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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 22 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel


Which has been the argument all along.

I've never said Voss is a supercoach. Just give him some time to do what he needs to do. Fraser is riding on his coattails, and not doing a thing wrong, and doing plenty right. But people attributing all the success to Fraser and none to Voss is a recipe for disaster.
Look at the bigger picture as to what has changed since Vossys departure.

2 things....quality of opposition has been poorer.
Improvement from our captain (and its not just him, but obvious when looking at him) has made a huge difference.

I don't want to restart the debate. The article is nothing new to me, and some others, however all the voss haters/fraser boosters continue to ignore that and argue against it. Its dishonest and/or naive.
I’m ambivalent to be honest but I don’t buy your comment about quality of opposition given we have beaten Geelong and Brisbane.

I've just been breaking the ladder down week by week. Previous to our efforts this week (and geelongs to rise up the ladder) we hadn't beaten a team inside the top 6. Hadn't lost to a team in the bottom 5, and had split the difference between the teams in the middle.
That was based on nothing other than the ladder positions for about a month straight.
You don't have to buy it, that was the facts.

As mentioned, this was before last weekends games.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 22 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2026/08/03/afl-2026-carlton-win-versus-brisbane-the-perfect-game-adam-simpson-lauds-blues-dominance-after-15-year-first

While he doesn’t believe the win was a lesson in coaching from interim Fraser, Simpson did concede that everything the Blues have been working on – even prior to Fraser’s tenure – was on show in full effect on Saturday night.

“I’m not sure it’s a masterclass, but everything they tried worked,” he said.

“Sometimes it’s just playing your way. A lot of the things Carlton have done really well in the last 10 weeks; they were working on in November and December.

“That’s the beauty of the transition that Josh made. He didn’t tweak a lot of things, but they evolved really quickly.

based on that Vossy wasn’t given enough time, just when that debate was beginning to subside🙄. Also far from an ringing endorsement for Fraser as our next senior coach.

Which has been the argument all along.

I've never said Voss is a supercoach. Just give him some time to do what he needs to do. Fraser is riding on his coattails, and not doing a thing wrong, and doing plenty right. But people attributing all the success to Fraser and none to Voss is a recipe for disaster.
Look at the bigger picture as to what has changed since Vossys departure.

2 things....quality of opposition has been poorer.
Improvement from our captain (and its not just him, but obvious when looking at him) has made a huge difference.

I don't want to restart the debate. The article is nothing new to me, and some others, however all the voss haters/fraser boosters continue to ignore that and argue against it. Its dishonest and/or naive.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane at Marvel
We have Kemp Harry McGovern as key forwards with haywood as a mid marking forward so imo we are probably a tad tall with that line up - reckon we could get by with 2 talls and using another mid marking forward then either kemp or mcgovern would be the depth key forward.

Its not easy to have quality key positions depth capable of performing impacting just sitting idle playing 2nds footy waiting for their chance.

No list is perfect and sure ours is not but imo its not anywhere near as bad as some make it out to be.

Gov isn't contracted for next year, and based on some comments a couple weeks ago, is far from guaranteed to get one.

Hayward is playing some time further up the ground.

So again, if we lose Harry and Kemp.....we might not have Gov....and we might hurt our midfield to solve the forward problem.

Not sure how many games that would get you in the win column.....but i'm tipping the 'sack fraser' rumblings would start (unwarranted i might add) if that was the case.

I just want a list that is not built like a house of cards. Take the wrong one out, and it all collapses very quickly.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane at Marvel
The reason the list needs work is because we have holes.
Sure, everyone has holes.
But, some holes we have no cover for.
Imagine we had a good run with injuries, and were like Freo, sitting pretty on top of the ladder. Then we lose a couple players in key areas, which leads to poor results, which leads to more injuries, etc Season gone.

Won't/Can't happen?

Remember when we were 2 games clear in 2nd place a few years ago? Its already happened.....and we are more susceptable to that kind of fall now.

If we lost Harry and lost Kemp......how could we cover them?

you said the same about weitering yet 2 kids with under 20 games are covering.

You looking at everything with a negative lens mate. prior to last year you were the complete opposite and you has excuse after excuse lied up for every poor performance - so its hard to take your posts seriously at the moment as you seem to be more concerned with having your opinion being correct above anything else.

If we can find a kid to do up forward what Dean did down back, then i'll be the next man on the moon.

That was a freak occurence which nobody thought was possible.
Lightning won't strike twice.

The thing is, right now, we don't have those 2 kids. Sure, we didn't have them last year, but we used 2x 1st rounders to get one. Can't do that this year.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane at Marvel
The reason the list needs work is because we have holes.
Sure, everyone has holes.
But, some holes we have no cover for.
Imagine we had a good run with injuries, and were like Freo, sitting pretty on top of the ladder. Then we lose a couple players in key areas, which leads to poor results, which leads to more injuries, etc Season gone.

Won't/Can't happen?

Remember when we were 2 games clear in 2nd place a few years ago? Its already happened.....and we are more susceptable to that kind of fall now.

If we lost Harry and lost Kemp......how could we cover them?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Is Lewis Young showing more than ever before?
Forward, back, ruck with or without weitering.... its all irrelevant.

Young is a confidence player. When his confidence is high, he can do what you need him too.
When his confidence is shot, he's a witches hat.

Right now is high. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane at Marvel
Bit of a perfect storm for us last night.

- All the young kids played out of their skin.
- kemp shed his kicking yips
- harry started holding his marks
- we were super accurate with the ball innfront of goal (and largely around the ground)
- lions copped some in game injuries
- brisbane threw up their hands and claimed 'too hard' for the second time this year..... only effort worse was against gws

Hopefully we didnt use up all our luck and/or favours this week and have some left for the saints next week.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane at Marvel
Start of the year I think I posted something about not relying on kids like Smith and Dean lol.

Yep i basically said the same thing.
I was happy with the kids coming through but it would take at least a year, probably 2.

I don't think anybody dreamed that jagga would be a lock for the rising star and dean is a clear podium finisher as well.