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Blue Bawls

Blue Bawls

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Judd didn't look comfortable at all out there today. I know his style is to find holes at the stoppages and burst through, but he just lacked any kind of spark. I just wonder if his groin has flared up or something else has happened, or whether he just had a dog of a game under close Adelaide checking. :confused:
 
Heard an interesting stat on Adelaide radio prior to the game, that Judd has never polled a Brownlow vote against Adelaide. Won't say We own Judd, not silly enough to say that, but possibly Craigy has Juddy's number to a degree.
 
Thought the whole place lacked atmosphere today and the boys looked flat coming onto the ground. I usually have the glasses on Judd a lot during the game and I'd love to see him talking more but that's obviously not his style. Very surprised to see him run down let alone caught holding the ball but Johncock is super fast and JC is only human. I think he really feels like shit when we lose. I love him and hope he hasn't done anything to himself.
 
Blue Bawls said:
Judd didn't look comfortable at all out there today. I know his style is to find holes at the stoppages and burst through, but he just lacked any kind of spark. I just wonder if his groin has flared up or something else has happened, or whether he just had a dog of a game under close Adelaide checking. :confused:
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Agree with this post. He didn't really chase or tackle and barely got any ball. Was very strange. Also that play where he broke off and ran in to about 50 and got tackled before shooting was very strange. The Judd of last week wouldn't have been caught. More importantly though, he knew that he was going to get caught, Judd not backing himself means there is something going on....
 

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Judd is fine!

He was worn like a glove today and adelaide's flooding and numbers behind the ball really stopped any flow the game might have otherwise had. He also just missed a couple of goals so could have easily ended up with 3.

Our lack of depth was badly exposed today with too many kids and "filler" players replacing experienced and good decision makers with poor disposal, and terrible decisions. One or two youngens per game is fine and in fact great for our development; however with russel, bentick, hartlett, grigg, browne, pfeiffer none of who'm are ready to hold down a full time spot we were soft, scrappy, unskillfull and couldn't have a decent run that wasn't ended prematurely through poor disposal.

Really missed thornton, hadley, Bannister, walker (obviously) and yes... houlihan. In fact without at least 2-3 of those players i don't think we will win games against anyone but bottom 4's.
 
judd was well held, lucky to get his two goals in the end . . . also the Fev was well beaten for the first time in a few weeks, he was off his game entirely, even when Rutton went off at half-time, was well held by BokChoy
 
Judd's groin isnt 100%. He will always be on and off during the year..even when his groin was gone last year he did play some good footy on & off..he just cant sustain it throughout the season.
I was really excited seeing him play last week thinking the Judd of old was back..he almost is but his groin will still cause him problems some weeks.
To be honest you really should write off this year for Judd and use 2008 as rehab for him so he can get back to his best in 09 & for the long term but i hope he can prove me wrong and get back to his best and sustain it this year.
Good luck for friday night..i dont think youll be needing it though
 
Prem87 said:
Judd's groin isnt 100%. He will always be on and off during the year..even when his groin was gone last year he did play some good footy on & off..he just cant sustain it throughout the season.
I was really excited seeing him play last week thinking the Judd of old was back..he almost is but his groin will still cause him problems some weeks.
To be honest you really should write off this year for Judd and use 2008 as rehab for him so he can get back to his best in 09 & for the long term but i hope he can prove me wrong and get back to his best and sustain it this year.
Good luck for friday night..i dont think youll be needing it though
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I't obvious his groin isn't 100% and you won't get arguments from any Carlton supporters about that.

Having said that, if you watched Judd over the last few weeks you would have seen that he is well and truly on his way back to his best, and he'll get back to that level as the season progresses.

To look at yesterdays game and use it as an example of Judd's groin not healing is not only wrong, but it does a terrible injustice to the Adelaide Crows and their taggers. They did a brilliant job of tagging Judd out of the game and he only really started to break loose a little once the game was lost. As a WCE supporter you should know that Judd gets the heaviest tagger each week and it is inevitable that he will have a few quiet games along the way because of it.

He'll be back to his best this season, not many of us doubt it - it's just a matter of when. It will probably be in the 2nd half of the season.

Good luck for Friday night. I think we are the club that needs it. We are a massive chance, and realistically, should probably win. But being a Carlton supporter over the last few years has taught me something - not to be too confident of a victory before the game, especially a week before. Even against Melbourne many of us had our doubts as games we should definitely win are the ones we typically tend to let go. Hopefully we've turned the corner with regards to this, and get up for a victory over your mob. :thumbsu:
 

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Prem87 said:
Judd's groin isnt 100%. He will always be on and off during the year..even when his groin was gone last year he did play some good footy on & off..he just cant sustain it throughout the season.
I was really excited seeing him play last week thinking the Judd of old was back..he almost is but his groin will still cause him problems some weeks.
To be honest you really should write off this year for Judd and use 2008 as rehab for him so he can get back to his best in 09 & for the long term but i hope he can prove me wrong and get back to his best and sustain it this year.
Good luck for friday night..i dont think youll be needing it though
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Very true mate. Jonathon Brown had pretty much the same op, and it took him up until the middle of 2007 to get his body close to 100% again. It was great to see Judd do his thing last week, but lets be honest, the opposition was pretty sub par to say the least.

He is also still finding his feet at his new club, and learning a new game plan.
 
Blue Bawls said:
Judd didn't look comfortable at all out there today. I know his style is to find holes at the stoppages and burst through, but he just lacked any kind of spark. I just wonder if his groin has flared up or something else has happened, or whether he just had a dog of a game under close Adelaide checking. :confused:
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problem was he was the only player trying to spark us, judd was constantly fighting off 2 -3 crows players or more and still he managed to hit targets and 16 possies 2 goals not a bad return....

Maybe you should be asking we're the rest of our players were while judd was being tackled by the whole crows midfield?:rolleyes:

Injuries hurt us as well, only 1 fit player on the bench for rotations doesn't help his cause as well.

How can you question Judd? Shame on you:thumbsdown:
 
Doctor Moffet said:
How good was Josh Kennedy last night? Hope you guys didn't get screwed in the trade.
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Ummm i don't know - maybe i better whack on the last quarter of when we bent your mob over and have another look! ;)
 
Prem87 said:
Judd's groin isnt 100%. He will always be on and off during the year..even when his groin was gone last year he did play some good footy on & off..he just cant sustain it throughout the season.
I was really excited seeing him play last week thinking the Judd of old was back..he almost is but his groin will still cause him problems some weeks.
To be honest you really should write off this year for Judd and use 2008 as rehab for him so he can get back to his best in 09 & for the long term but i hope he can prove me wrong and get back to his best and sustain it this year.
Good luck for friday night..i dont think youll be needing it though
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Who is this muppet?
 

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are we talking about judd or not?
and to the black and white maggot
yeh kennedy was good
and honestly i hope he becomes and absolute gun
judd is a more valuable player to us atm
kennedy wasnt playing well under the structure that we had
so all the best to him
 

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