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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs GWS
Last post by shawny -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Fit or not fit we are heavily dependent on Cripps still and to a lesser extent Walsh if they dont play well we still struggle.
Its not healthy moving forward and not sustainable imho, Bulldogs have the same problem with Bont having to be in the best players on the ground each week for them to win.

Agree but think we are improving in this space.  While there is no doubt Cripps and Walsh hitting form we are harder to beat i feel we are building more strings to our bow.

Dean, Jagga, Cowan, Wilson, Ainsworth and Haywood have all been great this year and made us a more even list
 
Weitering was another that needed to play for us to win but we seem less reliant on him too.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs GWS
Last post by RiverRat -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Quote from: Lods – on
If folks want to make comparisons between Voss and Fraser look don't look at recent history.
Look at the last half of 2023 and  now.
Same/same

That 2023 run we built on the back of relentless pressure and effort, double teaming in tackles.
We lost our way in 2024- 2025.
A lot of that was the result of injury and in 2025 off-field disaffection and division.
That pressure and effort...and belief is back now.

You know what else is the same???
A fit Patrick Cripps.

Was he fit at the start of the year? No.
Walsh? No.

Makes a difference when your good players are fit. Who'd have thunk it?!

The same pattern evolved when Teague was coach - Cripps was injured in 2021 (only 5 votes in the Brownlow) and Curnow only played the last few games of the season - The next year Cripps won the Brownlow, Curnow kicked 64 goals and we recruited Hewitt and Cerra - How good a coach was Voss?  Did Teague get any credit for player development?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs GWS
Last post by Shakin77 -
Quote from: Professer E – on
Rewatched the game, a few things stood out for me in this game;

Umpiring.  I just don't understand so many calls, even worse are the awful missed calls. 
Dreadful delivery into F50 by both sides. Park football stuff.
Woeful goal kicking... We kick from angles far too often but we waste so many set shots.  Talor needs to nail the few chances he gets and he ain't. Thirty metres out should be simple.
Our marking targets McG- Kemp-Harry are an issue. Harry plays better up the ground, Kemp can't finish reliably and McG is barely going. 
If Derkson is going to make it he needs a kicking coach...he lays back on every kick and its heart in mouth stuff every time as a result.
Cerra's lack of pace and current "third wheel status" in the midfield - going to get squeezed out I reckon.
There was an amazing contest between Ainsworth and a Giants mid in the square, both players went real hard and it was great....I shudder to think about Jagga slammed like that..  He is still very small and light and it was really obvious against the likes of Stone, Callaghan, Daniels etc

Cerra has gone out to a wing.   No CBA's for the last 4 weeks.   Not getting as much of it as he was but I thought he was pretty tidy on the weekend.

He has made way for Hewett
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 15 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs GWS
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: Lods – on
If folks want to make comparisons between Voss and Fraser look don't look at recent history.
Look at the last half of 2023 and  now.
Same/same

That 2023 run we built on the back of relentless pressure and effort, double teaming in tackles.
We lost our way in 2024- 2025.
A lot of that was the result of injury and in 2025 off-field disaffection and division.
That pressure and effort...and belief is back now.

You know what else is the same???
A fit Patrick Cripps.

Was he fit at the start of the year? No.
Walsh? No.

Makes a difference when your good players are fit. Who'd have thunk it?!