Wright CEO, Bartel Head of Footy?Think it was more about operations, now wants to career into CEO material.
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AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Wright CEO, Bartel Head of Footy?Think it was more about operations, now wants to career into CEO material.
If you look at scores against from turnover which is largely what we would consider to be "transition" we gave up the 5th least points from this source. Contrastingly, we gave up the third most from stoppage. It's obviously not all on the midfielders and the defenders are accountable as well but contested midfielders get attracted to the ball and if we don't win it at the source don't delay the ball going i50 in any way. Leaves our undersized defence exposed. A good second key defender to partner Weitering will be hard to find (if we don't trust Young) but if we can find one I'm all for it. However, if we stick with Weitering + two intercepting types the midfield must lift defensively and like you mentioned Cerra/Walsh are the keys to this as they spread really well from the contest
Our defence is suddenly terrible after conceding the 5th least points in 23' with the same personnel? The big drop-off in 2024 was defending stoppage - a lot of this is on the midfielders.
Yeah, I agree that it was light, your reply compelled me to articulate myself better. In regards to him playing in the midfield, I personally haven't seen any of the Port games where he played midfield, so I don't think I can really comment. We're lacking quality ball users in the midfield, so he'd fit a need in that regard. I'd agree that he's probably quicker than most of our mids, but is he closer to the Cripps end of the pace spectrum or the Holmes end?That is so well written that I'm going to accept it. I did note your main point about moving the needle and adding another attacking player might not change our plight one bit (i feel that too). Carlton are so about getting next best shiny thing without a references to 'roles' and where best to spend the cash/picks.
It was just the stats and point you made felt light and worth a response.
Personally on Houston, i think there is value around the midfield. I think he could join the mid rotations and help the defensive transitions in terms of better running/speed. This might turn the needle as his speed is better than all of our mid at a guess. Did you notice they confused Elijah's good form out on the wing as a link player (early in the season) and then moved him inside and to the centre for spells where he is slow and gets upended in the tackle easily plus panicked disposal. I feel Houston could take those minutes and improve us immeasurably.
Now having said all that, i dont think we get him.
As to your point of moving the needle, i do think priority is a 2nd key defender at the right weight division with aggression. This would stop the calamity of young/Kemp rubbing off and bring some hardness/physicality.
This feels a little selective, granted they have won the 1 flag since 2011 but they also lost another and played in about 5 prelims.The old we should trade like Geelong routine. Since they won the last of their dynasty flags in 2011 (with father sons like Hawkins, Ablett and Scarlett picked in the 40's under the old system) they have won one flag in 13 years .
Due to lifestyle they were able to trade in Dangerfield and Cameron who were known to be guns. We helped them out with Tuohey. In the last 10 years apart from those 3 they have traded in Mitchell Clark, Rhys Stanley, Lachie Henderson, Zac Smith, Aaron Black, Nathan Kruger, Gary Rohan, Jack Steven, Josh Jenkins, Jon Ceglar, Tanner Bruhn, Jack Bowes, Oliver Henry and traded back Gary Ablett.
There's a fair bit of dross in that lot. Can depend on what you paid for them of course but to suggest that they are trade masters would be over inflating the actuality.
The moral of the story is that Uncle Ralph was a deadset psycho.I remember being a 12yr old kid at the end of 90. Carlton people had become angry at list changes because we should be in a window.
I used to sit in the Princess Park scoreboard with my uncle Ralph and i remember the final round loss to fitzroy at home that year. I clearly remember saying to him we are crap, he pointed his walking stick at me and said 'say that again and i'll castrate you on my walking stick.
He said 'We are Carlton, we make things happen'.
That off season, among others, we picked up Earl, Heaver, DeLulio, Hogg, Sholl, Woosha and some small slow bloke known as Diesel, because we knew we needed to bring in talent in key areas and a Diesel.
I know we can't live in the past and past rules, but whatever happened to "We are Carlton"? We seem to want to be kind. I want us to be as kind as hawks were to fev on 99 goals while 65 points up!
I just don't get why we can't nail the trade period or get a good draft hand. I feel we are giving the comp a leg up if we only go the way the ITK guys like EP, MS and Soap hear we will.
Not saying we have to get Houston, but we have a serious issue with our bottom 6 and our plan is to go to the draft?
Hmm, I've been trying to convince myself that investing in the Draft is the a good way to go, but this ^ is pretty much what my gut, heart and nagging in the back of my mind has been telling me for weeks. Thanks for casting me back into the abyss of doubtLooks like we’re rebuilding for another 10 years and going to let teams like the Pies, Cats, Lions, Hawks etc. top up their list to be stronger next year whilst we battle it out to finish 5-12th because we are worried about Tassie in two years
Rebuilding??? So we are trading off our stars are we???Looks like we’re rebuilding for another 10 years and going to let teams like the Pies, Cats, Lions, Hawks etc. top up their list to be stronger next year whilst we battle it out to finish 5-12th because we are worried about Tassie in two years
The only team who wants to offload picks this year are ones with academy and f/s selections around the pick and it will get wasted.Austin could just offer our 1st and F2 and get Houston, we would then still have currency to trade back in to the 1st round of the draft and still be able to get an extra pick before a bid on Ben.
We still add highly rated kids in a deep draft, we still get our two father sons and we’d add a dual AA player who would make us better
Correct, however as a side would like to see him tried down back.Won’t be competing with Membrey anyway
A healthy list sees JSOS replace Kennedy as he was only going to be playing fwd in 2025. Moir/Durdin replace Owies and Lord/Binns/Wilson replaces Carroll.I’m ok if we hit the draft hard, as long as we bring in a few Acres, Newman, Hollands, Ginnivan, D”Ambrosio types as well.
We can replace the always injured with kids and be ok but if we lose Kennedy, Owies and Carrol, they need replacing.
I used to sit in the Princess Park scoreboard with my uncle Ralph and i remember the final round loss to fitzroy at home that year.
I don't think we would have had a long term contracted Houston onour radar until he expressed a desire to come home.Did they think they were going to get Houston and keep a first round pick? Kinda seems like they thought they could get it all, and didn't account another team might sweep in?
Has there been any whispers to confirm that this IS happening?Pretty sure that’s polite compared to what the Collingwood board will be calling him after it’s announced he is a Blue
Hahaha, yes. But he ran the fastest scoreboard in the land for 50yrsThe moral of the story is that Uncle Ralph was a deadset psycho.
confident houston to us gets done.
Remember it’s a long trade period, if everything happens day 1 what would the media have to talk about..
Can’t say too much at this stage other than I’m quietly optimisticDo you know or do you think KingCharles?
My concern is that this kind of 'Gift' (a very good player who addresses one of our major weaknesses in disposal), not only wants to come to Vic but has a genuine interest (going as far as holding off on other clubs with I'm sure better offers) to land in our lap.I don't think we would have had a long term contracted Houston onour radar until he expressed a desire to come home.
Would be a great addition, but not at any cost. Perfectly reasonable response by us.
There sure is. I’m hearing it’s as good as doneHas there been any whispers to confirm that this IS happening?