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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane
Daniher is their 2nd ruck, albeit the big O rarely needs a chop out. Do we play Young on Daniher when forward and have Young follow him into the ruck as well? The only downside is that the Lions might exploit this by resting the big O in the goal square and he’d have a 10 cm height advantage over Weets, Gov or Kemp. Oscar isn’t great as a forward but he can take a mark when he has that sort of advantage. The other option is to use JSOS as the 2nd ruck.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
I think Durdin had 6-7 possies vs the Saints and was unsighted, Stocker could have been sat in the bar at the MCG and wouldnt have had to worry about him.
Baby steps are good. You have at last conceded he wasn’t playing on Durdin, which explains why Durdin was 30m away from Stocker when Durdin gathered the ball inside 50 and kicked his goal. Which makes me wonder why you are trying to compare them when they weren’t on each other.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Quote from: shawny on
Not sure why you keep making Stocker out to be a dud. Yes he looks to have a fitness base that is lacking but he is a tough run straight at the man defender that like him or not has impressed Ross Lyon enough to play him every week. Saints sit 2nd on the ladder and he has played every week in an Important position - the kid is no dud
As we know, Ross Lyon believes in a zone structure that’s quite different to ours. Ideal for Stocker as he doesn’t have a set opponent who can expose his weaknesses. And it’s interesting that the Saints might be 2nd but they’re only 2 points ahead of us. Of course, they’ve also had a lot of injuries and it’ll be interesting to see whether Stocker gives up his spot in the zone as they get back players. But there’s no way Voss would have wanted to give Stocker the task of locking down Charlie Cameron, Cam Rayner or Lincoln McCarthy. It’ll be interesting to see what Lyon does with Stocker when they play the Lions but as that’s in Rd 15, maybe he won’t be in the team by then. A more interesting short-term prospect will be what role Stocker is given in 2 Week’s time against the Crows. Could he be given the job of keeping Rankine or Rachele quiet?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
Are you saying we should have stocked up on a few small defenders?....
No, you didn’t read my post properly. We need small defenders to sit on Charlie Cameron and Cam Rayner. About the only thing Stocker can sit on is the pine. If you saw the Saints v Port game, can you tell me who he played on? I watched it closely and I’m pretty sure he was a loose/zone defender. As he was against us (if he was playing on Durdin, maybe you can explain why they were never shoulder to shoulder). But I’m sure that sort of observation conflicts with your need to show he would have been a lockdown defender for us.

Looks like we now have Doc, Saad, Newman, Cowan, Kemp, Gov, Cincotta and Boyd available. The trick is to give the task of shutting down Cameron and Rayner to the right guys. Of course, Saad would be able to play man on man with Charlie, but do we lose too much rebound from him?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Next week might be a good chance to take a scalp against a top side. We play Brisbane at home and it looks like Zorko and Rich both picked up strained leg muscles which will keep them out. Touch wood, our injury list is small and we didn’t pick up any new injuries. We just need to find some small defenders to sit on Charlie Cameron and Cam Rayner.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Weiters scammed
My problem is that I’m so attractive that I keep on getting email notifications that random women are messaging me on Google Chat (even though I haven’t uploaded any pics and don’t use that service).
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast in Perth
We need to get games into him before Docherty returns (given Saad is likely back this week). This is the perfect match to do it before we embark on 6 tough matches. He’s played a full game in the VFL, so he’s physically ready.

By the way, did you like the effort in the highlights package where he kicked an excellent 50m pass from the wing to Lefroy on the 50m arc on the fat side nicely in between 2 opponents, allowing him to mark and handball to Ronke for a goal? If only we had that sort of daring in the seniors …
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast in Perth
If I were given a “Captain’s Call” at the selection table, I’d use it to select Jordan Boyd. His strong suit is his kicking and we desperately need to get as many good kicks into the team as possible. Not that I’m confident he’s elite in that area. He had a quiet start to his career as a small defender last year after playing as a small forward at Footscray VFL and Spottie. But then he started to spear some long passes that seemed to confirm that he was indeed a good kick. And then he played the last of his 7 games in Rd 15 due to injury.

Bring him in to get another look at him. He is versatile as he has played footy at both ends on the ground and his kicking would be welcome whether coming out of defence or spotting up targets inside F50.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs St Kilda
After kicking 12 straight in the Millenium game, Fev kicked more points than goals in 2000 and only just scored more goals than points in 2001 and 2002. But then he turned into a dead-eyed dick converting 2/3rds of his shots.

Earl Spalding couldn’t buy a goal when he started at Carlton but made some adjustments and became a very reliable shot at goal.