By Guy Hand
November 17th 2009 @ 2:21am
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Blues coach considers Judd up front
Carlton coach Brett Ratten has floated the shock prospect of using Chris Judd at full-forward next season as the Blues search for ways to replace departed goal machine Brendan Fevola.
Fevola was shipped to Brisbane in AFL trade week as the Blues tired of his off-field misdemeanours.
But it has left a 90-goals-a-season sized hole in Carlton’s [...]
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