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Personally i think Young and White are great rookie worthy list options, they possess some good traits,
What we’re still got, is a handful of players who are simply limited which some who’ve have been cut, while others have been delisted, a couple still have contracts, along with a few others who could/should be delisted by the end of next season…
Was referring to Lewis Young being used as the 2nd key forward.
We need more KPF depth to enable HOK to spend more time in the ruck- whether in the seniors or twos
Hopefully we've got Derksen locked away as a DFA after the draft.
I think Pitto is underrated on here. Doesnt do much around the ground but provides a physical presence and tap work is elite. Durability the main question mark.

If he can stay fit I have no issue with him as our no.1. People saying HOK is ahead as ruck, have rocks in their head. At this stage in Pitto would annihilate him. HOK might provide more around the ground, but having someone who competes strongly in the ruck is more important.
Staying fit is exactly the problem, his legs go to shit every year, and it's been that way since the year before the Hawks let him go.

Extremely gifted junior athlete, and they stacked the weight on him and his legs fell apart. Was genuinely up near to Kreuzer's level:

Wanted us to draft him, and I'm getting tired of repeating his information packet every year.
That's not a neck;
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THIS is a neck;
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That's not a longneck

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This is a ****ing longneck
Does Chesser get into the best 22 now given Florent came in?

What is your best 22 anyway in your eyes? One team in the AFL I couldnt even guess given the huge changes
It depends on a lot of stuff.

Is Acres the 2023 version of the 2025 version?

Is O.Hollands going back to the wing or staying with the defenders?

Is Florent assigned wing or Half-back. You assume that he and Hollands will be in one of the other spot
Plenty of scope to play Acres, Ollie, Chesser, Ainsworth, Walsh, Florent, even Cottrell and Wilson.

We'll use the extra numbers to get quicker, which will help Saad, Cowan, McGovern, Williams, Hawyard, and McKay immensely.
 
Was referring to Lewis Young being used as the 2nd key forward.

Hopefully we've got Derksen locked away as a DFA after the draft.

Staying fit is exactly the problem, his legs go to shit every year, and it's been that way since the year before the Hawks let him go.

Extremely gifted junior athlete, and they stacked the weight on him and his legs fell apart. Was genuinely up near to Kreuzer's level:

Wanted us to draft him, and I'm getting tired of repeating his information packet every year.

That's not a longneck

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This is a ****ing longneck


Plenty of scope to play Acres, Ollie, Chesser, Ainsworth, Walsh, Florent, even Cottrell and Wilson.

We'll use the extra numbers to get quicker, which will help Saad, Cowan, McGovern, Williams, Hawyard, and McKay immensely.

Wrong long neck

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Club very much see HOK as a Forward who can Ruck and not a No.1 Ruck. It will be Pittonet & Reidy fighting for Ruck spot with Young as back up next season

How many goals did HoK kick in the VFL last season? Do they see him mainly as as a forward who can pinch hit in the ruck in the VFL? If so, then dont care. But hopefully not our AFL side.

Carrying HoK and Pitto in our 2026 'AFL' side is a death knell.
 
How many goals did HoK kick in the VFL last season? Do they see him mainly as as a forward who can pinch hit in the ruck in the VFL? If so, then dont care. But hopefully not our AFL side.

Carrying HoK and Pitto in our 2026 'AFL' side is a death knell.

I think HOK can play a role. Drawing defenders away from Harry. Relief ruck. Providing a contest down the line.

Doesnt need to kick bags. A goal a game is fine. Just needs to bring the ball to ground and help Harry shine.

Doesn't need to replace Curnows goal output. A more even spread from our smalls/mediums should do that.
 
How many goals did HoK kick in the VFL last season? Do they see him mainly as as a forward who can pinch hit in the ruck in the VFL? If so, then dont care. But hopefully not our AFL side.

Carrying HoK and Pitto in our 2026 'AFL' side is a death knell.
He played primarily as a KPF when he appeared in 2025 in the AFL team and held his own fine for his first handful of games. Why would it be a death knell to have him at Pitto in the same side? HOK would likely be playing deep forward and rotating into the ruck when Pitto went to the bench.
 
