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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Round #14: Northern Blues vs. Casey Scorpions
Quote from: RiverRat on
We have been able to find duds elsewhere using the 'grass is greener elsewhere' approach.
One of the problems with the Northern Blues is that there doesn't appear to be a path from there to us. Other clubs appear to mine their VFL affiliates. We send them elsewhere. We'd have a lot more better kids trying out with us if we could convince them there was a chance of a Carlton future.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Round #14: Northern Blues vs. Casey Scorpions
Northern Blues vs. Casey Scorpions       
Saturday, July 18               
IKON Park at 2pm

Northern Blues

B: J. Roberts Jaksch Johnston
HB: Dick Foster Smith
C: Boekhorst Perry Viojo
HF: Byrne Jones Bransgrove
F: Wilson Watson Johnson
R: Aurrichio Whiley Ballard
Int: Mattingly* Murray Strachan Armitage Dirago Kilpatrick Walton Cattapan Soncin
 
Casey Scorpions
B: Panozza Fitzpatrick Terlich
HB: Grimes Hutchins White
C: Toumpas Riley Newton
HF: Bail King M.Jones
F: Harmes Spencer Kennedy-Harris
R: Jamar Tyson Michie
Int: Roos* Paredes Morris Rutherford O.McDonald McKenzie Hunt Byrnes Walmsley  Scott Moncrieff Munro Gent

Our side looks a little light on this week. Too many injuries. Hopefully we can get a few guys back in the next few weeks. But we seem to be losing them much quicker than we can get them back.

On paper they look much stronger than we do. C'est la vie. We just have to deal with it. Wood is not named.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Round #14: Northern Blues vs. Casey Scorpions
Quote from: PassIt2Carrots on
Do we have direct access to him being in our development side Crash??
Actually, it is open season on him. But we have the inside running because we see him while others don't and we can supervise his training.

In the past we have been pretty good at ignoring guys under our noses. Hopefully we have learnt to look at home as well as away.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 16 Pre Game Thread - Blues V Dockers
Fremantle

B: Lee Spurr, Luke McPharlin, Garrick Ibbotson.
HB: Danyle Pearce, Alex Pearce, Stephen Hill.
C : Tommy Sheridan, Nat Fyfe, Nick Suban.
HF: Michael Barlow, Chris Mayne, Matt de Boer.
F: Hayden Ballantyne, Matthew Pavlich, Michael Walters.
Foll: Aaron Sandilands, David Mundy, Lachie Neale.
Int: Jonathon Griffin, Matt Taberner, Cameron Sutcliffe, Hayden Crozier.

Emg: Lachie Weller, Ed Langdon, Zac Clarke.

In: Jonathon Griffin, Matt Taberner, Cameron Sutcliffe, Hayden Crozier.

Out: Paul Duffield (Omitted), Tendai Mzungu (Omitted), Clancee Pearce (Omitted), Zac Clarke (Omitted)
 

Carlton

B: Simon White, Michael Jamison, Tom Fields.
HB: Chris Yarran, Zach Tuohy, Dylan Buckley.
C: Kade Simpson, Andrew Carrazzo, Sam Docherty.
HF: Ed Curnow, Tom Bell, Andrejs Everitt.
F: Levi Casboult, Lachie Henderson, Troy Menzel.
Foll: Matthew Kreuzer, Patrick Cripps, Marc Murphy.
Int:  Nick Holman, Sam Rowe, Jason Tutt, Brad Walsh.

Emg:  Blaine Boekhorst, Matthew Dick, Mark Whiley.

In: Sam Docherty, Sam Rowe, Brad Walsh.

Out: Bryce Gibbs (pectoral muscle), Cameron Wood (Omitted), Dennis Armfield (arm).

New: Brad Walsh
 
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 16 Pre Game Thread - Blues V Dockers
Quote from: RiverRat on
Wood has been a warrior this year but he has been struggling to jump off the ground in recent weeks so he would be uncompetitive against the big bloke. I am content to see Rowe and/or Levi providing relief for Kreuzer.
That is pretty accurate. He struggled last week against Hampson. But the, so did Kreuzer.
Wood will be back, but he does need to get some form and confidence up. Much better chance of doing that against Casey than against Freo.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Round #14: Northern Blues vs. Casey Scorpions
I am not sure whether anyone noticed, but we have an interesting guy now on the list: Cameron Conlan. A couple of years back big Conlan was touted to be a top 10 pick before injuries stuffed him around. On the comeback trail, big Conlan is now playing with the development side and has been named in the best players in the last couple of weeks.
This is good news because Conlan is something we have in very short supply: a real ruckman. As an U18 he was known for his marking and mobility. I have no idea just how mobile he still is after his injuries, but he is definitely the tallest guy on the Northern Blues' list.
Hopefully we can keep this big boy around and he can develop - for us.
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Robert Heatley Stand / VFL Round #14: Northern Blues vs. Casey Scorpions
This week the football returns to Ikon Park on a Saturday afternoon (1400 hours) for the big game against the Casey Scorpions (aka Melbourne 2nds).
Casey have had the wood on us in recent times, especially on their mud heap. Now we have a chance to show how to the play at a ground with real stands (no matter how dilapidated).

