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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Round 8 Carlton vs Geelong at Kardinia Park
Last post by kruddler -
I've kept pretty quiet over the past month, but i'd like to reiterate my previous statement re Vescio and the overall standard of the womens game.
Darcy has been relegated to a 2nd tier (at best) player.

Half a game in this one. Got 1 touche and 1 tackle.
People chastised Charlie about his lack of tackling, but Vescio has concrete boots when the opposition has the ball. I hope Darcy is carrying an injury because i'm not sure on current form there will be a contract for Darcy next year.

Gab Pound playing her first game in forever shows the hunger and skill we expect.
Brooke Vickers was out of the game for almost 2 years is showing more touch than Vescio.

Sophie McKay is doing what Vescio used to do, in her first season.
Bohanna is on the wrong side of 30 but looks 10 years younger by comparison to Darcy.

Overall, the team is playing very well across the board, have a lot of skill between them and are obviously winning....take Vescio out of the side and i don't think any of that changes. That is a big tick for the club and a huge improvement over previous years.


Overall, we've dominated the game thus far, but hitting the post at least 3 times (including in the goal square) is keeping the cats in the game.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Rd 8: Carlton vs Geelong at Geelong
Last post by crashlander -
Our line-up:

B:   1 Amelia Velardo   49 Madeline Hendrie
HB:   3 Darcy Vescio   21 Harriet Cordner   36 Ciara Fitzgerald
C:   19 Erone Fitzpatrick   25 Keeley Sherar   17 Dayna Finn
HF:   55 Sophie McKay   16 Breann Harrington   7 Poppy Scholz
F:   42 Tara Bohanna   23 Lila Keck
R:   12 Jessica Good   10 Mimi Hill   5 Abbie McKay
Int:   24 Brooke Vickers   4 Keeley Skepper   15 Meg Robertson   20 Lily Goss   6 Gabriella Pound
Em:   33 Lou-Lou Field   37 Maddison Torpey   22 Mia Austin

Pound will be rusty, but is a welcome return. Abbie McKay is a big in.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Analysis 2025
Last post by crashlander -
Congratulations to:
[1] George Hewett   4513 votes   Our runaway winner by over a thousand votes.
George turned up every week in a career best season. 9 time BOG, 18 time a top-4 vote getter. What a season!

[2] Patrick Cripps    2866 votes    Our Captain had a much quieter season this time around, but still managed 1 BOG and 15 top-4 performances. Here is hoping that 2026 is more like 2024!

[3] Ollie Hollands   1673 votes    This is both a positive and a negative. It is a huge positive for Ollie and marks his 'graduation', if you will. But it is also a serious negative, in that so many players who were consider top players failed to fire. Injuries curtailed some of them, but form was a significant issue. Seriously. guys like de Koning should be polling a lot more votes than this.
Not to take anything away from Ollie Hollands, who deserves the kudos. He didn't win any BOGs, but he was a consistent performer most weeks.

[4] Jacob Weitering  1672 votes   A good effort from Weitering. He was BOG twice and in the top 4 four times.

[5] Tom de Koning   1593 votes   After a positive start to the year, Tom failed to really fire. He was BOG three time, only once after round 3, and in the top 4 six times, none in the last third of the season.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Analysis 2025
Last post by crashlander -
AFL 2025 Rd 24:   Carlton vs Essendon
Another game I didn't see live. I am writing to the AFL and complaining about the number of Thursday night games we've had.
Never mind, this was our 1st Thursday night win for the season.
It was our 1st win in the final round in ages.
As such, it was always nice to beat the Drug Cheats.

Trends:
[1]   This week we attracted 10 voters, which isn't fantastic, but it is a considerable improvement over the weeks we lost.
Still,please do vote, win, lose or draw: it is something we appreciate and it makes our statistics a lot more reliable, especially as I've got the spreadsheet behaving again. You look at how our voting stacks up and we're pretty damned good; we usually get the players in something close to the right order. Do think about this for 2026.

[2]   The rating was a 9.0, which isa B. The few people who voted expected us to beat the Drug Cheats, who were struck down by injury, and marked the effort accordingly.

[3]   15 players managed a mention this week, which is the same as last week.
To be honest, I'm happy when I see these sort of numbers. It suggests to me that we're getting a contribution from a significant portion of the team. That seems to be more common these days. Back in the Judd days we often had some players dominate while the others either didn't do as much, or weren't recognized. I prefer it this way.

[4]   The average vote this week was 29, which is reasonable. Hopefully we can see more scores in the 30's in 2026.

[5]   5 players managed 100 votes or more this week. But we did have 2 real dominant scores.

[6]   George Hewett managed his 9th BOG for us this season with a Judd-like 374 votes. Weitering was 2nd with 252. 18 times this season George was in the top 4 vote getters. That is Cripps-like! Cripps managed 14 top-4 finishes in a year where he was down.

[7]   2 players managed votes from everyone this week, Hewett and Weitering. Cripps and Evans missed 1 voter, while Walsh missed 2.

[8]   Our youngsters have been one of the positives this year. Guys like Hollands and Cowan have been consistent vote getters across the season. This week they weren't as dominant.

[9]   There was a fairly even spread this week, with no line dominating. We struggled all year with our forward work and it shows.

Votes:
Hewett, George   374
Weitering, Jacob   252
Evans, Francis   185
Cripps, Patrick   131
Walsh, Sam   126
McKay, Harrison   72
Motlop, Jesse   72
Acres, Blake   41
Hollands, Oliver   23
de Koning, Tom   18
Cowan, Lachlan   14
Saad, Adam   14
Young, Flynn   14
Moir Ashton   9
Wilson, Billy   9

Progressive Voting:
4513  George Hewett
2866  Patrick Cripps
1673  Ollie Hollands
1672 Jacob Weitering
1593  Tom de Koning
1466 Adam Cerra
1396   Sam Walsh
1237   Nick Haynes
1187 Harry McKay
846  Jack Silvagni
729   Lachie Cowan
684  Adam Saad
631   Francis Evans
553  Zac Williams
547  Sam Docherty
487 Charlie Curnow
472  Mitch McGovern
453  Cooper Lord
413  Jesse Motlop
284 Blake Acres
275  Brodie Kemp
215  Corey Durdin
181   Harry O'Farrell
159  Marc Pittonet
157  Matthew Carroll
153  Ashton Moir
142  Lachie Fogarty
134   Will White
128  Lewis Young
127  Jaxon Binns
119  Alex Cincotta
79   Matthew Cottrell
72   Elijah Holland
48   Orazio Fantasia
21  Lucas Camporeale
18  Flynn Young
9    Billy Wilson