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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting AFL Rd 12 2026 Carlton vs Geelong
I wanted to give Smith votes, but he missed so many targets I feel I must not reward mediocrity. Fans bag Florent, but that game from Smith was possibly the worst kicking game I've seen from any AFL player this season.

PS; I realise he copped a bit of a corky, but he was missing well before that happened.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 13 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Essendon at MCG
I'd rather not underestimate CheatsFC, they are most likely playing possum just to stick it to us.

My personal preference is that if I see them playing dead on the road is to line them up on the right front and accelerate! ;)

Our older heads should be using this game to put the CheatsFC kids into a submissive and subservient mindset for the next decade, like so many teams have done to us before. Hurt them so much, they can't see any hope against us!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 10 2026 Carlton vs Geelong at Carlton
Quote from: crashlander – on
One thing we haven't seen much of so far from both Campos is their marking. Both of them can take some really strong marks. Luke can take a hanger. I don't think either of them has the confidence yet to show their skills in this area. They are trying to fill in roles and no taking risks.
When you are up against people you can comfortably run into the ground, it's much easier to take speccies, especially late in games, everyone around you is exhausted and you are still fresh as a daisy.

That just doesn't happen in AFL.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Dean could elevate Weitering's play
It's a team sport, you can only ever play as good as the person besides you allows.

Same applies to Cripps, all of a sudden blokes are making effort around him and sharing the load, and Cripps then benefits the team by making it fresh to the final siren.

Sacrifice is the key to victory!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong
Quote from: PaulP – on
I'm not aware of any vision, but Hayward said after the game that he was worried because he thought it looked skinny. Also, if you notice the goal umpire runs quickly to his right as the ball sails through the goals, so i don't think it was right through the middle.
Yeah, just left of centre, but the banana kicks can be deceptive if they curl a lot, technically they should go through towards the curl side of center which means the error is all inside the goal opening. For the same reason golfers play with a fade or draw, to eliminate the error to one side or the other. If a banana from in front curls and goes through the middle you've probably started it outside the goal face and if it didn't curl you'd miss.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 12 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong
Quote from: kruddler – on
Ruck contests went about 2/3rds pitto 1/3 harry.
Taps to advantage was 10 to 1 though.
Harry did some work on the ground and i highlighted as much in game. But pure ruckwork he is a long way behind.

Swap put pitto for reidy and we lose that game.
Don't care about the stats, Harry had a real 2nd effort presence and was putting himself in useful positions, stopping Geelong from too easily spreading which interferes with the opposition's ability to stand tight to our other Mids. Even when the Handbaggers won the footy they were forced sideways and backwards more often than not, trying to go around Harry or Pitto, and by not releasing that pressure / delay it means we don't suffer the horrible momentum swing against us. If fans just look at the stats, they'll come to the complete wrong conclusion. We kept hearing from the commentary how the Handbaggers would go through the middle, and when they tried it they failed.

FWIW, Harry and for that matter any other AFL KPPs are always going to struggle to be a marking influence against a team of Scott's Tunnel Kings, they are the best at it in the league as Kemp found out. Take the front position and they gently nudge you under the footy with a subtle raise of the knee into your hip, butt or back, take the back position and a team-mate will block your run at the footy. You basically need to do what Cripps did in the dying moments and fly in from the side or back of the pack, make the Cats take the front spot and break down the systematic interference that they like to initiate.

I thought too that despite not featuring in votes or stats the likes of Byrne, Young, Ainsworth, Wilson, Ison, Evans and the like had a genuine influence on the ground which stopped Geelong carrying the footy away after a good tunnel. It was probably the best small / medium sized game we've seen from them as a group, and it must surely show them what can happen when they do the team thing first instead of playing the selfish gene.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
The things she hears primary school kids talking about these days is horrifying. It's not easy to protect lives, prevent crimes  and enforce laws these days  because the crims (mainly young ones) simply dont give a fark about anything.
That issue with younger ones you have the chance to sort out, but only if you stop releasing the teens.

I know some Vicpol people who can predict the crimes coming over the next week or two by who was bailed this week, it's a merry-go-round.

They arrest these kids so often, they now know who it was just from the description of the event, they do not even need a description of the perpetrator, it's just rinse and repeat.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 11 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide
Quote from: kruddler – on
If we don't jump up and down about it now. What is stopping the club from doing it again next time.....and again....and again.

There is a difference between 'moving on' and 'holding the club accountable'.

Whether its the right decision or the wrong decision, time will tell.
Even if it was the wrong decision, it may end up working.
Even if it was the right decision, it mey not end up working.
I don't get why some fans have blind faith and think change is good, when change has been the one thing we've been doing consistently for the last 20 years. We are like a staggering drunk who keeps falling down the stairs and thinking, I'll be right next time!

The one thing we haven't done since the days of Parkin, is stick fat, and Wayne Brittain warned us about it!

But look at our history, we sack coaches after they win flags!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
What's the trend of these little turds getting arrested, released with a feather duster on the wrist (not even a slap these days) and re-offending?
It's a legitimate question, but I'd assert the wrong people are being asked the question.

It's almost like the courts which are full of lawyers spend all day finding loopholes in the laws to set the multiple offending teens free!

I know of one person working on the inside that will tell you it's deliberate, because they think the evidence is clear, the more time the worst kids spend inside the system the more likely it is they become career criminals. But I'm not sure this isn't a confusion of cause and effect, and a consequence of lawyers, welfare and other legal types talking themselves into a corner.

Australia is a big place, maybe it's time to have some sort of remote national service camp for these kids, and put their natural talents to work in Iran or Afghanistan! Of course some will be horrified at the suggestion, but the there there there it'll all be right you are forgiven is clearly failing.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 11 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide
Quote from: shawny – on
Even im surprised with how quickly the old gameplan was changed and match day implemented with the same list.
Publish the link, I hope it wasn't the article that ranks career stats versus the last 2 games, aka the MAGA of all stats!

btw., Did you read the stats for the last 6 games, or are all stats bogus? :D

As @Thryleon had already linked for the various overnight miracle believers https://x.com/i/status/2059208469161590794