Kennedy To Play On Sunday

[Louie22]

Kennedy to play
12:58:31 PM Wed 3 May, 2006
Jason Phelan
Sportal for afl.com.au
Carlton is set to take the wraps off another new talent this Sunday with key forward prospect Josh Kennedy to make his AFL debut against Collingwood at the MCG.

The fourth pick overall in last year's NAB AFL National Draft has overcome shoulder surgery in the off-season to make his debut and Denis Pagan hopes the West Australian can follow in the footsteps of another much-heralded recruit.

"He had a pretty good game in our VFL team last week - kicked three goals, took 10 marks - and we just think that he's the future of our club. Marc Murphy's done so well and we hope that Josh can do likewise on Sunday," Pagan said on Wednesday.


"He's a big boy - he's probably 6'6" in the old language - he's probably 96 kilos, he was the first tall player to be picked in the draft last year and he's part of the Carlton Football Club's future."

Noted for his strong attack on the ball and ability to gather below his knees, it could prove to be a baptism of fire for the 18-year-old with the clash of traditional rivals set to draw a large crowd to the home of football.

 

[HBF]

They had to pick him given his form, even though I've been saying for a while I would like to see him get a few more games under his belt. I'd be very happy to br proven wrong on this point.

 

[Blues_Man]

Talk about a baptism of fire ...could there be a bigger game to debut in ??
good luck to the kid ..lets hope the occasion doesn't overcome him and he shows a bit ...I also hope the footballing public gives the young bloke a chance to find his feet at this level before judging him ....but going on previous experience ...fat chance of that happening

 

[Waite_30]

Play him on Rocca

 

[OZBomb]

He'll probably get the fourth tall defender (I'm not sure Collingwood have four actually...) so he should go alright. No big expectation on my behalf though.

 

[stokesy]

Hope Pagan starts him on the ground, and leaves him on the ground.

 

[Kooley]

does that mean archie will be dropped or saddington? i hope it's the latter.

 

[Mentallo]

Hope Pagan starts him on the ground, and leaves him on the ground.

No.
He will get the compulsory 30 mins of game time broken up in spurts of 4 or 5 mins at a time that all players get for some reason when they are included in the line up eg Jordan Bannister vs Richmond and Justin Davies in the past when he was bought into the side after tearing it up in the 2's.

does that mean archie will be dropped or saddington? i hope it's the latter

I hope its the former, DeLuca he has had an absolute shocker thus far this season. I would like to see Saddington given a job in defence and left there not pinch hitting up in the forward line, lets see what he has got back there.

 

[AlecDuncan]

Kennedy to play
12:58:31 PM Wed 3 May, 2006
Jason Phelan
Sportal for afl.com.au
Carlton is set to take the wraps off another new talent this Sunday with key forward prospect Josh Kennedy to make his AFL debut against Collingwood at the MCG.

I hope we're dropping some of the talls, because we were seriously short of running smalls against the Tigers. I'd start with Deluca and Saddington, but even Fisher looks like he could use a run in the twos right now.

We need to keep Russell in and I'd even consider Blackwell for his first game too.

 

[HBF]

I hope we're dropping some of the talls, because we were seriously short of running smalls against the Tigers. I'd start with Deluca and Saddington, but even Fisher looks like he could use a run in the twos right now.

We need to keep Russell in and I'd even consider Blackwell for his first game too.

Agree with that. Considering it is going to be wet on Sunday, we need to seriously look at bringing in some smalls, and omitting some talls.

 

[Kooley]

it's our smalls up forawrd that are really hurting us. we rarely have anyone capable of being front and square.

 

[bibi01]

it's our smalls up forawrd that are really hurting us. we rarely have anyone capable of being front and square.

how true this is

footy is quite a simple game to play but we over complicate things with all these game plans, tactics and rule changes etc

teams need to get back to the basics of football.

 

[murphster]

it's our smalls up forawrd that are really hurting us. we rarely have anyone capable of being front and square.

Thats because Pagan has them pushing so far up the ground not because they don't know how to play front and square, if they leave Eddie and say Simpson to play forward we will get probably 2 goals from each which we should do this week instead of flooding back and having no forward structure to hold the ball in and create pressure on there defence. With Kennedy in hopefully he can take some marks across half forward so Fev can play deeper with Eddie at his feet, also either Fish or Waite deep to so we are not predictable going forward, with the other helping Kennedy across half forward with Simpson on the flank kicking goals on the run from balls that the half forwards spill, that will give us some structure that the midfield can rely on to be there and then we just might kick a winning score providing players like Houlihan, Scotland and the like can play forward of centre where they can use there foot skills to hit the forwards lace out. A Traditional structure is what we need this week if it doesn't work so be it we go back to the other set up but we have to go for it this week as we can not afford another hard fought loss. All or nothing should be the motto for this week!!!!!!!

Go the Mosquito Fleet!!!!!!!

 

[Jabso]

Play him on Rocca

Yes please!
It will be the Zac Dawson game X 2.