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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
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The way he is held before the ball gets near is amazing; he should have more frees than anyone else in the comp, but he just doesn't get them.
It’s ridiculous. You give away a free in a marking contest if you take your eyes off the ball. Same in a ruck contest. Cripps’ opponents face him, eyeball him, have an arm around him BEFORE the set play begins.

He’s one of the toughest and fairest going around but doesn’t ‘milk it’ or remonstrate enough. Umps clearly think he’s a decent fellow.
Voss needs to get in front of the cameras and microphones and go absolutely ballistic. Screw any possible fines.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs St Kilda
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We will agree to disagree because in my view neither the midfield nor talls lost us the match its the quality of craft of small forwards. Cant win with 15 players on the field and these three amigos have had enough chances.

I definitely agree our small forwards don’t seem to have any sense of positioning, or ability to read the flight of the ball, or even that sense of urgency to pounce or apply pressure.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs St Kilda
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Disagree - they were 77% efficient.  Thats very high. They beat up their opponent on the inside and outside.

They did their job.

No they didn’t. Which one of them pushed forward and slotted a goal at a crucial time?

We lose to these “St Kildas” every year because some unheralded up and comer with a bad haircut has a breakout game and kicks 3 or 4 goals which ultimately proves the difference.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Brownlow Medal 2022
Thoroughly deserved. Spoke so well too!

But I came here to say I was wrong. I wanted him traded. There you go, it’s official - I know NOTHING!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Collingwood
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Taking time is a team thing, there was a 50m penalty where Pitto didnt take the full 50m, dished it off to Stocker running by I think who rushed a kick fwd that was intercepted. Take the full 50m, get yourself as deep as possible and then use the ball cleverly to spot up a fwd. Sometimes slow crafty play is better than run and gun. Composure.
To the letter of the law it should have been 2 x 50m penalties to Pittonet as Cox impeded his progress towards the new mark.

I know full well it’s wasted energy to fixate on such sliding doors moments but I tear my hair out sometimes at non-decisions that are so confidently called by some umpires (I’m still trying to figure out who blocked whom which gifted them a goal in the last), yet other decisions are not interpreted consistently.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Collingwood
No one will ever tell me that two consecutive “blocking” decisions did not manufacture that outcome.

In the first, Quainor pushed Silvagni into a Collingwood teammate. Cost us a shot dead in front.

Ball goes down the other end - good honest pack marking contest, somehow a free kick to Collingwood who goal.

The momentum swung and that was that.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 21 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Brisbane
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And my goodness mr fitness role really needs to be assessed - for me time for a change there. Has not got results for me and we cut coaches so what's difference.

Andrew Russell has been there since 2018.

I didn’t take notes but I noticed that, if the ball was turned over to our advantage, Brisbane players would sprint back in formation to fill any gaps. By “in formation”, I mean 3 or 4 players in a line across the field, similar to the way rugby league teams line up.
You need superior aerobic capacity to do this which is maybe why they tired in the last.

I’m suspicious that Russell brought all his text books and charts and s/sheets across with him and, when our players reached some arbitrary ‘level’ of fitness, he picked up his bonus.

I’m not blaming Russell for our injuries but, for a high performance fitness guru, I’m not impressed.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2022 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide
SOS has stunk it up for at least the last half dozen games now.
Yes - he gives his all, yes - he’s being asked to play out of position, yes - he’s CFC royalty, but seriously, we’ve all been bleating for the last 20 years that certain players seemed to be untouchable (think no. 1 draft picks) and that this culture of complacency was ruining the club. Now, FINALLY, Voss is putting it out there - near enough is not good enough. I’m loving it.

LP’s posts on the subject are spot on. It’s all about the team. Let the teenage girls have their Twitter meltdowns. I’m here for the premierships.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Fremantle
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One of the things that made Nthmond successful was that they had more than one tempo, they rarely played more than a half of berserka type footy. They also played the tempo game very well. Yesterday, while it made fans happy, it was 4-Qtrs of finals beserka footy.

I actually think we phased the tempo perfectly. Frenetic all out attack when we extracted the ball from the centre, and patience in building an avenue to attack when we had possession down back.

It’s great (finally!) to see the players resist the tendency to take the “near enough is good enough” option in favour of the single best available option.

What I can’t get over is how our field kicking has improved. We’ve gone from god-awful ‘chip it up and turn-it-over merchants’, to a team which passes with clinical precision.