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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2025 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood at MCG
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I don't understand why Collingwood dropped Cox. He isn't a great player, but he is a much better 2nd ruck than any alternative.
Nichevo. Let them make a mistake for a change.

Quote of Napoleon: 'Never interrupt an enemy when he'd making a mistake'.
I believe he was seen doing fitness tests earlier in the week, so maybe he is carrying an injury.
Rain predicted tonight.  Cox is about as useful as a light pole in the wet, and they have plenty of size in the front half with McStay, Membrey and Mihochek.  McStay will 2nd ruck.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Things Fall Apart.
I remain upbeat about this season - we have played crap footy so far, should have won 2 of the 3, and even against the Hawks we were stiffed.

Sometimes you learn more from your crap efforts than you do from your good ones.  There is a lot of good footy left in this team.

Just waiting for the rudder to steer us into calmer waters.....
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
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Moir, Two Camporeales, Billy WIlson, try Lemmey at HF.  Give White a shot in the F50, can't do any worse .....

Can't do any worse? We've been in all 3 games thus far this season.

Worse was Pagan era when we'd be 6 goals down halfway through the first quarter. And 100 by the end.

Certainly can do worse.....a lot worse.
Lost against two sides we should have beaten in a canter and our second halves suggest we are not fit.  Time to mix things up.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
We get absolutely nothing from our small forwards, because the ball comes in so slowly that the F50 is jammed by the time it gets there, and they are not talented or fast enough to be much more than witches hats.  To compound things, there is very little forward pressure, so the opposition can get it back out to the wings with ease.

At every centre bounce, I look at the half-forward line of Motlop, Cottrell, Evans, Fogarty and the like - a set of midgets against serious running half-backs who chop us up game after game. 

We have little or no run out of the backline, and our only strategy is to dump-kick it to the wing and hope for a contest (and based on the midget half-forward line, that gives us little or no hope).  Or dump kick it into F50 for an uncontested opposition mark.

I have been saying since mid last year that we need to start playing the kids to try and get some enthusiasm going.  We keep putting the same try-hards out there every week, and we get surprised when they come up short yet again?  That is Einstein's definition of insanity.

There is no way forward with the team they keep putting out there ATM.   Play the kids now.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2025 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
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What I have heard from an inside source is that Harry has mental health issues and may not play for the rest of the year
Well, thats just great.  :'(

Hopefully its not true and Harry is fine.

But, i can't help but point to the severe lack of options behind him and the words "i told you so" seem to come to mind very quickly about these lack of options.
Bet we wished we'd picked up Liam McMahon now......
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 2 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Hawthorn
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The play was dead though.

Let's face it, the game was being "reset" after a goal.

How much are we going to talk about this?  No advantage was gained if anything a player had to run more to get off before the match restarted, there was no advantage, the play was dead, and im sitting here saying what clown earth have I woken up in where we are talking detail as a reason for us to gain an advantage?

We are all pretty dissapointed in how we are travelling. The Hawks are the afls darlings and always will be.
I think the point is the Butterfly effect - another goal at that point in the game, and we would have had a serious lead at half time.  As it turns out, Motlop's goal is disallowed, we miss the 50 metre penalty, and the Hawks get a soft out-the-back goal in the last minute.  If (big if I know....) we lead by 4 goals at half-time, I think we win the game.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 2 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Hawthorn
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So, the whorks play with 19 men and get away with it.  Doesn't score reset to zero, so we actually won by how much????
Umpires didn't have a great night did they.
AFL admitted that the free kick we got from the infringement should have included a 50m penalty ie a shot for goal from 25m out, at a time in the game when we were dominating.  We could have held a 4 goal half time lead.

We certainly copped the rough end of the umpiring pineapple last night.