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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL 2024 Rd 3: Carlton vs Collingwood at Ikon Park
Dom Akuei has 2 possessions up to 3/4 time. :( He's gone backwards, as there were times last year when he looked like he had promise.
Sorry to see Billy Wilson off injured: probably concussed. :((
7 possessions to Moir, but he has been in it. A long way to go, alas.

Monahan hasn't done a lot: he's very much learning the caper.
Moir has been moved to the backline to cover for the loss of Akuei.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs GWS
Will be interesting to see what the match committee does here.

Two rucks takes out alot of run in transition and puts our defence under a ridiculous amount of pressure.

Out: Saad, Gov, Pitto, Carroll, Fantasia
In: Young, Marchy, Cincotta, Fogs, Binns,
Fog has a broken wrist and won't play. Marchy needs to come through the 2s IMO, was awful the last two games he played before being concussed.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 5 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide
@Lods Nice summation. RE the Owies no goal call, I haven't seen the vision as I was at the game so not sure how clear cut it is. My guess is if it was clear cut, the ARC would have reversed the call and paid the goal. Even so, swings and roundabouts, we were on the right end of a missed touched call last week, the reverse this week perhaps.
Take a Cerra and a Saad out of any side and your going to struggle, especially an in game loss like Saad (at least Cerra we had time to plan for it, I personally wouldnt have picked a Ruckman to come in).
What disappoints me most is getting beaten by something you know (and has happened before). Walker fair enough, great footballer and a beautiful set shot for goal. But Ben Keays? Gimme a spell, he was given far too much latitude...again.
I sat behind the goals and their ball movement out of defence seemed effortless, too much so for my liking in fact.
To often yesterday our blokes were a little too happy to sit off and wait for the TO that didn't come. In game adjustment was non existent (to my eye at least).
Speed is a concern for us and next weeks match up is not a good one in that regard and I think we will get exposed again. It will be interesting to see what the coaching staff do to combat the orange tsunami.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 5 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide
So I'm a glass half full type.

We execute better (not remarkably mind you) and we win.   Owies at the end could have won it with nothing more than some composure.  I think the message from the bench about how long was left was lacking with a few minutes to go because we seemed to think there was no time left even though there was plenty.

We'll learn from that but we shouldn't have to.   We fell for the same old stuff.  Ben keays reserves 3 or 4 goals and we let rankine go head to head with cripps like idiots at stoppages. 
I think we lack leg speed. We rely on scoring for TO a little to much me thinks. We dont have enough line breakers. Adelaide move it quick to space by hand and we couldn't do anything about it, Freo did the same last week. Adelaide, like Freo, forced us to kick to contests. Vossy and co need to go to work and come up with the counter plan.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 5 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide
Personally I think Pitto was the better of the two today, TDK was soundly beaten again by O'Brien who seems to be TDK's bogeyman.

I think if we hadn't had Pitto we would have lost by a lot more.
I would have liked to see TDK go at it all day with OBrien. TDK and Pitto never really settled in to work him over. I personally Never want to see the two of them play together again, just my view.