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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
Last post by LP -
I find solace in the fact Derksen's marking has been substantially more reliable in D50 than F50.

Last week we had the fumbles, but we genuinely outplayed the Dees, the fumbles kept the Dees in it due to their efficiency scoring from entries / turnovers.

Our fumbling was mostly coming from our Forwards and Mids, our D50 was pretty reliable when given opportunity to get to the pill. If we fail to slow the opposition our D50 can do very little about it.

Surely we do not see Gov, Evans, Byrne, Kemp and Harry drop so many marks two weeks in a row, surely Smith, Walsh, Hewett and Cripps are cleaner this week!

I hope that result was the cure we need across the park to be more assured in the contest from any position on the ground!

After 1/2-time we were better everywhere.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: VFLW 2026
Last post by crashlander -
The VFLW girls play on Saturday at home at 13:05 against Port Melbourne.
We finished the H&A season 4th, which I think is a out best yet.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 4 2026 Carlton vs Collingwood at Carlton
Last post by crashlander -
Team as yet indeterminate, but here is what we know:

B:   1 Amelia Velardo   49 Madeline Hendrie
HB:   14 Siofra O'Connell   21 Harriet Cordner   36 Ciara Fitzgerald
C:   17 Dayna Finn   19 Erone Fitzpatrick   11 Yasmin Duursma
HF:   25 Keeley Sherar   7 Poppy Scholz   23 Lila Keck
F:   4 Claudia Whitfort   42 Tara Bohanna
R:   12 Jessica Good   10 Mimi Hill   5 Abbie McKay
Int:   6 Gabriella Pound   20 Lily Goss   24 Brooke Vickers   8 Lily Baxter   22 Brooke Boileau   55 Sophie McKay   35 Nell Morris-Dalton   13 Aisling Reidy

3 girls in, none out as yet.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
Last post by Baggers -
Quote from: DJC – on
Just on Byrner's "bad game" - it's hard to have an impact when you're sitting on the pine (do they still have pine benches?).

He did OK while he was on the ground, particularly with the pressure he applied.

We'll miss Haynes' reliability and cool head but Derker is a more than adequate replacement.

De Koning out for the Cats is unexpected but Blicavs probably provides more versatility.  Sending Lewis Young forward might stretch Geelong's backs who will match up quite well with our smaller forward line.  Hayward would have been handy but it is what it is.

Yep, a deeper dive into The Byrner's game against the Go Dees, as a number of commentators noted, was that he seemed overawed -- understandable -- in the first half making uncustomary mistakes, but found much better form in the second half.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
Last post by Baggers -
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[4] Who do we play on Stewart? I would love to have someone to play through, to keep him defending.

I would try Derksen on Stewart.  He's agile and good enough in the air to keep Stewart too busy to zone off.

In our last game against the Pussycats -- not that it's all that relevant -- Stewart went to Flynn Y who got off the leash and kicked a few!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
Last post by LP -
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I would try Derksen on Stewart.  He's agile and good enough in the air to keep Stewart too busy to zone off.
Yes, that's a strategy worth trying, sometimes in finals it's the unexpected that gets a result, like The Hyphen to CHB.

I suspect they've brought the extra running numbers in because they want us to be run off our feet like the 1st-1/2 of the season, hopefully we can bring our A-Game momentum control and maximise F50 entries while not turning it over too much. They have a few players who are 50/50 injury wise, when we get the pill at the appropriate moment we need to go berserk and have them running off their feet to chase us.

Between Weiters, Dersksen and Young having Cameron get the pill well outside range will be a win if we can create that scenario.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL 2026 EF #1 Carlton vs Geelong Pre Game Prognostications
Last post by Baggers -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Haynes out is a big loss.  Been very good for us.  Feeling less confident without him back there as he is one of those quiet achievers who finds himself in the right place at the right time.

100% 3 Leos, plus no stranger to finals pressure AND performing at a high level in finals. Fortunately, Deano and Weiters have shown they can handle finals pressure too, can they step up another notch?