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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Rd 4 2026 Carlton vs Collingwood at Carlton.
Last post by crashlander -
One thing we have in our favour this week is Lord and Hewett: that sort of mid power should improve our team's clearances.
Reidy and O'Keefe should improve our rucks.
Key forwards? Key defenders? Aye, there's the rub.

Will Phillips play for us again? Somehow, I doubt it. But he would be very useful.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Jim Park Voting AFL Rd 6 2026 Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by crashlander -
Voting is as usual: you have 15 votes to award pretty much as you will, with the following provisos:
[1] 15 votes in total, no more, no less.
[2] No more than 10 votes for any one player (even Sam Walsh or Patrick Cripps)
[3] Three players at least must get a mention.
[4] A grade for the game, A+ (what I want to see) to F-.

I haven't posted last rounds results yet in the hope that someone else might want to vote. Certainly these short weeks and odd game times do affect peoples' voting habits.
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Robert Heatley Stand / AFL Rd 6 2026 In game Angst Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by crashlander -
I really hate Thursday night football. This will probably be the only one I get to this year.
We have won only 2 Thursday night games, and of those, only the win against Essendon at the end of last year was truly satisfying.
Can we pull off an upset tonight? I hope so, but I am not confident. We simply do not appear to have addressed the reasons why they have been beating us lately.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by crashlander -
Our line-up:

B:   2 Lachlan Cowan   23 Jacob Weitering   26 Nick Haynes
HB:   14 Oliver Florent   11 Mitch McGovern   24 Nic Newman
C:   4 Oliver Hollands   9 Patrick Cripps   32 Matthew Carroll
HF:   7 Jagga Smith   20 Elijah Hollands   12 Ben Ainsworth
F:   19 Will Hayward   10 Harry McKay   17 Brodie Kemp
R:   27 Marc Pittonet   6 Zac Williams   18 Sam Walsh
Int:   35 Harry Dean   44 Francis Evans   39 Talor Byrne   33 Lewis Young   5 Adam Cerra
Em:   25 Liam Reidy   45 Flynn Young   37 Jordan Boyd

[1] How did Hayward get back in? His for has been poor and his decision making questionable.
[2] Ruck? Young as 2nd ruck?
[3] Who is the matchup on Nick Daicos? That isn't clear to me.
[4] Flynn Young: what is he doing wrong? He couldn't have done much more.
[5] Are we prepared for the rain?

We have struggled against Collingwood recently, but I don't see the signs on the selection table that suggest we're ready to deal with their strengths.