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Ladies Lounge / Re: Tayla Harris vs Trolls
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
I don't understand how such a magnificent photo could draw criticism and hatred. I don't know what the comments were but I just don't get it.

There have been many a photo of Tayla that has captured her beautiful and unique kicking style.

The difference with this one is simple the angle the picture was taken from. Its unfortunate that many simply cannot overcome this fact and choose to objectify, rather than celebrate.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 1 - Blues v Tigers (21 March)
Quote from: flyboy77 – on

RICHMOND

B Alex Rance, David Astbury, Dylan Grimes
HB Nick Vlastuin, Bachar Houli, Jayden Short
C Shane Edwards, Trent Cotchin, Kamdyn McIntosh
HF Daniel Rioli, Dan Butler, Maverick Weller
F Jack Riewoldt, Dustin Martin, Tom J. Lynch
FOL Toby Nankervis, Dion Prestia, Kane Lambert
I/C Noah Balta, Jack Higgins, Jack Graham, Nathan Broad

EMG Ivan Soldo, Brandon Ellis, Oleg Markov, Connor Menadue

NEW Maverick Weller, Tom J. Lynch, Noah Balta

Caro was saying 2 days ago that if Lynch didn't get up, they'd bring in Bolta. It was one or the other.
The fact both are picked suggests to me that Lynch will be a late withdrawal.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 1 - Blues v Tigers (21 March)
Quote from: Professer E – on
I hear what you're saying but it seems like handing out a game too easily for mind....  I would be a lot happier if he had played a JLT game as well.

His F up was major, in my view he's lucky he wasn't shown the door.   We're a professional club,  not a place for wash outs to crash and collect their super cheque.

Yep. The '23rd player' would be mighty upset he's been left out of the side for a bloke who hasn't played a game, and has f***ed up in the off-season.

Sure, he 'may' have done the right things since, but would you expect otherwise?
It appears he hasn't suffered a penalty, and has been rewarded.
Not good for team morale i suspect.

He better put in a blinder and reward the coach for his inclusion.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 1 - Blues v Tigers (21 March)
Quote from: flyboy77 – on
No one doubts Carrots' first senior games (not as many as you suggest) were back pocket/HBF taking the opposition small forwards - doesn't mean he's not a mid through and through....

doesn't change the simple, glaringly obvious fact to most, that Polson - at this stage of his development - appears to be a net liability. If you're actually trying to win a game of footy.

As for the pressure wins games spin, well you do have a long held position of stating the bleeding obvious.....

re bold. Its all there in the Blueseum. Free for anyone to look up themselves.

As for stating the bleeding obvious....see the point above. I state it, you ignore it. Perhaps i'm not the problem with that one?  ;)
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Ladies Lounge / Re: Tayla Harris vs Trolls
I just split and merged this topic as it was being discussed in the finals thread.

Lets keep the football thread to football matters.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 1 - Blues v Tigers (21 March)
Quote from: Baggers – on
Not sure we can afford the luxury of a bloke who can only deliver defensive stuff in our forward line (Polson). He poses little concern to the opposition, whereas a Fasolo, does. Opposition coaches and players know Fasolo can and does kick goals so he requires attention and minding.

However, never underestimate the power of being the 'teacher's pet'. Polson is the blue-eyed boy whereas Fas is the naughty boy who fckdup recently.

Before i comment about polson, again, let me point out that this time last year i was saying he was #1 in line for delisting at the end of the year. As it turns out, he lifted and showed me something i didn;t think he had in him. Not much, but glimpses. Come end of year and 12(?) others are shown the door in one way or another before him.

Back to Polson...you say we can't afford the luxury of a defensive forward line player like Polson. I say we can't afford to carry 2 specialist FP players who offer little else for the team, including defensive pressure.
Having Gibbons and Fasolo in the same forward line with the 3 key forwards will offer very little resistance to the defenders should they decide to run the ball out of defence. Further to that, we have blokes like Murphy and Garlett who are not known for their tackling or close checking either. Hell, throw in Cripps who has trouble catching up with his shadow and you see why we can't carry too many blokes who leave their opponent to run free. Hence the need for a player who will chase down his own opponent, but also chase after someone elses who has been 'let go'.

Forwards don't win you games.
Defenders don't win you games.
Midfielders don't win you games.
Pressure wins you games.

If you harrass the opposition for 100% of the time they have the ball, you win the game.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 1 - Blues v Tigers (21 March)
Quote from: flyboy77 – on
Rubbish. He was a mid from go to whoa....All Australian u/18, runner up in the Morrish....

