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Robert Heatley Stand / VFL B & F 2025
The VFL don't have a name for their B&F as yet, not in this new iteration. But that will change in time.
Anyway, Ethan Phillips won with 159 votes. Darcy Hogg was second, with 106 votes. Harry Lemmey was 3rd with 89.

Best and Fairest – Ethan Phillips (159 votes)
Runner-up – Darcy Hogg (106 votes)
Third place – Harry Lemmey (89 votes)

Best Young Player – Darcy Hogg
Best Clubman – Heath Ramshaw
Coaches Award – Flynn Riley
Players' Player of the Year – Ethan Phillips

What does this tell us? I'm not sure, as guys who do well here don't always remain with us. Harry Lemmey, for example, has already been delisted.

I'm hoping Darcy Hogg gets a chance to train on, like Will White and others have in recent times. He is small, but he is larger than Tyson Gresham.

Phillips must also be some chance to get a go, as we will need an extra defender until Dean and O'Farrell are ready.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Rd 3: Carlton vs Brisbane in Qld
17:05 on Sunday. Not on TV.

Our line-up:
B:  3 Darcy Vescio   36 Ciara Fitzgerald
HB:   49 Madeline Hendrie   7 Poppy Scholz   21 Harriet Cordner
C:   11 Yasmin Duursma   25 Keeley Sherar   17 Dayna Finn
HF:   19 Erone Fitzpatrick   55 Sophie McKay   20 Lily Goss
F:   42 Tara Bohanna   16 Breann Harrington
R:   12 Jessica Good   10 Mimi Hill   5 Abbie McKay
Int:   1 Amelia Velardo   4 Keeley Skepper   14 Siofra O'Connell   23 Lila Keck   18 Madeleine Guerin
Em:   13 Aisling Reidy   33 Lou-Lou Field   37 Maddison Torpey

We are serious underdogs.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Annus horribilis
I don't think this is the worst year we've had, but it was truly a shocker. I am glad we found a few late in the season, but it is hard to get past this list. My comments in colour.

Quote from: Lods – on
A poster on one of the Facebook pages has outlined some of the major issues of the season.
In brief...

-Pick 3 Jagga Smith, does ACL Totally ruined our attempt at injecting pace and run into our midfield. The only positive was that it gave the lad a chance to develop his body for 2026.
-Newman out for the year Probably the 2nd worst thing to happen, as it robbed us of his leadership, his ability to good players done and his decision making. Hopefully, he can come back in 2026 as good as ever.
-Kemp out for the year When he was finally showing what we wanted, :(
-Lose unexpectedly to Richmond in Round 1 That was like a knife in the heart, to lead by so much and to fall over against this bunch of babies.
-President sends a ‘dick pick’ and ends up resigning Embarassing. Hopefully his replacement will end up like Ian Rice and reign over our return to glory.
-Lose a number of games after leading early.
-Miss finals and don't have first or second pick We made a bold move to get Jagga, which was cruelled before he could show what he could do. The consequences of our downfall, alas, are dire. I don't think our recruiters could guess that was going to happen, but it certainly made us pay a much higher price than we should have.
-E Hollands and Harry have mental Health issues. Elijah’s future is uncertain Again, these two could not be foreseen, and they cost us dearly. Hopefully, we can move on from these and get them going strongly in 2026.
-Harry O'Farrell has best game, Does ACL the following week
-Jack Martin kicks 6 in a game, and Matt Kennedy has a very good year Disappointing, but not as lethal as some of the other disasters. As for Martin, he has yet to prove that he is any more durable.
-TDK leaves Not good. :(
-Curnow wants to leave A disaster.
-Silvagni goes to defence and is playing great football... until he gets injured
-Then Silvagni announces he is leaving for darker pastures One of the real lowlights of 2025.
-AFL hints at changing father son rule the year we have a top prospect in Cody Walker Unacceptable! We simply cannot allow this to occur!
….and injuries continue to impact heavily on the season. You cannot win many games with half of your best lineup not on the park.
Anything else?

