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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Practice Maths vs Footscray 6th March
Last post by Lods -We're down at 3/4 time, but we kicked 3 - 16 - 34
19 scoring shots for 3 goals.
It just keeps getting better
So, no goalkickers pressing their claims.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by PaulP -............................................
@Paul...I don't think Gorringe is a Voss fan...and he's a bit of a loose canon. I don't think he'd be reluctant to share.
No doubt.
I have for a while been quite skeptical about this idea of a "taxing" game plan. As far as I can tell, AFL is taxing no matter how you play. I would have thought that all game plans are taxing. All players look pretty spent when they come off the ground. Unless you can magically engineer a perfect long kicking game with elite marking from end to end, you will be doing a lot of running playing any other way.
The Swans laid 67 tackles. How is that not taxing ? IMO, the math ain't mathin'.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting AFL Rd 0 2026 Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by Blue Moon -5. Williams
4. O.Hollands
3. Pittonett
2. Walsh
1.Lord
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: VFL Practice Maths vs Footscray 6th March
Last post by crashlander -19 scoring shots for 3 goals.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by Lods -Others will be saying he's spot on.
Whichever view you take, this is getting plenty of 'air' across the various AFL social media..not just the Carlton ones.
If Voss was under pressure after the game last night... it's gone up a couple of levels.
@Paul...I don't think Gorringe is a Voss fan...and he's a bit of a loose canon. I don't think he'd be reluctant to share.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by PaulP -As an aside, I infer from his later clarification that Gorringe aired the message on his phone without a clearance from Doc. Poor form if I'm right.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by Lods -While we can apply pressure we can control the game.
But we can't sustain it for 4 quarters.
It's a high intensity effort that requires a physically draining style of play.
It's the arrow in our quiver.
And when it slackens off, we get run over because we don't have a second arrow.
A different arrow.
No plan B.
Defence is not solely to blame because the ball coming into the opposition forward line comes in like a Tsunami.
The midfielders tire and are swamped.
It's exacerbated by the poor delivery into the forward line where turnovers contribute to the pressure on the backs.
So in the end it comes down to the fact that we play a style of play that is not sustainable at our current levels of fitness (and in the case of youngsters... maturity.)
It may be it's a style that is impossible to sustain.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by bricky -Docherty told this masthead he stood by the views he expressed on the podcast, but had not intended for the language he used to be public.