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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Bulldogs at Marvel
Last post by LP -
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Sorry? Not sure I get you. For a team like us that had a horrendous start to the year, finishing 7th to 10th means everything.
It's meaningless in terms of who you play in the Wildcard round, it will be one of three other Melbourne based teams with similar capability, which remains the most likely scenario unless the Lions and Crows fall off the perch finishing 7th causing an away game to be interstate!

Our game and the Norp  Handbagger games are the most interesting of the round.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Bulldogs at Marvel
Last post by Gointocarlton -
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Quote from: Gointocarlton – on

Agree, English and Bont are big out but beware the wounded dog.
Yep, the replacements will be more motivated than playing a sore superstar in a meaningless game.

The way the Wildcard has panned out this season, finishing anywhere from 7th to 10th means nothing. It won't always be that case if they retain this system, but this year that is the way it is. Some may hate his antics, but Bevo is no dullard!

Winning from 7th to 10th is like climbing Everest carrying your own kit, no Sherpas allowed!
Sorry? Not sure I get you. For a team like us that had a horrendous start to the year, finishing 7th to 10th means everything.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Bulldogs at Marvel
Last post by LP -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on

Agree, English and Bont are big out but beware the wounded dog.
Yep, the replacements will be more motivated than playing a sore superstar in a meaningless game.

The way the Wildcard has panned out this season, finishing anywhere from 7th to 10th means nothing. It won't always be that case if they retain this system, but this year that is the way it is. Some may hate his antics, but Bevo is no dullard!

Winning from 7th to 10th is like climbing Everest carrying your own kit, no Sherpas allowed!
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by LP -
I think a 15 test season requires player management, but I'd suggest what has been offered isn't the solution.

No matter what you do, you must strive to retain a winning culture.

If Boland was NBG, then we should not have played Starc and Hazelwood either, we should have played some young blokes for whom an Aussie Test spot really means something more than just another chore. That kid bowling for Bangladesh showed what it meant to him!

The NSW biased commentary is sickening, with a barren onefa they are hailing Hazelwood the saviour, with the Bangladesh score at 2/180 odd! Bangladesh could just as easily turn the remainder of the rest into 3 days of T20 and stay in a position of strength!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Bulldogs at Marvel
Last post by Micky0 -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
@Micky0

They are limping into finals, and are looking at the equation of winning the flag the hardest way possible, so they will be looking at making sure they are good to go physically and if that means going interstate, so be it.  They can't fall out of finals, there aren't enough games left.

The rest of the ladder is up in the air too much to really worry about where you go or whom you will likely play against.  The spots from 3 to 10 are not cemented in enough yet, all that's happened is everyone underneath 12th is mathematically season over.

If the moons allign, they could go as high as 6th, but that means Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong and Collingwood must lose whilst they win both of theirs.  Its impossible, as Collingwood face Brisbane, and Geelong have Richmond in the final round. 

IMHO< the Wildcards will be Adelaide 7th, Collingwood 8th, us 9th, and the Doggies 10th.

They beat us, we will go to Adelaide, whilst they play Collingwood. 

Id rather play Adelaide on recent form.

If they beat us, we are very likely not to play finals at all.
Thanks yes was posting on the fly and not giving it thought altho yes technically they can still make 6th but gotcha road to there is highly unlikely.