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Holmes out there warming up

We lost a lot of Flexibility with Haynes.  He was tall enough to pinch hit if we ended up having to shuffle the magnets and release a tall to another role.  He was genuinely able to play on a wing as well with good aerobic capacity. 

From the remainders, if we had to choose a bit of a tweener type, it would have been Ison.

Emergencies list Boyd, Ison and Reiddy.   Boyd wouldnt be a bad selection.  Has played finals, is a running type, and has decent capability with ball in hand.  Umpires seem to hate him though and he infringes a lot for borderline stuff.  He has also been out of favour a bit. 

The interchange lists Wilson, Hewett, Young, Evans and Cotters suggesting if the change were to occur and its a tall out, it would be Lewis Young.

Personally Young for Boyd is neither here nor there.  We definately don't want Reiddy in.  Ison is the one who probably would execute better in the conditions, and more capable of being a game winner.

[4] Who do we play on Stewart? I would love to have someone to play through, to keep him defending.

Quote from: DJC – on September 03, 2026, 07:14:01 pm

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.

I would've had Dean and Weitering in the bests before Cripps.

Evans was actually named in the best in the  AFL.com match report.

Best:
Carlton: Smith, Walsh, Hollands, Ainsworth, Evans, Cripps

Although they may have confused him with Weitering  

Quote from: DJC – on September 01, 2026, 01:48:08 pm

I didn't think that Melbourne was on top at any stage.  They were certainly on top on the scoreboard in the first quarter but we were playing better footy. 

The player who I thought really got us going was Cotters with his link up work.  If only he hadn't kept aiming at the posts   

Thats not how I saw the game, but I was sitting on a half forward flank on one side of the ground.  For mine, I though Ainsworth was the main difference maker early. 

I want to also dot point something.  The demons finish better they may very well have put the game beyond us early.  I know we finished quite poorly ourselves, but they were 4.3 at quarter time to our 1.3, and whilst we bettered them in the second, the third was a knife edge with them kicking 2.4 to our 3.3. 

The final quarter was one way traffic, but I didnt really feel comfortable until then due to the fact that we were struggling to generate scores from our posession chains, and the ball was getting turned over on the kick into forward 50.

Once again, Frankie evans was clamped down on, and once again we struggled.

I didnt start calling him the barometer for nothing!

Hollands and Ainsworth deserve additional Kudos as they were swimming against the tide when melbourne were well on top IMHO.  Of course, Dean and Weitering were no slouches in this regard, but still sometimes to get going you need a few good soldiers who just keep on keeping on.