You think it's been bad?
I think it qualified. ;)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Analysis 2025
AFL 2025 Rd 23:   Carlton vs PortAdelaide
Our best game for quite a while with a very inexperienced line-up. Couldn't have been much better, considering the guys we had available. The game was Sam Walsh's return, and didn't he show that he wanted to be out there! And H played pone of the games of the season.

Trends:
[1]   This week we attracted 11 voters, which isn't fantastic, but it is a considerable improvement over recent weeks.
Still,please do vote, win, lose or draw: it is something we appreciate and it makes our statistics a lot more reliable, especially as I've got the spreadsheet behaving again..

[2]   The rating was a 9.88, which is between a A- and an A-. It was our best score for the season, which tells you a lot about our season. We had some bigger wins, but they were against West Coast and North Melbourne.

[3]   15 players managed a mention this week, which is now commonplace when we play well. Maybe it is the voters, maybe it is the team, but we seem to share votes around a lot better than we used to when we play well.

[4]   The average vote this week was 32, which is equal to our best for the year. To be honest, it showed.

[5]   4 players managed 100 votes or more this week, which is actually less than last week. But, unlike most of our season, the scores were huge. We clearly had really dominant players

[6]   Harry McKay managed his 2nd BOG for us this season with a Judd-like 459 votes. That is the highest score for anyone this season, eclipsing George Hewett's 417 against North Melbourne.  The other 3 top vote getters were around the 200 mark, which has been BOG material more than once this season. In order, they were Walsh, Hewett and Cripps (198).

[7]   3 players managed votes from everyone this week, McKay, Walsh and Hewett.

[8]   Our youngsters may not have stood out this like like they did last week, but they continued to make significant contributions. Ollie Hollands, Lachie Cowan and Francis Evans were the most obvious.

[9]   Our mids and forwards dominated this week. The defence was good, but didn't have as much work to do.

Votes:
McKay, Harrison   459
Walsh, Sam   227
Hewett, George   222
Cripps, Patrick   198
Haynes, Nick   79
Cowan, Lachlan   59
Hollands, Oliver   54
Evans, Francis   44
William, Zac   40
de Koning, Tom   35
Acres, Blake   25
Young, Lewis   10
Lord, Cooper   10
Carroll, Matthew   5

Progressive Voting:
4139  George Hewett
2735  Patrick Cripps
1651  Ollie Hollands
1575  Tom de Koning
1466 Adam Cerra
1420 Jacob Weitering
1270   Sam Walsh
1237   Nick Haynes
1115  Harry McKay
846  Jack Silvagni
716   Lachie Cowan
671  Adam Saad
553  Zac Williams
547  Sam Docherty
487 Charlie Curnow
472  Mitch McGovern
453  Cooper Lord
447   Francis Evans
341  Jesse Motlop
275  Brodie Kemp
244 Blake Acres
215  Corey Durdin
181   Harry O'Farrell
159  Marc Pittonet
157  Matthew Carroll
144  Ashton Moir
142  Lachie Fogarty
134   Will White
128  Lewis Young
127  Jaxon Binns
119  Alex Cincotta
79   Matthew Cottrell
72   Elijah Holland
48   Orazio Fantasia
21  Lucas Camporeale
4   Flynn Young
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2025 AFL Rd 24 Carlton vs Essendon
AFL Rd 24 2025:   Carlton vs Essendon:
Team :      B+
Considering that we had the guys available that we had, I was happy enough to win. It was, after all, our first Thursday Night win of the season. That said, a little better kicking for goal and we could have won by considerably more, but we weren’t the only ones who kicked poorly for goal.
It is only the 2nd time we’ve won in the final round since 2004, which is a terrible thing in itself (the other time was 2013).

