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Hogan not known for his contested marking? Ranked third in the league a few years back.

Well that’s rather [censored] news.

Their injury list is horrific to be fair. Although other than Docherty their outs would only have made a difference around the margins. They need to do an independent full club reiview. Football department, administration, recruting, fitness and medical staff... the whole kit and caboodle looks to be a shambles. What amazes me is some Carlton fans think that Tyson would be surplus to their needs. He’d be their second best inside mid by a mile. They don’t even know how to help themselves.

I’m at peace today. If we lose then we don’t actually deserve to be in the 8, simple as that. We should however win this one in a canter.

Gotta say King makes a pretty solid case. He’s always been shifted forward towards the end of the game or once the result has been determined. I could be mistaken but I can’t recall it happening when trying to build an early lead.. It would be a brave move on Goodwin’s part to play him forward in the percentages King is talking about. There are some nice lines in that article btw, including turning the goal square into “Red’s square”, but I think my favourite would have to be “..it’s just impossible to stop Clayton winning the football”.

His interview on the club podcast is a cracker. Terrific down to earth fella.

Really hope JKH plays well.

Right you are.

JFK lol

JKH for me. He’s earned a shot. Big stakes for him though. If he fails I doubt we’d see him in the jumper again.

Huge bummer if true. For him and the side. We need the Hunt of last season back.

Cheers daz. Did you spot McKenna, and if so, what does he look like? Nah jokes. Did Hoges look in good touch? We need the big fella up and about if we’re going to finish inside the 8. Much sign of fatigue from the trip to the red centre?

I hate nitpicking what players say publicly but that stood out to me as well. The tone of his answer was sometimes you have to accept that you got beaten on the day. It was a shrug of the shoulders type of response. I wasn’t a fan and I’d hope if Jonesy watched it back he would word it differently. I don’t want acceptance of any loss by the players, least of all a loss where we were the dominant side from a statistical point of view.

They definitely left out some of his best handballs in that highlights package. Although you’d need a good ten minutes to do him justice.

That wasn’t listed other than Jonesy hosting On the Couch tonight along with Dangerfield and Phil Davis.

Those who are subscribed to Fox Footy will know that this week is “Player Takeover” round where the players essentially host and/or strongly feature in the regular programs such as On the Couch and AFL360. It’s a gimmick concept but one thing I noticed when the list of players that will feature this week was shown. Melbourne has by far the highest representation of players: Gawn, Jones, Lewis, Oliver and Hogan. Five in total. The next highest was three players and from there it was either two or one player from the remaining clubs. It wasn’t that long ago that Jones would’ve been the only viable candidate for an exercise like this. The wheel is definitely turning.

We need to start getting in the ear of these young dejected Carlton supporters. If you see a sad looking kid wearing a Carlton scarf, hand him a finals pamphlet and ask him if he’s discovered Gawny yet.

I’m leaning towards Vince but Baker is definitely tempting against a young Dogs side with the width of the ground to exploit. I’d be happy with either but would go with Vince personally.

He genuinely looked a class above in the wet. I was disappointed with his last couple of AFL outings but I’d like to see if his latest run of form can translate. I think he’s earned that opportunity anyway There are others I’d have looked at first in terms of delistings at the end of the year, but one of them just got an extension.

3 goals against the Kangaroos isn’t a significant impact? How stupidly high is the bar you’re setting? Again. Judge him on what he does, not what you know he’s capable of. He played his role last night. You can’t dispute that. We’re not going to agree so let’s leave it there.

The past? As in last season when he kicked 42 goals? Or is the past the 9 goals he kicked in the first five rounds before being dropped? I don’t share your fear ?

Baker hasn’t been playing forward as far as I know so you’d be asking him to play a role he isn’t prepared for. The stats say otherwise re Spargo. Need to judge Garlett on what he does, not on what you know he can do. He’s obviously capable of better, but under conditions that were trying for all the forwards, he played his role.

Who are you replacing him with? Were you happier with Spargo’s output?

So what more did you want to see from him in a first game back at AFL level? And if you’re dropping him back to Casey, who are you replacing him with?

What more were you wanting to see exactly? He provided the forward pressure we were lacking with 6 tackles and kicked an opportunist goal. It would’ve been two goals if not for an incorrect overturn on video review. We are a more dangerous side with Garlett in the forwardline.