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Round 13 - Non MFC games

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2 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

(O hell MFCSS strikes again)

Save that for tomorrow DJ, hopefully you won't have to feel it this weekend though!

 
3 hours ago, Deestroy All said:

This 24 point betting thing is making me a thousandaire. 

Suns are rubbish. 

Bolton has given the Blues something. Unfortunately. 

Bolton an excellent coach and people person!

On another matter, just made my day/night seeing that vermin Richmond coping another loss ! Bigger chokers than the Boston Strangler!! Totally overated Well done ninethmond!

Love it!

 
2 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Carlton are only one game behind us .... kind of scary

Lose the next couple and we could be hurtling down the ladder (O hell MFCSS strikes again)

There are 10 teams on the same number of wins or 1 win behind us.  It's the nature of the season.

21 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Bolton an excellent coach and people person!

On another matter, just made my day/night seeing that vermin Richmond coping another loss ! Bigger chokers than the Boston Strangler!! Totally overated Well done ninethmond!

Love it!

The pretenders will one by one fall by the wayside.

The thing is, we've got to keep on winning while they do. Or we'll fall with them.


Carlton if you have noticed have won could be wrong 4 of their 5 matches in wet conditions they play exceptionally well in the wet and grind away fair play to them but thought I would note that. I must say I would love to punch that Bolton in the head tho especially when he is cupping his muttering mouth when his side stuffs up or decision goes against him. Also add Silvagni and Cripps into the scenario too can't stand them.

On 15/06/2017 at 1:10 PM, dl4e said:

I  hate to say it but we need geelong to beat the eagles tonite. 

Nah, be positive - opens up another top 4 spot. 

North and Cats- sook brothers both lose?

 

It's amazing how close this season is. If you win three games in a row from just about any position you become a finals threat and if you lost theee from the top of the ladder you are probably out of the 8 

Gold Coast just poor, only try when they feel like it


10 hours ago, Akum said:

The pretenders will one by one fall by the wayside.

The thing is, we've got to keep on winning while they do. Or we'll fall with them.

Brilliant deduction.......would never have thought of it.  Take a Nobel Prize ?

7 hours ago, radar said:

North and Cats- sook brothers both lose?

?? identical twins

Not sure where I stand on Carlton.

Their best players seem to always be the same ones, almost all of whom are old.

The AFL website had their best as: Gibbs, Simpson, Docherty, Jones, Kreuzer, Murphy, E.Curnow

Only one of those players is younger than 26 (Docherty).

Simpson is 33, Murphy nearly 30, Gibbs is 28 (and wanted to leave last year), Kreuzer 28, Curnow 27, Jones is already 26. Dale Thomas is 30, too.

Of their players under the age of 25, they've got three stars (Cripps, Weitering and Docherty) but otherwise just OK players (Plowman and Marchbank, for example).

Nonetheless, they seem very well coached and other than the Friday night disaster against Port, they turn up every week and put in 100% effort. They've knocked over GWS and have useful wins against Sydney, Essendon, Collingwood and GC on the road. Not bad for a side who most people consider a certain bottom 4 finisher.

plowman and marchbank are better than 'just okay' i think.

carlton are super well drilled. haven't scored over 100 points in 23 weeks apparently, but they're getting the wins - they remind me a lot of us under roos' second year.

the trick will be if they can transition into an offensively-minded team too

My dreams of Brendan Bolton being the Carlton version of Mark Neeld are well and truly gone.

The Blues have a very promising coach on their hands, unfortunately. 


16 minutes ago, DemonAndrew said:

plowman and marchbank are better than 'just okay' i think.

carlton are super well drilled. haven't scored over 100 points in 23 weeks apparently, but they're getting the wins - they remind me a lot of us under roos' second year.

the trick will be if they can transition into an offensively-minded team too

Fair, they're doing quite well this year.

I certainly don't watch enough of Carlton to see how they're performing overall but every time they win the highlights and stand outs seem to always revolve around the same players.

They haven't scored 100 points since Round 11 last year against Brisbane (which was, coincidentally, their last win for the year until they beat us in Round 22).

If you were a Carlton fan, you'd have to be happy with 5-7 and 100% effort on a weekly basis, regardless.

oh, absolutely - their best players are their best players

kreuzer is such an important part of their side, and will be a challenge for whatever happens with our rucks when we play them in a couple of weeks

but i think this is about where they should be - as you say, their experience and talent is seriously good talent and experience

they're better than they showed for a few years. and with their raft of cheap gw$ acquisitions - some of which will work out, some of which won't - they're a lot more skilled than they were previously

but it still comes down to kreuzer, gibbs, murphy, simpson, wright, daisy, and even levi, then their young talent is clear with the likes of cripps, weitering, docherty, marchbank and sps

what happens when that senior core cop injuries, lose form and / or retire is the $64m question inside the visy brown bag

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