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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong
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An interesting observation from the bench cam footage.

Charlie had moved himself into defence late in the last quarter.  Carroll was on the bench and Greaves instructed him to go back on, tell Charlie to go back to the forward line, and ensure that all seven defenders were in defence. 

While Charlie’s ability to go back and pluck a mark in defence has been game saving, our priority was to have the seven defenders working together as a unit and as they have been drilled.

It’s interesting that Aaron Greaves is the bench coach now. 
I think he has been in the bench for some time now, Voss has been alternating btw Coaches box and bench.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2025 Pre Game Carlton v Adelaide in Adelaide
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Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Maybe.
I would assume it wont be Young who comes in
Weiters - Thilthorpe
Gov - Fogarty
Haynes - Walker
Saad - Keays
Carroll - Rachele

I think Young might play....don't trust Haynes either on any of those physical type forwards.Walker would get my best defender. Saad on Keays from memory hasn't worked out too well either...prefer Saad on Rankine
I'd be hoping our mids dominate and supply is minimal to the Crows forward line.
Rankine plays more midfield and Saad wont play there. Keays dines out on us, pencil him in for 4 goals now irrespective of who plays on him. Thilthorpe is there best and biggest fwd hence Weiters. They were saying on Fox Gov seems to do better agains the taller quicker more mobile fwds, dont know whether you'd call Fogarty to Walker quick and mobile.
I 100% trust Haynes (now) to do a defensive job on either. Young is too flaky to play on Thilthorpe IMO.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong
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I was giving a bit to my mad geelong friend.

She lost it and said it was all the umpires.
Didn't take it very well at all.

They were going off on the Geelong board on BigFooty about the umpiring.
They're a bit slow on the 'credit' ...like their coach.
They can sook and blame all they like, we beat them in the majority of the key stats areas and led for 100mins (they led for 15mins in the first).
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Election 2025 (Poll added)
Quote from: Lods – on
Elections are emotional things. :D
They're a bit like a football game. ;)
You go for the side you follow. :))
We look at exactly the same piece of play and see it completely differently.
We give extra weight to our good player's performance, and at the same time we don't see a lot of merit in the oppositions stars...they're either mostly thugs or cheats (especially some teams...like down at Geelong). ::)  ::)
Like football, the best assessment may come from the independent guy in the crowd, but even he has his own biases.  ;)
He may start the match supporting one team, and end up hoping the other side wins.


Footy is for fun and is Mickey Mouse. Elections are fair dinkum and determine our future and what the next 3 to 4 years will look like. Sadly though, football teams and competitions are run far better than this state and the country. Fark Trump, Putin, Zelensky and all those other DHs, our joint is stuffed and I've had a gut full of the incompetence and lack of options.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong
This from Daniel Hoyne who I also really like:

From Daniel Hoyne of Champion Date and SEN

Daniel Hoyne: “With Carlton first. So I think when you've got a defensive profile like Carlton has had for the whole seven weeks, this isn't just three weeks, this is seven weeks when you've got a defensive profile like they have, things can turn and they can turn quickly.

So right now without the footy, they are number one in the competition. To put that into perspective, over the last 10 years, the team that has finished number one without the footy eight of those 10 years, they've gone on to make at least a Prelim Final.

8 of the 10 years are going to make a prelim. And this watching what they did against an offensive team like Geelong who have been at times this year brilliant offensively, they absolutely dismantled them with what they, how they were able to shut them down spend especially off the back of intercept.

So Geelong started with the footy 66 times from intercept. Take out that Tom De Koning howler in the, in the back 50 where he coughed up to Mark O'Connor 65 other times they turned the footy over Carlton for two goals going back the other way. It was phenomenal with what they were able to do.

And I just want to give Jack Silvagni a bit of a bit more credit than probably I know he's getting some plaudits but giving the polish. What he does with ball in hand, if you're Carlton, I know you're going to miss him for a couple of weeks.

What he does with ball in hand, no other key defender in the competition does no other key defender in the competition impacts the game more through ball use than what this guy does. His ability to be able to pull the trigger is Jeremy McGovern like just, I know that might sound a bit ridiculous, but his ability to be able to see a corridor target and go for it is so impressive.

With what he's able to do both right foot and left foot. Hats off to him. [He] wouldn't be in the All Australian team right now. But he's doing a lot right. There's a lot of other good key defenders in the company moving on.”

When you combine this with Fox's "Premiership Window" where 19 of the last 20 premiers have been in (ie top 6 for both offence and defence), we are in the top 6 defensively, we just need to move to the top 6 for offence and we lie in it (I think we are currently 8th maybe??
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Election 2025 (Poll added)
Quote from: Lods – on
Without getting into individual policy likes and dislikes because that's a personal thing for all of us...and there are pros and cons on both sides...but many come with consequences...

I consider myself pretty much a centrist. I've voted for both major parties on numerous occasions over the journey. Five days out and I'm a bit torn on this one. I'm in a fairly safe Liberal seat so my vote will have little impact. I don't feel that the Liberals have convinced me that they've done enough to win government. But the Labor party don't really inspire me either. Voting independent, or others, isn't really an option either. It's a wasted vote useful only as a protest vote.
At the moment the one thing that may swing me is that the only candidate that has taken the time to doorknock our area is the incumbent Liberal, who spent a good ten minutes with me talking more about local issues and the agenda he would push to get benefits for the electorate. Not a lot of time but more than any others. I still haven't 100% committed and though it's unlikely the LNP will get up, and his impact may be limited, I might give him my 'encouragement and participation'
award.
Im the opposite to you Lods in that Im in a safe Labour seat but my vote will also  count for nothing. No one has ever door knocked us and Ive been here since 1992. I wish someone took the time to come talk to us.
The LNP are no chance of getting up so we are in for 3-4 more years of pain under the Labour Party unfortunately.