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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by LP -
Quote from: northernblue on
And those two early frees for scragging… didn’t seem to get paid at the other end of the ground, did they ?
As I always state, it's not the free kick count that matters, it's the where and when!

Williams infringement was subtle, almost benign compared to how they dry humped Walsh well before he got anywhere near touching the pill.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by northernblue -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
re: Williams......a nervous player when played down back and and when you add Young plus two inexperienced defenders in Cowan and Cincotta it puts a lot of pressure on Weitering to be the glue thats holds the backline together.
I think Williams has to play on the weakest small forward and never on the last line close to goal and my preference if he has to play is on the wing where he use his skillset to carry the ball and deliver and be removed from having to mind a man.
I cant see him in the team when we have our full crew back and ditto for Fantasia and Durdin.

What people forget is that Saad can lock down and run and create, with him out Williams is asked to do his job.
Williams copped heaps last week and was nervous on Friday as the two early frees showed.
When 1st choice players are back and guys like Williams can return to their preferred run and gun position the whole team will look and perform better.
And don’t get me started on the fb bananas who wanted to play Kemp on Cox without McGovern there to come over the top… 🤦🏼‍♂️

And those two early frees for scragging… didn’t seem to get paid at the other end of the ground, did they ?

1 goal loss with our cobbled together team, I’ll wear that.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 6 2024 Carlton vs Werribee at Werribee
Last post by crashlander -
An improvement over last week. Some positives:
[1] Binns played mainly midfield rather than wing and managed 26 disposals and 8 tackles. 2 goals didn't hurt either. He's not a clearance king yet, but he is developing.
[2] Brodie Kemp had 13 marks and 8 tackles. If he needed to show something, he did. However, I still think he wasn't that tight.
[3] Dom Akuei had a career high 18 disposals and actually wasn't that bad.
[4] Our rucks were much better this week, getting their hands on the ball first. If we had someone who could clear the ball consistently ...
[5] Billy Wilson also had a good game and 27 possessions. His opponents got a bit of the pill, but it was a promising effort. Billy is a guy who could be useful as he has real pace.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by pinot -
There are plenty of small problem
Charlie Curnows contested posession rate is over 60% for a key forward it needs to be under 50%. So he is working way too hard to win his posessions... thats down to various things - not giving him space to lead into and contesting ground balls which is not his job but has to go for them as small forwards are no where near it.
Lack of run and covering the ground. Filth always had 2-3 players tackling one Blue we did not reciprocate because we didnt have the team composition to cover the ground.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: LP on
I think Voss might have been eating a bit of humble pie, we went into that game with a perceived advantage that the Filth turned into a weakness.

Out coached?

Out coached is interesting.   I cant really take it when you lose by a goal and the scores were level with 2 minutes left. 

Do you get outcoached in that circumstance?  Pues had extra rest too after anzac day.  The second quarter was our worst and where we let the game slip but our handballs and errant kicking had more to do with it than being out coached.

Irrespective of what we say we played last seasons premiers who have started hitting their stride recently.  It had danger game written all ober it from the get go. 
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Ladies Lounge / Re: VFLW 2024
Last post by crashlander -
Team with this week, with the game at Carlton at midday today. Sorry for being late.

B: Octavia Di Donato (51)  Danika Di Santo (76)
HB: Amy Trindale (62)  Layla Prince (58)  Steph Demeo (66)
C: Holly Ridewood (26)  Izzy Khoury (52)  Hannah Bowey (64)
HF: Eliza Wood (50)  Georgia Tait (56)  Isabella Parnell (59)
F: Katie Prendergast (77)  Sophie McCarthy (54) 
FOLL: Emily Hurley (61)  Isla Baldwin (70)  Simone Mooney (78)
INT: Evie Lee (71)  Mel Staunton (55)  Asha Turner-Funk (53)  Zoe Hargreaves (80)  Hannah Scott (79)  

EMG: Natasha Phipps (74)  Mia Haas (72)  Madeleine Katerelos (69) 

In: Danika Di Santo, Zoe Hargreaves, Evie Lee, Holly Ridewood, Hannah Scott, Georgia Tait, Asha Turner-Funk

Out: Mia Austin, Yasmin Duursma, Lily Goss, Gen Lawson-Tavan, Meg Robertson, Keeley Sherar, Darcy Vescio

No AFLW girls, but the team won by 3 points over Geelong!
We had to get something positive out of the weekend!