Carroll only played colts at WAFL level last season. Most recruits out of the WAFL usually have a run in the 1’s (after the 18’s championships when held).
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Carroll only played colts at WAFL level last season. Most recruits out of the WAFL usually have a run in the 1’s (after the 18’s championships when held).
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more people loathe him coming out of injury, which means automatic inclusion, for one game followed another 4 weeks on the sidelines for ....i dunno, a broken fingernail. another circa 750k stump up failure.
between his coin and murphys, we could have fyfe running around and serious change left over to upgrade Walsh.
if we could write off failures on balance sheet, we'd be the wealthiest sports team in Australasia
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if we could harness the energy of your bullshit negativity tonight, the country would be carbon neutral by morning..............
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Geez, he's bigger than Gulden so physically he should handle it.
Do you think he's immature?
Gulden has gone from 71kg to 75kg very fast. I'd say his stats have been upgraded since he debuted. Not sure we have Carroll's latest stats yet.
This thread ( all of them this week actually) reads like a eulogy. Think bookmarking our board in the moment in time, will be interesting once we look back at year's end
The negativity is eye opening
The negativity is eye opening
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It's most certainly feasible. Do I need to go back through the history of similarly built, first year players who have been able to contribute to AFL sides?
Here's some relevant ones in their first season;
Sam Walsh (VIC)
Height, weight: 183cm, 74kg
Xavier Duursma (VIC)
Height, weight: 185cm, 71kg
Connor Rozee (SA)
Height, weight: 185cm, 72kg
Zak Butters (VIC)
Height, weight: 181cm, 70kg
Paddy Dow (VIC)
Height, weight: 185cm, 78kg
Hunter Clark (VIC)
Height, weight: 186cm, 80kg
Jaidyn Stephenson (VIC)
Height, weight: 189cm, 76kg
Liam Ryan (WA)
Height, Weight: 185cm, 78kg (and this bloke was 21!)
Hugh McCluggage (VIC)
Height, weight: 185cm, 75kg
Will Hayward (SA)
Height, weight: 186cm, 76kg
Sam Philp played for us at 186cm/79kg last season.
Shall I continue?
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Should Have heard us last week . Talk about Chicken Little
Both teams have got a lot to play for so hopefully it's a cracking game and not influenced by a stupid umpiring decision in the dying seconds
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height and weight is important and you make a great point/comparison
but equally , there would be many with the same stats.
you cant weigh and measure heart
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Uncles a club Dr for a club I won't specify and have a few mates running around various fitness departments. Those numbers are basically always wrong. Height and weights. Half the clubs don't care to update them and the other half don't want to.
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stocker might be a bit slow I'm afraid
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The poor MCC punter. Must be tough
Not totally against it but he was too loose at Demons so I got no high expectations of him if we played him there.
Shows we not done our job developing Macreadie or Ben Silvagni as a key defender to be in this situation.
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when we win this week, so many of these people bagging their own club, will be the first proclaiming how good each individual was, and how they’ve always been the number one fan. Honestly, we are so fickle. After twenty years I know we’re impatient, but suck it up and get behind the boys, it’s our only choice.
Having said that, if we get rolled this week
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I’m not close enough to anything to know whether or not Carroll is ready (though the O’Keefe video review on him is very positive).
what I will say though is that a debut against Freo (and with the Suns to come) wouldn’t put him up against the hardened bodies he’d have faced against Richmond or Collingwood. That’s not disparaging the midfields of either team we are about to play, but they don’t have the years in the system of our first two opponents.
what I will say though is that a debut against Freo (and with the Suns to come) wouldn’t put him up against the hardened bodies he’d have faced against Richmond or Collingwood. That’s not disparaging the midfields of either team we are about to play, but they don’t have the years in the system of our first two opponents.
He’s a shadow of the player he was in his first year. Goes to ground, always looking for his left, no physicality to his game. Not a good defender 1v1 and isn’t hurting the opposition when going forward.
Needs to go back the VFL imo
Not even SOS would have stopped DeGoey and Elliott with that delivery
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Hold my beer and read my next post, I can do it on my lonesome....
Plow had a mare, but some supporters expect our defenders to win all 1v1 contests, with no accountability on the midfield group who are the very reason for the ball travelling into the opposition forward line.
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Yeah, I agree - way too much negativity!
Last week's efforts was disappointing and the injuries tolls are pretty lousy...
But, we've been building depth, so let's see.
Freo got their share of injuries too.
We just need to win and then we can start enjoying this season again
I'm going to the game to witness our first win for the season
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Make no mistake, North will have us penciled in as a win. They go in way too hard for Carlton.
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Please do not compare our first year pick ups to Sydney academy kids, they are so far ahead of us in development that there is no comparison, the only kid I would throw in at the moment is Parks as he has play league level and is ex Sydney academy.
The Academy has more than 100 coaches and conditioning staff who train players at the 10 locations in regional NSW and Sydney metro.
The Academy program runs for 22 weeks every year, over three terms from February to September. In the older age groups, from U16 to U19, players train for 30 weeks a year as they also complete a pre-season program.
The Academy program involves a number of weekly sessions, which give players of all ages a mix of skill development, fitness training and high-level competition.
Our confidence is down which is a hard time to throw younger players in.
Do we have the players to win this week, yes, do we have the MC and coaches to pick the best team and place them in their most damaging positions, on what I have seen the last two weeks, no.
If Ed plays, he goes to Mundy, If Setters plays he goes to the middle, bring Cunningham in for midfield/ forward role or sign his papers, Parkes in for Plow or Williamson, or send a rocket up both. Levi, if he can't do what he is meant to, including kicking goals from 30 out, out he goes as well. Jones needs a rev up, Macdonald in. Time for Eddie Betts to shine or he can be a mentor for VFL for the year. Cripps, if he is not right, don't #$%@^&& play him.
All I'm hearing about is depth, but we are in a hole and trying to dig our way out.
And that's my positives out of the way
The Academy has more than 100 coaches and conditioning staff who train players at the 10 locations in regional NSW and Sydney metro.
The Academy program runs for 22 weeks every year, over three terms from February to September. In the older age groups, from U16 to U19, players train for 30 weeks a year as they also complete a pre-season program.
The Academy program involves a number of weekly sessions, which give players of all ages a mix of skill development, fitness training and high-level competition.
Our confidence is down which is a hard time to throw younger players in.
Do we have the players to win this week, yes, do we have the MC and coaches to pick the best team and place them in their most damaging positions, on what I have seen the last two weeks, no.
If Ed plays, he goes to Mundy, If Setters plays he goes to the middle, bring Cunningham in for midfield/ forward role or sign his papers, Parkes in for Plow or Williamson, or send a rocket up both. Levi, if he can't do what he is meant to, including kicking goals from 30 out, out he goes as well. Jones needs a rev up, Macdonald in. Time for Eddie Betts to shine or he can be a mentor for VFL for the year. Cripps, if he is not right, don't #$%@^&& play him.
All I'm hearing about is depth, but we are in a hole and trying to dig our way out.
And that's my positives out of the way
Every struggling team over the past 15 years pencils in their game against Carlton - it’s their Grand Final.
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