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Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #30 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Strange move from Hinkley imo and I thought Wines contributed well early when not in the ruck but tired when he went in the ruck and that move helped us both in the ruck contests and around the clearances.
Yes, I suspect a few of Hinkley's players are underdone and/or carrying injuries, because I thought the same about some of Hinkley's weirdness and couldn't explain it! It's like they'd work hard to win momentum then just surrender it a moment later.

Almost the AFL equivalent of a game of checkers, not sure it was a great night for either coach, but our players were switched on and supreme.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #31 –
Port looked cleaner than us in close and fumbled less.  Their top liners are certainly elite. 
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #32 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
Port looked cleaner than us in close and fumbled less.  Their top liners are certainly elite.
JHF is a freak and he lifts those around him.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #33 –
But Cripps owned him when it mattered because he worked harder and pushed harder defensively
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #34 –
In retrospect I think our season long contested style saw us through under the new rule, because our panicky game style isn't degraded by the rule change, I guess we've been doing it longer than the others. I didn't see that coming!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #35 –
Williams not only kicks goals he also knows how to block for the towers and occupy his man at the right time.

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #36 –
I don't think the change in interpretation of the holding the ball had a great impact on the game. We knew what to expect and there were no real surprises with the decisions. Cripps,
Charlie and Walsh played  pretty much in their normal fashion. A couple of times they were pinged for the same things they got away with last week, but we knew that was coming.

Probably the best lesson to come out of the game was to continue to keep playing in the normal  manner, rather than shutting up shop half way through the last quarter.

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #37 –
Rozee, Rioli? Two players out?
Hold my Beer!
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2025... Moir of the same to come

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #38 –
How good is it waking up to that win!

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #39 –
Findlayson, Georgiadis and the Charlie yet he rucked Wines and Soldo.  Am I missing something?
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #40 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Type of player you take off when the game is won to protect him from himself, hopefully only badly winded with some bruising at worst, played very well despite Soldos efforts to injure him and others.. 

He looked fine in the rooms after the game... no apparent shoulder or arm issues - probably winded.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #41 –
I thought the Voss presser was impressive, especially the discussion around holding Cincotta on Butters.

The media always bang on about should you do this move or do that move, rarely considering the costs of getting it wrong, but the presser showed Voss is in good form at the moment because he wasn't simplistically reactive, we took the win on Butters and didn't burn it trying to stop JHF.

Having said that I didn't think it was a great game for either coach, they sort of went in with a plan and stuck to it, almost like heavyweights gauging the opposition in the 1st Round. I suspect that's a sign they expect to meet at the pointy end of the season, neither have given too much away.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #42 –
Now that was us. As for that final qtr... for those of us getting long in the fang, reminiscent of the 70s/80s/mid 90s.

Rapt to see creativity from the coaching boxes. Williams to the forward line, Cincotta a run with role...

Charles and H working beautifully together.

Cowan & Kemp coming along nicely.

Acres rapidly becoming Mr Reliable. If not already.

Take a bow, TDK.

Crippa, Walshy... cometh the hour, cometh the men. (Walshy, stop putting the aggot onto the chest of opponents... clean up on that foot disposal and you may very well become Mr Perfect!).

Vossy, congrats on the weight loss and drinking water during games rather than that poison lolly-water, coke. Love your comment (when commentators mention AO hoodoo), "We don't play the ground, we play the opposition side." Or something like that. Great mindset. The boldness of tweaking during games is ripper stuff.

Another hoodoo (AO)... buried.

The Fantasia experiment aint working. Note to Mr Motlop... make it impossible not to get a recall to the senior line-up after Sunday's VFL game.

When we're the hunters, we're irresistible. Port succumbed to that relentless pressure, as will most.



Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #43 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
Findlayson, Georgiadis and the Charlie yet he rucked Wines and Soldo.  Am I missing something?
Kenny didn't get much right and Port need a change..

Re: AFL Rd 12 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

Reply #44 –
Quote from: pinot – on
How good is it waking up to that win!
And even better when this Melb boy wakes up in Adelaide after attending the game. Don't wear my scarf too often (other than at the game) but may just strut around town today with it on.