Liam Jones' First Outing In Carton Colours

[azabob]

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Jones got 3 didn't he? $400,000 per year or so?

No way?

[1eyedog]

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Dropped within 7 games when Kruezer, Casboult and every other tall has done nothing. Such a waste of raw talent, but obviously this caper isn't for him at this level. Again, our team must be saying 'no returns' every time Carlton offers the trade back in bizarro world.

Casboult was a shining light last week with 4 goals and 100 SC points. Carlton need to decide on rebuild or a few wins. They seem stuck somewhere between the two. It may be Malthouse trying to save his career on one end of the rope and who knows who else supporting the rebuild at the other.

[bulldogtragic]

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No way?

Three years. Some reports in the media suggested our dollar figure was mid 300's. But Carlton were prepared to spend more knowing we wouldn't up (essentially securing him in the PSD knowing he'd slip if we didn't take pick 46). So, way!

[azabob]

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Three years. Some reports in the media suggested our dollar figure was mid 300's. But Carlton were prepared to spend more knowing we wouldn't up (essentially securing him in the PSD knowing he'd slip if we didn't take pick 46). So, way!

Crazy what clubs will do for talls, i guess we are the perfect example!

[bulldogtragic]

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Crazy what clubs will do for talls, i guess we are the perfect example!

Good we were on the other side of it. I double checked some reports and Mulligan's training services looked like a million bucks. I think Mulligan should get onto Bill Gates or whomever owns the Internet and get the articles removed from the Internet asap.

[ledge]

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Even our amount was overs ,, they should have come as a buy one get one free deal

[Greystache]

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Yep, 3 years, North of $1.2 million.

Astonishing. That's one year less on roughly the same money we're paying Crameri, who's a 4 time leading club goal kicker and has nearly 150 goals in the past 4 years.

[bulldogtragic]

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Astonishing. That's one year less on roughly the same money we're paying Crameri, who's a 4 time leading club goal kicker and has nearly 150 goals in the past 4 years.

I believe that's karma for them. For years they've paid financial overs, usually and admittedly under the table, and used that pressure to offer lesser picks at the trade table. So they went to the well of 'we can screw the guys current club, only give them a third rounder or get them for nothing the PSD and all we have to do is throw the player slight overs'.

Ah well, the silver lining is they will be struggling to pay minimum cap so someone has to take it.

[Dancin' Douggy]

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I really used to temper my criticism of Jones. I really held firm to his potential, and the fact that he was wearing the red white and blue made me always look for the silver lining. I never vented my spleen or ripped shreds off him.
But now he's wearing the despicable navy blue...................I just chuckle...(and gloat a little)

[Dancin' Douggy]

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Crazy what clubs will do for talls, i guess we are the perfect example!

See my 'talls of shame' thread. And to think Casboult was one of the losers we were supposedly chasing.

[jeemak]

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Nice to see Carlton embracing the rebuild - Boekhurst, Buckley, Graham, Whiley and Clem Smith all dropped. Plodders like Carrazzo and Simon White back in.

Albeit on the wrong side of 30, I think it's a bit off calling Carrazzo a plodder.

[1eyedog]

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Carazzo is a plodder, wasn't a plodder but is a plodder now no question.

[Greystache]

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Albeit on the wrong side of 30, I think it's a bit off calling Carrazzo a plodder.

Isn't Carrazzo Italian for turns it over by foot?

[jeemak]

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Carazzo is a plodder, wasn't a plodder but is a plodder now no question.

So are we calling players at the end of their careers plodders as a rule now?

http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_compare?tid1=4&pid1=1461&tid2=12&pid2=504&type=A&fid1=S&fid2=S

[merantau]

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I really used to temper my criticism of Jones. I really held firm to his potential, and the fact that he was wearing the red white and blue made me always look for the silver lining. I never vented my spleen or ripped shreds off him.
But now he's wearing the despicable navy blue...................I just chuckle...(and gloat a little)

I gloat too ... And, I was very pleased to see Jones is still unable to kick straight and, in particular, to kick the pressure goal. Saw him hit the post a few weeks back when his team REALLY needed a goal. He cruelled us a number of times doing that.