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Robert Heatley Stand / VFL Practice Maths Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by crashlander -
Game starting at 13:05 today at Carlton.

Our list:
13. Blake Acres,
16. Ben Camporeale,
21. Lucas Camporeale,
25. Liam Reidy,
26. Nick Haynes,
28. Harry Charleson,
30. Jack Ison,
34. Rob Monahan,
37. Jordan Boyd,
39. Talor Byrne,
41. Matthew Duffy,
43. Ashton Moir,
45. Flynn Young,
47. Wade Derksen
50. Darcy Tucker,
51. Jaiden Magor,
53. Ollie Badr,
54. Jack O’Sullivan,
56. Flynn Riley,
57. Alwyn Davey Junior,
58. Jack Sammartino,
59. Cooper Vickery,
61. Dane Harvey,
63. Ryder Corrigan, a midfielder from the Murray Bushrangers. Kicking isn't his strength.
65. Jed Rule,
70. Darcy Hogg,
72. Charlie Cotter,
74. Logan Prout,
75. Liam Farrar,
77. Will Cookson
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by LP -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Tigers are a bunch of rebuild kids and battlers, as MBB said we should take care of them easily and have a big win imo. I don't expect to see us defending for our lives in the last quarter or blown away in one quarter like last week.
Need a good win for confidence and while the media probably won't be impressed with anything we do at least we might get the club off the front and back page of the papers and settle a few people down .
I doubt the weather is going to be conducive to heavy scoring. Hopefully I'm wrong, but this is how luck like the luck of the weather, can influence a season.

The naysayers will claim I'm making an excuse in advance, I must be Nostradamus.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Tigers are a bunch of rebuild kids and battlers, as MBB said we should take care of them easily and have a big win imo. I don't expect to see us defending for our lives in the last quarter or blown away in one quarter like last week.
Need a good win for confidence and while the media probably won't be impressed with anything we do at least we might get the club off the front and back page of the papers and settle a few people down .
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by LP -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Up forward im a bit concerned though.
If you mean our F50, I agreed, and it's not because of the departure Charlie or SoJ, it because we've had this issue of low scoring efficiency right through and before the tenure of Charlie and SoJ. Even before Voss.

It's the one thing we seem unable to correct, and let's not forget relative to his predecessors Voss has corrected plenty!

Do we know when the problem started, some will claim the departure of Betts set in the rot! Ignoring coaches, economic and administration issues, the biggest football mistake I've seen our club make in my lifetime. Dick Pratt would go and get the best, we let the best go, and it burns us to this day!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by Thryleon -
Whether or not we win is open for debate.

Im reviewing the side we are carrying into this one, and am not necessarily enthused with the team balance.  The Tigers dont lack run, and I would have thought that someone like Jordan Boyd in this week would make more sense than Matt Carroll.   To me, Carroll and Mcgovern fill the same hole 3rd tall intercept without a lot of run and carry.  Boyd gives us more run and carry.   

On the surface of it, Young, Weiters and Dean looks like too much tall timber, but the Tigers are going in with Faull, Armstrong and Lynch as tall players. 

Pittonet and Nank is a good match up.  Nank brings aggression, but pittonet brings strength.  That match up is good.  Up forward im a bit concerned though. 

I was less worried about this yesterday, but wondering if we missed a trick here.  Luckily the Tigers are also going in tall and have selected a lot of tall timber in the side.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by LP -
It reminds me about the claims we don't defend, and how the inference becomes players like Gov or Weitering, when to me the "not defending" starts at the other end of the ground.

Last week I saw BigH and Kemp chase blokes they could not possibly catch, to the point of their own detriment, I can't say I saw every Carlton forward doing the same and that left our Mids and HBFs exposed to numbers they could not cover!

That one weak link can be anywhere on the ground, and it only takes one on a ground the size of the MCG to create an undefendable amount of space!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by madbluboy -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Losing is just not an option here.

We should win and win easy.
I have been trying to convince myself of this in the lead up but I cant help but feel anxious. Years of losing the unlosable has conditioned me to be like this. 

Backs against the wall against poor sides we usually take care of business.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by LP -
It happens for a variety of reasons, who knows in this case.

I bet there are some interesting conversations that go on Facetime now with GPs, especially after the pandemic has changed the mix of Face to Face versus video. I know people who point blank refuse to attend GP Practises in person, they even get medicines from online pharmacies, they just won't go anywhere near someone who may be ill. I also know people who have consulted their own GP on video rather than go to a foreign GP while on a business trip, to me that was more about a matter of trust.

There is a lot of emotive, inclusive and paranoid language being bandied about in the reporting. One party seems to be trying to shield the family from much of it, the other wants the dirty laundry aired with no apparent real outcome in mind.

The media have chosen a side, but not on moral grounds, on ratings and clicks. To take a moral stance the media would have to step back, pause reporting and wait for an official conclusion.