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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by LP -
The condensed schedule is going to throw the cat amongst the pigeons, the good thing about this is that it's forcing Australia to rethink the age profile of it's squad, and it also hurts states that hoard talent, if you can think of any that do that!
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The Sports Desk / Re: Track and Field
Last post by Lods -
Last day of the world indoors.

Silver to Jess Hull in the 1500m-Australian indoor record and sub 4 minute -3.59.45
Bronze to Adam Spencer in the 1500-3.40.26

Peter Bol 4th in his 800 -Australian and Oceanian indoor record-1.45.14
That race was won by a  seventeen year old American-Cooper Lutkenhaus
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Robert Heatley Stand / VFL Rd 2 2026 Carlton vs Williamstown
Last post by crashlander -
We start our season against a first round winner, in Williamstown, who have a number of ex-Blues in their line-up.
According to the CFC website, we haven't beaten Williamstown yet in our present iteration of the 2nds, so I hope we can make history.

We should have most of our senior list players available, which will be interesting.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by crashlander -
AFL 2026 Rd 1:   Carlton vs Richmond
We won, but we kicking 1 goal after half time was problematic.

Trends:
[1]   There were 15 voters this round, after a similar showing in the previous round. This is much better than we managed last year.
 Please do voteplease 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 7.69, which represents a C-, is a considerable improvement after last week, but still something that needs improving.

[3]   13 players managed a mention this week, two less than last week. These days, we often get 16+ for a decent win, but this wasn't a decent win.

[4]   The average vote this week was 25, which again shows significant dissatisfaction with the result and the effort after half time.

[5]   3 players managed 100 votes or more this week. This is the same as last week, but the totals suggest our better players were more effective.

[6] Jagga Smith was BOG this round with 254 votes; congratulations, youngster! He was followed by Sam Walsh with 233 and Patrick Cripps with 187.

[7]   One player managed votes from everyone this week, Jagga Smith. Walsh missed from 1 voter, while Cripps missed from 2.

[8]   The distribution of votes this week suggested that we had a more rounded performance across the board, rather than only getting something from the youngsters. Our mids were particularly strong, with 3 of them being the best 3 players on the ground.

[9]   Looking at the youngsters, Jagga Smith stood out. Matt Carroll was also significant.

Votes:
Smith, Jagga   254
Walsh, Sam   233
Cripps, Patrick   187
Pittonet, Marc  92
Weitering, Jacob  77
Carroll, Matthew  69
William, Zac  56
Lord, Cooper   54
Hewett, George  44
McGovern, Mitchell  36
Florent, Oliver  31
McKay, Harrison  13
Hayward, Will  8


Progressive Voting:
Walsh, Sam  526
Smith, Jagga  360
Pittonet, Marc  307
Patrick Cripps  192
Lord, Cooper  144
Weitering, Jacob  133
William, Zac  109
Matthew Carroll 70
Florent, Oliver  53
Hewett, George  52
Dean, Harry  38
Mitch McGovern  36
Ainsworth, Ben  34
Hollands, Oliver  22
Harry McKay  13
Hollands, Elijah  10
Kemp, Brodie  10
Will Hayward  8
Young, Lewis  2

Sam Walsh is the early leader, ahead of Jagga Smith. Pitto in 3rd says something.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Track and Field
Last post by Lods -
Jess Hull Bronze in the 3000m at the World Indoors,
Peter Bol looked really strong in winning his 800 metre semi-final

 Kurtis Marschall -Bronze in the pole vault with his second 6 metre clearance

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Carltons list changes needed to chase flag 17
Last post by laj -
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
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Voss showed he hadn't and get left behind with an outdated game plan. Unlike others, I think our list isn't too bad but not the right person to to drive it. For years our attitude hasn't been consistently good, generally poor. We can tend to give up pretty easily. When all that happens people everywhere tend to revert to "poor list" when it's not always the case. We've generally been a bad club inside and out for 25 years, bar some odd years, especially under Ratten. Doesn't matter how good your list is, that situation means you do no good.

We started with a rebuild then they gave us Bolton, Teague and Voss to take charge of it. A Hardwick-type may have been different. He got 2 sides with ordinary attitudes too fire brilliantly.
Skill level has always been an issue and the brand we play is terrible to watch.
The gap is getting wider between the best and worst teams imo in terms of quality of football being played.
Skills level can be a result of attitude too. Watching GWS tonight, who usually use it well, but tonight awful and dysfunctional.  Reflects how they are switched on. I'm sure most of our blokes at least don't come to the club as poor users but we seem to turn into that way. It's like catching a virus, except they catch the poor user syndrome. Remember in 2023. We went from poor users to good users in a matter of a week after the Ed Curnow camp. That was attitude.

Right now our brand of footy is horrible. The Richmond game made my eyes bleed watching it.