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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2025 Pre-game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne MCG
Moir hasn't done enough for a game based on what ive seen.

I wouldn't be dropping acres.  Sends the wrong message and he busts a gut.  He's also more versatile than most and is more likely to build into it and play at a level beyond most of our list.

We dont take our next opponent seriously and we'll pay for it.

Pittonet comes in for o'keefe as tdk will need the help dealing with Xerri. 

Lewis young probably comes in by default if curnow doesn't come up.  At least we can swing him forward and back, but id prefer lemmey came in, but not ahead of pittonet.

Hopefully just the one change, Francis Evans was one of our better players on the weekend and would be ahead of moir on form. 
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Now this is something that ive often had issues with. Generally speaking, here is a graph.

https://www.statista.com/chart/8301/the-countries-holding-the-worlds-nuclear-arsenal/

Iran do not feature on the list of nations possessing nuclear weapons.

Israel on the other hand, do.

Its fundamentally hypocritical to stop another nation from obtaining them if you have some.

Or does it matter which side is the goodies, and which are the baddies?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
I thought id start this thread because this topic isnt being discussed anywhere else and it figured a title like this provides the requisite satire to not take life too seriously in what is a very serious situation.

I found the strikes against Iran eyebrow raising. 

The whole nuclear rationale for attacking another nation to me to be an excuse.

It reminds me of Saddam Hussein, Iraq and the weapons of mass destruction that to my best knowledge, never turned up. 

Israel are feeling the backlash of this.  Deservedly so.  No sympathy for an aggressor in war.  They did what their intel told them to I suppose.

The more recent comparison we have is Ukraine and Russia.  These conflicts have the capability of plunging us into world war 3. We are rather fortunate here in Australia.  We dont have to worry too much about this stuff as the only nation likely to invade us has largely achieved it through immigration and real estate anyway so they won't be coming for us any time soon. 

Give us your thoughts.  Im not sure Israel has garnered much sympathy out of this.  Is it a continuation of the stoush with palestine where Iran was seen to be an enabler?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Quote from: Lods – on
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Remember when we were 3 out of our last 30 under Bolton?

He was trying to implement a semblance of tactics and our guys weren't getting it for whatever reason. 

It may have been because they weren't capable.
Things like game plans and tactics probably depend on the make-up of your list.

Do you try and make the players play to a plan, or do you develop a plan that makes best use of their strengths and weaknesses.
thats a philosophical question.

Tactics aren't suited to one type over any other.  Yes you can run faster, or you can kick longer/shorter but often the variable is not based on what they can and cannot do, but rather what they can do well naturally vs what needs to be practiced.

Was Bradman the best because he was good?  Or did he work harder at his craft?

If we have some that are suited and some that aren't wrich way do you play?  Is this why Boyd isnt getting much of a look in?

What is can say this season is we seem to be trying to move from a game plan that relies less on our a graders playing well and more on a spread of players playing well which is the way we have to go to achieve anything if we are going to be any good when our A graders become B graders.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 12 2025 Carlton vs Preston at Preston
Im forecasting Pittonet comes back in.

He played well enough to earn a call up and with okeefe going out a ruck sized player should come in.  I'd personally prefer lemmey.  Thing is if he cant cut it against North then who else can we play him against?

Pittonet is a known quantity.  We know what he's got and of TDK walks end of year he's first ruck off the rank.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Lazy...  we deliberately changed mode to a different style.

Not sure where the idea comes from that this is an effort or desire based situation.

Its a tactical shift to a slower mode of playing.

Not sure where the idea comes from that it's lazy or based on a desire. They are clearly trying to play a different method that is not as contested and there is no practice like match practice.  Occasionally our opposition are forcing this to happen but that wasn't what happened yesterday.
Good teams dont need to change the way the play so much, we had the opportunity 2 weeks in a row to go on with it and we get too sucked into worrying about the opposition and what they have changed. To my eye, and clearly I wasnt at the ground, it looked like from about mid way through the second, players stopped running and creating space for themselves. The HB chains stopped and its like we went into conservation mode.
good teams change play and execute effectively another way.

We are trying to get better at that, but you cant improve it without doing it.

The tell was Voss getting annoyed in the coaches box.  We have execution issues. 

I dont want you to get upset I'm explaining your frustration, and why it's happening.  I understand it its easy to say dont play this way.  Thing is if we can work our way through this bit and improve it we might reap rewards from it in games where our other mode isnt effective.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Lazy...  we deliberately changed mode to a different style.

Not sure where the idea comes from that this is an effort or desire based situation.

Its a tactical shift to a slower mode of playing.

Not sure where the idea comes from that it's lazy or based on a desire. They are clearly trying to play a different method that is not as contested and there is no practice like match practice.  Occasionally our opposition are forcing this to happen but that wasn't what happened yesterday.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
If voss is getting cheesed off by it something isnt going the way it should.  To be fair, we were walking through tackles first quarter.

We clearly changed what we were doing after quarter time.

Our structure fell apart for a bit there when Charlie first went off too, and a lot of players weren't getting near the ball. 

It seemed deliberate but I cant help but wonder if certain running patterns weren't being run which meant the ball was stuck at half back due to lack of options and them being covered.