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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 8 Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by crashlander -
AFL Rd 8:   Carlton vs Collingwood

Rating:      C+
We lost by a goal to last year’s premiers and probably should have won. Granted that we were nowhere near our best, but we led for most of the game. We weren’t dreadful. Still it was disappointing.

Votes:
[2]   Sam Walsh
[2]   Nic Newman
[2]   Harry McKay
[2]   Jacon Weitering
[2]   Blake Acres
[1.5]   George Hewett
[1.5]   Marc Pittonet
[1]   Tom de Koning
[1]   Alex Cincotta
[0.5]   Matthew Owies
[0.5]   Patrick Cripps

Explanations:
[2]   Sam Walsh:      33 possessions and 8 clearances suggested Walsh was pretty good. Pity about the last 90 seconds.
[2]   Nic Newman:      32 possessions and 6 tackles, and more metres gained than anyone else, but he was a little fumbly and not at his best.
[2]   Harry McKay:      Dominated and kicked 4. Pity his last attempted pass was to nobody.
[2]   Jacon Weitering:   Close to BOG. Slaughtered his opponent.
[2]   Blake Acres:      32 possessions and a magnificent last quarter, but was fumbly before that.
[1.5]   George Hewett:   A solid job in the middle. 30 possessions, 5 tackles and 6 clearances.
[1.5]   Marc Pittonet:      Brilliant early and was the best ruck on the park.
[1]   Tom de Koning:   Tom’s game as a forward was actually pretty good. He was the worst ruck on the ground by some margin, but he did get a fair bit of ball. Too many fumbles up the ground. This vote is just for his forward play.
[1]   Alex Cincotta:      Did a job and did it brilliantly.
[0.5]   Matthew Owies:   3 goals was great.
[0.5]   Patrick Cripps:      Tactics holding Cripps out of it were questionable, but Cripps was really good early and tried his guts out all night.

Honourable Mentions:
Elijah Hollands:      Not a bad job.
Adam Cerra:         Solid in the middle, but lacked the flair he often has.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by WASurfer -
WIth no Doc/JSOS available, this is almost our best 23 with probably Motlop and Fogarty as the only ones to come in....and maybe Williams if in form. If Marchbank could stay on the park I could see him being the second key defender.

On paper, both teams look very evenly matched. We've probably got the two better key forwards, but they've got arguably the best key defender combo in the game. Midfields are probably pretty even although Gawn probably gives them a slight edge...but we have two ruckmen compared to Gawn and Van Rooyen as backup.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 9 Carlton vs Melbourne
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: Jim Park Analysis 2024
Last post by crashlander -
AFL 2024 Rd 7:   Carlton vs Geelong
I am really disappointed to have lost this one. We did so much right, yet our mistakes cost us the game. Geelong were very much up against us, but we should have been too.

Trends:
[1]   There were 15 voters this round, which is not that bad considering we lost. I'd love it if more people gave their opinions, but I'll take what I can get. Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote. Believe me, it is appreciated.

[2]   The rating was a 8.16, which is just higher than a C. Pity we couldn't reproduce last week's effort, but we may have been a little harsh, considering who was available.

[3]   12 players managed a mention this week, which is just two less than last week. Again, it suggests that a lot of players made a contribution. It was the mistakes that killed us.

[4]   The average vote this week was 24, which equals our yearly low. It does tell how we feel our players fared.

[5]   6 players managed 100 votes or more this week. This is very good, but it does suggest that more could have been done by the others.

[6]   Patrick Cripps managed 315 votes to be BOG this week. Behind him things were quite close between Walsh, Weitering and Pittonet.

[7]   Two player managed votes from everyone this week. Pittonet missed from one voter, as did Weitering.

[8]   Elijah Hollands was probably the youngster who stood out, followed by Jordan Boyd.

[9]   Our midfield totally dominated the voting. Only one forward (H) and one defender (Weitering) really stood out.

Votes:
Cripps, Patrick   315
Walsh, Sam   196
Weitering, Jacob  185
Pittonet, Marc   174
Acres, Blake   109
McKay, Harrison  103
Kennedy, Matthew  63
Hewett, George   38
Hollands, Elijah  19
Curnow, Charles  8
Boyd, Jordan   8
Newman, Nicholas  5

Progressive Voting:
Patrick Cripps 1819
Harry McKay 1015
Sam Walsh 980
Tom de Koning 784
George Hewett 678
Jacob Weitering 599
Charlie Curnow 522
Mitch McGovern 434
Blake Acres 359
Marc Pittonet 336
Adam Saad  310
Matthew Kennedy 234
Adam Cerra 231
Brodie Kemp 206
Matthew Cottrell 144
Jordan Boyd 126
Nic Newman 113
Zac Williams 85
Elijah Hollands 78
Lachie Fogarty 68
Jack Carroll 64
Lewis Young 55
Olliver Hollands 22
Matthew Owies 16
David Cuningham 13
Orazio Fantasia 13
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by crashlander -
This week's line-up:
B:  [17] Brodie Kemp,  [23] Jacob Weitering,  [2] Lachlan Cowan
HB:  [39] Alex Cincotta,  [11] Mitch McGovern,  [24] Nic Newman
C:  [4] Oliver Hollands,  [9] Patrick Cripps,  [13] Blake Acres
HF:  [21] Jack Martin,  [10] Harry McKay,  [20] Elijah Hollands
F:  [44] Matthew Owies,  [30] Charlie Curnow,  [12] Tom De Koning
R:  [27] Marc Pittonet,  [18] Sam Walsh,  [7] Matthew Kennedy
Int:  [37] Jordan Boyd,  [5] Adam Cerra,  [46] Matthew Cottrell,  [29] George Hewett,  [19] Corey Durdin

Em:  [28] David Cuningham,  [33] Lewis Young,  [14] Orazio Fantasia

My thoughts:
[1] Ollie Hollands is very lucky to be there. Extremely lucky. I would have preferred Binns: he is getting 25 - 30 possessions each week.
[2] Cuningham is a little unlucky to be dropped, considering that it was his first game back. Also, his disposal and decision making was a step from what some of the others were doing.
[3] Young wasn't our worst last week, but what killed him was his lack of attack on the ball on the ground. In the air he wasn't that bad, but on the ground he let Collingwood players in a number of times because they wanted the ball more.
There has been a lot of comment about Young, some of it he deserves, some he does not. He has his strengths, and they are in the air. Also, he didn't turn the ball over that much. But his ground player cost us last week.
[4] Fantasia shouldn't get back into the team until he starts kicking goals, and not just one per game. He might be working hard defensively, but that's not why he is in the team. Getting less than 8 possessions and no goals just isn't something we can maintain.
[5] Our defence looks quite flexible, which isn't always the case. McGovern and Kemp are good 'ins', as they can attack as well as defend. Cincotta really did a job well last week, even though he didn't get a lot of ball. I'd like to see him confident enough to run off guys as well as shutting them down.
[6] Martin is a big 'in' as well. He can do things the other small forwards can't.