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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs North Melbourne @ North
It was a mistake made out of trying to be aggressive and positive and trying to win the game.  I think Carlton can get better while I think North are at their peak, but it is a high peak. They set the standard. Once we got over our nerves in the first quarter I thought we more than match them. The umpiring was interesting at times and North always looked like they had another gear. But well done Carlton.
Jess Good was great.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL EF#1 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong
While it was a disappointing end, on reflection it probably wasn't that unexpected, no matter what we may of hoped or dreamed. Geelong is a very well organised team and specialise in one off performances like last night. They often work out a game plan to defeat an opponent and then implement it but will struggle the following week. They had two weeks to prepare for us.
As I have said many times, if you can't kick and handball to your team mates, then there is no game plan. However Carlton did continue to try and implement their plan the whole night. Dangerfield was able to impose his will on the game whereas none of our top players could.
Besides E.Hollands and the two Irish guys, we had Motlop, O'Farrell, Chesser and Carroll out to LTIs, as well as Newman, Haynes, and Hayward to injuries, all improve our team and player depth when available. B.Camporeale, L.Camporeale, Ison, Charleson, Chesser, Riley, O'Keeffe, Moir and Byrne need to develop more and improve, and if we pick up Khamis and Amartey, along with Walker and maybe a couple of others, we should be able to sustain improvement over the long term.
We have been where we are now a few times over the past 25 years and each time it has turned to custard. Hopefully we will have learnt from our mistakes and we can seize the opportunity this time.
After the 92,000 and 97,000 attendance figures at our finals games, it is clear to me that the over punishment of Carlton for our salary cap rorting, and the refusal to give us draft concessions ten years ago, like the AFL has given all other teams, it has cost the AFL millions over the years. Well done AFL.  If we do get to where I think we can, and it has been a torturous journey so far,  then we will have done it on our own merits.
Go Blues.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: RIP Tony Mundine
Tony Mundine was an excellent fighter, he had a couple of flaws in his technique which made him hittable at times which cost him career wise, but his biggest problem was the World Champion was Carlos  Monzon, close to the greatest Middle Weight of all time. There are so many World Championship Belts floating around today that Tony Mundine would be a World Champion but back then there was only two, and they were held by Monzon.
Clearly he was a good dad to his son Anthony, which is the best thing any bloke can be.
R.I.P Tony Mundine.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL WC#1 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Carlton played 5 of the other top 11 teams twice, we played six games interstate and four of the of the non Victorian top six teams away. We also dropped three games when we were in match winning positions. Are we lucky to be in the finals? Luck is how you see it.
Except for the first 15 minutes of the game we dominated. Melbourne were going at 100mph and were making skill errors. I watched the replay and listened to the commentators and they all said to stop doing what we have been doing over the past three months and revert to type.  However, Carlton continued to play the game the way we wanted and it turned around. The definition of an expert is, X is an unknown quantity and spurt is a drip under pressure.  Footy experts are big drips under pressure of a dubious quantity and quality.
I don't understand the ruck rules. I think the umpires guess.  Pittonet putting Gawn on his backside at the first bounce wasn't a free imo, but it did send a message. Ruck domination is more about having a physical presence and less about stats. Pittonet won the ruck battle because Gawn didn't. Melbourne are very dependent on Gawn and Pickett to win their games and we really subdued them both.
O.Hollands is supposedly leaving but gee he is playing with commitment. I was concerned about our tackling a few weeks ago but it has ratcheted up, now we just need to improve our goal kicking.
We must be a good chance against Geelong next week.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 24 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle at Marvel
It was a pretty good performance  not as good as Brisbane, but pretty good. To me it seemed like Freo are very dependent on their good players where as we seemed to have contributors right across the ground, which is  unusual for us. I don't understand the ruck rules but Pitto seems to have got his head around them now and played a very good game against a very good opponent.
Ollie Hollands run down tackle is why I have always liked him, but the kick after explains some of the criticism he receives. There is no reason why we can't go deep into September just stick to the method.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs at Marvel
I think the Bulldogs' list is very good, I am sure not it is managed as well as it should be or their game plan maximises their potential. Having a few players out helped focus their minds as did the poor performance last week against North. I thought they played very free while we played with expectations but in the end we got the job done. At some stage in the future the umpires will stop missing obvious frees and we will get a fair run with the decisions. The Bulldogs were very physical and aggressive, especially in that second quarter,  but I was happy how we stood our ground. Carlton needs to improve some of the decision making going forward and trust the process. They seem to have a game plan they are committed to and have the players to implement it. A victory over Freo next week would be nice.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
I am of the age that I remember when the chant was "Shame Fraser Shame". I must admit I am struggling a bit with the "We Want Fraser" one. Surely the St.Kilda experiment of Lyon and Silvagni has run its course. I watched the replay of the Gold Coast game last week and I was impressed by the number of very good players they have, they just don't play as a team. St.Kilda don't have enough good players, and while they are well drilled and well prepared, they don't look committed. Not sure what their recruiting strategy is or whether it is working.
Carlton wasn't as clean this week as last, which is expected, but we were pretty good. We next week not only do we make the ten, we finish up ninth and we may have a shot at Collingwood. Our skills look ok, our young guys are doing well, the spirit at the Club is good, our recruiting seems to be coming together, I am not sure what all the fuss was about at the start of the year.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane at Marvel
Didn't think we could win this one but after I read the SEN pre-game preview, I thought we might be in with a chance. It was so poor that I thought people might be missing something.
I said this a number of times, if you do the simple things well, hit your targets and kick your goals, it is a different game. I think we are getting better at standing up for ourselves without getting sucked in, I would like our tackling to get a bit better and some of our decision making an d field kicking can improve. Having won ten games means we have had a better year than last year. Big game this week against St.Kilda.