That's a good one.Kicking for goal from a set shot? Don't have much confidence in either of them
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Jack was never a good set shot at the Suns and that's carried on here. Beautiful on the run though.
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That's a good one.Kicking for goal from a set shot? Don't have much confidence in either of them
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Any word on whether Walters will get up for them? He usually kills us
Agree - despite missing lots of the preseason.Thing with dow is he was in our best 22. Played round 1 and was named for round 2 before being injured. I think teague wants him in the 22 and won't surprise if he is named this week
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Such a negative Nancy.With Sydney looking like winners tonight, they are even with us, Freo and Hawthorn on 16 points.
Sorry to state the obvious, but we are really in with a chance to finish bottom 3 if we don’t capitalise on the winnable games.
Such a negative Nancy.
Win on Saturday and we are one game out of the 8
With Sydney looking like winners tonight, they are even with us, Freo and Hawthorn on 16 points.
Sorry to state the obvious, but we are really in with a chance to finish bottom 3 if we don’t capitalise on the winnable games.
Yes and the team in 8th spot will be 1 game clear of us if we win
I am aware that it is a tight bunch in our part of the ladder.
I am not saying we WILL finish bottom 3. But if we lose to teams around us it makes it difficult not to.
It's a volatile season. We'd want to win at least one of the next two, that's for sure.
Second last is one the cards if we don’t take care of freo and GC.With Sydney looking like winners tonight, they are even with us, Freo and Hawthorn on 16 points.
Sorry to state the obvious, but we are really in with a chance to finish bottom 3 if we don’t capitalise on the winnable games.
Plus with 2 extra days break for us.Need to win both of we are any chance to claim a spot in the 8
Playing GC out of QLD is a massive opportunity on a year like this
But we need to get over an in form Freo first!
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weight height
Caleb 90 193
Jack Lever 85 194
Easton Wood 84 186
Ridley 91 192
Grimes 87 193
McGovern 96 190
Jonas 88 188
Moore 100 203
Think Caleb measures up alright. Just needs to build his body strength. May not be ready now but I think he is more than capable into transitioning into a KPD.
I also noticed him give away a 50 in the opening play of the game.
What? Martin is very reliable, apart From that miss vs North
No one plays midfield only.Yep this. Dow needs to play midfield only. He's definitely not an option up forward
Nah, not being negative - just pointing out the facts.
We have games against Freo and Sydney to come. Both in our bracket. They are basically 8 point games. Lose those and we’re looking at a bottom 3 finish.
Not saying it WILL happen.
The next two weeks really determine whether this season ends up considered a success or failure IMO.
Freo and Gold Coast are arguably teams in the same boat as us - coming to the end of a rebuilding period, with young talent. They both play off short breaks and have weaknesses we can exploit.
If we win both, we're suddenly back in top 8 contention, with matches against Adelaide, Sydney (expected wins) and GWS and Collingwood (fringe top 8 teams who are currently battling) plus Brisbane (another young team who we match up very well against). I would expect if we're in contention that we win a minimum 3 of those games and finish 9-8 for our first winning record in 9 years - and that we have a genuine crack at 10-7 and a finals spot.
Lose to Freo and Gold Coast and suddenly we're playing off with Sydney for a bottom 3 spot, with no real draft incentives to look ahead to (the draft will be a massive crapshoot anyway) and just playing out the string all season wondering if anything has improved.
Win one/Lose one - season is done in terms of finals, we probably avoid bottom 4, but also finish with real questions (finishing 14th with much more investment in older/mature players than previous years and with none of the young guys really making the 'leap' this year is a failed season imo).
So yeah - beat Freo this week, beat Gold Coast and we are looking at the rosiest Carlton outlook in a decade... just saying
With regards to finals, I really feel we should apply the cliche, "One week at a time"
We really need to just focus on who we are coming up against and really become the hunters on the field, quell their strengths and exploit their weaknesses. Our pressure last week was A1 but is difficult to sustain for 4 qtrs. We need to be able to apply pressure and attack while hitting forward targets as we did against Geelong for 3/4s. This needs to be a given every week until we create consistency. Every game should be there for the taking.
Finals will be a reward for effort, if we don't make it, we want to finish as bloody close as we can so that if we are chasing an A grade prospect, he can look at our results and think we are there about. If we bomb out, the player will look at where he feels he can have success.
Not really, with of percentage we will need 10 wins to make it so we will need to go 6 from 7 from here, big ask for a side that is 10-11 under Teague.
Honestly I can't shake a bad feeling about this week, we don't have a great record against Freo, they have been playing better than their record suggests and after a big effort for no reward last week I worry the boys will come out a bit flat.
As I said - beat Gold Coast and Freo (6-6) then we play:
- Adelaide and Sydney (both should be wins)
- Collingwood and GWS (beatable on current form, but who knows in a month)
- Brisbane (great form, but we have a good track record against them)
Are 4 wins, or 3 wins + some big percentage boosts, possibly from that group? Definitely, but also we have to get there first!
Good track record against the Lions? Since 2015 it is 5-2 in favour of the Lions