The line up for this week's game is very much up in the air at the moment. Carlton will definitely have to replace Gibbs and Armfield due to their injuries. Jamison is also uncertain after his concussion last week. So, whether he plays or not, another tall defender will certainly get on the plane and fly to Perth with the seniors.
Will we retain Fields in the seniors? Tutt? I am not certain that either will play in Perth, so there looks like there will be a significant number of changes.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 16 Pre Game Thread - Blues V Dockers
Quote from: PaulP on
Fremantle v Carlton
Round 16 - 17:40 AWST, Jul 18, 2015
Domain Stadium

Sheesh - where to begin. No Gibbs, no Army. Fyfe in. Playing on their dung heap. They will be looking to "make a statement" after being embarrassed by the Hawks.

This will be one to avoid.

Frockers by 70.
There are some guys going around who can get away with almost anything and not get suspended. It looks like Fyffe is becoming one of them. There have been 3 or 4 times this year when he has got away with things that our players would be suspended for. He may have been a bit unlucky in the past, but that is certainly no longer the case.
As for Mitchell and Selwood, they appear to be charmer. Selwood should have got something similar to what Judd got a couple of years back. But he got 1 miserable week. Mitchell kneed another player and got nothing again. And Howe of Melbourne got away with another sling tackles that gave his opponent concussion!
Truly amazing!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Round 13: Northern Blues vs. Richmond on TV
Quote from: DJC on
Does Aurrichio ever kick the ball?

He is a big lump of a lad and doesn't mind going in hard but I wanted to see if he has mastered kicking.  I believe that he played in the USA so he should know the basics.

He is an effective knock ruckman at VFL level.
He goes out f his way to handball at the moment. To be honest, I haven't seen him kick since he the preseason. I have no idea how good or bad he is at the moment.
His ruck work is coming along nicely. He is good at the centre bounce because he has a very good leap. He is learning to use his body and strength at boundary throw ins, but he has some way to go in this area.
He is the opposite of Cox of Collingwood (another American), who was hopeless at the centre bounce, but very good at boundary throw ins and body work. He really tossed Casboult around like an unwanted ragdoll.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Round 13: Northern Blues vs. Richmond on TV
Here are the stats:

Ciaran Byrne had 18 possessions in less than 3 quarters on the ground. That is what we were missing for all those weeks.
We killed them in the ruck, yet didn't get much advantage out of it. They had the sort of mids in Cachia and Thomas who do well in those conditions.
Rowe having 14 possessions was probably not enough, although he was positively dynamic compared to Jones (9 possessions and only 2 kicks).
Even in the wet a conversion rate of barely 30 % is the sort of things nightmares are made from.
That Watson had 7 marks in the conditions was excellent. But 1 goal...

2015 Peter Jackson VFL
Northern Blues   2.2  3.6  4.6  5.9 (39)
Richmond Tigers   2.0  2.3  4.4  9.9 (63)

GOALS:
Northern Blues: Johnson 2 Jaksch  Watson  Viojo
Richmond Tigers: McBean 2 Astbury 2 McKenzie  Scott  Cachia  McDONOUGH  Knights

BEST:
Northern Blues: Bransgrove Whiley Walsh Dick Wilkinson Jaksch
Richmond Tigers: Thomas Kruse Astbury McKenzie McDONOUGH Barlow
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Round 13: Northern Blues vs. Richmond on TV
Quote from: MilkIt on
I agree on Jaksch and Byrne. Probably the only two that look like making the grade at this stage. Foster wasn't bad either.

I don't think you can play both Fields and White in defence. I'd move Hendo back and give Jaksch a go up forward. I'm not sold on both Kreuzer and Wood in the same side either.
Alas, beggars can't be choosers. We have 2 fit ruckmen and that is it. They both have to play, unless we sacrifice one and run him into the ground and fill in with Casboult.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 15 Post Game Thread - Blues v Tigers
Quote from: PassIt2Carrots on
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/carlton-great-robert-walls-says-chris-yarran-should-be-dropped-slams-blues-performance-against-tigers/story-fni5f5nx-1227438238586

Great to have you back Wallsy and good to see you are reading my posts. ;)
Yes, he mentioned Yarran, Everitt and Menzel. You could make a good case for dropping all 3 of them. If we had some fit guys, it would be a great move. He forgot to mention Tutt, would may try to tackles but could NOT retard a 10 year old successfully.
I'm glad the Robert cares. Maybe we can find  place for him somewhere. We need a few guys who really care.