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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
The sophistry coming from the commentary team regarding the incumbents is nauseating, they endlessly boost underperforming players referring to historical efforts or future potential, We watch the very same match after match waiting for that 1 in 10 good effort!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Bulldogs at Marvel
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Sorry? Not sure I get you. For a team like us that had a horrendous start to the year, finishing 7th to 10th means everything.
It's meaningless in terms of who you play in the Wildcard round, it will be one of three other Melbourne based teams with similar capability, which remains the most likely scenario unless the Lions and Crows fall off the perch finishing 7th causing an away game to be interstate!

Our game and the Norp  Handbagger games are the most interesting of the round.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Bulldogs at Marvel
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on

Agree, English and Bont are big out but beware the wounded dog.
Yep, the replacements will be more motivated than playing a sore superstar in a meaningless game.

The way the Wildcard has panned out this season, finishing anywhere from 7th to 10th means nothing. It won't always be that case if they retain this system, but this year that is the way it is. Some may hate his antics, but Bevo is no dullard!

Winning from 7th to 10th is like climbing Everest carrying your own kit, no Sherpas allowed!
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
I think a 15 test season requires player management, but I'd suggest what has been offered isn't the solution.

No matter what you do, you must strive to retain a winning culture.

If Boland was NBG, then we should not have played Starc and Hazelwood either, we should have played some young blokes for whom an Aussie Test spot really means something more than just another chore. That kid bowling for Bangladesh showed what it meant to him!

The NSW biased commentary is sickening, with a barren onefa they are hailing Hazelwood the saviour, with the Bangladesh score at 2/180 odd! Bangladesh could just as easily turn the remainder of the rest into 3 days of T20 and stay in a position of strength!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 22 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
Quote from: DJC – on
However, Acres' gathering of the ball at speed, running away from opponents and hitting up Byrner for the last goal of the game was very impressive, particularly when just forcing a stoppage would have been an honourable result.  And I can't recall the last time Acres had an OOBOTF 🤞
The way we currently play, toe stubbing it into the corridor actually benefits us.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 22 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
The moment that The Aints looked unlikely and we looked more likely, a huge chunk of the AFL Media started calling the Wildcard system bogus.

Just a week or two earlier, many of the same commentators had called the Wildcard system an unbridled success, now they are complaining about Rnd 24 being a dead rubber. I suggest you refer to them as Flipper from now on! ;)

I suspect a lot of this commentary is disingenuous, the first chunk disgruntled Aints fans perhaps including the former AFL CEO, looking for an outlet for buyer's remorse. The other significant portion of it will be disgruntled punters bemoaning diminished multis, they have been cleaning up for a year or two on our last quarter fadeouts which were regular as clockwork, and now they are addicted to that bet unable to let it go, and every win we have just cranks another turn on the punters lament thumb screw.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 22 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
Battling for 10th spot is not playing finals, the Wildcard gig didn't exist 9 months ago.

In that regard it can't be a "false dawn" because technically we haven't really improved ladder position from 2025, unless you think going from 11th to 10th is an improvement. Despite appearing better on form at this moment, we haven't improved just yet, the ladder has degraded!

If we were 6th or 7th, that might be a false dawn.