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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Last post by LP -
Quote from: Milhanna13 – on
Bolton always creeps forward of the stoppage and is always seemingly on his own if they win the ball.  Surely we should have known this, and always had someone goal side of him.
Well I think the intent was to try and make sure the pill didn't get to him in the first place rather than try to compete with him in a 50/50. More than once he only got the pill because of dead set luck. If not for a severe crooked bounce or a massive ricochet we would have prevented it successfully several times, we did prevent it several times but not every time. Even so Bolton's use of the ball once he gets it was impressive, to me that justifies the coaching votes. I can't tell you if that was normal for Bolton or a night out.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by crashlander -
AFL 2026 Rd 6:   Carlton vs Collingwood
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.

Trends:
[1]   There were 10 voters this round, which is the same as last round. 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 7.7, 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.

[3]   18 players managed a mention again this week. Clearly, almost everyone of 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]   5 players managed 100 votes or more. That is excellent, I don't think we've managed better.

[6] Sam Walsh was BOG for the 4th time this season with 196 votes. He was followed by Carroll, Florent, Newman and Williams.

[7]   No player managed votes from everyone this week, This is another thing without Precedence and shows why we aren't winning.

[8]   It was hard to determine a trend among the vote getters this week, as so many of our players did something.

[9]   Matt Carroll was probably our most effective youngsters on the night.

Votes:
Walsh, Sam   196
Florent, Oliver   146
Carroll, Matthew   135
Newman, Nicholas   127
William, Zac   127
Hayward, Will   85
McGovern, Mitchell  73
Pittonet, Marc   54
Ainsworth, Ben   54
Cripps, Patrick  35
McKay, Harrison  35
Weitering, Jacob  23
Cowan, Lachlan  23
Young, Lewis  12
Haynes, Nicholas  8
Evans, Francis  8
Smith, Jagga  8
Kemp, Brodie  8

Progressive Voting:
Walsh, Sam  1173
Pittonet, Marc  696
Patrick Cripps  481
Mitch McGovern  458
Hollands, Elijah  426
Smith, Jagga  409
Weitering, Jacob  362
Matthew Carroll   327
William, Zac  249
Florent, Oliver  240
Hollands. Ollie   232
Newman, Nic   218
Ainsworth, Ben  202
Lord, Cooper  144
Haynes, Nick  122
Will Hayward  93
Kemp, Brodie  87
Young, Lewis   81
Hewett, George  75
Harry McKay  64
Dean, Harry  51
Cowan, Lachie  47
Byrne, Talor  34
Boyd, Jordan   27
Evans, Francis  23
Cerra, Adam  16

Looking at the voting and a number of things really stand out:
[1] Sam Walsh has easily been our best player so far this year, yet he hasn't really been as good as he can be. And he is our most effective mid by far.
[2] The rest of our midfield has really struggled to make an impact. Pittonet is 2nd, yet he has struggled to dominate opponents. Cripps is usually over a 100 votes by the this time, yet he is not half that. Cerra barely rates a mention. George is little better.
[3] Jagga Smith is 6th, and he has struggled to make the same impact that he did to start the year.
[4] Other than Marc Pittonet, few players have improved their scores. Elijah Hollands was good, but his career is now under a cloud. Matt Carroll is making a much bigger contribution, as had Mitch McGovern. And that's about it.
[5] Some of our senior players are not even on the list. Saad, Acres and Cottrell don't have a vote. George and Adam Cerra barely have any. H, our key forward, hasn't even managed 100 votes yet.
[6] Our replacements for de Koning, Silvagni and Curnow have struggled to make much of an impact. Ainsworth has been the pick of them, with 202 votes.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Last post by Milhanna13 -
Quote from: LP – on
Watching the replay there was more than a fair bit of luck regarding Bolton's last quarter of winning the footy, actually more than once it ricocheted off other players to fall in his lap. But in contrast to us, when he got the lucky possession he used it, he did not waste it.

Bolton always creeps forward of the stoppage and is always seemingly on his own if they win the ball.  Surely we should have known this, and always had someone goal side of him.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle
Last post by PaulP -
Quote from: cookie2 – on
Says it all.

In a way, yes. I was pleased to see equal representation - 3 players each from Freo and Carlton. That hasn't always been the case this season. Shai Bolton is obviously a few years older than in the Richmond premiership years, but is still a threat and can tear it up when he wants to. And Jackson is coming into his own.

Walshy has polled in pretty much every game from memory.

And on a side note, I see Charlie Curnow scored a perfect 10. Lucky us.