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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
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Alistair Clarkson - North Melbourne
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Michel Voss - Carlton
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Given that some fans believe we are the new St Kilda, Vossy is knocking it out of the park.

Love him or hate him, Clarko has a hefty successful bank account of success to draw upon - Dawks... and he took over an absolute cot-case - Kangabies.

How does Clarkos first 10 years as a senior coach stack up against Vossy's  ;)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 4 2026 Carlton vs Collingwood at Carlton.
He did lods.  I spotted him 4th quarter.  There wasn't much in it.

He vomited before he came off.
Then he left the field bent at around 45 degrees sideways holding his side.
Now we learn he had a lacerated kidney.

Now without being on the sidelines we're not really in a position to judge the medical assessment and the approval for him to return to the field.
But I suspect it's going to be portrayed as a second 'faliure' of the club in 24 hours to deal with a medical incident.



Exactly what I was thinking, Principal LODS. Sent back on with damaged kidney! Looks like our medical protocols/dept is in for a couple of please explains and scrutiny. Oh dear.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 4 2026 Carlton vs Collingwood at Carlton.
We kicked 4 goals in the second half to 7 of Collingwoods who were goalless at half time. Considering the gulf in class a very dissapointing end to the game. 

But we had more shots on goal in the 2nd half... just couldn't hit the side of a barn! The only time they got a hold of us was late in the 3rd when they kicked 3 unanswered goals.

Plenty of positives to take out of that win. Plenty of blokes putting their hands up for senior selection. Acres, Hewett, Lord and Young chief among them. I also liked Billy Wilson's game and that Flynn Riley is worth having a good look at, some potential there.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Feel your pain, brother GTC. At this stage, we're a shell of the club we grew up with and the brunt of way too many jokes.
@Baggers this stuff is self-perpetuating if you let it, you of all people here on this forum should know that.

Want to know what it feels like to have the Colliwobbles, the putting yips, now you do!

The only way through this is to stick fat, the exact opposite of what most are calling for, this is the front line and it needs quiet controlled and undivided unity to move forward step by step.

We can't be the chaotic numpty waging war against opponents and allies alike, we have to be calm, cold and deliberate like the SAS.

Yep. When Rottingwood kicked those early goals in the final qtr and took the lead, we did fight back and could have won it. We did not capitulate. We're obviously exorcising demons that we've had for years, and gradually making progress.

What really concerns me, though, is Rottingwood was ordinary and there for the taking.

But I do think we're making progress. We've had these 'demons' for years and they'll take some conquering. Yep, stick fat.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
He shouldnt have been allowed to play and I'm not sure what our medicos were thinking letting him take the field. He must have been displaying symptoms in the dressing room and surely he is one player they would be asking are you right to go. He actually could have got badly hurt wandering around confused and dazed like he was.

Well said, EB1 and I'm sure the AFL will be all over it for an explanation. He was clearly disoriented.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Just found this online, have a look and you tell me ......... is Hollands off his dial here ??

https://x.com/tommorris32/status/2044752407306109009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2044752407306109009%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=

This explains the 0 stats IMO.

Pinging, for sure.    Send him back to rehab.    Another CFC  recruiting success story.    Voss and Austin need to get their resumes ready..       This club is a fn basket case.

"Pinging, for sure." No. Not what I saw, I saw someone disoriented.

IF he has an anxiety issue and on appropriate prescription medication (SSRI?) then given a caffeine tablet... Oh dear!

Just an IF, an alternate explanation to hysterical assumptions and burying the kid.

IF this is the case... well, caffeine is a natural enemy of anxiety and can cause serious side-effects, even disorientation and serotonin syndrome BUT you'd expect the club to be right across that.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
I normally dont post when Im angry and emotional but that one will just about see me out. We are just a terrible football side with zero ability to close out a game. Oppo know we will crap the bed, we supporters know it and most sad of all, the players know it.
At the start of the last quarter, we had our "best" quartet in the centre and we got taken to the cleaners by a novice ruckman and N Daicos three times in a row. It's at that point that I got up and left in utter disgust. I have been patient and said I'd stay the course but I dont think I can any more. This is not the Carlton I grew up adoring.

Feel your pain, brother GTC. At this stage, we're a shell of the club we grew up with and the brunt of way too many jokes.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Collingwood
Well I checked out the BOM radar to see if any rain is heading for the MCG... Then I noticed that according to the radar there was not a cloud for more 70kms where we are in West Gippy... I looked out the window - hosing down, thunder, lightning and (obviously) dark clouds filled the skies! ::)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Collingwood
hayward  6 possies against north gets suspended and straight in the seniors ,every player should earn his way into seniors side like i said in the past FORGET THE SURNAME ,play the person who deserves senior selection

Spot on. Selection on reputation again. I wonder how many of us vividly recall Vossy saying that selection is based on earning your spot!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Collingwood
In
Jacob Weitering, Will Hayward, Harry Dean
Out
Wade Derksen (Omitted), Jordan Boyd (Omitted), Hudson O'Keeffe (Omitted)

Unsurprising. Fair enough.

The Magoos match the following night will also be interesting... to see who improves and is pressing for selection... Coops, Flynn, Cotts? Also be interesting to see how the Campos, Chesser, HOK, Billy, Fog, Reidy, Ison, Moir, Derks and Hewey do. Be interesting to see if Hewey fronts up for the Magoos?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Collingwood
It may not, but Wilson isn't slow. Staying with him wouldn't be the issue

And Billy would hold Nick accountability through his own ability to get aggott and run forward with it. That's another aspect about such a creative move.

However, we are making an assumption about our conservative, stick with tried & true and safe MC. When they think they're being bold, they're often perplexing... eg Hewett demoted on a wet night, out of form HOK in for a small, quickish forward...