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Ah yes that's right, I did mean to say first time playing crows at AO though. They will be up for this with so much pressure from the Vic media who have already mentioned Gibbs Betts Jacobs. We should also pump them, but yeah, footy, strange things happen.
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They are a terrible side, are 0-6, playing away and with 3 of their top 5 players currently out. If we can't win this week then I have no confidence of us winning another game this year.
I know. I saw a shit North Melbourne kick 10 goals in the first quarter against us. I want us to turn up is all.
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Wouldnt surprise me if its a "lazy" win say around 5-6 goals.
Carlton may bring us down to their shitty level and make this a boring dull game.
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Whilst I agree with this sentiment, getting a player fit and healthy isn't like recharging a battery where a light comes on when it is at 100%. All players at all times are somewhere between 0 to 100% and it is not easy to know exactly where that is and how it compares to other players who are also somewhere between 0 to 100%. In reality it isn't a simple as saying if a player isn't 100% don't player them. For one, I doubt that there has been a week in the clubs history that we would have been able to field 22 players who were 100%.
The other thing to consider is how Player A at 50% compares to player B at 80%. In you previous post you used Walker as an example of a player who was below 100% who should have been dropped late last year. It has been well documented that Walker is significantly underdone so far in 2018 yet he has still performed much better than what anyone outside of the best 22 would have been able to - in reality Walker has been well below full fitness for the last two years. Lynch and Greenwood are other examples of players who are significantly underdone at present but are playing good enough football to be best 22.
They can't complain too much about Gibbs, Betts and Jacobs. Their second best forward and second best available midfielder are former Adelaide players.
And to reply to (and highlight) my own post: That means Wright and Kerridge are two of Carlton's best players... Ouch
I like watching Carlton. It's always interesting to see what our feeder club is doing to our future superstars.
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Significant.
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Bummer we don't get to see the match-up, but that certainly helps the Crows.
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That North side was still nowhere near as bad as this current Carlton side.
We also got caught out by a complete inability to play the wind at that ground. That won't be an issue this week.
It will be if I fart, after the Indian curry I intend having for dinner.
We should all cheer Cripps when he gets the ball. 50,000 of us cheering him on. Maybe even start a chant.
Let him know what it feels like to have that kind of support at Adelaide Oval.
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Curnow is a massive out. If we don't win this by 20 goals I'll be disappointed..
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Yeah OK
, absolutely technically 100% is not the right term to use. Nobody is 100% fit ie as fit as they can be. More is always possible, but jeez, pedantic. Re: Tex, I wasn't saying he should've been dropped for the GF. I was saying that his foot injury:
--- might have been better managed if he'd been rested earlier, and
--- (where we are in agreement) we have a better idea of how/where our depth players will play, now. IF Tex was unavailable for the GF, we'd probably play Fogarty (if uninjured) because he'll have some AFL under his belt by then and we know what we'll get out of him ie at least solid, contested effort.
As for his being "underdone", well, 15 goals in 5 games is very handy (even with a bad game against Collingwood), no complaints at all there. All players without a full pre-season or coming back from injury are underdone. Crouch was underdone last week. Betts will be underdone if he plays this week, too.
Underdone is not the same as uninjured.
I'm sure you'd agree we have to stop playing injured players, senior or not. Our (now proven) depth allows us that.
It wasn't so much a complete inability to play the wind more than a complete refusal to play the wind. We kept trying to move the ball like it was perfect conditions out there. We may have set a new world record for OOTF in the first half.
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No Curnow is massive. The one forward I was concerned about is no longer there.
But they might be getting back Kruzer and Weitering
http://www.afc.com.au/news/2018-05-03/oppo-blues-rule-out-two
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But maybe the 7th time I kick to that side of the ground it won't go OotF?
The stupid thing was that, even after North gave us the blueprint of how to score with the wind, we still didn't copy them.
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"Might" means they will not be 100% even if they do come in. This would be the greatest upset in the history of the AFL if we lose this now. Hopefully, the players at least use that as some motivation to get up for this one.
I wonder if Kreuzer was a definite out if we would use this game to give ROB a run. I think we should probably do that anyway. We need to manage Sauce a bit this year. He does the most work week in and week out than any player in the team.
It's funny what this club has done to us. There is absolutely nothing about that Carlton side that should worry about. They are rubbish. Last week the Dogs were rubbish, but the Blues were rubbisher.
But.
Even I am reserved on our chances, that bogey game is always just one around the corner.
But.
Even I am reserved on our chances, that bogey game is always just one around the corner.
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