Carlton Supporters Club

The start of the season will be a great test of our depth, as much as we would like wins what I think will be more important is how we go about games win or lose. To me that is going to be the tell.

The question being, "Did the players mean what they said midway through last season?"

Win or lose, will they have each others back, will they work for each other and sacrifice for each other?

Weitering is our most important player and there is no backup or protege being developed to support him.  The failure to attend to this will become all too apparent in the early rounds.

I'm more worried about winning the midfield battle. Their mids got the better of us in both games last year and if they do again we won't win.

Weitering is our most important player and there is no backup or protege being developed to support him.  The failure to attend to this will become all too apparent in the early rounds.

Young is his protege and Nige is his backup.

Of course they’re not up to Weitering’s class but, if they were, they’d be demanding his spot or a trade for better opportunities.

As if Weiters losing wasn't bad enough, we lose Walsh (IMO our best mid) and mis-small forwards as well, the first two to four rounds will hard to watch. We cannot cover the losses we have ATM and first up, we are up against a side who is powerful on every line.

We are a sneaky chance if we play relentless tough contested pressure footy.

Absolutely!

No team is invincible, and particularly if the opposition has a plan and is ruthless in its execution.

Missing Weiters, Walsh, Martin, Silvagni and Motlop hurts, but premiership teams are able to cover injured players, no matter how important they are.  Think of Richmond losing Rance.

Vossy and his assistants would have spent a fair amount of the off season replaying our prelim loss and figuring out how to reverse the result.  If they’ve got that right, and the players can execute the plan, we’re a good chance to knock the cocky blighters off their perch.