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Answers.....so many questions.....so few answers.
How to read the whole pre-season into one training session?

Pickett was not engaged in the main group nor the outer rehab group.
Spent the bulk of the day with JGM and Gallucci doing little things.....very little things.
Hopefully he's being managed and not there because he hasn't met certain standards.
 

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there is no answer to such an earth-bound question - charlie has already entered the realm...........
Just goes to show that the last 2 drafts, Weiteing we got at #1, and a bonafide talent but these 2 could also have laid claim to the #1 pick C.Curnow and SPS.
With C.Curnow his ceiling is that much higher than most and once he's reached 40 to 50 games he will be amongst the AFL's elite.
He's the modern day blueprint of what an AFL player should be like. The perfect package with the right skill set with the right balance of natural footballer and athlete. For the CFC, could we again replicate a modern day Kouta with possibly more talent and X-Factor. Early days but from what we've seen and how highly this kid is rated, there's every chance.
 

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Just had a look at players' profiles.
We now have:


Charlie Curnow......was 191 now 194...........Charlie is not 194. 192/3......not 194
Sam Docherty.......was 184 now 187............Sam has not grown 3 cm.
Lach Plowman.......still at 191.....................Plowman is 193/4................not 191
Levi Casboult........was 199 now 201...........Really? Grown 2 cm at 26?
Andrew Phillips......was 201 now 203...........Really?
Glass- MacCasker..was 198 now 195...........Jesse has shrunk? Is that even possible?
Lol. Great post.

I read once that people are on average 2cm taller in the morning....... (spine stretches out during sleep)

Maybe it can explain some of the variation :huh:
 

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I think he is just one of those guys that looks like he is carrying more weight than what he is.
He didn't look particularly overweight to me and certainly not chubby in the way Sumner was, this time last year.

Maybe he is, but he does have a rounder face that can make one think that he is carrying something extra.
 

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He didn't look particularly overweight to me and certainly not chubby in the way Sumner was, this time last year.

Maybe he is, but he does have a rounder face that can make one think that he is carrying something extra.
Very little muscle striation even in still shots from training - it's a giveaway that his body fat % is too high (relatively speaking of course). Looks like he has a decent body shape under it all though, and should be pretty powerful off the mark.
 

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Very little muscle striation even in still shots from training - it's a giveaway that his body fat % is too high (relatively speaking of course). Looks like he has a decent body shape under it all though, and should be pretty powerful off the mark.
That may well be true but he didn't stand out as some fattie to me.

We don't yet really know whether he's in full training or not. Maybe he's just being managed as seems to be the case for several others.
 

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Just goes to show that the last 2 drafts, Weiteing we got at #1, and a bonafide talent but these 2 could also have laid claim to the #1 pick C.Curnow and SPS.
With C.Curnow his ceiling is that much higher than most and once he's reached 40 to 50 games he will be amongst the AFL's elite.
He's the modern day blueprint of what an AFL player should be like. The perfect package with the right skill set with the right balance of natural footballer and athlete. For the CFC, could we again replicate a modern day Kouta with possibly more talent and X-Factor. Early days but from what we've seen and how highly this kid is rated, there's every chance.
There was only 1 Kouta! For those too young to remember, just imagine a complete Carlton crowd cheering out during the game - Kouta, continuously.... expecting him to do his next act with the ball on a string....it truly was just an awesome experience and a feeling we couldn't possible imagine on a footy field with 36 players!
One of the best experiences and I will never forget a couple of individual performances at Princes Park against West Coast and of course the Essendon prelim.

I guess you just never say never....
 

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16 months ago we were left with next to no x-factor in our squad.

Now, not all of these guys will work out but the general dynamic certainly looks to have changed since:
Petrevski-Seton, Cuningham, Pickett, CCurnow, Sumner, Fisher, Polson and LeBois.

Even if only 4 or 5 made it long-term, we certainly look a lot more exciting.
 

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16 months ago we were left with next to no x-factor in our squad.

Now, not all of these guys will work out but the general dynamic certainly looks to have changed since:
Petrevski-Seton, Cuningham, Pickett, CCurnow, Sumner, Fisher, Polson and LeBois.

Even if only 4 or 5 made it long-term, we certainly look a lot more exciting.
True. Hardly any spark at all.

Just a few and I'll be happy, and one to be Petratty-Seton.
 

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16 months ago we were left with next to no x-factor in our squad.

Now, not all of these guys will work out but the general dynamic certainly looks to have changed since:
Petrevski-Seton, Cuningham, Pickett, CCurnow, Sumner, Fisher, Polson and LeBois.

Even if only 4 or 5 made it long-term, we certainly look a lot more exciting.

You left out Pickett
 
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