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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong at the MCG
Last post by LP -
Quote from: DJC on
Stewart is Geelong’s most important player and they can’t cover his loss.  That has repercussions for them all over the ground.
It depends on the innovation of the Handbagger MC.

It's a fatal mistake to assume a team is crippled by the absence of a single player, many of our own fans said as much about us in the early season absence of Weiters.

A forced change like Stewart going out can cause an MC to become inventive, inventive potentially means a new tactic that opponents have not seen before, and that can be deadly for the opponent if they go into a game unprepared to adapt.

Always respect opponents, and be prepared to adapt.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong at the MCG
Last post by DJC -
The Age has a two-page preview of today's game, padded out slightly by a puff-piece on the the De Koning brothers' rivalry.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/cameron-or-curnow-it-s-the-biggest-cats-blues-clash-since-the-1995-grand-final-20240424-p5fm7n.html

They are billing it as the biggest Geelong- Carlton game since the 1995 grand final.  And the conclusion; "If you need a prediction, it’s this: Carlton will be too strong around the ball in the end."  I think that's pretty well spot on.

For good measure there's most of another page devoted to an interview with Brian Cook in an article titled, "Billionaires and business deals: The money machine delivering big benefits to the Blues."

Cook starts with, “The true uniqueness I found, in comparison [with Geelong], was just the passion of its supporter base at Carlton – its width, its depth, its tentacles where they spread.”

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/billionaires-and-business-deals-the-money-machine-delivering-big-benefits-to-the-blues-20240425-p5fmj9.html

The AFL must be rapt that we're back as a serious competitor.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong at the MCG
Last post by DJC -
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The Cats win games by field position - they're the best in the AFL at it.  Myers, Stewart and Cameron are the link/set up men.  Control them and we beat this mob.  Stewart is absent but we don't have a tall defender to go with Cameron.

Stewart is Geelong’s most important player and they can’t cover his loss.  That has repercussions for them all over the ground.

We didn’t have a tall defender to go with Cameron last season and he kicked 6.1 … but we still won.  Vossy and his mates will have cooked up something for Cameron.  In fact, I reckon Scott has a lot more to worry about than Vossy.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong at the MCG
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
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We need to keep a close eye on Myers.  I'd run Cottrell on him and make him accountable.  Maybe put Acres on Cameron and make Cameron gut run up and down all day.
No Saad is going to make it difficult with Stengle too, maybe Boyd gets the job although I'd like Boyd for Myers.
Where ever you look they have dangerous forwards , a couple that go under the radar are Close and Henry.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL 2024 Rd 5 Carlton vs Geelong at Carlton
Last post by crashlander -
Our line-up:
B: Lachie Young  Sam Durdin  Harry Lemmey
HB: Billy Wilson  Dom Akuei  Michael Lewis
C: Alex Cincotta Jaxon Binns  Tom Phillips
HF: Ned Cahill  Bob Monahan  Ashton Moir
F: Liam McMahon  Luke Nelson  Alex Mirkov
R:  Hudson O'Keefe  Heath Ramshaw  Zavier Maher
Int:  L. Prout  W. White  B. Kuipers  A. Stevens  B. Lambert

Em: D. Hogg  K. Ferranato  J. Gedi  H. Gill  C, Verrell  T. Sruk  F. Riley  J. Brereton

Disappointed to see Jess Gedi out; he was good last week.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 7 Carlton vs Geelong
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-.