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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: Lods – on
Regarding not replacing the 'topliners'.

Serious question....
With who?
Who would we have taken in the last draft/trade period to replace them.

You can make a good case for not developing the repalcements long term.
But when DeKoning (expected), Silvagni (unexpected) and Curnow (umming and ahhing) decided to leave who should we have replaced them with.

To answer my own question...
In hindsight we should have wrapped up that Buku Khamis deal.
He wanted to come to us, he would have been handy.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by shawny -
Quote from: RiverRat – on
McKay is a shadow of his former self:
He struggles to take an overhead mark without juggling the ball at least once.
He fails to get separation from a defender on the lead.
Even when he does get some decent foot passes to his advantage, he seems to be unable to use his considerable body size and reach to prevent an opponent from spoiling from behind.
He remains an unreliable kick for goal.

Might as well use him as a back up ruckman to allow him to try and regain some one-grab overhead marking.

I agree. He has no presence at all. Like so many of his forward mates he has no forward craft - its like hes brain is incapable of anything beyond the very basics. He plays like an u12s kid. if he wasn’t physically gifted not a chance he makes it as an afl
footballer.

All the little things any decent AFL forward does naturally he just cant do it. And the amount of times he is flat footed in a marking contest where by jumping with his height would make it almost impossible for and opponent to get to it but he stays down.

Then when he gets a shot it literally could go anyway as he has no set goal kicking routine.

Hes a dumb footballer like the bulk of the team.

i would trade him if i could get anything decent in return - resigning him was another list management stuff up.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by Thryleon -
He might appeal and get off.

Last leadership we recruited was Eddie betts back.   Did a job for a season or two.  Then went to geelong because we wouldn't give him a proper job.

Typical Carlton bollocks.  Let good people walk to our opposition because we cant appreciate what we have.

Im sick of this club.  Its all just history repeating over and over again.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Parker is a leader but he isnt a dial mover as a player imho, we dont have any real top consistent A grade talent and either do Nth and thats why that game was an error ridden mess like most of the other games we have played this season.
The cupboard is bare as far as leaders go and Cripps should abdicate the role...

That should probably have been the move at the start of the year.
If the message is "out with the old, this is a new beginning" a new captain would tie into that messaging.

Now it would seem like the result of a crisis, and an admission of failed leadership by Cripps.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 4 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
We dont need a dial mover.  North brought in Luke Parker.  Hes not a gun anymore but he commands respect is a fine player, and was once one of the games best players and knows what it takes to climb the mountain.

Thats the one place we have stuffed it across the journey.  The only player of that ilk we've recruited is nick haynes.  Whilst he's a fine player he was never one of the games best.

Others import leadership when they need some, we are still relying on the understudies of chris Judd and losing dochertys leadership likely hurt us more than any of the talent that walked out. 


Parker is a leader but he isnt a dial mover as a player imho, we dont have any real top consistent A grade talent and either do Nth and thats why that game was an error ridden mess like most of the other games we have played this season.
The cupboard is bare as far as leaders go and Cripps should abdicate the role...