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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
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Just on Byrner's "bad game" - it's hard to have an impact when you're sitting on the pine (do they still have pine benches?).

He did OK while he was on the ground, particularly with the pressure he applied.

Is your name Damian Truslove?? Can never bring yourself to say something remotely negative about someone.

Byrne dropped 3 chest marks. Had the fumbles.
Pressure was up.
Output not so much.

There was an article which rated all the players out of 10. Byrne was the lowest with a 4. Next lowest was a couple 5's i think. Lots of 8's and 9's.

I'm not holding it against him, i already said 1 bad game isn't an issue.....but it was a bad game.

For the record, he had 59% TOG, as did Young.
Young had 1 more possession and the same amount of tackles, 1.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
Happy with the balance. Definitely needed Young in the side.

Hayward needed to be 100% fit to come in with the way we need him to play, so good call there.
Also difficult finding someone to drop....Byrne would be my guess based on last week alone, but overall he's performed well and everyone is allowed 1 bad game.

Ollie hollands didn't deserve to be dropped after his last game.....nor did anyone else.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
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MCC reserved tickets and guest passes sold out today.

No public tickets left.
You mean reserved seating and reserved seat passes.

GA unreserved seating and all standing room only go on sale tomorrow at 9am.
Cmon fonzy, ypu can do it....
Wr..wro.....wron.....


PUBLIC RESERVE:
General Public tickets for the 2026 Toyota AFL Finals Series match, First Elimination Final – Geelong Cats v Carlton on Friday, 4 September at the MCG are now sold out.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
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Injury update....
Hayward - Test
Haynes - Test

No update on Newman since 4/8, but that said 6-7 weeks, so you'd think he's still 2-3 weeks away.
i love newman, but I reckon father timr might be calling.  34 in January hasn't played much footy last 2 seasons isnt a good combo.

Yep.

Newy and Saad moved on at years end. Ollie Florent takes one spot.
More time for Billy and Jeff (when his knee is right)......maybe even Ollie Hollands to take the other.

....with potentially Charleson if he doesn't get delisted as well.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
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Anyone seen the list of restricted items and bag rules for the NRL (Gridiron) game?
Very restricted,  no food or drink, no solid drink bottles, must be soft plastic and empty.
No ipads, binoculars (unless small). Bags of only a small size and must be clear. Etc etc
Bring in rules like this to AFL games and i hand in my membership I think.

NRL is rugby.

Gridiron is the NFL.

re ipads and binoculars.....thats because they can be used to help teams on the ground. Teams have ipads, but for pictures only, no video allowed. Showing video of how a play was run, and being able to 'draw' on the screen to illustrate such things is a valuable learning tool for teams.
The binoculars is probably due to 'sign stealing' and lip reading.
There's a good doco on why this is a thing and how it helps teams by 'cheating' and reading opposition plays.

You'll notice coaches calling plays to the QB via a headset, when he does so, he covers his mouth with the play card so you can't read his lips.....because people are 100% trying.


As for the food, drink and bags......not sure if thats an NFL thing, or if its a terrorist thing.
I didn't have those problems when i saw NFL matches in the US.
Who knows.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL WC#1 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
So half (if not more) of my extended family is geelong. Some of my closest friends are also geelong.

I spoke to all of them asking if they got tickets.

Of the 5 of the most diehard geelong members, none of them got tickets.
NOT because they couldnt get tickets, no, because they didnt want tickets!

"Prefer to watch this one at home."
"Got a kids sport thing i should go to."

That really bothered me.
This mob has been so spoiled for success that its almost beneath them to worry about turning up to such an 'unimportant' finals match. 'We'll see the next one'

I can guarantee you that like the melbourne game, there will be a hell of a lot more carlton supporters than opposition supporters and we'll be 10 times louder too.

This means a lot more to us than it does them. Hopefully the boys feed off our energy and smash the pussycats. They dont deserve it. They dont appreciate it.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
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The thing here for me is that having Hayward in makes a bloke like Young better because Hayward draws opponents, the ripple effect.

But think of the benefit to Cottrell, Gov, Kemp or Byrne of having Hayward in!

Agree Haywood in does make Youngs position a little easier but reality is the weakest link has to be demoted and its Young IMO

Weakest link individually, maybe.

For team balance? Not even close.

Having Young in the team improves our forwardline.....by keeping Harry there.
Improves our backline by allowing to drift back and/or cover for injuries.
Improves our ruck by giving Pittonet as much rest as he needs.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
We haven't played 2 rucks all year with the exception of our 1st game....and a game where Pittonet was coming back from injury.

1 ruck works for us as our 2nd ruck can't play anywhere else.
Unless you are including Young as your 2nd ruck, who clearly can play someone else.......and i'd argue not really a ruck.

We managed to beat Melbourne with 1 ruck who happens to be the best ruck in the game.....ever.....if you listen to the pre-match from Melbourne....and given the AA noms, they have a point.

So why would we change that for Geelong??

Cats will beat us with their smalls (if they beat us at all), so losing one to shore up an area that doesn't need shoring up, is silly IMO.

re Hayward.....if he comes in for anyone, based on form.....it has to be Byrne. He played his worst game, potentially ever. He got the lowest player rating in a carlton jumper (4 out of 10) that i saw in a recent article. They play a very similar role.

Who else could it be?
Couldn't be Ollie Hollands after his efforts.
Couldn't be Cottrell who could've kicked 4 goals if the posts were slightly wider.
Despite not getting a huge amount, Lord did a tagging job, which may also be required this weekend


So has to be Byrne.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL WC#1 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
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Talk of Weitering wanting a trade, the club wanting to trade him and/or his alleged demoralising presence in our backline is just baseless "supporter" speculation.

Weitering hates losing games and one-on-one contests but he has never been one to hide his emotions when we win or when one of his teammates does well.

It was quite moving seeing Weiters and Crippa leading the team into the rooms last night  :'(

I believe the Weiters trade talk came about through those speculating that the only way we can get Cody W is to trade 'a Weitering' to get the draft picks necessary. Fuelled by the fact that in the past GW has traded 'names'. So then these cabbageheads put two and two together and come up with cottage cheese.

We'll just have to wait to find out what the club strategy is to land Cody. Buckle up.

Before all that, there was a story about north are throwing huge money at Weitering.

The 2 were logically linked as a result.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 3 2026 Carlton vs Fremantle at Freo
Vescio out of the side late.

Heavy breeze which had ALL of the scoring in the first 3/4's.

Down by 7 points, kicking into the wind in the last.

Doesn't matter. Girls got it done, kicking 2 goals into the breeze.

Great fight, good G+D.

Got a win. Great result.