It's only my opinion but I have Young, Pitto, HoK, McGovern, Moir, Kemp down as squad players for the 2026 season. Definitely ok to be on our list all of them. Playing them all each week simply suggests that for 2026 and in the short term it is indeed a reset until more quality arrives or in some cases development (Moir/HoK).

Pitto if could turn back the clock to around 2021 where he averaged 29 hitouts would be nice. Since then he has been trending downward along with games played. HoK will always find it hard...lacks the centremtres to win hitouts plus lacks the forward class to beat a quality defender.

Disclaimer: For HoK, the club keeps mentioning he is an aggressive bull. They see it internally. We are yet to see it on gameday. The coaches need to get it out of him on gameday in 2026. If that shows I'll be more of a fan.
 

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It's only my opinion but I have Young, Pitto, HoK, McGovern, Moir, Kemp down as squad players for the 2026 season. Definitely ok to be on our list all of them. Playing them all each week simply suggests that for 2026 and in the short term it is indeed a reset until more quality arrives or in some cases development (Moir/HoK).

Pitto if could turn back the clock to around 2021 where he averaged 29 hitouts would be nice. Since then he has been trending downward along with games played. HoK will always find it hard...lacks the centremtres to win hitouts plus lacks the forward class to beat a quality defender.

Disclaimer: For HoK, the club keeps mentioning he is an aggressive bull. They see it internally. We are yet to see it on gameday. The coaches need to get it out of him on gameday in 2026. If that shows I'll be more of a fan.
Maybe he just chases everyone around the locker room trying to mount them
 
It's only my opinion but I have Young, Pitto, HoK, McGovern, Moir, Kemp down as squad players for the 2026 season. Definitely ok to be on our list all of them. Playing them all each week simply suggests that for 2026 and in the short term it is indeed a reset until more quality arrives or in some cases development (Moir/HoK).

Pitto if could turn back the clock to around 2021 where he averaged 29 hitouts would be nice. Since then he has been trending downward along with games played. HoK will always find it hard...lacks the centremtres to win hitouts plus lacks the forward class to beat a quality defender.

Disclaimer: For HoK, the club keeps mentioning he is an aggressive bull. They see it internally. We are yet to see it on gameday. The coaches need to get it out of him on gameday in 2026. If that shows I'll be more of a fan.
Big HoK not aggressive enough? My North Melbourne mate sent me this after his 2nd game. Big HOK has some serious mongrel about him imo.

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the guy cops way too much carp...

Very serviceable player... still might be best 22. or 23...
I agree, I always thought he was serviceable with one BIG problem - when he got the ball he would often stop and think about what to do and any and all momentum in the game would be lost. This failure had me despairing but this year I noticed that he was making a concerted effort to play on quickly and sometimes it would cause a problem but overall he was much more effective because of this. If he can keep up the effort to react quickly with the ball he will definitely make a play for being in our best 22.
 
He played primarily as a KPF when he appeared in 2025 in the AFL team and held his own fine for his first handful of games. Why would it be a death knell to have him at Pitto in the same side? HOK would likely be playing deep forward and rotating into the ruck when Pitto went to the bench.
He was ok, and he was basically the only choice at that time aside from Lemmey.

It's Pittonet's mobility and durability that concerns me, and I'd rather see us have another tall forward and use O'Keeffe as the starting ruck. I think we'd be an exciting team with that in the mix.

Even with all the new runners, or team isn't really going to be small or overly uncontested.
 
I'm not concerned about the ruck situation, I reckon we play Pitto as first ruck in 60-70% of the games, Reidy for the other 30-40%, with HOK taking the KPF/2nd Ruck role (of course, this is assuming we don't have more than one go down with injury at the same time).
 

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Oh hello and how about that ...

Club must have seen my post :tearsofjoy:





THE CARLTON Football Club is excited to announce the re-signing of four rookies, with Francis Evans, Flynn Young, Harry Charleson and Rob Monahan continuing with the Blues into 2026.

The respective one-year extensions will see their time continue in the Navy Blue, which saw Evans and Young pull on the Navy Blue for the first time while Charleson and Monahan showed continued growth for the Carlton Reserves.
 

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