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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Post Game-Carlton v Collingwood
Looked to me like we were playing to minimise the damage rather than win the game. How do you explain playing a 5 man forward line against this mob? Looks like Bolton is in survival mode.
Still they did have a decent crack at least. Completely knackered by Q4. Injuries curse continue to hurt us.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 13: Post Game Prattling-Carlton v Fremantle
Quote from: PaulP – on
This is beyond absurd. What about the camp ? What about injuries to :
Luke Brown
Harry Dear
Rory Laird   
Tom Lynch
Rory Sloane
Riley Knight
Mitch McGovern
Paul Hunter   
Brodie Smith   
Brad Crouch
Taylor Walker

Those blokes are either out for large chunks of the season, or in and out over several weeks.

We've gone backwards since Gibbs left, so I guess applying your logic in reverse, he must have been our best player.

You forgot to add Jake Lever and Charlie C
Crows are a shadow of their side from last year.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 9: Post Game Calm: Carlton vs Melbourne
Quote from: JonHenry – on
They will improve drastically with E Curnow back because he adds toughness, but why not put Kerridge in there to bash and crash. It's not like he has silky skills we need to protect.

Maybe the answer to that question is because he is crape? By hand or foot he butchers the ball continually and they've decided he causes less damage holistically to the team when he's nowhere near the ball. The fact that we can't OR wont replace him, along with O'Shea, Mullett, Graham, etc. etc. with someone from the two's is more depressing.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 9: Post Game Calm: Carlton vs Melbourne
Used my son's MCC provisional membership to get a couple of tickets for the wife and myself to have a family day at the footy. Great idea! Ended up leaving half the way through the last. Worst performance I've seen for many years.
Just have to add worst coaching for many years as well. As one point in the game we had a 4 man forward line. I think it was when we were 6 goals down and we STILL bombed it in long. Defies logic.
9 games in and we are still playing Mullett, O'Shea, Kerriga, Graham, Garlett, SPS, Jones, PlHaven't they had enough chances?  Are the blokes running around in the two's really that bad that they can't get a gig?? Seriously?
No system, no passion, no idea.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Blues Brothers trip to the tribunal
Quote from: Lods – on

So if an example needs to be made (don't touch an umpire) Carlton are the 'go to' club.
They're down in the dumps
They're not challenging for a finals position.
...and they'll cop it quietly.
Would they expect the same response from a Geelong or Hawthorn?
I doubt it.


Thing is Lods, neither of those two clubs have to cop anything. See Selwood hit on Lindsay Thomas (thrown out) Mitchell elbow to Goldsteins head (fine) and that's only this year!

The double standards, inconsistencies and just plain wrong calls the AFL continue to roll out are diabolical. It shouldn't be that hard.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 8: Post Game Passion: Carlton vs Essendon
Great and really unexpected result. Wish I could be as optimistic as a few on here about our fortunes moving forward from here but I'm a bit jaded from years of heartbreak.
OK to see the positives but realistically spuds like Mullett and O'Shea and Graham are going to let us down when the whips start cracking. One thing for sure is that for us to have any chance of winning both Kreuzer and Cripps have to be in our best players. We cannot win if either of these 2 have an off game. What  Kreuz coulda been without the injuries.
Ed Curnow could be winning the B&F but for Cripps. Unfortunately he will be getting a week off for touching the ump. Stupid.
Happy with the improvement shown in Dow and O'Brian but maybe due for a rest?

Thank-you Lods for the bomberblitz link. Have spent nearly as much time reading that forum as this forum. Just gold!