As for the rest of your blurb, your analysis is fundamentally flawed as it discounts entirely the opportunity costs of picking a Polson type over a (say) Fasolo type.

And you'll never know if Fasolo had played whether his 2-3 goals might have won you the game....

Pick Polson, he'll lay a few tackles but also often butcher the ball.... there's another cost.

All that said, given Fasolo's misdemeanour, I am not overly fussed if he plays twos and earns his stripes....

Polson simply looks like he's way off the pace of the game more often than not. That spells liability....

Carrazzo first game. Picked on HBF
Carrazzo second game. Picked in the BP.
Carrazzo 3rd game. BP
4th game...BP

Do i need to continue?

Lets.
Where was Carrazzo picked?
First game HBF
Next 13 games BP
Next 4 games C / R
Next 1 game HBF
Next 1 game BP
Next 2 games bench

I couldn't be bothered continuing from here. I think you get the point. Well, you should've got it the first time, but i digress.

Thats his first 22 games. Polson has played just 13 so far....at a younger age by comparison.


As for the rest of your critique on my analysis, i've already gone into detail of the pros of playing Polson vs Fasolo previously. No need to go through it again.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: 2019 AFLW Preliminary Final: Carlton vs Fremantle
Quote from: crashlander – on
We've been dudded somewhat, with a 6 day break after being the last game on the last round, but why I am I surprised?

Saturday 23 March
First preliminary final 
Carlton (first in Conference B) vs Fremantle (second in Conference A) at Ikon Park, 2.45pm EDT

At least we have a chance of being on TV.

The fixturing has been done with an eye to the location of the grand final.

That is, the next week the Grand Final is played on a sunday, because IF it was played on a saturday, then ground availability would be an issue especially from the other side of the draw.
Adelaide and Geelong both play at home in the mens game on saturday. (Adelaide oval and gmhba stadium)

So both those venues are obviously available on the sunday. As is Ikon.

So play the GF on the sunday so it can be played wherever the afl sees fit.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Round 1 - Blues v Tigers (21 March)
Quote from: flyboy77 – on
Nope, not so.

Carrots was always a ball magnet...even if his ball use was so so early on.

Polson barely touches the ball during a game....and doesn't even get big numbers in the 2s.

Carrazzo was largely a BP player early in his career. Obviously turned into a mid later on.
Polson is basically a defensive forward now. His job is to stop his opponent getting the ball and pressure opponents. His job is not to get the ball and win us a game. Maybe it will be later on, but not now. He is doing his role.

The moment he stops running, chasing and tackling is the moment he'll get dropped. Even if he gets 20 touches a week, he'll get dropped if he fails to provide the pressure he does now.

Its like expecting Fevola to chase. He might do it occasionally, but he wasn't in the side to chase. He was in the side to kick goals....and despite all his on-field flaws, he kept getting picked in the side because he kept scoring goals.

Do what is asked of you and you get picked. EOS.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2019 Rd 7: Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Quote from: LP – on
I was worried I might be paranoid about that, but I picked up on it as well! Through one extended passage of play they barely called the name of any Carlton players, despite Carlton continually forcing turnovers and winning contests it was "Doggies have another chance....", "Doggies lose the football....", "Doggies building again....", "Doggies can get a run on...", etc, etc, etc..! :o ;D

I was like yourself and only got glimpses and broken radio commentary, from the sounds of it Prespakis must have had a massive game, when she was on the field it seemed like Brennan and the other big names Dogs went missing! Can you imagine this girl with another pre-season or two under her belt?

From the other bits and pieces Pound and Van Dyk are having a golden run of form. Downie is having a consistent season with another solid performance. Davey keeps influencing, and she is doing so without the obvious dominance she has had in the past which is great because we no longer lose momentum when she is off the field.

Brennan played almost exclusively as a key forward.....which i was happy to see. We were able to keep the ball away from her most of the game from that.

re Davey....
obvious dominance is an interesting choice of words.

We've discussed 2 week ago (?) when you left her out of the votes, despite leading the majority of key stat categories.
But again, yesterday, from the carlton girls
Davey
Possessions (1st)
Contested possessions (1st)
Clearances (1st) -----She had 9, next best was prespakis with 4.
Tackles (1st) -----She had 11, next best was 2 girls with 4
DE% (4th) ---- despite clearly being at the coalface, (above 3 stats) she still used it better than most. FWIW, Walker had 5 touches @100%, Pound 15 @ 73.3, Downie 12 @91.7

I'm not sure about you, but her dominance has been pretty obvious to me and others, including the stat sheet.

I think the other girls are having more influence than they have had previously, which may mean the gap has shortened, but Davey is still dominating.