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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Quote from: kruddler – on


Young has a better leap on him than Pitto.

Pitto will always be more susceptable to an opposition ruck who can still jump at the end of the game.

Pitto wasn't the problem. He did his job.

He got more clearances than the other 2 rucks combined (5 vs 4).
He got 21 touches vs Cameron 18.
He was leading contested possession getter for us with 12, only Daicos with 16 ahead of him. Cripps had 11.
He was carltons 4th highest supercoach scorer behind, Williams, Walsh and Newman.

If you want to try and exploit him/us, then you do exactly what collingwood did. Get a 'jumper' against him at the end.
Probably helps thats its a relatively new player who he hasn't come across before too.
Thats why you have scouts, Steenes first AFL game had him doing the same stuff, he has been in the system for 4 years at Collingwood so how he plays shouldnt have been a mystery imo.
Its not Pittonets fault but after the first Steene to Daicos play there needed to be a change....I thought Young did ok but it was too late by then.
I blame it on the mids footy IQ. I could see from the stands what the Coll ruckman did after the first tap out. Our mids positioned themselves forming a guard or honour for Coll to run it out. Pathetic really. When I was a kid and there was a bigger ruckman kid on the other side, the coach used to tell us to watch their players and watch their ruckmans hands and rove to him as if he’s yours.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Quote from: kruddler – on


Young has a better leap on him than Pitto.

Pitto will always be more susceptable to an opposition ruck who can still jump at the end of the game.

Pitto wasn't the problem. He did his job.

He got more clearances than the other 2 rucks combined (5 vs 4).
He got 21 touches vs Cameron 18.
He was leading contested possession getter for us with 12, only Daicos with 16 ahead of him. Cripps had 11.
He was carltons 4th highest supercoach scorer behind, Williams, Walsh and Newman.

If you want to try and exploit him/us, then you do exactly what collingwood did. Get a 'jumper' against him at the end.
Probably helps thats its a relatively new player who he hasn't come across before too.
Thats why you have scouts, Steenes first AFL game had him doing the same stuff, he has been in the system for 4 years at Collingwood so how he plays shouldnt have been a mystery imo.
Its not Pittonets fault but after the first Steene to Daicos play there needed to be a change....I thought Young did ok but it was too late by then.

There's a difference between watching tape and banging bodies though.
I'm sure we will be better equipped next time they face.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Young did better than Pittonet in the last term.

Young has a better leap on him than Pitto.

Pitto will always be more susceptable to an opposition ruck who can still jump at the end of the game.

Pitto wasn't the problem. He did his job.

He got more clearances than the other 2 rucks combined (5 vs 4).
He got 21 touches vs Cameron 18.
He was leading contested possession getter for us with 12, only Daicos with 16 ahead of him. Cripps had 11.
He was carltons 4th highest supercoach scorer behind, Williams, Walsh and Newman.

If you want to try and exploit him/us, then you do exactly what collingwood did. Get a 'jumper' against him at the end.
Probably helps thats its a relatively new player who he hasn't come across before too.
Thats why you have scouts, Steenes first AFL game had him doing the same stuff, he has been in the system for 4 years at Collingwood so how he plays shouldnt have been a mystery imo.
Its not Pittonets fault but after the first Steene to Daicos play there needed to be a change....I thought Young did ok but it was too late by then.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Young did better than Pittonet in the last term.

Young has a better leap on him than Pitto.

Pitto will always be more susceptable to an opposition ruck who can still jump at the end of the game.

Pitto wasn't the problem. He did his job.

He got more clearances than the other 2 rucks combined (5 vs 4).
He got 21 touches vs Cameron 18.
He was leading contested possession getter for us with 12, only Daicos with 16 ahead of him. Cripps had 11.
He was carltons 4th highest supercoach scorer behind, Williams, Walsh and Newman.

If you want to try and exploit him/us, then you do exactly what collingwood did. Get a 'jumper' against him at the end.
Probably helps thats its a relatively new player who he hasn't come across before too.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 4 2026 Carlton vs Collingwood at Carlton.
Last post by Blue Moon -
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.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 4 2026 Carlton vs Collingwood at Carlton.
Last post by Lods -
Saad had plenty of ball, but he seemed a yard or two slower than usual and I'm not sure he impacted to any great extent.
Wilson did some nice things with his run and penetrating kicking but he also spent a bit of time 'waxing' with Boyd coming out of defense which probably inflated both their figures.
I'm not sure either did enough to force their way into the side for next week.

I'd hope Harry Charleson could get a game at senior level at some stage, just to see how he goes.
He's an honest type of footballer, does his job, and gets plenty of ball but he's out of contract at the end of the year so he has to make the most of this season or he'll be amongst the "most likely".

Moir is such a frustrating player...he has the ability to make the 'classy' look easy, but we don't see it often enough.
I don't think there is a lot of difference in the way he plays at VFL and Senior level. He should be much more 'impactful' down here.

On the other hand...Hewett and Lord are both a level above this competition and showed it.
But we can't fit Hewett into the senior side...how do we fit both, who play a similar style
And then you add in Ben Camporeale.
Ben would be a chance, if his disposal was better.
None of them have 'Flash' like qualities.

I really like Flynn Riley as a ruckman...but we've got a trio so I doubt we'll be adding him at any stage.
The thing is, when our ruck guys go back to the VFL, Riley is forced out of the side...and that disadvantages the VFL side.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 4 2026 Carlton vs Collingwood at Carlton.
Last post by Baggers -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
We kicked 4 goals in the second half to 7 of Collingwoods who were goalless at half time. Considering the gulf in class a very dissapointing end to the game. 

But we had more shots on goal in the 2nd half... just couldn't hit the side of a barn! The only time they got a hold of us was late in the 3rd when they kicked 3 unanswered goals.

Plenty of positives to take out of that win. Plenty of blokes putting their hands up for senior selection. Acres, Hewett, Lord and Young chief among them. I also liked Billy Wilson's game and that Flynn Riley is worth having a good look at, some potential there.