Half back is no longer a position where you can hide a slow or half fit player even a very good one. Every team ( even Geelong) now wants to play the “forward half game”. Forwards are making half backs lives a misery, by coming back at them with aggressive second and third efforts to try and lock the ball in. Just ask BJ.
Jarrod Pickett chases Jack Silvagni at Carlton training
CARLTON forward Jarrod Pickett was carted from the field at training on Thursday morning after suffering a suspected knee injury in a scary incident at Ikon Park.
Pickett’s right leg looked to buckle underneath him in the early stages of the club’s final session before Christmas, with a stretcher forced to help him from the field.
Training was halted for a short period as the 22-year-old left the track, with the club sending the lively forward straight for scans to assess the severity of the injury.
Carlton coach Brendon Bolton accompanied Pickett as he left the field, with the Blues hopeful the injury doesn’t add to an already disastrous start to the club’s pre-season.
New co-captain Sam Docherty has already been ruled out for the majority of the 2019 campaign, having ruptured his ACL for the second successive time earlier in the month.
Pickett had been primed for a breakout season in 2018, before breaking his wrist in training on the eve of round one and subsequently missing the majority of the campaign.
He had only just resumed training with the main squad, having started his pre-season campaign with the VFL team after returning from holidays slightly out of shape.