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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by shawny -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
$134k for a Dan Andrews statue, the state of Victoria is drowning in debt and we are wasting money honouring this muppet.
Tony Shaw wants to charge $1 for using the statue as a urinal, says we would halve the state debt....

Can this government get anymore out of touch with the people - If they are going to do it at least make it accurate and put a mask on him, have a mangled bike and hotel image with '800+ deaths' on it. I could go on but not sure how much space the proposed site has. Only fair to highlight the great man's work he did while in office.

All jokes aside, will be spending more of our money on 24H guards otherwise it wont last one night.

They just keep finding ways on blowing money we don't have - only 6 months to go before this group of muppet's are gone.  
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Last post by blueray -
Crippa was good in the last quarter, the first 3 quarters were bang on average with his confidence looking shot. He found a way though and showed the way. Carroll BOG for mine with Harry not far from it. More movements in-game which was something Voss was unable to do, or didn't want to do.
We have something to work with, provided we have a good coach and better recruitment to support it.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by crashlander -
AFL 2026 Rd 9:   Carlton vs Brisbane
I left voting open for longer again: I didn't get to see the replay until Friday night. Sad, but true.
 I can understand why people don't want to vote: we still failed. However, I did think this performance was a lot more promising than some of our recent ones have been.

Trends:
[1]   There were 10 voters this round, which is the same as last 4 rounds. Nichevo.
This round last year there were 13 voters, but then, we won that time.
When we lose, it is difficult to get voters to care enough to vote, especially when we don't show that we've learnt anything from those losses.
 Please do voteplease do vote, win, lose or draw: it is something we appreciate and it makes our statistics a lot more reliable. And our statistics hold up pretty well when it comes to John Nicholls Medal night!


[2]   The rating was a 7.90, which represents a C, is the best we've had for the year to this point. We did challenge the reigning premiers on their home deck.
Our rating of the Richmond game, our only win, was 7.69 which says far too much.

[3]   12 players managed a mention this week. However, most of the votes were concentrated on the same handful.

[4]   The average vote this week was 26, which is the best result of the year. Scores are around 30 when we win, so read into that what you will. Scores in the high 20's represent an honourable loss. Clearly, this loss was more honourable than some of our earlier ones.

[5]   4 players managed 100 votes or more. This is becoming the norm, which is something I like. But it does suggest that too many others didn't do much at all.

[6] Patrick Cripps was BOG for the 1st time this season with 344 votes. He was followed by Walsh, Hayward and McKay.
This was H's first top 5 finish for the year.

[7]   Three player managed votes from everyone this week, Cripps, Hayward & McKay.  Walsh missed from one voter, as did Ainsworth.

[8]   We had 2 recruits show the way this round, in Ainsworth and Hayward.

[9]   Ollie Hollands was our best youngster for the night, followed by Jagga Smith. But it was the experienced players who lifted. This was the first real Cripps-like game from Cripps and it was McKay's best so far by a huge amount.

Votes:
Cripps, Patrick   344
Walsh, Sam   217
McKay, Harrison   186
Hayward, Will   170
Ainsworth, Ben   91
Hollands, Oliver   75
Newman, Nicholas   40
Smith, Jagga   36
McGovern, Mitchell   12
Hewett, George   8
Florent, Oliver   4
Cerra, Adam   4


Progressive Voting:
Walsh, Sam   1716
Patrick Cripps  976
Pittonet, Marc  696
Mitch McGovern  544
Matthew Carroll   540
Newman, Nic   480
Kemp, Brodie  480
Smith, Jagga  465
Florent, Oliver  451
Ainsworth, Ben  440
Hollands, Elijah  426
Weitering, Jacob  366
William, Zac  321
Ollie Hollands  316
Will Hayward  294
Harry McKay  250
Haynes, Nick 247
Lord, Cooper  152
Hewett, George  83
Young, Lewis   81
Dean, Harry  51
Cowan, Lachie  47
Byrne, Talor  34
Liam Reidy   28
Boyd, Jordan   27
Evans, Francis  26
Cerra, Adam  23
Adam Saad   15

To give you some idea how down we are, George Hewett has 83 votes. He won the John Nicholls Medal last year. Adam Cerra has 23, the second lowest of anyone who has votes so far. And Adam Saad is the lowest vote getter. These guys have been significant in previous years.
Elijah Hollands, who hasn't played since the Collingwood game, is still ahead of Jacob Weitering.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Last post by Blue Moon -
It is amazing what happens when the pressure from the fear of failure is released. Last year we lost three of our best players during the trade period, the three who replaced them, Hayward, Florent and Ainsworth, were good in this game. Our young players, Smith, O.Hollands, Cowan, Wilson, Ison & Dean were all good too and with energy. My criticism of Voss is he didn't play the young guys enough. They got a couple of late goals, and a couple from soft umpiring decisions, so we should have won by more. I said last week that our players don't have heads or backs and clearly Ison doesn't have a head as well, Cerra and Hewitt had their best games for the season and our leaders led. Life is full of opportunities and problems, I see opportunities for the team for the rest of the season.