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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by shawny -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Quote from: Thryleon – on
We wont win many carrying witches hats.

Kemp, o keefe, chesser, young.  Just deer in the headlights stuff from these guys.  Also we had short options clear and started kicking longer to contests instead.
I thought Young was ok today. Disposal was shaky a couple of times but was far from our worst. The others yep. One of those touched it 7 time and didnt trouble the scorers. His counter part touched it 9 times and kicked 4.1.

Young is symbolic of our list.
the bloke tries his heart out but his disposal is not at the standard and his decision making under any pressure is heart in the mouth stuff. If we were even a middle of the road team he does not play.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by shawny -
What an absolute shambles of an organisation.

Out coached by a newbie with 2 games experience.

Slow, dumb decision makers and poor execution sums up 3/4a of our list.

The sadest part is imo the players give their all they cant play much better. They are what they are and we have known this for years.

Wright has to take a massive broom through the list and find a capable coach to lead.

Walker must be spewing he is coming to us.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
We wont win many carrying witches hats.

Kemp, o keefe, chesser, young.  Just deer in the headlights stuff from these guys.  Also we had short options clear and started kicking longer to contests instead.
I thought Young was ok today. Disposal was shaky a couple of times but was far from our worst. The others yep. One of those touched it 7 time and didnt trouble the scorers. His counter part at the other end touched it 9 times and kicked 4.1.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Where do I start? Before I talk about Gawn, let me start with us. I said we'd smash Melbourne and for a couple of quarters it was looking on the cards. I felt like we moved the ball well and defended the ground very well. In the first two quarters, when Melb moved the ball from defence, we seemed to give up grass fwd of the the wing and  mids and defenders seemed to position themselves to where the ball was likely going to go to. They choked the avenue to goal and repelled very well.
Pitto appeared, to me at least, to concede at the centre ball up and see if he could impact when the ball hit the ground.
The above all worked for 2 qtrs, then the wheels fell off (especially in the last qtr). The mids got beaten up, the defenders were under pressure and they got back in the game, simple as that. They laid down their arms and showed zero fit and grit.

I have seen some superstars of the game put on some clinics in my time but Gawn was a colossus today. If they didnt have him, I'd go as far to say they wouldnt win a game.
When they needed him, he stood even taller if that's even possible. He tapped everything to advantage and seemed to mark everything  in packs that came his way. If he didnt mark it, he influenced where the ball needed to go. What a player.

We had some dead set passengers today, I wont go into it by naming names, the selection committee SHOULD sort that out assuming there are some able bodied replacements that can come in.

A 63 point turn around is unacceptable in any language, however given our mental fragility it was always on the cards.

Such is Life (as a Carlton Supporter).

On to next week I guess.



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The Sports Desk / Re: Formula 1
Last post by LP -
Piastri very unlucky today, Antonelli won Safety Car Lotto and never looked back.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by LP -
I think I first stated more than two years back on this very forum, that whoever was in charge of our sports psychology needs to be given the ar5e. Under pressure we shrink up our own clacker, now we are habitually thinking ourselves into the mire.

List management is not terrible on a pick by pick basis but we have a bad team mix, too many church mice not a single enforcer to be seen. So much so a midget like Kosi regularly beats up on us, it feels like London.

There is nothing fair or safe about AFL, it's brutal, and if you're not prepared to be brutal back you'll surely lose.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by MickyO -
Could just sense it in the second, even tho we were up they had a heap of shots at goal and we barely had any.

You could sense the change coming and sure enough it happened.

Saw inexcusable errors - H by himself in a paddock kicks it badly into f50, melb get it and go score a goal. They had confidence and Gawn was killing us.

Kemp was absolutely putrid, some
Shocking kicking errors from Carroll
And Ollie. When they pressured us we couldn’t sustain our gameplan. The two frees were pathetic but the dice had already been rolled and we knew how it would go.

Im embarrassed, i feel sorry for Jagga and for Talor, he should have had his debut game be a win.

We can’t expect to do the same thing and get a different result. Im over it.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 3 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Last post by Bluesers -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Some might say they predicted this from us this year.
Others would say that person was being negative.

Some might say that a few losses and people would immediately start calling the coaches head.
Others said that we wouldnt be put in that position because we are half decent and play crap teams early.

Well...
Some are not surprised that the pitchforks have already been sharpened...

All going to script so far.... unfortunately.

What you say is  sad, but true unfortunately.   GWright and co. allowed MV to run out year 5, obviously just for the sake of some continuity and stability.   Probably about now they may be regretting that decision  -  even if the results aren't that surprising,  but just the manner we have wilted will be setting off huge alarm bells......    Sooner or later something has to give,   and no prizes for guessing what comes next.