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saw him on the street last night, shaved head, no more mo, only reason i noticed him was he was wearing a melbourne tracksuit, then it took me a while to recognise him...

is this his attempt at cleaning up his act to concentrate purely on footy and have anothercrack?

Will he be on the list next year as a back-up?
 
oh, and after seeing Wonamerri in the pub on Friday night in the demons tracksuit, it seems the tracksuit is the must have fashion accesory this season.
 
I hope we have seen the last of him. With Rivers, Garland, Warnock, Frawley, Martin and McNamara, we have more than enough young key defenders on our list.
 
I'm pretty sure he's contracted until the end of next season.

So unless we here on BF want to pool together some money to have melbourne pay out the remainder of his contract, he'll be on our list.

He's another Jamie Shannahan, older player dominating in the VFL but not good enough to get into our senior team

That is unless of course we can string together some magically trade where we get freo to agree to take him for Warnock, or maybe geelong want him for prismal. Why wouldn't they want a washed-up 28 y.o. player who isn't good enough to get in the bottom teams line up?
 

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I heard, or read, or something, that he kicked 1.6 playing up forward last week...is this correct?
 
the russian40 said:
I heard, or read, or something, that he kicked 1.6 playing up forward last week...is this correct?
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You probably were looking at the VFL sporting pulse page, which has columns G and then B. The G is for Goals but the B isn't for behinds, the B is for Best. They give out 6 votes, 1 to the best, 6 to the 6th best.

So it was 1 goal and listed as 6th best.

Now i'm confused. Stupid website
 
McLean_4_Captain said:
You probably were looking at the VFL sporting pulse page, which has columns G and then B. The G is for Goals but the B isn't for behinds, the B is for Best. They give out 6 votes, 1 to the best, 6 to the 6th best.

So it was 1 goal and listed as 6th best.

Now i'm confused. Stupid website
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you are correct, its a very confusing way to list the goals and best.
 
bringbackschwarter5 said:
Has been more than servicable in the past, and for a while was held up as the saviour at Fullback. Hopefully he gets another spot on the list next year
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Do you really want him? Surely if you wont be around when we are at the top of the ladder and you aren't in the best 22 you shouldn't be on the list next year. I think it's a position Yze, Holland and White will be in so why would we keep Carroll, he will just get in the way of Warnock, Garland, Rivers, Martin and Frawley's development. With Bell who can play tall as well that makes 6 big defenders, so he wont be needed for cover.
 
He was always too slow, could never defend on the lead. If Gehrig hadn't got injured in the 2006 Elimination Final, we would've got killed becuase he was killing the big Chopper.
 

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bloodpumpsRnB said:
He was always too slow, could never defend on the lead. If Gehrig hadn't got injured in the 2006 Elimination Final, we would've got killed becuase he was killing the big Chopper.
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Yeah, but wasn't it Carroll who injured him? One of the funniest things I've seen on the footy field.
 
Vic Crow said:
Yeah, but wasn't it Carroll who injured him? One of the funniest things I've seen on the footy field.
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Yeah, he took a mark in front of Carroll then played on and Carroll dumped him hard in the tackle and he did his ankle. Carroll also took out X Clarke that night as well in the first quarter with a big bump

He was playing on Carroll because he'd given Holland a bath in the first quarter, all in all we probably wouldn't have won that game without Carroll's "influence"
 
Nathana Carroll has age and speed against him, but as a third defender, which is the roll he should be playing he racks up the numbers and does a fair job.

Carroll adds toughness in the back half, having Colin Garland or James Frawley coming at you doesn't exactly make you stutter...
 
Beats said:
Nathana Carroll has age and speed against him, but as a third defender, which is the roll he should be playing he racks up the numbers and does a fair job.

Carroll adds toughness in the back half, having Colin Garland or James Frawley coming at you doesn't exactly make you stutter...
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What so if Rivers was fit you'd rather us play Warnock, Rivers and Carroll ahead of Garland or Frawley as the 3rd tall?

You gotta be f__king kidding me
 
McLean_4_Captain said:
Yeah, he took a mark in front of Carroll then played on and Carroll dumped him hard in the tackle and he did his ankle. Carroll also took out X Clarke that night as well in the first quarter with a big bump

He was playing on Carroll because he'd given Holland a bath in the first quarter, all in all we probably wouldn't have won that game without Carroll's "influence"
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Haha I remember that.
 

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I'm a huge Nathan Carroll fan he's had to do the biggest jobs in one of the worst sides over the last 2 years and he always has a crack.

I love his trade mark opening bounce stouches.

If Dean Bailey would take a risk and play him on the wing we'd get a better return out of him, he has a good mark contested and un contested, racks up 18 p's at full back every week he'd get more in the middle and he adds plenty of grunt.

Gotta have an 80's style cult figure running around GO CARROLL!!
 
carroll has been playing on the biggest and best forward in the last 2 years as a 6'2 defender i think he has done well.
now with the likes of garland and warnock he will be able to play on a half back/forward or wing and play his attacking game!

if rumours are true carroll has shaved his head i will be greatly dissappointed!!!
 
McLean_4_Captain said:
What so if Rivers was fit you'd rather us play Warnock, Rivers and Carroll ahead of Garland or Frawley as the 3rd tall?

You gotta be f__king kidding me
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I'm not saying I'd prefer him ahead of them, I'm saying that he adds a physical aspect they don't have yet.
Ideally if everyone was fully fit Warnock and Carroll would be fighting it out for a spot on the bench.
Warnock is 24, Carroll will be 28 soon.
It's not like Warnock is a spring chicken either, would you rather have him played ahead of Garland and Frawley?
Chances are like Carroll, Warnock will be gone by our next premiership opportunity...
 

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