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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by MickyO -
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what did our LM see in Chesser and Florent.

Both turn over merchants and the opposite of the type of players we need.

On another note if Saints are paying Milera 2M what is Pickett worth.  Can rip a game apart like no one else except maybe only nick dacios.
Agree...Hayward and Ainsworth are handy players but not matchwinners and Id like the latter to spend some more time onball but Chesser and Florent are very average imo and I can see why the Swans let Florent go after signing him to that long deal.
Chesser isnt a great contested player and I dont see what the List Management team saw in his kicking either, I thought the real difference in the game showed when the kid Lindsay and Fritsch had the ball along with K.Pickett of course and their footskills just knifed through our defense, hit up players and the goalkicking of Fritsch was A grade.
Fritsch always plays well against us.

Had it been even all game and we lost I wouldve been disappointed but the next day I wouldve said well they still have some excellent premiership players so okay, i wouldve given them that out and sais Kemp is only back after a year off as is Elijah, H is getting used to being the lone tall fwd, new guys are finding their feet etc BUT being 42 pts up and capitulating?! Absolutely terrible.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
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Given the way we are being swept aside at centre bounces as games progress, I would hope selectors bring in Ben Camporeale for some more grunt.
Didn't watch the game, but 27 disposals suggests he is running into some reasonable form.

Wade Derksen could be the obvious choice if Harry Dean with injured shoulder doesn't come up. I would hope they give Dean a good spell and allow his young body time to recover.



B Campo in for Williams who to appeared get injured
Derksen (as a fwd) in for either Kemp who needs a spell in the 2s to gain some form
Need another defender to come in for Dean if he misses.
HOK also needs a spell, give Ready another crack and light a fire under his feet this time.
Leave Gov fwd as he appears to be the only functioning tall.
Can they fire up Harry into some semblance of competitiveness? Feed him some angry pills for goodness sake.
Derksen in for Kemp, Newman in for Dean...
Id probably have Harry as my second ruck, Nth are three yards quicker than we are so Id be loathe to add another slow moving player in the rotation so No to Reidy especially with Xerri out.
Flynn Young in for Chesser.
Saad in because he has pace and can hit a target but Id play him further up the ground away from a player like Curtis who is ultra dangerous and we cant have all our defenders of the rebound type.
Newman to play on Zurhaar.
Cowan on Curtis.
If our coaching dept have scouted Nth properly they will probably know that Finn OSullivan will probably tag Walsh after doing a great job on Merrett so Voss needs to find a counter or alternatives as we know that Cripps and Hewett will only be plodding after halftime and Id be playing Ainsworth more onball and if Ben Campo plays using him more in the middle.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: shawny – on
what did our LM see in Chesser and Florent.

Both turn over merchants and the opposite of the type of players we need.

On another note if Saints are paying Milera 2M what is Pickett worth.  Can rip a game apart like no one else except maybe only nick dacios.
Agree...Hayward and Ainsworth are handy players but not matchwinners and Id like the latter to spend some more time onball but Chesser and Florent are very average imo and I can see why the Swans let Florent go after signing him to that long deal.
Chesser isnt a great contested player and I dont see what the List Management team saw in his kicking either, I thought the real difference in the game showed when the kid Lindsay and Fritsch had the ball along with K.Pickett of course and their footskills just knifed through our defense, hit up players and the goalkicking of Fritsch was A grade.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by LP -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
HOK also needs a spell, give Ready another crack and light a fire under his feet this time.
I think HOK needs game time, if Kemp goes out I'd push HOK forward and put Derksen in D50 for Dean. HOK is also a viable tall alternative target to McKay.

Also if Xerri goes out, I think bench time could be reversed this week, with Pitto on the sidelines more and HOK rucking.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by LP -
HOK is hardly getting any game time, we need to better manage the bench and then maybe Pitto has a chance of competing against the likes of Gawn late in games.

Pitto is not a genuine solo ruck option against the likes of Gawn, but HOK's limited game time delivered little advantage.

I think Kemp has been disappointing, Gov has been OK, I'd be open for Kemp out Derksen in a reshuffle.

As much as I like Dean, that right foot effort was a tad embarrassing, now the opposition have seen it they will push him to his right every opportunity they get. It's going to get bad for him before it gets better.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Quote from: Adelaideblue – on
Given the way we are being swept aside at centre bounces as games progress, I would hope selectors bring in Ben Camporeale for some more grunt.
Didn't watch the game, but 27 disposals suggests he is running into some reasonable form.

Wade Derksen could be the obvious choice if Harry Dean with injured shoulder doesn't come up. I would hope they give Dean a good spell and allow his young body time to recover.



B Campo in for Williams who to appeared get injured
Derksen (as a fwd) in for either Kemp who needs a spell in the 2s to gain some form
Need another defender to come in for Dean if he misses.
HOK also needs a spell, give Ready another crack and light a fire under his feet this time.
Leave Gov fwd as he appears to be the only functioning tall.
Can they fire up Harry into some semblance of competitiveness? Feed him some angry pills for goodness sake.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by kruddler -
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Maybe Kruddler we just go with who's fit and in form....drop HoK and play Flynn, he can't do any worse.  Might give us a bit more run and movement instead of relying on long dump kicks to ineffective marking targets.

If we drop all the players out of form, we don't have enough players in form to replace them.