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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Last post by LP -
Well the debacle continues, the only players to fire a shot today are some of the ones the NSW Cricket mafia want kyboshed!

In the meantime someone like Boland remains relegated to watching on, as the entrenched bowling solution will no doubt mop up cheap wickets in trying conditions. Then the mafia will point to the stats and claim they already have the better options.

Yet it seems the same doesn't apply to the batting selection, the batting failure is written off as a sticky wicket.

It's good bowling, relative to something mystery measure, and the batting is only poor due to the wicket!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Jim Park Voting 2025 AFL Rd 17 Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by crashlander -
Voting is as usual: you have 15 votes to award pretty much as you will, with the following provisos:
[1] 15 votes in total, no more, no less.
[2] No more than 10 votes for any one player (even Sam Walsh or Patrick Cripps)
[3] Three players at least must get a mention.
[4] A grade for the game, A+ (what I want to see) to F-.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 17 2025 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by crashlander -
Our line-up:

Carlton
B: 15 Sam Docherty  23 Jacob Weitering  2 Lachlan Cowan
HB: 4 Oliver Hollands  26 Nick Haynes  5 Adam Cerra
C: 14 Orazio Fantasia  9 Patrick Cripps  13 Blake Acres
HF:  3 Jesse Motlop  11 Mitch McGovern  8 Lachie Fogarty
F:  6 Zac Williams  30 Charlie Curnow  43 Ashton Moir
R: 12 Tom De Koning  36 Cooper Lord  29 George Hewett
Int:  32 Matthew Carroll  45 Flynn Young  44 Francis Evans  22 Harry O'Farrell  27 Marc Pittonet

Em:  35 Billy Wilson  19 Corey Durdin  33 Lewis Young

My comments:
[1] Cincotta: I understand why he was dropped; his form has been ordinary. He hasn't been shutting his opponent down and hasn't provided much himself. Disappointing, as he is one of the few run-with players we really have, but understandable. I would like to see him get some form sooner rather than later.
But it begs the question: who are we going to play on Daicos? We need someone to shut him down.
[2] Billy Wilson: maybe a bit stiff, but he will be back.
[3] Jordan Boyd: he definitely appears to be on the outer. Considering how he played last year, it is very disappointing to see him as he is. On the other hand, Matt Carroll does appear to have a future.
[4] Pitto in: If Tom had been playing well, I probably wouldn't have picked Pitto, as they don't appear to play well together. However, Tom has been pretty ordinary of late and was outplayed by Sweet and Visentini last week, which was embarrassing. Pitto is no superstar, but he does give his all and he is a power option against Cameron, who has played well against us recently.
[5] We will miss Silvagni, but I'm glad we didn't play him half fit. That didn't work last week, not at all.
[6] I hope Weitering is fit, as he is going to have his work cut out for him.
[7] I know Evans played well last week (and the previous one), but I'm not sure he has what it takes. Well, I guess we'll find out.
[8] Will our players give a damn? We certainly haven't the last few weeks.
[9] We do have a lot of guys who need to lift; Cripps, Acres, Charlie Curnow, Fog and Cerra to name but a few.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 17 2025 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Doc Gov Charlie Acres De Koning to name a few were worse than Cincotta.
8 disposals 2 tackles.  He was rubbish.

The others were too, but he's not a key player and we all know it.  The bloke he was tagging was one of their best and got it 30 times.
Dropping Cincotta doesnt send a message, dropping those I mentioned does. They are the reason we are crap, they dont perform and there are no consequences, not just last week either.