Watch it. Stocker clearly on the mark from Pendlebury. He's left Elliott just moments earlier.
If you watch the behind the goals footage I reckon more blame lies with Marchbank for coming off Elliott and floating into no-mans-land.
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Watch it. Stocker clearly on the mark from Pendlebury. He's left Elliott just moments earlier.
This is what I’ve come up with too. If we want to bring in a couple of players from other clubs (say Acres and McAsey) and bring in 3 kids across the drafts, we’re still going to need to let a couple of players go. Suspect Fogarty is next in line.So, where we are at now:
Senior List: 32
Rookie List: 5
Rookie B: 2 (including Owies, who cannot stay on Rookie B list)
32+5+Owies=38, max=42. So 4 places now free, along with one free spot on the Rookie B list.
Waiting new contracts:
Senior List: Marchbank, Setterfield, Honey, Cuningham, Fogarty, Ed Curnow (6)
Rookie List: S Durdin, Cottrell, LOB, Boyd (4)
Rookie B: Owies, Akuei (2)
Some discussion a few weeks back that new contracts were imminent for Cotts, LOB & Boyd, but haven't seen confirmation.
May hold off on further changes till trade period now.
Every club has hits and misses but surely we've had more misses then most. No question, the draft results speak for themselves. I'd love a stat showing average games played for players picked after 30. Absolutely horrendous and have been for 20 years.Considering the total number of players drafted that not a huge list.
But drafting is so easy to criticise in retrospect.
There are failures at every club.
But no Carlton would not have been a great environment on which to prosper for sure.
Unfortunately you cant give players a free ride as compensation for a bad culture or poor development.
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Can we leave Plow out of it please?It was the first game v Collingwood. Two left foot howlers. Was promptly dropped. But never given a fair run at it whilst Plowman was allowed to turn it over at will and survive multiple games.
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If you watch the behind the goals footage I reckon more blame lies with Marchbank for coming off Elliott and floating into no-mans-land.
Often the blame gets put on drafting, but player development is also a massive issue.Every club would have jumped on Dow after us. He was one of the big 3 that year with Rayner, LDU and Dow. We developed hom badly.
I thought I was going to be critiqued for under valuing players not the other way round. Sure, but they are all best 22 as they consistently get picked!! That was my criteria, are they players consistently playing AFL....yes, yes and yes.
Scratching my head on this one, however some of the coaching appointments in the last decade have been far worse.
Why not? It might quell the heresy in this thread.Do we really need one? Are we entitled to one? I'd say no.
I don't disagree. I just couldn't give them a fail as they've played regular footy and have shown themselves to be capable AFL players. More duds then diamonds have come through recently.If that's your criteria sure. I agree. Do I see them in our next premiership side? No I dont. There will be a few others in our current best 22 that wont be in our next premiership side either TBF. I'd expect another 7 or 8 more changes at least, to it before we're challenging genuinely for a premiership.
We were an absolute basket case.Every club has hits and misses but surely we've had more misses then most. No question, the draft results speak for themselves. I'd love a stat showing average games played for players picked after 30. Absolutely horrendous and have been for 20 years.
Why not? It might quell the heresy in this thread.
We thought it was in the bag and relaxedThey were ALL too loose. Look at the space they're all giving their opponents. Brutal to blame Stock. I dont think any of them expected our forwards to let the ball come out that quickly let alone at all.
No current season stats available
Well yes I guess we have to move on but if you want an explanation around why we have not played finals in 9 years, have a read through our drafting from the past 15 years. At what point do players show some accountability for their own development?We were an absolute basket case.
That makes a huge difference on everything footy related let alone development.
But you cant keep underdeveloped players on the list as some kind of compensation for doing them wrong.
We'd have more spoons than cups in no time if we did that.
We move on and go again!
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Can we leave Plow out of it please?
Seriously give him a break!
They are not the same type and Plow is a far better player than Stocker.
If you cant see that, you're just a follower on the Plow hate train or dont understand the game as much as you'd like to think.
Why Plow is copping it is baffling
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Those two attributes dont make an AFL standard footballer though.Very disappointed about Stocker. Shocked in fact. He is hard at it and shows a bit of mongrel. Poor decision.
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Please, it's barely in the top 10
That's just insulting to the people responsible for such monstrosities as:
- giving Zac Williams a 6 year, $850k per year contract
- trading 2 second round picks and a state league priority for the right to overpay Mitch McGovern
- the original Stocker trade
- drafting Dow and O'Brien with top 10 picks in the same year. Bonus points for passing on Cerra then trading a first round pick for him later on
- trading back in the draft from pick 12 (next 2 players = Kosi Pickett and Will Day) to draft an injured Brodie Kemp 1 pick ahead of Sam De Koning (whose brother is on the team), then trading up 2 picks later for... Sam Philp (this sequence is still mind boggling poor)
- appointing David Teague as coach with basically no process because he managed to go 5-5 with mediocre list.
Could probably go on and on here.
20 years since top 4. 10 years since finals. 7 years since we started a '3 year rebuild'.
Utterly reprehensible...
Wouldnt think there would be much more to go. That's 6 now.