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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Victoria now has its smallest full-time police force in close to seven years despite soaring crime and government promises to boost frontline officers...think I read in the HS we are 1700 officers down on where we need to be.
A family member was a Detective but has gone back to being in Uniform for the massive overtime that is being offered...
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
For what its worth, my ladder is:
1   Gold Coast
2   Brisbane
3   GWS
4   Western Bulldogs
5   Sydney
6   Hawthorn
7   Adelaide
8   Collingwood
9   St Kilda
10   Geelong
11   Fremantle
12   Carlton
13   Port Adelaide
14   Essendon
15   Melbourne
16   North Melbourne
17   Richmond
18   West Coast
Id have Fremantle and Geelong in the eight with Collingwood and the WB's just missing...Pies are doing a midfield and forward line rebuild plus have a injury prone backline and the Dogs while having a talented list suffer with Beveridge trying to be over inventive.
12th will see us a with a new coach and rebuild too imho..
Apart from their defence which leaks alot, I rate the Bullies and if Darcy gets up ad going, look out.
Ditto Freo, midfield is scary good and probably warrants a spot as you say.
Gee-long will slide a little I reckon.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
For what its worth, my ladder is:
1   Gold Coast
2   Brisbane
3   GWS
4   Western Bulldogs
5   Sydney
6   Hawthorn
7   Adelaide
8   Collingwood
9   St Kilda
10   Geelong
11   Fremantle
12   Carlton
13   Port Adelaide
14   Essendon
15   Melbourne
16   North Melbourne
17   Richmond
18   West Coast
Id have Fremantle and Geelong in the eight with Collingwood and the WB's just missing...Pies are doing a midfield and forward line rebuild plus have a injury prone backline and the Dogs while having a talented list suffer with Beveridge trying to be over inventive.
12th will see us a with a new coach and rebuild too imho..
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
Last post by Lods -
With all the troubles we had last year....
We finished with 9 wins including a win over a grand finalist.

We had 8 other games where we finished within 4 goals of the opposition.

Richmond (loss by 13 points)
Hawthorn (20) and (24)
Western Bulldogs (8 )
Collingwood (17)
Sydney (16)
North (11)
Gold Coast (19)

In 5 of those games we led at half time.

Some of those losses were inexcusable...but some were against pretty good opposition.
It was a mediocre season, but there were reasons why the performance was so erratic.

There were probably only three or four games when we weren't really competitive for large parts of the game.

But a loss is a loss.

2026 gives us a fresh slate, and as Paul points out, there are number of areas where we need to be better than 2025
That's what we need to see.
Improve in some of those areas and the two to three goal results may turn in our favour.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
Last post by PaulP -
What I'm hoping to see this season :

-less injuries and more selection stability
-fixing delivery into F50
-seeing the kids and recent recruits establish themselves as regulars in the senior team.
-our B graders going to the next level. I'm not sure we can expect much more from our A graders. And I'd suggest that guys like Haynes and Hewett have also maxed out. If we can get some/most/all of the other B graders to perform like these two, the season will be very good.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Where will Carlton finish?
Last post by Lods -
...and despite what some might think, things like injuries , luck, the improvement of young players ...isn't the same for every side.
Variables like this make predicting a season with any confidence a pretty tricky exercise.