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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: Professer E on
Nup, ruck Pittonet and give'em some treatment back the other way
Tired of us getting worked over by crap trucks. Never miss an opportunity to push back on these arrogant bogans.

Pitto is out for a couple of weeks so it will be Tom and a combination of Harry, Crippa, Chugga, etc.  I suppose that Nige could be an option but probably not in a wet game at night.

I have to laugh at LP’s fears about opposition rucks setting out to harm Harry.  While Harry is more than capable of looking after himself, angelic looking Tom is one of the meanest ruckmen going around, and never hesitates to make his opposition aware of his presence. Furthermore, the ruck rotations are usually orchestrated so that Harry only competes against Finlayson.

Dixon is being nursed through the season and usually only takes some forward 50 ruck contests.  He will be flat out trying cope with Weitering’s attentions.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Rozee out along with Rioli will help us, pity Dixon looks like returning but Im confident we can cover most of their good players with our own and I think Charlie will have a big game on Zerk Thatcher and Harry will be to good for Esava.
Lose to Port and its going to be a tough couple of weeks with some harder games to come, Port are way over-rated imho and without long time nemesis Robbie Gray to bail them out with the last kick of the day stuff it will be the Blues by around 17 points.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -
Interesting...
We're now getting regular incidents of Trump making gaffes or saying the wrong thing or things out of context...not in the calculated way  he has done in the past,  but more in line with an elderly man with diminishing faculties.
If these debates go ahead it will be interesting to see how he goes in a structured session where he is not in control.
It was kind of thought he would have little trouble outshining Biden. Rightly or wrongly that was the expectation.
So really all Biden needs to do is match Trump or go close...and he'll  get a boost.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide
Last post by Gointocarlton -
I think they are beatable and as I keep saying our best is good enough vs anyone, anywhere. As Mantis said, pressure and contested footy is our go and when we bring it, we are hard to play against. I feel like most of the Port players don't like it tough and hard. I'd give Cincotta the job on Butters first up. Fantasia should be able to supplement Vossy's intel on this mob. I sound like a broken record but games like this against a contender on their dung heap can send a message (one way or the other). Which message will we send?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 11 Carlton vs Gold Coast
Last post by tonyo -
Sometimes I think we mark Charlie pretty hard.  He kicked 4, could have had 6 or 7, and was the clear difference between the two sides in the second half.  Sure, he got towelled up in the first half, but he only needs 15 minutes to turn a game, and his two marks in the third quarter were classical power forward stuff.

So

Team A-  (would have been better if we didn't cough up lazy goals at the end.)

Cripps 5
Walsh 3
Curnow 3
Williams 2
TDK 1
Harry 1

HM : Newman, Dutch minor, Dutch major, Kennedy,

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by Milhanna13 -
Quote from: tonyo on
Hmmmm tagging, or scragging, or free kick every day of the week?  Time to show this to the umpires' department.....



This is a hobby-horse of mine....  It happens to Crippa so often it is not funny.  "Tagger" takes his eyes off the ball and hugs Cripps at every opportunity before the ball is even bounced.  Or sits on him, and tackles him just a sec before he takes possession.

What makes the Swans worse is Grundy was doing it as well.  Watch the replay.  1st Q, we were getting ascendancy in the middle.  So, what do they do?  Grundy starts mauling Pitto and King as the ball is bounced - he is grabbing them from accross the line and nto allowing them to jump at the footy.  He got pinged for it twice - but probably did it 50 times

We know we rely on winning the clearances.  So, Horse has 3 of his blokes hang onto our ruckman and 2 prime movers, before the ball is bounced.  Give up 2 or 3 frees in the process.  But, essentially stop our main avenue to score

Has been a Swans trait since Roos - push the rules right to the edge and get away with it 99 times out of 100.   Roos invented tunnelling, holding players down in tackles to let the defence set up.  Now Longmire has perfected the holding prior to getting the ball....  along with (as another poster mentioned)  just kicking the ball off the ground in the middle of a pack (not sure what happened to kicking in danger, but it certainly doesnt apply to the fluffy ducks)