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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Quote from: kruddler – on
He may well have a long career and i expect it to be similar to someone like Houlihan who will constantly be berated for the way he 'looks' when he plays.
There's a difference between someone like The Hyphen or Houlihan who looked laconic but had an impact, even Brad Pearce had moments of what could be best described as appearing to cruise, but they all had an impact and were competitive.

I realise Moir is young, but he needs to find a way to have an impact regardless of how he looks.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Quote from: DJC – on
Brodie Kemp played what must be his best game as a key forward, against quality opposition and without much support.  It was good to see him make the most of his chances and that would be heartening for those who worked hard to get the ball to him.

Aston Moir had a quiet night but kicked truly when he got the pill.  I don't think that he'll ever be a high possession player but I'll take it if he can chime in with a couple of goals each week.
I'm rapidly losing interest in Moir for the reason he seems to impart a massive work-load on those around him. He's so laconic he often looks disinterested and appears to be going half-hearted at the contest.

Contrast that to Kemp, who despite having a wretched run of form has never really stopped working hard, and perhaps last weekend he saw a pay-off for effort. Hopefully he can rinse and repeat.

Excluding when Kemp has taken out a team-mate, the contrast in contribution to team work ethic between Kemp and Moir is striking!

I often direct criticism at Young, but at least this season he tries even if he fails, I'm not sure that was always the case, that is all that can be asked of a player. If players like that can be coached into turning effort into success, then kudos to the coaching staff.

But, I can't ever forgive someone who gives up at least trying.

If I walked off next to Kemp I'd be thinking at least he tried hard, if I walked off next to Moir I'd be thinking he must be reasting up for a bucks party!

PS; I realise my perception is not reality, I can't help but see what I see.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
I know I've gone on and on about this, but I think our biggest problem is our inability to have 10+ goal wins, they just never happen regardless of how much we dominate an opponent. We can dominate for 3-qtrs and lose, and when we win we can dominate for 4-qtrs and limp over the line.

The big wins are the thing missing from our equation, too many close results win or lose are exhausting, a big win is like a week off!

We are like a chippy trying to drive a nail to the perfect depth with one swing of the hammer, it can happen but it's so rare virtually 100% of attempts are fails!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Whatever happened to you f..k around you find out?

not to allow violence or anything, but you know, if a kid cops it from a security guard, once upon a time, my parents would turn to me, and ask what did you do?  If they deemed it unreasonable, I copped punishment from them on top of what they would have copped from the authorities/powers that be.
As an aside, I have a friend who in an earlier life was a store manager for one of the big three. I'm not sure if it applies now, but he told me back then that security were not allowed to touch the kids who they thought were shoplifting, just observe and report. Not for the reasons you probably think, but because if the guard got injured in any way they could sue the employer, so the store wanted to avoid liability, a situation caused by lawyers.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Is it true the left are genuinely calling for that security guard to sacked, the guard who defended himself and the public from the smartar5e bottle throwing shoplifter?

Do the do-gooders really think the relative size matters when a youth could just as easily held a knife or machete? Do they expect the guards to find out the answer to that question before neutralising the situation?

One of the areas I visit have taken to employing athletic giants as checkout security. Male and female, Amazons, Africans, all well over 190cm, physically impressive, imposing, one of the girls looks like a 195cm African Brook Shields, and they are not afraid of apprehending kids and they are actually capable of apprehending the kids as opposed to the older style discount security. I got to talking to them and they tell me at first they only hired men, but the crooks stated sending teenage girls in the lift mechanise, so now they employ both male and female guards. They said the kids aren't too bright, often rolling up to the stores in oversized puffer jackets on 34°C days!

I hope the authorities look after the security for just doing their job, and yes I think they should be able to use reasonable force to defend themselves, protect the public and uphold the law.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Quote from: Milhanna13 – on
Bolton always creeps forward of the stoppage and is always seemingly on his own if they win the ball.  Surely we should have known this, and always had someone goal side of him.
Well I think the intent was to try and make sure the pill didn't get to him in the first place rather than try to compete with him in a 50/50. More than once he only got the pill because of dead set luck. If not for a severe crooked bounce or a massive ricochet we would have prevented it successfully several times, we did prevent it several times but not every time. Even so Bolton's use of the ball once he gets it was impressive, to me that justifies the coaching votes. I can't tell you if that was normal for Bolton or a night out.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs Tasmania in Hobart
Quote from: Lods – on
We seemed to play a pretty small defence in the VFL last night and it did quite well.
Derksen played as much ruck and forward as defence and kicked a couple of goals
Devils had their lowest score of the year.
In fairness, they had no ruck, their KPPs are "only" Cripps size.

In fairness they run and run and run like no VFL team I've seen before. This is the direction AFL is going in, once they start making better decisions and use the pill wisely they'll hurt a lot of opposition.

It just goes to show how valuable the giants really are, if they were so easy to find Tassie would be full of them.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
Quote from: RiverRat – on
Big Harry can't kick goals anyhow and can't hold a one-grab mark up forward so maybe he should play mainly in the ruck - except at centre ball-ups because he would be bound to get hurt.  At least it would be something different.
Form versus ability is a tough thing to debate, when H was snapping around the corner goals from outside 50m a couple of years back he was the bees knees, now he's struggling.

We shouldn't forget what a confident and in form player is capable of, he's bigger and stronger now, he has lost no pace, and is hardly even perhaps never out marked. We need him with his head on straight and chock full of confidence, any club would.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Doesnt help either when our blokes are playing off their man and he gets to do a give and go with Switkowski who was unmanned and then Jackson just strolls into goal  ...set play?
Seriously @ElwoodBlues1 who is our 200cm player who can run with Jackson, or for that matter who is our 195cm player that can run with Jackson?

FWIW, is there another playing anywhere in the AFL that is comparable in size and can go with Jackson on the burst?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Quote from: RiverRat – on
Williams has been pretty good in this area so far this year - as well as in defence.
It's the right way to use him @RiverRat, it makes sense.

Too many fans are incapable of seeing the difference between nuanced approached and an all in. Williams and others in pinch hit roles are one of several keys needed to break moments of opposition domination. You diminish the oppositions stability when you have pinch hitters display short periods of competence. It was the same for us in reverse last night with Bolton.

I don't think this is primarily a coaching problem, it's about getting players to buy into the and accept periods through which they aren't the big show. Moments when Cripps, Walsh, Cerra, Hewett are the support act.

FWIW, I think we can do the same with H and other forwards, at the moment H leads and we kick it to him, he can break that predictability by spending some time as a decoy forward. But he has to buy into it, he can't always lead expecting the footy. In this regard we are better off without Charlie, because technically we now have more roughly equal choices.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs Tasmania in Hobart
At the moment having Saad and Hewett is distorting the performances of the rest a bit. Opponents are loathed to leave either with too much space to work in, and they both hold their position well, it makes a huge difference to the players around them. I wonder what our MC want from them in terms of change or evolution. Hewett looked to be a step up on Cerra yesterday, the only negative I can see is that both Hewett and Saad tend towards safe options, they have become a bit turnover gun shy. But AFL 2026 style no longer allows you to "safe yourself" to a victory, it's not soccer and a 1-0 ain't going to cut it!

2026 is being defined by attacking momentum bursts, not stoic defence.

The Tassie side is pretty raw, lots of young talent, aggression, energy, living off the excitement, but it's all a bit naivé.