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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2024 Elimination Final 1 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane
Last post by PaulP -
Quote from: Lods on
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So depending on each persons thinking prior to the game the result has left us with...

Group 1-Relief it's over ...on to 2025
Group 2-Disappointed but resigned.
Group 3- Angry and upset.

The level of disappointment will vary according to our expectations. Some will move on  quickly, others may take a bit of time.

What generates the expectations and reactions is results to some degree, but the bigger generator I would argue is personality type. You can predict with a high level of accuracy how the various posters on here will react to a given situation, and that includes all of us.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2024 Elimination Final 1 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane
Last post by Lods -
I still believe the "level of disappointment is directly related to the level of expectation"

Here's the thing...
Once a result is confirmed it's the only outcome that can be analysed.
It's the only outcome that matters.
Speculating on other scenarios and what-ifs is just a guess.

So there were probably three main lines of thinking prior to the start of the game.

Group 1 -We had no chance whatever team we put on the park... injuries have killed us.
Group 2- It would be a struggle, but if we could get a few of our better players back we weren't without a chance.
Group 3- We were a good chance...if the MC selected the right players, the young and the uninjured.

So depending on each persons thinking prior to the game the result has left us with...

Group 1-Relief it's over ...on to 2025
Group 2-Disappointed but resigned.
Group 3- Angry and upset.

The level of disappointment will vary according to our expectations. Some will move on  quickly, others may take a bit of time.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Pick your best 22 of 2024 - PART 7 - End of season
Last post by kruddler -
FB: Boyd - Weitering - Newman
HB: Saad - Young - McGovern
C: Acres - Cripps - O.Hollands
HF: Owies - McKay - E. Hollands
FF: Motlop - Curnow - Kennedy
R: DeKoning - Walsh - Hewett
INT: Cerra - Cincotta - Kemp - Cowan

No Fogarty, Williams or Cottrell despite being 50-50 for a spot.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2024 Elimination Final 1 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: madbluboy on
Charlie did his ankle before the Giants game, rumours he stepped in a hole in the ground where the sprinklers are.
In the same game TDK, Weitering and McGovern were also injured.
At the same time we were getting ahead of ourselves messing with a midfield that was working.

can't disagree with that.

Also dropping young when he had filled a hole and playing ok was a mistake. 

That's the stuff that wrecked our season.  We kept rushing players back.  We get one good run out from a player returning from injury and then they gradually taper off.  Sure they need match fitness but not everyone needs to come in via the afl.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2024 Elimination Final 1 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane
Last post by Adelaideblue -
Quote from: laj on
Playing Binns, Lord, Moir and Cincotta would have made us more competitive. Blokes fit enough to actually get to contests. Not thinking we were winning at all but would have been more competitive. Might have been 30-0 instead of 60 with a few bloke's actually switched on. At least you'd feel some chance from there rather than hopeless.

Yes agree Laj, that is the key to me also. Playing some or all those four guys would have made us more competitive!                            We were anything but competitive at 0 score to 10 goals at half time.

Ab
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2024 Elimination Final 1 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Quote from: DJC on
You’re not the odd man out Lods.

While I may disagree with some decisions Vossy, the MC or Nick Austin may make, I accept that they are informed decisions made by folk who are far more knowledgeable than me but don’t have the benefit of hindsight.

It wouldn’t have mattered which 23 players were selected or who was the sub, the result wouldn’t have changed, particularly if our arousal level wasn’t increased.

Our season was screwed by injuries but that provided opportunities and learnings that will make us stronger next season.
For me there were two or three key injuries that derailed our season overall:
- Doc rnd 0
- TDK rnd 19
- Charlie rnd 22
TDK especially was a massive loss given how he was playing and that dashed all hopes of a semi successful finals campaign.
The 6 injuries from the Hawthorn game was IMO a 1 in a 100 year event which was also catastrophic.