News Welcome to Carlton Michael Gibbons & Matthew Cottrell

[Stig O'Hara]

^^^^

Medium size ered.....

This guy should be a midnight mod.

While I’m debating who was better, Diamond Dave or Sammy Hagar, or Dave again, this guy is the wise one that appears.

Ed: Sammy leading. 5150 is a pisser.

 

[Jabba73]

Nice.

Welcome to the best club in the World.

 

[SkyhorseTamer]

Love this. Love the way it was announced. Love the reactions. Love gibbons and cottrells reactions.

 

[Salt Lake Cities]

This is awesome. Bolts very emotional.

There really is something special brewing atm, our current membership tally is tangible evidence of this.

Couldn’t be happier with where the club is at - and we won 2 bloody games last year!! Says it all.

 

[Jeremias]

Fantastic - well done to both for grabbing the opportunity presented to them.

Gibbons' story is well documented, having shown his class at VFL level for a number of years now. Whilst I have my doubts about him transitioning successfully to the highest level, he'll certainly be given an opportunity, and it is very hard to argue he doesn't deserve it.

I have a feeling we may see him in the senior side come round 1 against the Tigers, and whilst I'm not sure how much senior action he'll see in 2019, at the very least he's going to be a wonderful addition to the Northern Blues.

Cottrell I know next to nothing about, but from all reports has applied himself to the task, so deserves a crack. I love that he's an endurance beast with good skills, both traits which should hold him in good stead for 2019 and possibly beyond.

Just thrilled that both guys have really applied themselves over the past few months and have earned this opportunity. The hard work steps up a gear now but they've already shown they'll give everything they've got.

 

[Bearded Carpenter]

Fully sick

This, X2.
Fully, fully sick.
FFS.

 

[Bearded Carpenter]

That's pumped me up!

I hope things turn around because Bolts is a ripper. Hopefully we don't perform poorly enough to compromise his tenure

Pumped also.
Bring back the pump.

 

[ESKIE]

The feel good story that we needed

 

[skadoosh]

http://www.carltonfc.com.au/video/2019-02-09/first-words-as-blues-cottrell-gibbons

 

[Bamboo Harvester]

http://www.carltonfc.com.au/video/2019-02-09/first-words-as-blues-cottrell-gibbons

I noticed that in the last frame of the video, Cottrell had #49 on his back, the same number he wore at Stingrays

 

[MacReady]

Fantastic - well done to both for grabbing the opportunity presented to them.

Gibbons' story is well documented, having shown his class at VFL level for a number of years now. Whilst I have my doubts about him transitioning successfully to the highest level, he'll certainly be given an opportunity, and it is very hard to argue he doesn't deserve it.

I have a feeling we may see him in the senior side come round 1 against the Tigers, and whilst I'm not sure how much senior action he'll see in 2019, at the very least he's going to be a wonderful addition to the Northern Blues.

Cottrell I know next to nothing about, but from all reports has applied himself to the task, so deserves a crack. I love that he's an endurance beast with good skills, both traits which should hold him in good stead for 2019 and possibly beyond.

Just thrilled that both guys have really applied themselves over the past few months and have earned this opportunity. The hard work steps up a gear now but they've already shown they'll give everything they've got.

I love it. Both guys given an opportunity of a lifetime, and they more than made the most of it. Makes it all the more pathetic when the likes of Boekhurst, who was given an opportunity to save his spot couldn't be ****ed doing anything close to what these 2 guys have done and got the boot.
I'm really happy for both of them and i'm extremely excited to see Gibbons come round 1 in the senior team (surely he gets a spot in the best 22?)

 

[Doro]

Good luck lads, hope you grab the opportunity.

 

[Blue and Blue]

Reckon these fine new blues deserve a thread each.

 

[Aphrodite]

 

[Blue and Blue]

That's pumped me up!

I hope things turn around because Bolts is a ripper. Hopefully we don't perform poorly enough to compromise his tenure

Blood oath

 

[Blue Doormat]

Just watched the interview with the two of them.
It remains to be seen if they can play at the level but I’m sold on these two already.

Gibbons looks driven. And cottrell looked like he was an Auskicker running out on GameDay. He’ll give everything.

 

[jooce8891]

http://www.carltonfc.com.au/video/2019-02-09/first-words-as-blues-cottrell-gibbons

Cottrells reaction is just absolutely priceless he's in a genuine lost for words, so happy for these two blokes

 

[ESKIE]

You get the vibe that Gibbons is going to grab this opportunity

Exciting to see where it takes him, time we had a success story too

 

[Bearded Carpenter]

Me thinks we got ourselves a bit of a hidden gem here.....welcome on board Gibbo!!!

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*2019 Carlton Best and Fairest
*2019 AFL Brownlow Winner
*2019 AFL Norm Smith Medalist
*2019 AFL Coleman Medalist
*2019 AFL All Australian

Pumped.

 

[tarczonandjane]

Well done to both lads!

And well done to the Carlton media team too. How good have they been in the offseason? As a fan, it’s the most engaged the club has ever made me feel. They’ve been absolutely awesome.

 

[jezza25]

Fantastic - well done to both for grabbing the opportunity presented to them.

Gibbons' story is well documented, having shown his class at VFL level for a number of years now. Whilst I have my doubts about him transitioning successfully to the highest level, he'll certainly be given an opportunity, and it is very hard to argue he doesn't deserve it.

I have a feeling we may see him in the senior side come round 1 against the Tigers, and whilst I'm not sure how much senior action he'll see in 2019, at the very least he's going to be a wonderful addition to the Northern Blues.

Cottrell I know next to nothing about, but from all reports has applied himself to the task, so deserves a crack. I love that he's an endurance beast with good skills, both traits which should hold him in good stead for 2019 and possibly beyond.

Just thrilled that both guys have really applied themselves over the past few months and have earned this opportunity. The hard work steps up a gear now but they've already shown they'll give everything they've got.

Gibbons is Kane Lambert all over again only this time we have him

 

[Opine]

Good luck to both boys.
I think they will both do just fine.
BTW, I don't think we'll see much of Gibbo in the NB's; I'm predicting he will make the transition into AFL quite easily.

 

[Blue and Blue]

Well done to both lads!

And well done to the Carlton media team too. How good have they been in the offseason? As a fan, it’s the most engaged the club has ever made me feel. They’ve been absolutely awesome.

No doubt about that..The club has grown in so many ways from the day the rebuild was announced..the journey is all inclusive and all encompassing....Got to be proud to be Navy Blue. Wasn't so sure I could say that ever again at times until the last couple of years.

 

[THE_GUN]

Gibbons is certainly too good for VFL and deserves a spot and its good to see carlton give him that chance, As another poster mentioned about Lambert
Hope he is good for the blues and takes his chance and cements a spot.

Best part about players like Gibbons / Lambert / Kelly etc is they will certainly be giving it everything and the younger kids that have had an easier path will have to work their backsides off to get ahead of these players as the spots are not going to be guaranteed to them just due to natural talent.

Congrats to both boys

 

[Jeremias]

I'm really happy for both of them and i'm extremely excited to see Gibbons come round 1 in the senior team (surely he gets a spot in the best 22?)

From all reports has been training exceptionally well, so will give himself every chance.

He’s not in my best side to face the Tigers at this stage but I’m not the one he has to impress.