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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by tonyo -
We really only got towelled in the last 10 minutes of this game, not the whole last quarter.  At the 25 minute mark, we were still 20 points in front when they fluked the goal after Viney's knock-back from the behind line.  Then we went into panic mode.

Until then, we were pretty much in control and Melbourne's lack of a forward line meant they needed Petracca to have a career-high 5 goal game to even get close.

Observations.....

* Weitering was great, but had virtually no opposition all night - it won't always be that easy.
* Curnow's best game for the year, I thought - really exposed May's lack of run.  Would have been even better if he'd kicked straight after his screamer
* Harry's quietest game for the year.  I was a bit disappointed with how easily McDonald out-muscled him - and Harry needs to stop playing for free kicks.
* Cincotta is a fast-developing shut down defender.  The best part about this is it should mean that Saad can get more of a free run and not have to worry so much about the other side's best small forward when he returns.
* Crippa was great, but that annoying habit of trying to do too much seems to have returned.  Sometimes, banging it on the boot is the best answer (especially when the game is greasy like last night).
* Walsh - need say nothing more
* McGovern's kicking out of the backline was a welcome sight to see.  He's probably the best kick in the team.
* Martin didn't do a lot, but he has x-factor in spades.  A very hard match-up for defenders.

Over the last 3 weeks, we

- had more scoring shots than Geelong and got umpired out of the game
- should have beaten the reigning premier
- beaten another top-4 contender

All with several key players missing.

Improvements are needed, but if I had offered anyone on this site a 6-3 line after Round 9, I don't think there would have been too many who wouldn't have taken that, especially with Walsh and Weiters missing the first month.







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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by Professer E -
Don't know how Maynard got off driving Owies into the ground last week, it was a very ugly looking tackle.  To say he added mayo is a bit much.  Ditto for the Kemp example.

Straight out faking sh1ts me to tears but some of these tackles look ugly and have the potential to really hurt somebody.  I had images of Neil Sachse with the Owies example.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: LP on
Watch the last 5 or 10 minutes again, Lever ended up with leather toxicity syndrome, closely related to COVID apparently, nobody wanted to go near him except our kickers! ;D

Are you sure about that LP?

Lever marked McGovern's kick in from fullback, marked Hewett's kick at CHB, and spoiled Harry's kick into the forward pocket, all in the first 10 minutes of the last quarter.  After that he and Durdin competed for a ground ball which Durdin knocked forward for a stoppage.  Finally, Lever gathered a loose ball between wing and half forward and got a hand pass away.  That was his only touch in the last ten minutes. 

I thought May and McDonald were their most effective defenders in the last quarter but it was the tackle pressure when we were trying to work the ball up the ground that set up Melbourne's opportunities and denied ours, that and some strange free kicks.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Last post by LP -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
A new variant of CoVid called " Flirt" has also hit our shores....not sure what the symptoms are and if it has anything to do with the name?🤔
Yes, and I've just got family coming back from the states!

But even so, some of the same people who predicted COVID about a decade before it happened, just a year or two after MERS they tried to warn authorities who largely ignored them. They think if the same mutation rates follow the same patterns they are predicting another pandemic with Avian Flu by the Mid 2030s, it really only a matter of when not if. The science was based on good evidence of what had happened in the evolution of the bugs between SARS in 2003 and MERS in 2012.

With these predictions the mutation part is random, they openly admit it could never become virulent or it could be deadly tomorrow, the problem is do you ignore the risk, like we ignored them last time?