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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
Last post by Professer E -
Yep MBB, the only thing that turned the heat down on us was Ross opening his trap, the ####$$ up draft changes and a draw, we get flogged tonight and all those  pre-written doomsday articles will get published. If NAS gets 40 and is a matchwinner it will get very, very ugly on this site.

The Voss boosters will say we don't have a player on the list capable of tagging him, the Voss haters will say where's the coaching strategy and planning to deal with the issue?  Ultimately both are right....and wrong. And so we will go on and on and on arguing about something unanswerable.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
Last post by Lods -
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The media have been waiting a couple of weeks for us to get smashed, the articles have already been written, the AFL360 doomsday videos are ready to go.


I reckon you're probably spot on.
And it's the one thing we don't want to see...because it will be 'presented' as the players having reached the end and capitulated, which will add further to the pressure on a number of our people, especially the coach.

More than anything we need a win.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
Last post by Lods -
Just have a bit of a feeling this could be that 'season defining' game.

While we can argue about who should have got a game, it probably represents our most experienced side of the year.
It's a side set up to win rather than to see how developing players are progressing (that may come next week depending on results ;)  :D

A win could kick start the season, a similar result to other of our games will continue to raise questions, a bad loss and we have a good idea what next week will look like.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
Last post by Baggers -
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They will pants us EB.
Surely not GTC, they are not very good despite all their player spending.
I see this as one of our more winnable games..

Absolutely. Can and should.

Vossy has informed us that we've been improving, especially in the past month against very good opposition. Lost by a kick against Rottingwood and got real close to a ladder leader... Now we're up against a mob lower down the ladder and closer to us.

Plus, we now see that we're 3rd for time in front thus far in season 2026, the Aints are 6th. It may well come down to Ross v Voss in the coaching box.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 8 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs St. Kilda at Marvel
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
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They are coached by Ross Lyon who has had an interesting week. I think we are a chance and dont rate the Saints at all. Law of averages says we have to win a game soon and this looks like our best chance IMHO as the Saints are a flaky team coached by a weirdo.
Tip.. Harry will kick a bag on Dougall Howard who is a spud of the highest quality.
Pittonet to lay the smackdown on TDK, Cripps to have a big game too with no Steele to haunt him.
Blues by 17 points....and the Lyon presser to be sarcastic comedy gold.
They will pants us EB.
Surely not GTC, they are not very good despite all their player spending.
I see this as one of our more winnable games..
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs Tasmania in Hobart
Last post by crashlander -
Just finished watching the replay. Not a lot to mention that I haven't already. But:

[1] I like Jack Sammartino. No nonsense, hard at it, plays above his height. One of the better pickups at this level.

[2] Flynn Riley: I've mentioned elsewhere that I think he is at least as good as Reidy. He dominated the ruck, but he really has his limitations. For a guy that big he isn't that strong. He struggled with Dixon, because Dixon uses his body well. Still, he is not a bad player at all. He can take a mark.

[3] We really lack marking targets. We had huge numbers of uncontested marks, but in a pack? Forget it. Even the mid sized Devils took some.

[4] Derkson: he has no idea how to ruck. The Devils kicked 4 in a row when he was rucking. As a forward, on the other hand, he did some nice things. He looked much better in attack than in defence.

[5] Blake Acres: he worries me, to be honest. He had 21 disposals, but he wasn't really that noticeable. And he isn't taking the big marks he used to.
Still, he didn't kick any on the full this week.

[6] Duffy: he was pretty good this week and didn't have many kicked on him, but for one real brain fade in the last quarter. I don't know if he is going to make it, but he is a much better player these days.

[7] Logan Prout: missed all last year with a knee, he has fit in nicely. Like Sammartino, he isn't spectacular, but he does a good job.

[8] Darcy Hogg: Probably not going to make it in the big league: he's just a bit small, a bit light. But he does put his body in. There is a lot to like about the way he does things.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Jim Park Voting AFL Rd 8 2026 Carlton vs St. Kilda
Last post by crashlander -
Voting is as usual: you have 15 votes to award pretty much as you will, with the following provisos:
[1] 15 votes in total, no more, no less.
[2] No more than 10 votes for any one player (even Sam Walsh or Patrick Cripps)
[3] Three players at least must get a mention.
[4] A grade for the game, A+ (what I want to see) to F-.

I've kept the last one, open, but I'll close it tomorrow. Nobody votes after the next game has been played.