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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Last post by LP -
Quote from: RiverRat – on
Hewitt is certainly not playing nowhere near as well as last year and appears to have lost a yard (or more) of pace that he can't spare but he has been more than serviceable when the pace has gone off the game in the second half of the last two games.
They are as effective as last year when the mode of play suits, but AFL 2026 is much faster making them look slower.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting AFL Rd 10 2026 Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Last post by crashlander -
AFL Rd 10 2026   Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
After the Week from Hell, we responded in the best way against a team that was premiership favourite not long ago. Yes, they’ve lost some players, but that’s been us for more than 20 years! You can only play who is on the park: we did and we beat them soundly.
Team:      B+
What a difference when we play four quarters.

Votes:
This week 15 votes is not enough. But that is what we have to share around.

[2]   Patrick Cripps
[2]   Ollie Florent
[2]   Lachie Cowan
[1.5]   Matt Carroll
[1.5]   Jagga Smith
[1]   Nic Newman
[1]   Sam Walsh
[1]   Ollie Hollands
[0.5]   Harry McKay
[0.5]   Jack Ison
[0.5]   Billy Wilson
[0.5]   Will Hayward
[0.5]   Marc Pittonet
[0.5]   Zac Williams

Explanations:
[2]   Patrick Cripps:      When it mattered, Cripps was brilliant. 29 possessions, 8 clearances, 2 goals, 5 tackles. Excellent!
[2]   Ollie Florent:      Ollie Florent’s best game, not just in the number of possessions, but how he went about it. He wanted it so badly, it was clear. He marked well, made interceptions and generally was a huge barrier to the Dogs.
[2]   Lachie Cowan:   Lachie’s best game for the year by some margin. Some of his defensive work was magnificent!
[1.5]   Matt Carroll:      Not huge possessions, but was more than useful and kicked 3 excellent goals. His first two really lifted the team.
[1.5]   Jagga Smith:      Back to his best. Lots of ball, lots of damage.
[1]   Nic Newman:      Not yet back to his best, but he is improving. Did a nice job today.
[1]   Sam Walsh:      A fair bit of the ball, but not as damaging as he can be.
[1]   Ollie Hollands:      Like a few others, he did have huge numbers, but it was what he did to get them. His gut running was lovely to watch.
[0.5]   Harry McKay:      The most effective forward on the ground, he also did well in his time in the ruck.
[0.5]   Jack Ison:      We have found one here.
[0.5]   Billy Wilson:      After a poor start, Billy really lifted.
[0.5]   Will Hayward:      An almost game for Hayward. Loved his hard work.
[0.5]   Marc Pittonet:      Won the ruck battle, even with the umpires.
[0.5]   Zac Williams:      Nice things.

Honourable Mentions:
Ben Ainsworth:      Most weeks this sort of game would have got votes. Not huge numbers, but it is how he works, how he kicks goals and what he does to bring the team up.
Nick Haynes:         Most weeks he would have got more than 1 vote. A shaky start, but he came back hard and was very effective when it mattered.
Harry Dean:         Apart from one terrible error, Dean was excellent.
Frankie Evans:      Nowhere near his best yet, but he is working hard.
Adam Cerra:         More effective by foot this week. Not fantastic, but contributed well.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Last post by crashlander -
Cripps' last quarter: 13 possessions, 5 clearances, 4 score involvements, 3 centre clearances and most of his possessions contested. Huge!
He wasn't bad earlier: he and Bont sort of nullified each other, but when the final term started, Cripps lifted and Bont didn't. Bont had 24 possessions, but he didn't hurt us with them. I guess you could say something similar about Walsh: 25 possessions, 4 clearances, but did hurt them as much as Cripps did.

Our best 4 quarter player was probably Ollie Florent. He was huge! 28 possessions, 11 marks and 4 tackles. And some of the things he did were huge.

Not far behind him was Lachie Cowan. Cowan has been ordinary this year, but this was easily his best game. He marked well, he did some magnificent defensive things. He had 1 tackle, but he did so much more defensively.

Jagga Smith was also much better this week. He had 25 possessions and the longer the game went on, the better those possessions were.

Ollie Hollands gut running was excellent. He made things happen by not giving up and running hard.

Billy Wilson was ordinary early. He turned the ball over and didn't seem to have the confidence or the commitment. But, like a number of others, he really lifted.

We've definitely found one in jack Ison. He had 15 possessions and kicked 1 goal 2, but it was more the way he went about things that impressed.

Harry Dean made one shocking error early, but was very good after that. I was really surprised to see he had only 12 possessions.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Last post by RiverRat -
Quote from: LP – on
Quote from: RiverRat – on

No surprise that the team's best two halves of the season were built on Crippa's clearance work - especially out of the centre.
The trouble is he's 30 now, we need him to get a chop out from some mates who don't surrender at the first sign of strife.
It certainly seems as though he can only dominate for short periods and then mainly only if/when Pitto is able to give him an armchair ride.

Hewitt is certainly not playing nowhere near as well as last year and appears to have lost a yard (or more) of pace that he can't spare but he has been more than serviceable when the pace has gone off the game in the second half of the last two games.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: LordLucifer – on
One of the worst ever games to watch, it was a horrible spectacle on so many fronts. However, knew we were home when Ison kicked his goal.

Some of the young guys didn't look completely out of their depth, Florent played his best game for us thus far and Cowan was back to his absolute mongrel best. 

Not getting carried away, as Elwood said, the Dogs were ripe for the picking and we still had some players who were passengers yet again.

The one thing that stood out for me was Jagga & Ison embracing at the end, there is a nucleus of good young guys who have a camerarderie that will be the building block for the future.


Yep ..if you look under the hood at the stats it wasn't much different to normal except the Bulldogs were worse than us and we were very average.
We controlled the clearances and had way more i50s but were 18% efficient down forward and can't kick goals from any systematic play. Dogs were the same at 23% efficiency but our weight of numbers in disposals and I50s won us the game.