Votes:
Not quite as hard this week to give a mere 15 votes, but it was a challenge to reward our players adequately.
[2.5]   George Hewett
[2]   Sam Walsh
[2]   Jacob Weitering
[1.5]   Patrick Cripps
[1.5]   Francis Evans
[1.5]   Blake Acres
[1]   Jesse Motlop
[1]   Harry McKay
[0.5]   Lachie Cowan
[0.5]   Ollie Hollands
[0.5]   Flynn Young
[0.5]   Adam Saad

Explanations:
[2.5]   George Hewett:   George tired in the last quarter, but still managed to get 36 possessions and 10 clearances. His first half was phenomenal!
[2]   Sam Walsh:      For the 2nd week in a row Walsh was excellent. 28 possessions in 3 quarters.
[2]   Jacob Weitering:   Still not moving as well as he could, Jacob dominated the defence. He was impassable. He destroyed McMahon. There were times when we was a spare man, as the Drug Cheats were trying to make a spare up the ground. It didn’t work. It just allowed Jacob to be where the ball was more.
[1.5]   Patrick Cripps:      Most other seasons Crippa’s performance would be the one we would be raving about, but George Hewett … I am lost for words.
[1.5]   Francis Evans:   Frankie steps up again. His intelligent ball use, his kicking and his goals were another significant step forward.
[1.5]   Blake Acres:      Acres has left his 2 best games this season to last. This week he managed 29 disposals with 8 marks for a dominant performance.
[1]   Jesse Motlop:      Although Jesse didn’t get many shots at goal, his game this week was among his best. He got it 22 times and made things happen.
[1]   Harry McKay:      If he had kicked straight, he would have had BOG votes again. As it was, 1 goal 4 was a let done, but his11 marks and 17 disposals as a key forward shows how dominant he was.
[0.5]   Lachie Cowan:   Another excellent game for Lachie. 22 possessions and 7 marks, he was excellent.
[0.5]   Ollie Hollands:      Would have been higher on the chart if his kicking was that bit more reliable, but his run and carry was excellent.
[0.5]   Flynn Young:      His best game so far, he had the ball 19 times and kicked some nice goals.
[0.5]   Adam Saad:      Saad was brilliant early, although he drifted out of the game somewhat. Still, for a guy who has been struggling in recent weeks, he really stepped up against his old mob.

Honourable Mentions:
Tom de Koning:   Not the sort of performance that won us the game last time, in fact, his 37-year-old opponent got more taps, but Tom was far more effective. His ground play and marking was good. If he’d kicked that last goal he might have got the last vote, but he didn’t.
Zac Williams:      Another strong game from Zac, with plenty of the ball.
Billy Wilson:      Bill’s best game so far. His run from defence was promising.
Nick Haynes:      Another fine game from Nick.
Lewis Young:      Not huge numbers, but his opponents didn’t get a sniff either.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Rd 2: Carlton vs Hawthorn at Frankston
We're on TV!

Our line-up:
B:   3 Darcy Vescio   36 Ciara Fitzgerald
HB:   49 Madeline Hendrie   7 Poppy Scholz   21 Harriet Cordner
C:   11 Yasmin Duursma   25 Keeley Sherar   17 Dayna Finn
HF:   19 Erone Fitzpatrick   22 Mia Austin   20 Lily Goss
F:   42 Tara Bohanna   18 Madeleine Guerin
R:   12 Jessica Good   10 Mimi Hill   5 Abbie McKay
Int:   1 Amelia Velardo   4 Keeley Skepper   55 Sophie McKay   23 Lila Keck   16 Breann Harrington
Em:   15 Meg Robertson   33 Lou-Lou Field   13 Aisling Reidy

The only change is Velardo in, Robertson out.
I wouldn't mind seeing Aisling Reidy have a go.

We have a poor record against this lot, so I'd really like to see us give them a black eye!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 24 2025 In Game Angst Carlton vs Essendon
All over for 2025. Not a year to remember.
At least we won our our last H/A game, as previously mentioned, we've barely done it this century. Last time was 2013. Only 3 wins since 2004!

George Hewett: 36 possesions, 10 clearances: he ran out of puff again in the last.