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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.
I might be wrong but wasn't it Polson who was doing laps and some light ball skills with JGM and Gallucci all day not Pickett?
 

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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....
To me, watching Kouta play was like watching a man playing against little kids.
 

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To think I've followed Carlton when players like Gorringe, KJ & Jones were the core group we depended on to succeed. I need to go outside now.....
I hate to be that guy, but those guys barely have a game played between them. Don't even have to take my socks off to count I reckon!
 

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I'm telling you I have followed a team where players of that ilk were the ones we were depending on to win us games - it was around the time I started going to football knowing my team would lose - a situation I had never experienced before
 

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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.
Reckon you're on the money. Most AFL players would roll around at sub 10%. He seems to be way higher.

Still, isnt the be all and end all. Could still be plenty quick enough to play mainly fwd for the first half of the year and move into midfield in the latter parts for spurts
 

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I'm telling you I have followed a team where players of that ilk were the ones we were depending on to win us games - it was around the time I started going to football knowing my team would lose - a situation I had never experienced before
70's & 80's we used to go every week expecting to win. It was great. Could even be 20 points down at half time and we knew we would win. There was just that belief. Those were the days.
 

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I swore we sometimes used to see how far behind we could slip just to enjoy the premiership quarter smashing that followed. I didn't really enjoy it because there were matches when we left our run too late and lost games we shouldn't. Anyone would have thought we were arrogant back then.
 

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I swore we sometimes used to see how far behind we could slip just to enjoy the premiership quarter smashing that followed. I didn't really enjoy it because there were matches when we left our run too late and lost games we shouldn't. Anyone would have thought we were arrogant back then.
Agree but we really played some exciting football as well. When the mosquito fleet got up and running it was some of the best football you would ever see. That's what I hope this group will eventually play like.
 

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I'm telling you I have followed a team where players of that ilk were the ones we were depending on to win us games - it was around the time I started going to football knowing my team would lose - a situation I had never experienced before
I can't recall depending on those guys to win us anything; unless you're talking about the Northern Blues.
 

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To my mind, CC is the quintessential high key forward of the modern era and era going forward.

He will be named as CHF and he will roam a lot. A big A Grade athlete and A Grade footballer is the stuff of dreams.

I think he is a tad too heavy to play midfield for more than just a pinch hit. Too taxing on the body. Only the freakish Adam Goodes could really carry that bulk thru the midfield.

He is going to be a very interesting watch though isn't he.
Have said this all along!
 

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He looked fine on Wednesday. Sure he's a bit chubby but Sumner proved us wrong on that too. Still very young and missed a year with an injury that meant he couldn't run.
Pickett as we know is a no.4 pick....and was about to break into GWS 22 when injury struck...hence big wraps and justified.
He has had several months off post surgery and his was worse than Sumners with a longer rehab time.
We are looking at rehab management of a lis franc injury......he would not have put a full load repetitively on that foot yet in terms of full sessions and game sim time and would have lost what little tank he had...
going to have to be patient.[this is why GWS let him slide]
because even if he makes the 22 say mid season from northern he will be struggling for fitness.
 
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I can't recall depending on those guys to win us anything; unless you're talking about the Northern Blues.
How quickly we forget. We wouldn't have beaten the Shockers last year if that 'Explosive Beast' Jones hadn't stepped up to the plate to kick a timely goal, after Levi had done everything in his power to ensure we couldn't win.
 

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I don't have very high hopes for Boekhorst either.
I have this bad feeling like he'll end up being traded for a low pick or delisted and go on to be a decent player somewhere else. Like he needs the loss of the opportunity or to be rejected to really want it.
 

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Enigma. If he wants it enough something has to change. Someone suggested you can coach anything - can't coach a hard-edge. He needs to accumulate another 6-10 damaging possessions. Chases well we know, kicking excellent, links beautifully but is he willing to hurt himself like the gut-running Bradley or the fear-no-danger Simpson? Is a bit brittle which will always work against him. Forget the mo and the hairstyle, get on with the basic skills and running and team-plan things. He may make it but I am not 100% confident that he will. Has to do everything spot-on from here to the extent he can't be forced out of the team and if that happens we will have a pretty fair player.
 

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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.
Show me an indigenous player with striated thighs.

Indigenous people naturally carry more fat and less muscle.
 

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Enigma. If he wants it enough something has to change. Someone suggested you can coach anything - can't coach a hard-edge. He needs to accumulate another 6-10 damaging possessions. Chases well we know, kicking excellent, links beautifully but is he willing to hurt himself like the gut-running Bradley or the fear-no-danger Simpson? Is a bit brittle which will always work against him. Forget the mo and the hairstyle, get on with the basic skills and running and team-plan things. He may make it but I am not 100% confident that he will. Has to do everything spot-on from here to the extent he can't be forced out of the team and if that happens we will have a pretty fair player.
Longest post I've seen from you in ages. Not sure if that means you care or don't care... Enigma!
 
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Enigma. If he wants it enough something has to change. Someone suggested you can coach anything - can't coach a hard-edge. He needs to accumulate another 6-10 damaging possessions. Chases well we know, kicking excellent, links beautifully but is he willing to hurt himself like the gut-running Bradley or the fear-no-danger Simpson? Is a bit brittle which will always work against him. Forget the mo and the hairstyle, get on with the basic skills and running and team-plan things. He may make it but I am not 100% confident that he will. Has to do everything spot-on from here to the extent he can't be forced out of the team and if that happens we will have a pretty fair player.

:tldr :straining:
 
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