Saturday night at 19:05 in Hobart.
Couldn't be further away from the seniors.
Not sure what our team will look like, but I strongly doubt that any of the Senior's emergencies will play.
I'd say there will be a pretty strong VFL contingent playing this week.
Our line-up:
B: 41 Matt Duffy 47 Wade Derksen 42 Adam Saad
HB: 28 Harry Charleson 37 Jordan Boyd 34 Rob Monahan
C: 31 Campbell Chesser 15 Billy Wilson 13 Blake Acres
HF: 8 Lachie Fogarty 29 George Hewett 70 Darcy Hogg
F: 45 Flynn Young 40 Hudson O'Keeffe 30 Jack Ison
R: 56 Flynn Riley 50 Darcy Tucker 46 Matthew Cottrell
Int: 61 Dane Harvey 51 Jaiden Magor 64 Archie Stevens 65 Jed Rule 75 Liam Farrar 58 Jack Sammartino 59 Cooper Vickery 62 Oliver Warburton 68 Taj Logan 57 Alwyn Davey 74 Logan Prout 77 Will Cookson
EM: 73 Tom Stapleton
[1] 15 AFL Blues named, but only 12 will probably be going to Tassie. All three Emergencies will probably travel. Hence the last bench and the Emergency.
[2] Height: Fair dinkum, we don't have much. But why didn't Derksen play last week if he isn't in the seniors? To be honest, I have no idea. If I remember, Stapleton is a ruckman. He'll probably debut.
Debuts potentially to Magor, Rule and Alwyn Davey. First game for the year for stalwarts Archie Stevens, Cooper Vickery and Oliver Warburton.
None of our senior Emergencies are playing,as expected.
In fact, Cottrell has come in for a late replace for Ollie Hollands.
I can't see Stapleton on the team sheet, which makes our team dependent on one ruck, Flynn Riley. :(
He is doing OK so far, but I have no idea who is going to replace him when he needs a rest.
As usual, we can't kick straight:
Carlton: 0 - 4 - 4
Tassie: 1 - 2 - 8
Charleson and Wilson with 10 possessions each, at this point.
Quarter Time:
Carlton: 0 - 4 - 4
Tassie: 1 - 3 - 9
Wilson with 11 possessions, Charleson with 10.
Riley doing well in the ruck.
Who is going to kick the goals?
Not great viewing.
Nobody standing up as yet.
Tassie are 3-0 but this is the first afl listed team they have played against, so shows the gap between the 'classes'.
We're winning most of the important stats, but can't make Tassie pay. Not the first time this has happened: we really need some young KP types.
Dominating play, but for no result. We have 5 of the top possessions getters on the ground.
Liam Farrar opens our account! Mirabile visu!
Magor is looking ok. Seems to be a good user of the ball. Set up our 2nd goal with a good kick inside 50.
We're winning now 16-11. Billy Wilson already has 17 touches.
I liked the boot throwing contest at 1/4 time. Goodonya Tassie!
Love Billy Wilson's game so far.
Reckon that last one was touched, ah well, they are due some luck
Ripped off then, the replay clearly shows touched, a deflection, but they were awarded a goal.
Do not understand how a goal umpire less than 3m away can miss that, you'd hear the flick on such a deflection.
Time for the big boys
The game is a bit to and fro, but on disposal proficiency some of the VFL listed are showing up our AFL listed.
Score?
Carl 42 Tas 20
10 min in of the 3rd
Carl 48 Tas 20
Is this on tv
You can get a steam from the afl website
Close to the end now but I'm pretty sure 7+ is showing all the devils games this year
That's where I watched the first half
Carl 86 Tas 55
There is something I just do not understand about AFL 2026 style, blokes take the footy in clear space and just stone cold drop it when tackled, often after taking a couple of steps, and it's play on.
How is that ruling rational when in the same game you see a bloke like Cripps pinged for holding on the inside of a stoppage, often when tackled and being held before he even takes the footy?
Ditch the prior opportunity and there is consistency across all contests. ;)
Carl 92 Tas 61
Ison has 4
Well, I'm afraid they've already gone halfway to that, and for the simple reason the imbalance in the decision making combined with variability of the stand rule has made things worse than ever before.
You can lay a perfect tackle in the goal square and umpires are afraid to pay the free, even after moments of clear play, that's nothing to do with prior opportunity.
Further to that, when those calls go the exact wrong way, and you've already pressed forward, you're basically screwed by the stand rule going the other way.
We win 93-68
Hewett and Wilson both had 39 disposals.
Chesser had 27
The best Ruckman at Carlton not on our list (or maybe just the best)-Flynn Riley had 19 disposals 39 hitouts and 8 marks.
Carlton: 14 - 9 - 93
Tassie: 9 - 14 - 69
Quite something, considering we missed our first 4 shots and didn't score a goal in the first quarter. I am going to enjoy watching the replay.
What I can gather from the stats:
[1] We had 7 of the top 8 possessions getters. Some of our mids had incredibly dominant games.
Billy Wilson: 40 possessions, 0 tackles and 1 clearance. Probably his most effective game.
George Hewett: 39 possessions and is too good for the VFL. He had 10 clearances and 7 tackles in a Cripps-like game.
Campbell Chesser had his best game by far, with 27 possessions, 4 clearances, 3 tackles and a goal.
