2 hours ago, stevethemanjordan said:

Because of their JLT ladder position ?

 

This is what I mean.... 

of course not

because they are not playing a lot of their stars and its hard to just click into gear in round one without the best 22 playing together much.  Also potential for slight premiership hangover and a late start to preseason meaning some of there players might not be cherry ripe in round 1. Also ideally you want each player to have 2 good hit outs prior to round 1 and guys like Bont wont have that

9 minutes ago, DubDee said:

of course not

because they are not playing a lot of their stars and its hard to just click into gear in round one without the best 22 playing together much.  Also potential for slight premiership hangover and a late start to preseason meaning some of there players might not be cherry ripe in round 1. Also ideally you want each player to have 2 good hit outs prior to round 1 and guys like Bont wont have that

Fair reasoning.

I get the impression that the Bont isn't the type who will start slow though.

 

14 hours ago, stevethemanjordan said:

Only on demonland would there be a live ladder for the JLT series...

Makes me cringe all sorts.

Makes me cringe too but since it started Melbourne hasn't lost a game so you'll have to either tolerate it ... or look away.

Melbourne 2 - - 208 148 140.5 8
Gold Coast Suns 2 - - 160 133 120.3 8
North Melbourne 2 - - 160 137 116.8 8
Richmond 1 - - 92 73 126.0 4
 - - - - -  - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - 
GWS Giants 1 1 - 112 91 123.1 4
West Coast Eagles 1 1 - 144 122 118.0 4
Collingwood 1 - - 105 94 111.7 4
Sydney Swans 1 1 - 117 107 109.3 4
St Kilda 1 - - 57 56 101.8 4
Hawthorn 1 1 - 172 189 91.0 4
Brisbane Lions 1 1 - 123 139 88.5 4
Port Adelaide - 1 - 56 57 98.2 0
Geelong - 1 - 94 98 95.9 0
Essendon - 2 - 170 184 92.4 0 
Western Bulldogs - 2 - 144 158 91.1 0
Adelaide - 1 - 73 92 79.3 0
Carlton - 1 - 62 116 53.4 0
Fremantle - 1 - 52 107 48.6 0

 

Every day I thank the heavens that St Kilda too McCartin at pick 1.

He'll probably go on to kick eight goals today now that I've written this.

5 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Every day I thank the heavens that St Kilda too McCartin at pick 1.

He'll probably go on to kick eight goals today now that I've written this.

As long as he kicks his 8 today and not in round 1...

No one will probably get this, but McCartin reminds me of Scott from Degrassi High:

22 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Every day I thank the heavens that St Kilda too McCartin at pick 1.

He'll probably go on to kick eight goals today now that I've written this.

Yeah he looks average I reckon. Slow, unathletic, and not a reliable kick. Although, they say he is a reliable kick, but I haven't seen it yet. He couldn't make 50 earlier. Not sure that was just a one off shank. But I haven't seen anything in McCartin that would warrant pick 1.

2 minutes ago, KingDingAling said:

Yeah he looks average I reckon. Slow, unathletic, and not a reliable kick. Although, they say he is a reliable kick, but I haven't seen it yet. He couldn't make 50 earlier. Not sure that was just a one off shank. But I haven't seen anything in McCartin that would warrant pick 1.

Peter Wright looks to be a far better prospect as a key forward in that draft.

Petracca and Wright would have been a handy duo to pick up.

Jarrod Pickett at pick 4 is worse than Toumpas and Morton, incredible to think that GWS have blown about four or five top five picks and still have the best list.

Edited March 4, 20179 yr by Clint Bizkit

Carlton are horrible

Just now, Stretch Johnson said:

Carlton are horrible

They've gone backwards.

At least Brisbane looked to play a different style of football, Carlton look like Melbourne in 2012.

4 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

They've gone backwards.

At least Brisbane looked to play a different style of football, Carlton look like Melbourne in 2012.

carlton resting a lot of their best players but

remind me again how we've lost to this rabble in the past 2 years?

