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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by crashlander -
AFL 2026 Rd 7:   Carlton vs Fremantle
I've left the voting thread open for longer, because of the short week. But, losing turns voters off, and another fail hurts. Especially as we managed to grab defeat from the jaws of victory yet again. I hate writing this ...

Trends:
[1]   There were 10 voters this round, which is the same as last 2 rounds. Nichevo. When we lose, it is difficult to get voters to care enough to vote, especially when we don't show that we've learnt anything from those losses.
 Please do voteplease do vote, win, lose or draw: it is something we appreciate and it makes our statistics a lot more reliable. And our statistics hold up pretty well when it comes to John Nicholls Medal night!

[2]   The rating was a 7.77, which represents a C-, is the best we've managed for the year and we still lost.
Our rating of the Richmond game, our only win, was 7.69 which says far too much.

[3]   13 players managed a mention this week. Clearly, most of our players are doing something, enough to get noticed, just not enough to get us over the line. :(

[4]   The average vote this week was 25, which is also our equal best of the year. Scores are around 30 when we win, so read into that what you will.

[5]   4 players managed 100 votes or more. This is becoming the norm, which is something I like.

[6] Sam Walsh was BOG for the 5th time this season with 287 votes. He was followed by Kemp, Carroll and Cripps.

[7]   Two player managed votes from everyone this week. This tells us that the same players were being seen as making a significant contribution.

[8]   Our mids were probably our strongest group this week, but we were still beaten there. :(  :(

[9]   Matt Carroll was probably our most effective youngsters on the night for the 2nd week in a row.

Votes:
Walsh, Sam   287
Kemp, Brodie   210
Carroll, Matthew   175
Cripps, Patrick   151
Haynes, Nicholas   78
McGovern, Mitchell   74
Newman, Nicholas   54
William, Zac   54
Hayward, Will   31
Reidy, Liam   21
Smith, Jagga   12
Lord, Cooper   8
Weitering, Jacob   4

A lot of our important players are not scoring well.

Progressive Voting:
Walsh, Sam   1461
Pittonet, Marc  696
Patrick Cripps  632
Mitch McGovern  532
Matthew Carroll   502
Hollands, Elijah  426
Smith, Jagga  421
Weitering, Jacob  366
William, Zac  303
Kemp, Brodie  297
Newman, Nic   273
Florent, Oliver  240
Hollands. Ollie   232
Ainsworth, Ben  202
Haynes, Nick  200
Lord, Cooper  152
Will Hayward  124
Young, Lewis   81
Hewett, George  75
Harry McKay  64
Dean, Harry  51
Cowan, Lachie  47
Byrne, Talor  34
Liam Reidy   28
Boyd, Jordan   27
Evans, Francis  23
Cerra, Adam  16

H having 64 shows just how out of sorts he is. Considering that he is our key forward, that really shows our dysfunctional our forward line is.
Similarly, look at Weitering's score. When he is playing well, he'd be a 1000 by now.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Jim Park Voting AFL Rd 9 2026 Carlton vs Brisbane
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-.
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Robert Heatley Stand / VFL Rd 7 2026 Carlton vs Casey at Casey
Last post by crashlander -
Saturday morning at 10:00 at Casey.
Casey are 17th at the moment and have struggled. I'm a bit surprised, as we haven't played Brisbane yet (who are also struggling).

Our lineup is not available yet, but the Emergencies may well play.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 9 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane
Last post by crashlander -
Our line-up:

B:   35 Harry Dean   23 Jacob Weitering   26 Nick Haynes
HB:   2 Lachlan Cowan   14 Oliver Florent   42 Adam Saad
C:   4 Oliver Hollands   9 Patrick Cripps   32 Matthew Carroll
HF:   12 Ben Ainsworth   11 Mitch McGovern   44 Francis Evans
F:   7 Jagga Smith   10 Harry McKay   17 Brodie Kemp
R:   27 Marc Pittonet   29 George Hewett   18 Sam Walsh
Int:   15 Billy Wilson   24 Nic Newman   5 Adam Cerra   6 Zac Williams   19 Will Hayward
EM:   46 Matthew Cottrell   30 Jack Ison   47 Wade Derksen

[1] I don't like having 1 ruck, when the opposition have 2, but Reidy struggled to make an impact last week. I hope H and Crippa can fill in the gap, although I do see this as a weakness. Pitto has struggled late in the games this year.
However, we don't have a jumping ruck. At least HOK is starting to take a few marks again, but he isn't there yet.
[2] Lord ... I would probably have played him over Cerra, who has struggled this year. Our MC appear to think that Cerra is the future, but he has really lacked a spark this year.
[3] I'm not disappointed that Cottrell was dropped: he hasn't hit form yet. He does seem to take a long time to get his form back, which is disappointing, as his disposal is really good.
I think Wilson had to come in. He's been so hot lately. We usually wait until guys lose their form before we promote them: I hope we haven't done that again.
[4] Nice to see Ison close. His possessions number seems to be increasing most weeks, as his kicking is a weapon.
[5] I will be interested to see how our midfield lines up. Certainly, we struggled there for most of this year. It will depend on how Pitto goes.