Harry Charleson had 27 possessions as well from defence.
Jordan Boyd had 26 possessions.
Adam Saad had 25 possessions.
Darcy Hogg had 23 possessions.
[2] To repeat the obvious, we really lack real targets going forward. There are few options to take a mark.
That said, Jack Ison kicked 4 goals 1 from 9 possessions to be the most effective forward on the park.
Derksen kicked 2 goals 1 and had 19 possessions, suggesting he wants a senior game. But who else was there?
[3] Flynn Riley has his issues in the ruck, but he was dominant tonight. He had 39 taps, almost 4 times as many as his opponent. Mapley was being talked about as a MSD option and he had 12 taps.
Riley also had 6 clearances, 8 marks and 19 possessions.
[4] Considering the structural issues we have at the moment, the 2's did an amazing job.
Did Flynn Young play?
Nope, they took him to Perth as a n emergency and ended up playing Cottrell
Lods will be looking forward to his boy Billy running out vs the Saints perhaps...
I’d like to see him get a game. I do rate him.
Just a few things to keep in mind. A lot of his possessions are of the “give, get straight back” nature which tends to inflate his possession numbers.
He seems to have a pretty good understanding with Boyd and if we add in Charleson, they are getting a lot of games together (stability is another key we could take to the seniors).
When he was promoted last year he took probably three games to look really comfortable and get the pace of the game. He’ll know what to expect this time. But if he’s promoted hopefully it’s not a 'straight out' if he doesn’t have a great game first up.
Im all for giving youth a go, about the only positives we can get for the season are finding some promising young players and while I wouldnt be flooding the senior team with every kid on the list Id be introducing some to the bigtime gradually and your boy Billy and Charleson should be inline for a call up.
I saw about 2.5 quarters of this, working around the seniors, and just made my ins/outs for next week.
I've got Wilson coming in.
Not because of the amount of possessions, because they were inflated somewhat by 1-2's, but more because of his kicking.
I'm sick of Florent pinpointing opposition, so i'd do a swap between them.
From what i can see, Wilson didn't have to do a lot of defending, so we'll see how that goes in the 1's.
Charleson was a bit similar.....but there isn't anyones spot he looks close to taking yet.
Overall the boys did alright considering they had nobody up forward to kick too.
Hewett shows he is too good for this level and deserves a recall
Tassies first ever loss in the VFL thanks to us.
Happy to do that in the 1's in a couple years too. >:D
I'm also a bit unsure about Wilson's 'defending' side.
He's a bit like Saad in that respect.
He's an 'attacking' defender.
But he doesn't make a lot of tackles, and a couple of times last night he failed to stick ones he probably should have made.
On the other hand he doesn't shirk the contest...so that may be a watch if he's given a senior opportunity.
At the moment having Saad and Hewett is distorting the performances of the rest a bit. Opponents are loathed to leave either with too much space to work in, and they both hold their position well, it makes a huge difference to the players around them. I wonder what our MC want from them in terms of change or evolution. Hewett looked to be a step up on Cerra yesterday, the only negative I can see is that both Hewett and Saad tend towards safe options, they have become a bit turnover gun shy. But AFL 2026 style no longer allows you to "safe yourself" to a victory, it's not soccer and a 1-0 ain't going to cut it!
2026 is being defined by attacking momentum bursts, not stoic defence.
The Tassie side is pretty raw, lots of young talent, aggression, energy, living off the excitement, but it's all a bit naivé.
We seemed to play a pretty small defence in the VFL last night and it did quite well.
Derksen played as much ruck and forward as defence and kicked a couple of goals
Devils had their lowest score of the year.
In fairness, they had no ruck, their KPPs are "only" Cripps size.
In fairness they run and run and run like no VFL team I've seen before. This is the direction AFL is going in, once they start making better decisions and use the pill wisely they'll hurt a lot of opposition.
It just goes to show how valuable the giants really are, if they were so easy to find Tassie would be full of them.
Just finished watching the replay. Not a lot to mention that I haven't already. But:
[1] I like Jack Sammartino. No nonsense, hard at it, plays above his height. One of the better pickups at this level.
[2] Flynn Riley: I've mentioned elsewhere that I think he is at least as good as Reidy. He dominated the ruck, but he really has his limitations. For a guy that big he isn't that strong. He struggled with Dixon, because Dixon uses his body well. Still, he is not a bad player at all. He can take a mark.
[3] We really lack marking targets. We had huge numbers of uncontested marks, but in a pack? Forget it. Even the mid sized Devils took some.
[4] Derkson: he has no idea how to ruck. The Devils kicked 4 in a row when he was rucking. As a forward, on the other hand, he did some nice things. He looked much better in attack than in defence.
[5] Blake Acres: he worries me, to be honest. He had 21 disposals, but he wasn't really that noticeable. And he isn't taking the big marks he used to.
Still, he didn't kick any on the full this week.
[6] Duffy: he was pretty good this week and didn't have many kicked on him, but for one real brain fade in the last quarter. I don't know if he is going to make it, but he is a much better player these days.
[7] Logan Prout: missed all last year with a knee, he has fit in nicely. Like Sammartino, he isn't spectacular, but he does a good job.
[8] Darcy Hogg: Probably not going to make it in the big league: he's just a bit small, a bit light. But he does put his body in. There is a lot to like about the way he does things.