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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by kruddler -


Mr Simpson is there...I'm sure he'll have some feedback ;)

Simmo has made it clear that's really not his game day role, plus, he's only there once a week.

Including part timer Simpson.....and Boak....there was an extra couple of coaches added from last year to this year. Can't remember them all, i think Josh Fraser returned as well.

To lay the blame at Voss' feet when there is 12 blokes who have just sat through their first game together is not fair.
I doubt Voss got to choose them, but they absolutely have a large say in if he gets to keep his job.


I said in the pre-game that i thought we were a sneaky chance to win.....but could also lose by 80 points.
The logic was this, Round 0, we are an unknown. 1/4 of the team was new, new coaches, new gameplan, new new new. We 'should' get the jump on the swans. How we fair once they work out what we are doing, well, thats the unknown part.
True to my prophecy, we did get the jump on the swans and did quite well. However, it didn't take the swans long to work out what to do and they absolutely nailed it to the point that their 3rd quarter, outscored our full 4.

Hopefully the extended brains trust learn from that.
Hopefully our MC learn from that too. There'd be a few nervous players at training this week.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by PaulP -
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@Paul...I don't think Gorringe is a Voss fan...and he's a bit of a loose canon. I don't think he'd be reluctant to share.

No doubt.

I have for a while been quite skeptical about this idea of a "taxing" game plan. As far as I can tell, AFL is taxing no matter how you play. I would have thought that all game plans are taxing. All players look pretty spent when they come off the ground. Unless you can magically engineer a perfect long kicking game with elite marking from end to end, you will be doing a lot of running playing any other way.

The Swans laid 67 tackles. How is that not taxing ? IMO, the math ain't mathin'.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by Lods -
Doc's comments will be seen by some as a 'disgruntled employee'.
Others will be saying he's spot on.
Whichever view you take, this is getting plenty of 'air' across the various AFL social media..not just the Carlton ones.
If Voss was under pressure after the game last night... it's gone up a couple of levels.

@Paul...I don't think Gorringe is a Voss fan...and he's a bit of a loose canon. I don't think he'd be reluctant to share.