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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 11 Carlton vs Gold Coast
5 Cripps
4 Acres
3 Walsh
2 Williams
1 TDK
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Mac Andrew pushed Charlie under the footy a few times no free kick. Front on contact in a marking contest against us yes, for us....I felt yesterday that the umps (ie the AFL) were definitely trying to get GC over the line. I'm not normally an umpire basher or conspiracy theorist but the umps were utterly appalling and blatantly one sided yesterday. I have never heard a crowd boo them like that, people in the crowd near me were incensed to al level I have never seen. As for Harwick, he should just should STFU unless he is coming out in support of how appalling the umps were towards us.
Look the gc are afl sponsored but I was actually upset at the late square up. I also thought at the time the way they umpire us might be best for the comp if they umpire everyone that way and that means no tiggy touchwood frees against us too, because I found myself thinking we've given away a few that weren't there and they've only missed a couple they should have paid unless you pay them against us.
Umpiring - I don't want to go there, but the numbers don't lie: we had 3 frees in three quarters of the game. That is just ridiculous.The delta at half time (4-11 I think) surprised TBH. What shocked me though (and I watched the game from level 2 behind the goals) was them dropping the ball so often in a tackle and the ump calling play on. We couldn't buy a free for that yesterday.
We got smashed in HO by we smashed them on clearances (all of them) and TDK had 25 possessions he was instrumental around the ground. The 3rd rover thing is a huge advantage. Aside from a gimme goal, Witt’s had minimal impact around the groundI think two ruckman would have been handy today I feel. I dont look at HO stats, I look a the way Witts monstered Tom around. Tom got on top for a little bit where he jumped over him. I agree Tom got plenty of the footy around the ground. An extra tall would have handy today I reckon. We'll see if they stick with one or two rucks when Pitto recovers.
Much better qtr from the Baggers.Good to hear about Billy.
Held them to 1pt and we kicked 3.5
Billy Wilson is a ripper.
Blues: 3.5
GCS: 7.5
We actually had a ruck that won hit outs, clearances, tackles and took marks and won nicely - this is what TDK was doing before Pitto came in and lost three of four....players just took the game on with more run and scored more on turn over.... no idea what was going through selection committee head past month.Again, are you taking the p!55 or what? Tom got smashed by Witts today, if ever you needed two rucks with one parked in the fwd line it was today. I dont know why they didn't park TDK in the goal square for his rest instead of the bench (like the resting ruckman did in the good old days). Sometimes old is new.
The VFLEither are the ones, until they both mirror competitive form we will go no where. Yes I get it we have injuries, just saying.
Not going well
Down by 44 now
Quarter time
46-2
Durdin had one more effective possession than all of us on the forum last game so the bar is low.....Orazio is a 100 game plus player who should be doing a lot better in a team with two dominant big forwards imo. He probably should have started in the twos when the season began and worked into some form but injuries to other players forced his inclusion so he ended up in the deep end and has spent most of the season drowning unfortunately.In one of the praccy matches, he had some spurts in the middle and I thought he looked ok there.
I think the ideal small forwards can take a turn in the midfield and a lot of the better ones do and I wonder if Orazio given some real minutes in the middle it might be a catalyst to get him going...
Our line-up:Just a couple of points:
B: [42] Adam Saad, [23] Jacob Weitering, [2] Lachlan Cowan
HB: [17] Brodie Kemp, [11] Mitch McGovern, [24] Nic Newman
C: [4] Oliver Hollands, [9] Patrick Cripps, [13] Blake Acres
HF: [6] Zac Williams, [10] Harry McKay, [20] Elijah Hollands
F: [14] Orazio Fantasia, [30] Charlie Curnow, [44] Matthew Owies
R: [12] Tom De Koning, [18] Sam Walsh, [7] Matthew Kennedy
Int: [37] Jordan Boyd, [29] George Hewett, [39] Alex Cincotta, [8] Lachie Fogarty, [16] Jack Carroll
Em: [19] Corey Durdin, [33] Lewis Young, [25] Jaxon Binns
In: Adam Saad, Lachlan Cowan, Lachie Fogarty
Out: Corey Durdin (Omitted), Marc Pittonet (Injured), Caleb Marchbank (Managed)
[1] We will miss Pittonet, who usually plays well against Witts. Tom has a very poor record against Witts and has always played to his weaknesses against him. If he plays to his strengths and moves Witts around ...
Still, I see this is a major danger.
[2] Saad, Cowan and Fogarty in is good for us. Saad defends and attacks. Fogarty keeps the ball in our forward half and provides opportunities for his team mates. Cowan played well last week in the 2's: I'd be thinking of using his in the middle.
[3] GC's strength is their midfield. If we can keep them under control, we should do well. But we should match up carefully.
[4] How Fantasia still gets games amazes me. Corey Durdin was good against Melbourne, but has been too quiet too often. How is he not better than Fantasia though? Fantasia has 1 goal in the seniors for the year and hasn't looked dangerous.
[5] Marchbank - he has to be a worry. If he can't play 3 weeks in a row, then he is done.
[6] Olli Hollands was brilliant against Melbourne for 3 quarters, but that's been it. He needs to stand up this round.
Only 3 teams kick more goals than us.EOS
Only 4 teams concede more goals than us.
Sydney kick the most goals and concede the least.