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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 5 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide


Trust in Voss mate.  :-X

Match committee is more than just voss.

If we somehow get a win out of it maybe he gets some credit?
Stay of execution maybe, as I said previously a 4 quarter effort would probably suffice to appease the masses.
Collingwood game could be the pivotal game given ladder position, form etc doesn't mean
 anything and both teams usually put on a good show.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 5 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide
I reckon MacRae might wear some heat before the year is out as well, the filth aren't travelling well and their list is skinny.
Reckon the List management team might get pruned first. Maynard threw a grenade when he questioned the failing to re-contract Mihocek.
Ginnivan is another blunder haunting them as well which has been enhanced by the Bobby Hill scenario..
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 5 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide
Adelaide copping it in the SA media on the rebound too makes it harder, a competitive 4 quarter effort might be the best we can hope for. That three prong tall forward line looks menacing for the Crows without Weitering, if our midfield are not firing its going to be difficult for Derksen, Haynes and L.Young.
They crashed out of finals in straight sets after wining the minor premiership and have won 1 game like us. Their coach with that list should be under way more pressure than our bloke yet....
Where are the calls to sack Nicks?
There in the mail, will be his last season if they don't play at least prelims...same with Longmuir.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 5 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide
Adelaide copping it in the SA media on the rebound too makes it harder, a competitive 4 quarter effort might be the best we can hope for. That three prong tall forward line looks menacing for the Crows without Weitering, if our midfield are not firing its going to be difficult for Derksen, Haynes and L.Young.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
I must confess that I really don't see any useful point in, "If only we had Charlie, JSOS and TDK." We don't have them any longer. Right, wrong, good, bad... they aint at PP.

Seems to me the club had the long game in mind, bringing in draft picks and stopgap players when trading/letting go those 3... that's their strategy it seems and it'll be some time before they can be judged on that.

We have to work with what we have and so far this, in every game, we've been in winning positions... so, talent wise, we can do it, but then we blow it. Not easy to create cohesion between so many new blokes in 4 games!

Talk of sacking the coach is silly. Who is going to take his place? Ash Hansen **cough, splutter**? Patience Grasshopper.
Didnt think we were in a winning position vs the Swans, I remember the great David Parkin Carlton sides used to play the premiership quarter(usually the third) and blow teams away much like the Swans did to us. The other teams have all been of the poorer variety bottom end and the football of a substandard nature which to me is the more worrying part.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
We dont need a dial mover.  North brought in Luke Parker.  Hes not a gun anymore but he commands respect is a fine player, and was once one of the games best players and knows what it takes to climb the mountain.

Thats the one place we have stuffed it across the journey.  The only player of that ilk we've recruited is nick haynes.  Whilst he's a fine player he was never one of the games best.

Others import leadership when they need some, we are still relying on the understudies of chris Judd and losing dochertys leadership likely hurt us more than any of the talent that walked out. 


Parker is a leader but he isnt a dial mover as a player imho, we dont have any real top consistent A grade talent and either do Nth and thats why that game was an error ridden mess like most of the other games we have played this season.
The cupboard is bare as far as leaders go and Cripps should abdicate the role...
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Problem we have is now that we are a designated bottom team and the better players and free agents wont be picking us unless its on Stkilda type offerings that are way overs. Im not happy with the Florent /Hayward contracts either...way too long and list clogging given what they offer. I think I read we have 19-20 players from other clubs and and none of them are A graders or dial movers.
Doing the moneyball recruiting worked for Collingwood because they had a once in a lifetime player like Nick Daicos joining the club in the same year as Frampton, Mcstay, Hill etc and he has lifted the roof(see Shakins comments).
Only road back is via the draft imo and developing more of our own and then looking for moneyballers to fill holes and not relying on them to be dial movers. You look at Smith, Dean,Ofarrell? and then the incoming Walker and you find we have nothing else coming through and Im already feeling sorry for Cody Walker who isnt going to be a cheap father/son pick and success starved Blues fans will be wanting Nick Daicos Messiah type results from him in his first season given the hype attached to him.
IMO its a full rebuild needed, plenty of patience given its harder with Tassie in the comp and a new regime off the field in all areas
including coaching and recruiting.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Back to the Moon
The "high cost" of this or that which is the typical media message is really a drop in the ocean. Media always talk total$ because the big number seems alarming or scary, but the reality is it's something like $0.05 per person per annum and the payback is many times that.

I've heard on the radio the other day RedTrump dropped the equivalent of one full year of a NASA budget in the first week of the assault on Iran and got nothing to show for it other than debt!

btw., When the US media bang on about waste and how much the US spends, and why aren't others helping, they ignore to inform the US audience that about half of the bill is being footed for the Artimis project comes from foreign governments or investment. Yet when a foreign government or entity uses inclusive language about "us" or "we" the US media will claim it's all America.

Did you know if you want to sell IP into the USA, the IP must conform to US law, meaning no matter who holds that IP it has to be in a single name and they have to effectively sign over right of access to the US government, and they have the gall to assert China are crooks! If the IP has any use at all to the US military they will develop local capability and chop out foreign supply, and they have done on items as wide ranging as food packaging and CAD software. I know a person in Melbourne who developed CAD software used in advanced manufacturing, he held the IP globally but the US used it's law to develop a local capability with a contract handed out to a big US company. The Melbournian still made good money out of it, tens of million, but the US company made billion$.

The same thing with the US assault on Iran, some significant percentage of the US munitions come from other countries including Israel, ironic isn't it that Israel profits by dragging others into the fight, the US media just claim it's all America. Some of the air defence systems they use cost US$20M per round fired, and they spray them around like air freshener! Keep that in mind when you hear RedTrump begging for assistance!
If Trump swallowed his pride and bought some Sting interceptor Drones off his little mate Zelensky and stopped firing those super expensive Patriots at the Iranian Shahed Drones and admitted the Ukrainians are the Masters of drone warfare and not the USA he might have some more change in the bank but of course Trump wont give Zelensky any chips to play with or any Leverage that might force Trump to pull Putin into line so we have the mess do. Interesting that the USA friendly arab states have all acquired drones from Ukraine as well as expertise from Ukrainian personnel to help best use them.
Hitler never listened to his Generals and ignored the obvious facts which seems a trait of Trump too...
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Hayward is used to the Sydney system and playing with Gulden and crew lacing him with the ball, at Carlton you have to work way harder for your kicks because quality entries are few and far between.
Even at Sydney he was an eleven possession a game player averaging one goal a game so not exactly a dial mover just a handy accessory at best to the real stars. The other problem with him is what is his man doing?, given most teams run high possession rebounders off half back and look for the easier players to exploit.