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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 6 2024 Carlton vs Werribee at Werribee
Last post by LP -
Watching our VFL, there is a sameness about the problems facing both AFL and VFL teams, it suggests a systematic cause.

We seem to demand contested marking from our talls, like giving them an easy mark on the lead is banned, yet despite having that contested marking approach we have few or no smalls crumbing front and square. In our F50 we basically surrender the footy if we fail to mark it.

Watch last night, nobody is out marking Harry or Charlie more than very occasionally, our KPFs regularly bring the footy to ground against 2 or 3 opponents, but there is hardly ever a Carlton small at the foot of the contest. Watch the VFL, it's very same same.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: pinot on
Well I guess we will see things differently - you think he is a superstar because he wins clearances and I think he is a crab with only one trick in his book which is a requirement for an AFL ruckman and thats where it sits.

Yep, you must be a collingwood supporter because all you see is black and white.

Everyone can have an opinion, but stats show your opinion was wrong. Hitouts was his '1 trick'...fyi he had 11 hitouts to advantage. Everyone else on the ground (us and them) combined for 10....total.

Now he is elite in clearances too. Thats 2 tricks at least.

You want him to take marks, i asked who outmarked him?
Pittonet had 6 spoils last night. Weitering 6 and Young 7 rounded out Carltons top 3.
Is that 3 tricks we are up too?

He had 2 tackles, which seems poor. But that was more than 8 of his teammates, including TDK. 5 others had 2 as well. So he was bang on average for tackles as well.

He also managed 2 shots on goal, although 2 behinds, add that to his goal earlier in the year, and that exceeds his scoring power from the previous 2 years combined....in only 4 games.

Pittonet had 15 touches. Cox+Cameron had just 19 between them, and only 3 clearances.

....and he only had 68% tog.

I'm not saying Pittonet is a superstar. I'm just saying he is doing his job and its going unnoticed.

Plenty of other players deserve the finger being pointed at them before you get to Pittonet.