Think Tank Mofra's Lazy Bottom 40 for 2025

[Andrewgtv05]

Player #19 - Matt Owies
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Pictured: a rare photo of Matt Owies making a West Coast fan happy

Matt Owies is a former 179cm basketballer who went to Carlton, was pushed out because they didn't want him, and found himself at a wooden spoon West Coast side for the 2025 season.

Matt started his US basketball college career at the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, which is weird to have a team named after a Greenpeace yacht that went down. After then transferring to the Seattle Titanics then the Orlando Armitages, he signed with Carlton as a Cat B rookie.

Quickly settling in as a small marking forward, Matt earned the ire of Carlton fans by being their third best goalkicker in 2024. Then Vossy decided to fool everybody by putting him up for trade and West Coast pounced.

This season Owies managed to play 16 games as a small forward. He kicked 7 goals in total, including 2 goals against Richmond in a rare win that he wouldn't have experienced in Round 1 had he stayed with Carlton. This 7 goal tally includes the 1 goal from his last 7 games at West Coast. He's a 28 year old contracted for 2 more years at a team playing its worst football in it's entire existence.

Fun fact: Owies was part of a trade that handed pick 3 to Carlton. Nobody knows why either club made that trade. Special comments professionals looks at both clubs these days and simply sigh "I'm tired, boss".

Matt, Owies, thank for your two word assessment of Carlton earlier in the year. Welcome to the Bottom 40 for 2025.

Can I say that Jagga Smith was better in 2025 than Matt Owies?

 

[springvale_mackers]

Player #19 - Matt Owies
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Pictured: a rare photo of Matt Owies making a West Coast fan happy

Matt Owies is a former 179cm basketballer who went to Carlton, was pushed out because they didn't want him, and found himself at a wooden spoon West Coast side for the 2025 season.

Matt started his US basketball college career at the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, which is weird to have a team named after a Greenpeace yacht that went down. After then transferring to the Seattle Titanics then the Orlando Armitages, he signed with Carlton as a Cat B rookie.

Quickly settling in as a small marking forward, Matt earned the ire of Carlton fans by being their third best goalkicker in 2024. Then Vossy decided to fool everybody by putting him up for trade and West Coast pounced.

This season Owies managed to play 16 games as a small forward. He kicked 7 goals in total, including 2 goals against Richmond in a rare win that he wouldn't have experienced in Round 1 had he stayed with Carlton. This 7 goal tally includes the 1 goal from his last 7 games at West Coast. He's a 28 year old contracted for 2 more years at a team playing its worst football in it's entire existence.

Fun fact: Owies was part of a trade that handed pick 3 to Carlton. Nobody knows why either club made that trade. Special comments professionals looks at both clubs these days and simply sigh "I'm tired, boss".

Matt, Owies, thank for your two word assessment of Carlton earlier in the year. Welcome to the Bottom 40 for 2025.

Quite good. But you forgot to mention he got traded to the only club that suffered from COVID and the worst injury crisis that ever happened in the AFL.

 

[Todman]

Joe Root might actually score a Test century in Australia before the Roos see any success.

Miracles happen.

 

[AlecDuncan]

Player #19 - Matt Owies

He kicked 7 goals in total, including 2 goals against Richmond in a rare win that he wouldn't have experienced in Round 1 had he stayed with Carlton.

Poor Matt. He's better than this. I think he got broken during shipment. It's a cruel biz.

 

[Pistol Night]

Poor Matt. He's better than this. I think he got broken during shipment. It's a cruel biz.

Well you shouldn't send garden gnomes via Australia Post

 

[Baldur]

If Carltank keeps shipping their spuds out, they might end up with a decent team.



Nuh, they are a magic pudding of spuds.

 

[philreich]

Well you shouldn't send garden gnomes via Australia Post

I heard that Australia Post was planning to release a new St. Kilda postage stamp, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of their last flag. However those plans were shelved when it became evident that Carlton fans wouldn't have known which side to spit on.

 

[Hamingja]

Owies a rare trade that made both teams worse.

 

[hawkman]

Owies a rare trade that made both teams worse.

Not really that rare when Carlton are involved. Likely to be the same with TDK

 

[ferrisb]

JSOS was a father son pick with SOS being at the Saints now and one of Ross Lyon's mates.

Nepsostism...

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Owies a rare trade that made both teams worse.

Actually numbnuts, getting rid of Owies made Voss finally start play Ashton Moir, who has more talent in his pinky finger than Owies has in his entire body.

You Cotton On Flogs really don't know Sweet Fanny Adams about teams and players outside your tinpot provincial shithole lol

 

[AlecDuncan]

I heard that Australia Post was planning to release a new St. Kilda postage stamp, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of their last flag. However those plans were shelved when it became evident that Carlton fans wouldn't have known which side to spit on.

If we'd traded Owies to St Kilda, they would have set him on fire.

 

[hawkman]

If we'd traded Owies to St Kilda, they would have set him on fire.

Probably still would have been more useful that way than what he was at West Coast