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i believe u should tank one more year so u can pick up rich. Then it would be a great team
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2007... Best recruiting ever?
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nah you can have him. you won't even need to tank.
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We'll leave that to the side who replaced Sheedy with a sacked SANFL coach.i believe u should tank one more year so u can pick up rich. Then it would be a great team
We're looking forward to Judd, Murphy, Gibbs, Walker, Simpson and Stevens tearing your pedestrian midfield and crap football team a new one twice next year.
Alwyn Davey or Houli might replace Hird as your spark plug who gets them over the line next year.
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Kernahan, Bradley, Motley, Naley.
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You have to be kidding Hadley had 2 knee reco's, Armfield is a risk and Phfeifer done nothing at Adelaide. Don't get to cocky. Personally Carlton stuffed up in the recruiting of these players. With pick 52 they should of drafted Gourdis and pick 2 in the pre season Wonaeamirri. Not very happy of these recycled players
No offence lou but you seem to be permanently on your rags.
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People forget how awesome the recruiting was in the mid 80s.
But this is a pretty good year.
But this is a pretty good year.
Amazing how you say we should've taken gourdis and wonaeamirri over the players we took when know one's even seen any of them play at vfl/afl level yet.
Hadley - was brilliant early in his career, made a comeback last year after his bad luck with injuries, but brisbane's midfield is still choc full of quality players and hence he had limited appearences. Still young as well.
Phfeifer - still a young player, may turn out ok ill reserve judgement when i see him play.
Armfield - know one's seen him play an afl game yet, so don't see how u can make a judgement on him and call him a dud.
Not really recycled players either just players looking for senior football, due to quality at their respective clubs. Ala Heath Scotland.
Yep. Our best recruiting year was clearly 1986 where we picked up Stephen Kernahan, Craig Bradley, Jon Dorotich, Adrian Gleeson, Mil Hanna and Peter Motley, not to mention hiring Robert Walls as coach who took us into the grand final that year and then to the premiership in 1987.
No offence you have no idea about football. You're permanently a knob
And what did we get him for?? Next to nothing in a weak draft, and we need some experience and developed mids to help the kids out
What is risky about picking up a 21yo at #46 in above-said weak draft who is only 4 years young to the game, runs the 20m in 2.83sec, ferocious tackler, puts his head over the ball, fills an immediate need, and has a work rate as high as any in our side already?
Thanks to injuries and a personal falling out with the coach....was highly regarded as a junior, and it is Pfeiffer.
Gourdis, after all clubs overlooked him in 4-5 times in the ND and a lazy trainer on the track. Wona "bang it on the boot" eamirri
. You'll eat your words when Joseph becomes the next Foley . No offense but I'll back WH's 20 years of experience in the game over your thinly veiled attempt at trolling.Worst post of the year
So making a comment about your general attitude and negativity towards the Carlton Football Club translates into having a lack of football knowledge?
So making a comment about your general attitude and negativity towards the Carlton Football Club translates into having a lack of football knowledge?
Its not a negative attitude towards the Carlton football club, they just don't learn from past mistakes. Year upon year they recruit recycled players from other clubs. I could not believe they recruited Pfiefier and Hadley keep adding them to list of recycled players Ackalnd, Cloke McClaren, Saddington, Bannistar, Young. Look at the way the Geelong have been building their list and Hawthorn. I shake my head at some of the bulls--- i read on this board. Best Recruiting ever, will still don't have a back line. Thats the problem with this board if you don't conform to the norm you get shot down.
And what did we get him for?? Next to nothing in a weak draft, and we need some experience and developed mids to help the kids out
What is risky about picking up a 21yo at #46 in above-said weak draft who is only 4 years young to the game, runs the 20m in 2.83sec, ferocious tackler, puts his head over the ball, fills an immediate need, and has a work rate as high as any in our side already?
Thanks to injuries and a personal falling out with the coach....was highly regarded as a junior, and it is Pfeiffer.
Gourdis, after all clubs overlooked him in 4-5 times in the ND and a lazy trainer on the track. Wona "bang it on the boot" eamirri
Worst post of the year
Whatever Gilly, worst response of the year.
3 key members of Geelongs team are from other clubs. Their captain Tom Harley, Brad Ottens and Cameron Mooney. Matthew Egan was a mature age recruit not overly dissimilar to our drafting of Ross Young.
What about the last 5 - 6 years how many players have Geelong recruited form other clubs apart from Ottens
Ross Young = Matt Egan
Not as a player but as a proven VFL performer older than a typical draftee. You were criticising the recruiting process itself which is what I am describing in this instance.
I ask you the same question name the players Geelong have recruited from other clubs apart from Ottens in the last 5 years.
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How is this relevant? The bulk of their premiership team had been on their list longer than 5 years. We are talking about the make up of their team, not their last 5 years of recruting.
Geelong had a massive draft in 2001 which set their team up with about 5 excellent quality players, since then they've drafted as well or as poorly as everyone else and last year they were handed the biggest father/son gift since Jon Brown by electing to take Hawkins with a third rounder -what a tough call that must have been. The Cats identified 01' as a strong draft and took a stack of players, just like Carlton did in 2006 by recruiting 6 youngsters, thus, 07' being a weak draft wasn't used to take a bunch of NQR kids who will sit on the list for 4 years before we cut them because - suprise suprise - they're stil NQR. I'm sure Adelaide list managers we stoked at having to draft as many kids as they did in a draft like that.
Unfortunately the CFC brainstrust must have stepped out for a milkshake in 2001 because we traded our first rounder and didn't draft all that deep. If you want to know why we have an unsettled backline and we have a ruck division that consists of Ackland and Cloke, look to the bananas who were running the club in those times, because the backline was addressed in 05 with Bower and 06 with Austin and the rucks are being built around Hammer and Kruze - but these guys take time to come on and play key roles, if you want instant action you have to draft mature, but I don't think you want that????
You can criticize us for taking guys like Armfield and Pfeiffer who are passed it at 20 and 21 but don't forget the Catters used their first rounder this year on a mature WAFL player. From a list management perspective, these guys weren't lured with big time contracts and they offer the club an advantage to see what they have to give without needing to wait for them to bulk up or get used to playing against men; a call on their futures can be made easily to allow for next year's stronger draft if they fail as you predict.
Agree with your post smithos but I think you mean Armfield not Armitage.
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Whats your thoughts on Hadely now Lou... Premature assumptions on speculative picks can sometimes come back and bite you in the bum hey... Its ok its all for the better of the Carlton Football club