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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Gold Coast at Marvel
Last post by laj -
Cerra is playing, just tightness. Harry very doubtful. Lewis young might be coming in, playing forward as 2nd ruck. It's he or HOK. I actually prefer Young.

Thanks to Essendon we still live!!!! This is one game we should win. Hopefully if we do, it kicks us out of our little slump, which was invariably going to happen after being up for so long. Then the game against St.Kilda becomes super important, as they are our direct challenger for a wildcard, as do the Dogs the week after. Reckon we can win more than GWS.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by Adelaideblue -
Season over as regards finals!
Wins are no longer important!     Will Carlton now play more youth? 
Expose  Ben & Lucas Camporeale,  Harry Charleson to AFL football.
More games also to Flynn Young  and Harry Boyd (still okay in my mind).  
Then of course one or more of rucks Flynn Riley  and HOK need to play.
Season is unover (that a word...haha) after Essendon beat GWS.

Yes you a right Laj, after today's result season is not quite over for the Blues ! 
Baggers was also was telling me not to put up the white flag yet!

Still hope coaches will gradually feed some of these kids into the five matches left in the main season.

Hate the thought that we will see likes of Ben & Lucas Camporeale running around in Port or Adelaide colours for years to come without having been well tried at AFL level by us.


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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by laj -
Season over as regards finals!
Wins are no longer important!     Will Carlton now play more youth? 
Expose  Ben & Lucas Camporeale,  Harry Charleson to AFL football.
More games also to Flynn Young  and Harry Boyd (still okay in my mind).  
Then of course one or more of rucks Flynn Riley  and HOK need to play.
Season is unover (that a word...haha) after Essendon beat GWS.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by kruddler -
Go watch a replay and look at sam walsh. His long ball on top of someone's head (not to our advantage, but over 50m so it's an 'effective kick') played right into the oppositions hands. He needs to sort that out. Look at jagga by comparison.

Love them both but Smithy also has a big flaw - he has a tendency to handball at the feet of teammates. Really gotta fix this. Fumbles and turnovers, as we saw last night, are death in this    game. Even a mediocre side like Collingwood will kill you on the rebound.

Some of Smith doing that is to avoid an opponents hand/arm trying to block it.
No point aiming for a chest if you know it won't get there.

But with ball in hand, kicking forward, i'm taking Jagga over Walsh any day of the week.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by IvanAwfulbigone -
Go watch a replay and look at sam walsh. His long ball on top of someone's head (not to our advantage, but over 50m so it's an 'effective kick') played right into the oppositions hands. He needs to sort that out. Look at jagga by comparison.

Love them both but Smithy also has a big flaw - he has a tendency to handball at the feet of teammates. Really gotta fix this. Fumbles and turnovers, as we saw last night, are death in this    game. Even a mediocre side like Collingwood will kill you on the rebound.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by Thryleon -
Cripps choosing a left foot snap was worse than any  Kemp miskick.

I posted this back in May …

I’ll reserve judgement on Fraser, for now.
But if Crippa EVER again attempts to kick around the corner on his left from a set shot then we’ll know Josh is simply not up to it.

i don't think coaches are that involved with one individual's goal kicking.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -

Ford need your business, without the Ranger they would be out of business....

I didn't like Ford or rangers until i was given one as a company car.
Their tech is far superior to anything else out there.
So much so, that i couldn't live with anything less now.
I was a hilux man before that, but they ended up being overpriced and well behind on tech. They have caught up recently.

I did have a triton for a while which was terrible to drive and while the tech was better than the hilux, was nowhere near the ranger.

I don't need it for any hardcore off-roading, but do go camping in areas where 4wd is not necessary, but can get you out of trouble.

There's a reason they sell so many.....and its mostly due to companies making them their base fleet car....but they are good to drive and don't feel like a ute.
Fair enough,  you do pay the Badge premium with Toyota and their dealerships are loathe to negotiate.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Last post by kruddler -
I'm looking at the hybrid Ranger, simply for on board power.
Can run a fridge and have power when camping which saves me carrying extra batteries.

Supposebly gets a $h!tload better l/km but when work pays for that, i don't care.
Ford need your business, without the Ranger they would be out of business....

I didn't like Ford or rangers until i was given one as a company car.
Their tech is far superior to anything else out there.
So much so, that i couldn't live with anything less now.
I was a hilux man before that, but they ended up being overpriced and well behind on tech. They have caught up recently.

I did have a triton for a while which was terrible to drive and while the tech was better than the hilux, was nowhere near the ranger.

I don't need it for any hardcore off-roading, but do go camping in areas where 4wd is not necessary, but can get you out of trouble.

There's a reason they sell so many.....and its mostly due to companies making them their base fleet car....but they are good to drive and don't feel like a ute.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Last post by Shakin77 -


Injuries are never an excuse — but they are a reason.

We were wasteful up forward and we gave up far too many easy goals. Membrey alone crumbed at least two.

Ainsworth had an uncharacteristically bad first quarter and made some awful errors. To his credit he worked into the game and finished strongly, but seven turnovers is rough.

Hayward was close to his worst game of the season and had basically no impact. Florent struggled as well, and we generated almost no drive off half‑back.

Acres was poor and showed why he was dropped earlier in the year. He lost his width, which let Crisp stroll inside 50 for an easy goal. He was up against it when thrown into the ruck. If Ollie isn’t the answer, I’d rather see a kid get wing minutes — Acres isn’t it.

The inexperienced backline battled hard but panicked and over‑handled the ball coming out of defence.

Kemp… he gets to the right spots, but when he lines up for a set shot from 40 out on a slight angle you just know he’s not kicking it — and might not even trouble the scorers. Eight marks is good, but his confidence looks shot. Levi actually improved his kicking at Carlton; Kemp looks like he’s going backwards.

Reidy — I haven’t seen anything yet that gives me much hope.

We always seem to find a way to lose to this mob. The only upside is the false hope their supporters will walk away with.
Pies would probably suggest with their two key defenders out in Moore and Howe they had the injury excuse too, you add perennial pest Elliott and the hardworking Schultz and I reckon it was even on the injury front.
I thought it was a poor quality game from both teams and showed why both are midpack combatants at best and the best players for both teams are the best players every week, every game because the drop away in impactful talent is so large...

Yeah I was thinking more the in-game injuries of McKay and Cerra.   Down two rotations.    McKay hurt our structure.

Agree it did very much look like 9th vs 12th