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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by DJC -Arrived home from the game with Junior G2C to be greeted my an angry Mrs G2C. Reckoned the Ch7 commentary was so biased she had to mute it. Ahhhh yes, love it when my effect wears off on family members.
PS Heard Cornes this morning on radio say how he listened to SEN Blues Radio (Maher, Edmond, Kouta and Ange) synced with the TV telecast, absolutely hilarious he reckons.
Ms DJC is pretty much a neutral observer and she remarked that she never heard such biased commentary before. She also had a crack at the umpires for some poor decisions
BT and his mates do tend to boost the team that's behind so that the punters won't turn the game off but a bit of balance would be a pleasant change.
I must learn how to sync Blues Radio
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by DJC -Just on Ollie Hollands, caught a couple of times last night...he's only in his second season, still young , still very slight, and still probably adjusting to the speed of the game.
When he gets a bit more experience and a bit more bulk (he may never be super big, but he can add a bit of muscle and strength) he'll be a valuable long term player for us.
I reckon that was Ollie's best game.
I think that he is trying to find the time to make his disposals count and underestimates his opponent's closing speed and/or proximity. In some ways it's probably better that he gives away a free than kicking to the opposition. I imagine that Tim Clarke and Luke Power will be working with Ollie to improve his ability to get his disposals away more quickly and without losing efficiency.
Ollie was quieter in the second half, and Langdon's not the player he was, but it's still an important scalp to have taken.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by RiverRat -
Just thinking about Petracca and how he got off the leash. Charlie should've gone to him in the last late in the last quarter, he was in the backline anyway, he's athletic enough and strong enough to impede Petracca's influence, only has to break even.
Not sure about Charlie in that role - I think Newman might have been the best available option after McGovern was toasted a couple of times. If Cincotta hadn't been so much on top of Pickett, he might have been worth a try.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by Micky0 -IIRC, Most teams have performed poorly after playing us. Lets see how Melb go next week. Having said that, all games are tough these days, we seem to be recovering well and I expect us to recover well for the Syd game.I was thinking the same re playing us, such a pain we didn’t get those wins!
I feel reasonably confident about Syd, I feel we mostly play well against them and have no issue with playing them up there in Syd either.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL 2024 Rd 7 Carlton vs Casey at Carlton
Last post by RiverRat -Needs to learn to get more possessions and be more involved because he seems to be one of the better players at kicking to the advantage of our tall forwards in the AFL team.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by BluePhantom -Just thinking about Petracca and how he got off the leash. Charlie should've gone to him in the last late in the last quarter, he was in the backline anyway, he's athletic enough and strong enough to impede Petracca's influence, only has to break even.
Vossy out coached Goody in the first 3qtrs, we need to find a way of stopping team's momentum
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 9 Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by RiverRat -Walsh 3
Weitering 2
Cripps 2
Owies 2
Newman 1
Cincotta 1
Cerra 1
Kennedy 1
Pitto 1
TDK 1
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by PaulP -Not sure where exactly to put this. For those interested in something a little lighthearted, a chat between Tracey McKay and Jackie De Koning, mums of the McKay and De Koning boys.