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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane
I thought our intent was good all night, even in the first half.  Couldn't win a contest, couldn't lay a glove on them when they got outside, skill errors, and umpiring decisions made it tough. Brisbane's I intensity dropped, we started winning contests, pressuring them on, the outside, they started to make mistakes, but the umpiring decisions still went against us.
If you kick goals, its a different game. Kemp was just wasteful. They missed two that would have put us away, but they kept us in the game. Carlton players don't have backs and don't have heads.
Hewitt should not be the one delivering into the forward line, his kicks are up and unders, he is ok going short. Cerra should always go long. He can't hit a target but his kicks go quickly and have penetration. Cripps should stop this sharing the load rubbish and just be the big dog in the middle, will make Walsh and Smith better. Pittonett getting physical in the contest and McKay getting his hands on the ball in the ruck makes us better. Our backline functions better when the ball isn't coming in without pressure.
We now know our second half fade outs are not physical but mental, we now know if we play with intent we can make good sides panic and we now know our forward line can function, so now it is up to the players.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Not being able to hit targets, especially by hand, ball handling errors, decision making, not getting all the umpiring decisions, missing tackles, especially in the centre square, consistently dumping long kicks where we are out numbered and out sized, and missing too many gettable goals was the reason we lost.
I think Cripps' hands are too slow and too often too many players think too long about what they are going to do which allows our opponents to shut down the space and increase the pressure on us. Our players also don't give off the hand ball every time ,there was one instance when Reidy was running out of the centre square and Cripps was running next to him and calling for the ball but Reidy kicked it instead, we finished up with a goal but too often this isn't the case. We don't look wide when going into the forward fifty, and we don't go short often enough, which allows the opposition defenders to mass in the middle around the top of the goal square because they know that's where the ball is going.
We were outclassed most of the night but the players kept at it and the reason we got goals late was because Fremantle couldn't keep the pace up.
I thought Moir kept Pearce quiet for three quarters, who is their best defender, and was able to kick a couple when McGovern took him in the last  quarter. He has got good skills. I think Carroll has improved out of sight but needs to improve his kicking into the forward fifty. Dean probably needs a rest, as does Byrne, while Cowan isn't getting near the ball at the moment,  and I still don't know what the point of Cerra is.
It was probably our most consistent effort so far this year.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 4 2026 Carlton vs Collingwood at Carlton.
We kicked 6 goals 2 behinds in the second quarter and 5 goals 17 in the rest of the match. Missed a lot of gettable goals just as we did on Thursday night. It is a different game when you kick your goals, hit your targets with foot and hand and don't fumble the ball. If we could do the simple things well a lot of our problems would go away.