lord