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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by crashlander -
AFL 2026 Rd 22:   Carlton vs St, Kilda
This was one of our more satisfying wins for the season, as it put St, Kilda down. After the embarrassing way we played them the first time, it was lovely to see us respond so well.

Trends:
[1]   There were 13 voters this round, which is more like it for a win.
please 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 9.85, which represents a A-/A! Voters were not as satisfied as they were last week, but it is very hard to repeat thrashing the reigning premier.

[3]   15 players managed a mention this week, which is still a strong display. A lot of guys had performances they'd be proud of!

[4]   The average vote this week was 32, which is still very strong. Scores are around 30 are more usual when we win, so read into that what you will.

[5]   Again 4 players managed 100 votes or more, as the votes were shared around.

[6] It was very close at the top with both Frankie Evans and Marc Pittonet getting Judd-like numbers, 371 and 364 respectively. Neither has scored anything like this before. Sam Walsh and George Hewett rounded out the top 4.

[7] Only two players managed votes from everyone again this week; Pittonet and Evans. Hewett missed from 1 voter, Walsh missed from 2 voters.

[8]   Our midfield guns dominated the voting this week, but the votes not so much the usual suspects. The forwards also had a big night.

[9] Our youngsters weren't as dominant this week, although most continued to get recognition.


Votes:
Evans, Francis   371
Pittonet, Marc   364
Hewett, George   174
Walsh, Sam   163
Hayward, Will   80
Florent, Oliver   61
McKay, Harrison   57
Cripps, Patrick   53
Cerra, Adam   49
Haynes, Nicholas   42
Cowan, Lachlan   19
Dean, Harry   15
Lord, Cooper   11
Acres, Blake   11
Kemp, Brodie   8


Progressive Voting:
Walsh, Sam   3977
Patrick Cripps  3314
Smith, Jagga  2341  
Hewett, George  1771
Pittonet, Marc  1173
Florent, Oliver  1061
Will Hayward  994
Newman, Nic   943
Harry McKay  939
Ainsworth, Ben  793
Matthew Carroll   769
Kemp, Brodie  714
Mitch McGovern 710
Haynes, Nick   706
Evans, Francis  664
Dean, Harry  653
Cowan, Lachie  592
Weitering, Jacob  466
Cerra, Adam  434
Hollands, Elijah  426 
Byrne, Talor  422
Ollie Hollands  413
William, Zac  330
Blake Acres  235
Wilson, Billy   204
Lord, Cooper  204
Wade Derksen   113
Young, Lewis   94
Ison, Jack   43
Cottrell, Matthew 31
Liam Reidy   28
Boyd, Jordan   27
Adam Saad   15
Flynn Young   8
Flynn Riley   6
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 2 2026 Carlton vs Adelaide at Carlton
Last post by kruddler -
Bohanna missing is interesting.

I think she plays a more solid, predictable game. As the music men put in reference to Tony Lockett.....
"Lead, mark, kick a goal, kick a goal, kick a goal...."

All the others are more crafty types....Vescio, Sophie, NMD, Keck.....with Scholz a bit of that, but definitely more of the future.

Will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 2 2026 Carlton vs Adelaide at Carlton
Last post by crashlander -
Our line-up:

B:   1 Amelia Velardo   49 Madeline Hendrie
HB:   21 Harriet Cordner   14 Siofra O'Connell   36 Ciara Fitzgerald
C:   17 Dayna Finn   4 Claudia Whitfort   19 Erone Fitzpatrick
HF:   7 Poppy Scholz   3 Darcy Vescio   55 Sophie McKay
F:   35 Nell Morris-Dalton   23 Lila Keck
R:   12 Jessica Good   10 Mimi Hill   5 Abbie McKay
Int:   6 Gabriella Pound   11 Yasmin Duursma   25 Keeley Sherar   24 Brooke Vickers   20 Lily Goss
Em:   22 Brooke Boileau   42 Tara Bohanna   30 Kiara Bischa

In:   Sophie McKay, Keeley Sherar
Out:   Tara Bohanna (Omitted), Brooke Boileau (Omitted)

[1]  A big boost to have Sophie McKay and Keeley Sherar in.

[2] Boileau will miss against her former side, but she doesn't look far away. That Bohanna has been dropped says that our young key forwards appear to be doing something solid.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL 2026 Wildcard #1 Carlton vs Williamstown
Last post by crashlander -
Our line-up:

B:   66 Sam Paea   61 Dane Harvey   42 Adam Saad
HB:   28 Harry Charleson   37 Jordan Boyd   74 Logan Prout
C:   30 Jack Ison   50 Darcy Tucker   21 Lucas Camporeale
HF:  76 Cody Walker   45 Flynn Young   57 Alwyn Davey
F:   43 Ashton Moir   40 Hudson O'Keeffe   75 Liam Farrar
R:   56 Flynn Riley   16 Ben Camporeale   8 Lachie Fogarty
Int:   58 Jack Sammartino   60 Will Reinhold   62 Oliver Warburton   70 Darcy Hogg   77 Will Cookson
Em:   72 Charlie Cotter   65 Jed Rule   68 Taj Logan   63 Ryder Corrigan   78 Tyson Gresham   64 Archie Stevens   54 Jack O'Sullivan

[1] Only 11 listed players, the least we've had all year!

[2] No Reidy, who has been very good lately. Last time Mirkov was the difference. He slaughtered Reidy early. Not sure what is wrong with Reidy either.

[3] Our structure looks pretty suspect, with our lack of KP types, but with Paea back and Reinhold still in, at least we have some talls. On the other hand, Farrar has been a consistent goal kicker since he's come up.

[4] Cody Walker: I wonder what sort of role he'll play? He's played a number of different roles of late, mainly outside. His best footy was probably as an inside mid.

[5] There is certainly a strong Carlton flavour to Willi, with Parks, Cuningham, Polson and Mirkov playing for Willi.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Jim Park Voting AFL Rd 24 2026 Carlton vs Fremantle
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-.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 23 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs at Marvel
Last post by Lods -
I reckon the erratic nature of their season has given us a lack of appreciation as to how good the Bulldogs team is.
They've had some key players missing throughout the year.
They've been very good at times
Pretty dismal at others
It's been hard to get consistency.
Even without English and Bont, they pushed us.
Beveridge even  commented that some that their front half pressure game on the weekend was the best for the year.

We probably went into the game with a bit of confidence, especially given their outs.
It turned out to be a little harder than expected.
They may still be in it after next week.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: post match dogs
Last post by LP -
Quote from: kruddler – on
I think Libba in the middle disrupting our clearance strength made as much difference as anything.
I thought so at the time, but just checked the stats and was surprised.

Player x - 33 touches, 5 tackles, 12 clearances
Player y - 34 touches, 6 tackles, 12 clearances

x = Libba
y = Cripps.
Libba absolutely smashed us on the inside and gave first class delivery to Richards on the outside, and Richards doesn;t even need that help as he can win his own inside footy. When they lost the clearance our predictable direction worked against us because they had blokes running of the HFF and HBF like Freijah coming into the square and smashing guys like Walsh and Hewett. We were basically being taken out of the disposal chain by late dumping tackles, most of them unpenalized, which killed our overlap run. That's a tell to how teams will counter us in the finals when the heat rises! I hope we have taken some learnings from that game.