The Blues.
It still confounds me that the name of the style of music I love the most belongs the team I hate the most.
Last year, after spending almost a decade on the floor of the AFL ladder, Carlton re-emerged to play in finals.
We've seen Carlton benefit by repeated priority and early picks almost every season since its demise.
It has also used early picks & a player derived from an early pick to acquire aruably the best player in the league.
To me, Carlton have been plepared to play a long strategic game to make great long term gain.
It'll be interesting to see how they go.
Their list is as follows:
Clearly Carlton have made the finals with nearly all of their core players in the developing & junior age groups.
And they have a number of stars still in the junior group.
To me, their long term future looks assured.
They've made the finals with a relatively young group.
They still need to overcome the problem of genuine key forwards.
But, generally, their best looks ahead of them and they're already playing finals.
2010 looks to have them being around the possible marginal finalists again, until they sort out their key forwards.
Whether the loss of Fevola affects them in 2010, or not, the long term future of Carlton looks good.
It still confounds me that the name of the style of music I love the most belongs the team I hate the most.
Last year, after spending almost a decade on the floor of the AFL ladder, Carlton re-emerged to play in finals.
We've seen Carlton benefit by repeated priority and early picks almost every season since its demise.
It has also used early picks & a player derived from an early pick to acquire aruably the best player in the league.
To me, Carlton have been plepared to play a long strategic game to make great long term gain.
It'll be interesting to see how they go.
Their list is as follows:
| 175-179 | 180-184 | 185-189 | 190-194 | 195-199 | 200+ | |
| 28+ | Scotland 29 182 D | Houlihan 28 187 F | ||||
| 25-27 | Simpson 25 182 M | Wiggins 27 187 F | Waite 27 194 U | Ohailpin 27 199 U | ||
| Carrazzo 26 187 U | Thornton 26 192 D | |||||
| Judd 26 189 M | Hadley 26 190 M | |||||
| Fisher 25 192 F | ||||||
| 22-24 | Betts 23 173 F | Mclean 24 184 M | Johnson 24 188 D | Jamison 23 193 D | Hampson 22 201 R | |
| Armfield 23 181 D | Russell 23 188 D | Walker 23 190 M | Warnock 23 206 R | |||
| Murphy 22 180 M | Bower 22 192 D | |||||
| Austin 21 193 D | ||||||
| 18-21 | Ellard 21 177 F | Browne 21 180 D | Anderson 21 188 D | Grigg 21 190 M | Henderson 20 196 F | Jacobs 21 200 R |
| Joseph 20 180 D | Gibbs 21 188 M | White 20 190 D | Casboult 20 198 U | Kreuzer 20 200 R | ||
| Garlett 20 180 F | Robinson 20 185 M | Donalson 18 193 F | ||||
| Yarran 19 180 F | Tuohy 20 188 D | |||||
| Kerr 18 184 F | Okeeffe 19 188 D | |||||
| Cachia 18 184 M | Tiller 19 189 F | |||||
| Davies 18 188 D | ||||||
| Lucas 18 188 M | ||||||
| Dare 18 188 D | ||||||
And they have a number of stars still in the junior group.
To me, their long term future looks assured.
They've made the finals with a relatively young group.
They still need to overcome the problem of genuine key forwards.
But, generally, their best looks ahead of them and they're already playing finals.
2010 looks to have them being around the possible marginal finalists again, until they sort out their key forwards.
Whether the loss of Fevola affects them in 2010, or not, the long term future of Carlton looks good.