Despite missing some senior players,as are StKilda,Carlton's performance today puts our effort last week into stark perspective. They are a rabble. We have got way ahead of ourselves after a narrow win against an underdone and undermanned Bulldogs and the wooden spoon favourites. Some supporters never learn. We are very much odds against in round one at Etihad.

Just now, martin said:

Despite missing some senior players,as are StKilda,Carlton's performance today puts our effort last week into stark perspective. They are a rabble. We have got way ahead of ourselves after a narrow win against an underdone and undermanned Bulldogs and the wooden spoon favourites. Some supporters never learn. We are very much odds against in round one at Etihad.

I want to go through this post and point out how ridiculous it is, but I'll leave it to someone else.  I've got paint to watch that's drying on my wall.

like us against WCE, we'll get a better understanding of where the Saints are at next week against the Swans.

4 minutes ago, martin said:

Despite missing some senior players,as are StKilda,Carlton's performance today puts our effort last week into stark perspective. They are a rabble. We have got way ahead of ourselves after a narrow win against an underdone and undermanned Bulldogs and the wooden spoon favourites. Some supporters never learn. We are very much odds against in round one at Etihad.

Pls.

We were in second gear for a good 70% of the match and Carlton have gone in with a less experienced side today. 

Saints should rightly be favourites Round 1 but your hyperbolic post is akin to a Trump press conference.

Edited March 4, 20179 yr by praha

14 minutes ago, Stretch Johnson said:

Carlton are horrible

You're not wrong, SJ.  They are missing a few but they have zero depth, their skill level is atrocious and they lack any sort of quality.  They're in for a long year.

3 minutes ago, martin said:

Despite missing some senior players,as are StKilda,Carlton's performance today puts our effort last week into stark perspective. They are a rabble. We have got way ahead of ourselves after a narrow win against an underdone and undermanned Bulldogs and the wooden spoon favourites. Some supporters never learn. We are very much odds against in round one at Etihad.

I hear what you're saying but (1) we're winning and the boys are confident, that counts for a hell of a lot, and (2) would you rather be in the position we're in, or in Brisbane's, or Carlton's?

2 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

I want to go through this post and point out how ridiculous it is, but I'll leave it to someone else.  I've got paint to watch that's drying on my wall.

Incisive...

Dare I say the Judd years have hurt Carlton.

Too many years as a middle of the road team  and not enough talent coming in.

They probably needed another 2-3 years at the bottom in 08-2011 to build a team.

The Judd years are coming back to hurt them. Shockingly similar to Melbourne circa 2010-2011.

1 minute ago, Ted Fidge said:

I hear what you're saying but (1) we're winning and the boys are confident, that counts for a hell of a lot, and (2) would you rather be in the position we're in, or in Brisbane's, or Carlton's?

Definitely agree with all u say,much prefer to be on the right side of a 60 point result whenever. Nevertheless,nauseating that so many supporters and press have us 'premiers' after two JLT games. Future is bright but our last competitive game was a 20 goal loss.

8 minutes ago, praha said:

Dare I say the Judd years have hurt Carlton.

Too many years as a middle of the road team  and not enough talent coming in.

They probably needed another 2-3 years at the bottom in 08-2011 to build a team.

The Judd years are coming back to hurt them. Shockingly similar to Melbourne circa 2010-2011.

I wonder, in hindsight, how many Carlton fans would not do the Judd trade.  They would have held on to a high draft pick while also keeping Josh Kennedy as well.  It's easy to look at now, but they might have been better off not doing it, although with Judd still in his prime it would be hard to argue against making the trade at the time.

Great to see the Blues getting hammered.

4 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

I wonder, in hindsight, how many Carlton fans would not do the Judd trade.  They would have held on to a high draft pick while also keeping Josh Kennedy as well.  It's easy to look at now, but they might have been better off not doing it, although with Judd still in his prime it would be hard to argue against making the trade at the time.

It's a damn shame, isn't it?

Just now, Ted Fidge said:

It's a damn shame, isn't it?

Such a shame it puts a smile on your face.

It's what they deserve for basically spending the last few off seasons taking on any GWS reject they can get their hands on.  Marchbank might turn out okay but the rest have been average at best.