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Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #180 –
Quote from: PaulP – on
Well, I certainly hope the two of you are right.
Its all about the oppo and how I think we match up. For example, if I had to pick the oppo to play last week for our "finals lives", StK would have been the last team I would have picked to play. Why? We have been their bitches for a very long time (irrespective of ladder positions of either sides) I knew we weren't going to win that game. I am way more confident this week v Bris that the "no chance" I gave us against StK. I think with every team in 8,  we have a good chance of winning if:
- We get no more injuries (surely we have used up our injury credits at the injury bank)
- Vossy and co coach well
- Our pressure must be through the roof
- The MC make good selection decisions
Forgot to mention, we are led by the best captain in the comp who leads from the front and takes his team with him.
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time
2025-Carlton can win the 2025 AFL Premiership

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #181 –
Quote from: PaulP – on
Leaving aside the Navy Blue bias, does anyone really think we can win this ? I can't see it myself. Too many things against us IMO.
Richmond beat Sydney this year.

Anything can happen

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #182 –
Hi Bluebaggers
I'm briefly chiming in from Delft, Netherlands. I have patchy internet access for a while, so will be scanning your comments with great interest.

I have no idea what our squad will look like or how it will perform at the Gabba. What I do know is that our best is good enough. That assumes we have enough fit and firing"regular" starters on the team sheet.

Go Blues
Coming together is the beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Henry Ford.

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #183 –
Quote from: bobby – on
Agree 100% on the comment on C & H playing too deep, and leave Kemp down forward to mix things up.

IMHO Ithink Moir is something special. Play him. He is still under the radar / underestimated and therefore not respected yet. No better time to announce himself and do some damage.
Ageee 100% play Moir in the starting line-up.
Forget Martin, too risky

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #184 –
Quote from: pertz – on
Ageee 100% play Moir in the starting line-up.
Forget Martin, too risky
Ill be shocked if Martin plays. I suspect he may have played his last game for the club.
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time
2025-Carlton can win the 2025 AFL Premiership

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #185 –
Quote from: pertz – on
Ageee 100% play Moir in the starting line-up.
Forget Martin, too risky

I would leave him as sub, probably would bring him on 20 minutes into the 3rd though. Barring injury of course.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #186 –
As far as Voss and the MC are concerned, I would imagine a fit Martin would get the nod over Moir every time. And rightly so IMO. What happens with list management for next year is a whole other issue, but for now, he is too good to leave out, even allowing for a flaky, injury prone body.

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #187 –
I have a bad feeling that the match committee are going to make another stupid decision or two at the selection table again in desperation to manufacture a win.

Whilst Docherty would be automatically picked if fully fit, his limited preparation and recovery from another serious knee injury just has to rule him out. Imagine if he broke down with it mid-game ...... we'd be a player short and he would be out for all of next season too, the cost is way too high to roll the dice on right now.

Same goes for Cerra, we can't carry a guy into a cut-throat final who has endured three hammies this season alone. Get him fully fit in the off-season under a new conditioning guru and go again in 2025.

Jack Martin is a waste of space and cannot be relied upon, he should not be selected under any circumstances.

I can't see TDK being risked especially as Pittonet has been carrying the workload on his own recently.

Williams & Curnow should have recovered from their issues by now and need to be brought in, McKay had an abductor injury which normally take 3-4 weeks to fix so with some luck, he should be ready to go too. McGovern is also a hamstring injury which concerns me but I think they will select him regardless, same applies with Saad.

Owies is out with suspension already, you would expexct the other outs to come from Binns, Moir, Fantasia, Lord & Carroll but I beg to differ.

I think the changes will be :

IN : McKay, Curnow, Williams & McGovern
OUT : Owies, Fantasia, Binns & Durdin    


"The Other Teams Can Rot In Hell"

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #188 –
Our best is more than good enough to account for every team in the competition.  The challenge is creating the conditions that enable us to produce our best.

Having our best players on the park in form and fit enough to provide a genuine contest for the entire game is the key.  That’s followed by ensuring that the supporting cast is fit and in form but also that they are the right combination to complement our guns and to execute our game plan.

Then there’s game day planning, tactics, motivation, arousal, discipline and effort ... and a lot of noise from our supporters.

If the fitness staff have performed their magic on Harry and Charlie, we have genuinely fit players vying for selection, the MC gets it right, Vossy and his assistants nail the preparation for the game, and our supporters are vocal, we’ll win.

If we go in with players who aren’t ready for, or aren’t able to run out, a full game, our chances of winning will plummet.  That includes the sub.  You might get away with bringing on an unfit or fragile player as a tactical sub in the last quarter.  You’re screwed if they have to replace an injured player in the first quarter.
It's still the Gulf of Mexico, Don Old!

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #189 –
I'm confident
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time
2025-Carlton can win the 2025 AFL Premiership

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #190 –
No chance, we couldn't beat StKilda.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #191 –
Quote from: madbluboy – on
No chance, we couldn't beat StKilda.
Different story
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time
2025-Carlton can win the 2025 AFL Premiership
 

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #193 –
Quote from: madbluboy – on
No chance, we couldn't beat StKilda.

Lions are probably thinking we are no chance....and perhaps that is our biggest chance. being underestimated.

Our form has been poor. Our injury list massive. Our slide has been dramatic.

But....with a bit of luck, we've got a lot more players to choose from than we've had recently and could rise to the occassion like we did last year.

We came back to a prelim last year with worse form.

Re: AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

Reply #194 –
Quote from: madbluboy – on
No chance, we couldn't beat StKilda.
The side we put out against St.Kilda, the Saints should've flogged us. There might be a few differences in the line up.