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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: Shakin77 – on
Anyone think that holding Moir back might have benefited him rather than gift him games when his performance and effort didn't warrant it?

His talent has never been the question.    Hopefully the penny has dropped.

He is a player that our forward line desperately needs.

I do.
An early taste.
Back to the VFL.
Give him some midfield time to get him more involved while he's back there.
Promote him and stick with him for a couple of games.
Shows us what we've all believed he was capable of....
I think he's been handled very well. ;)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL 2025 Rd 17 Carlton vs Casey at Casey Fields
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: Baggers – on
Gulf between mature bodies and kids was almost criminally obvious. Gotta feel for Luke and the boys having to go into the game so under manned.

Luke Power shouldn't be held responsible for any bad loss at the moment.
He has one of the most difficult roles at the club.
His team is picked apart by the seniors on a regular basis.
He has to manage a development role with a game style that makes the players ready for the AFL team.
He's one we should be keeping.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: Shakin77 – on
Anyone think that holding Moir back might have benefited him rather than gift him games when his performance and effort didn't warrant it?

His talent has never been the question.    Hopefully the penny has dropped.

He is a player that our forward line desperately needs.

Perhaps.

Anyone think that giving him a game early on was a bit of a reality check to point out where he actually is in the scheme of things and give him something to work towards?

I think it was Vossy who said that he's always been very talented, but he needed to know how to work within a system.
I think the earlier game was a good lesson to learn that talent will only take you so far. Playing as/within a team will give you more success.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL 2025 Rd 17 Carlton vs Casey at Casey Fields
Last post by RiverRat -
Quote from: Baggers – on
Gulf between mature bodies and kids was almost criminally obvious. Gotta feel for Luke and the boys having to go into the game so under manned.
That's one reason why the MC has been (rightly) reluctant to select players like Binns in past seasons - too many lightweights who struggle to cope with the physicality of the VFL - let alone the AFL.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by RiverRat -
Quote from: pew2 – on
our game style/ plan is no good ... they moved ball too easily from defence to their fwd line so imagine what a good team can do.

When you consider our players' lack of skill in kicking to the advantage (or at least not to the disadvantage) of teammates, you have the summation of the failure of Voss and his assistant coaches. 
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2025 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Hawthorn
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Don't expect Thursday night footy to go anywhere.

There are enough public holidays on a Friday for it to be a thing.

When the competition expands again they'll need the timeslot.

I like watching on TV, I just can't attend. Now I'm not going to pay over $1500 a year for my family to be members if I can't attend most of the games.

Next survey the club does about membership and value for money etc, i am going to suggest some different packages to account for exactly this.
We have 'home' and we have 'home and away' memberships.
Surely we can have weekend memberships as well. I too, can not attend Thursday matches, nor can my kids who are also members. So its a complete waste.
Either they find a way to sort it out or they risk a lot of people downgrading their memberships.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by Micky0 -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Quote from: Micky0 – on

Whilst generally I would agree with this it was an extraordinarily cold, dark, miserable night and the traffic was absolutely at a standstill coming off the Eastern and on Hoddle St due to presumably the Mernda and Hurstbridge lines being down due to the track derailment… it took a massive effort to get in last night.

I live in Greensborough. 

I get it, its why I won't have a go at any one person for not going, but the ones that were there weren't exactly getting loud.  I was not far from the Melbourne cheers quad and they were louder during the game than ours was after goals at times.

I still think we should be getting 50k to a home game at the G.  We cant complain about marvel when that happens vs another Melbourne based side.
I’m in Eltham.

The Carlton supporters around us did not stop complaining about the players not manning up, one guy in particular did not give it a rest about Pittonet… unfortunately when there’s not a big crowd you can’t help but tune into all these ongoing negatives views - which whilst with some parts I agree, still irritating to listen to a stream of constant vitriol against us.

I thought it was a good win - okay we’re above Melbourne on the ladder but I still was expecting a thumping by them - the team showed some energy and synergy. A lot lot lot better than the past month otherwise.