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AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Ready for tonight.
Live Long and Prosper!

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #1 –
There's plenty of negative posters who will bring the thread down, but before they do let me list some positives from tonight.

1. HOK. Big skull looked like he deserved to be out there. Play him next week. Need to get games into him now, especially if TDK leaves.

2. Cincotta came back and played like we all remember he can. Hopefully he can stay fit from now, we are a better side with him in it.

3. Williams came back and kicked a couple and brings a bit of class (and experience) to our forwards. Need to keep him fit as well.

4. 4 points. Thats what we needed to get. Thats what we got. Anything else is noise.

5. Got Eagles and North in the coming weeks. Lets get these baby steps up to a full on sprint in the next few weeks.

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #2 –
Gutsed it out
Watch on Cerra but hopefully no other injuries
Some issues seem to remain regarding letting sides back in.
Good debut by O'Keefe
Good effort from Motlop
A run of winnable games coming up ;)

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #3 –
A gutsy effort to win, but fork me dead that was a loss dressed as a win.  We could and should have put it away earlier (and really it should have been a percentage booster).

Tdk is not 100%.  He twisted his knee at one point.  He would be silly not to take the money, I reckon he's going to be a player that could be anything but his body won't let him.

Motlop played a much better game but still frustrates at times. 

A few too many vfl battlers playing but cincotta will be in the side rest of the year and has been sorely missed.
"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #4 –
Too many passengers and poor performers. Midfield was terrible after qtr time IMO. Disposal by Cerra, Acres, Doc and at times Walsh was second rate (again). That should have been a 10 goal win. We are still no good. Motlop was a shining light.
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 Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #5 –
TDK the difference, good effort to hang on and our mids I thought lifted in the last quarter. Take the 4 points but I'm not sure anything changed my opinion of where we are at, good to see Okeefe play his part and Motlop did some important stuff at the right time and I thought Acres was better than he has been in recent weeks.

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #6 –
We are a mid tier team and tonight proved that.

Scrapped a win against a fellow mid tier team far from full strength.

Any win against the enemy is nice BUT there is a gulf between us and a top 4 team which still leaves me disappointed on where i thought we may be. 

we we likely get the easy kills in the next few weeks get all the fans hopes up but yhis list of footballers is not going to cut it against the very best teams when the whips are cracking and thats a fact

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #7 –
Positives.

Motlop's best game for the club, both in attack and defence, I'll have him close to our BoG despite the late miss because he looked like he cared.

Ollie H getting better, good overhead and 1st class attack on the footy and the ball carrier.

Hewett must be borderline leadership for 2026.

I realise Goldstein is ageing, but it's good to see TDK do what he should be doing to these old blokes, hopefully Nankervis is next on his hit list. Don't bother wrestling with them, just get jumping and running.

Solid debut from HOK, has something.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #8 –
Quote from: LP – on
Positives.

Motlop's best game for the club, both in attack and defence, I'll have him close to our BoG despite the late miss.

Ollie H getting better, good overhead and 1st class attack on the footy and the ball carrier.

Hewett must be borderline leadership for 2026.

I realise Goldstein is ageing, but it's good to see TDK do what he should be doing to these old blokes, hopefully Nankervis is next on his hit list. Don't bother wrestling with them, just get jumping and running.

Solid debut from HOK, has something.
A ruckman worth remotely near the purported $1.7M would have have made an absolute mess of Goldy and forced him into retirement tonight. I dont think TDK took him to the cleaners.
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 Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #9 –
Quote from: shawny – on
We are a mid tier team and tonight proved that.

Scrapped a win against a fellow mid tier team far from full strength.

Any win against the enemy is nice BUT there is a gulf between us and a top 4 team which still leaves me disappointed on where i thought we may be. 

we we likely get the easy kills in the next few weeks get all the fans hopes up but yhis list of footballers is not going to cut it against the very best teams when the whips are cracking and thats a fact
Tend to agree, and I'm not pencilling any games in as a win just yet but a win vs Essendon is better than a loss and we can enjoy this week and look forward to WC which should be another victory .Like to see Ben Campo or Flynn Young play next week too, I think new young players
give you a lift at times and invigorate the team and next week is good game to blood another player.

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #10 –
Feeling really despondent after that game.

We were nearly 40 points up and then through our own stupid errors and crap Skills we let them back in to nearly win the game.

The umpiring is a lottery and they kill some enjoyment of the game. What is HTB one way is not the ohher; how Ollies errant Kick Off the side of this boot going INTO our f50 Is deemed deliberate is just baffling, a momentum and enjoyment killer.

I don’t feel much joint energy in this team at all; funnily enough this is the most crapty I’ve felt after a ‘win’ for a long time.

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #11 –
For mine, silvagni was our most important player on the night.  Gave caddy an absolute bath.  When he had 2 metre peter for company stitched him up too.

They ended with Gresham playing defensive forward on him and that was the move that made Nick Haynes the more prominent interceptor and that almost swung the match in their favour.

"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #12 –
Positives - 4pts, George, Motlop, HOK, Acres coming good

Negatives - seen nothing resembling improvement and time is ticking
Coming together is the beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Henry Ford.

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #13 –
Quote from: LoveNavy – on
Positives - 4pts, George, Motlop, HOK, Acres coming good


Another positive was that using McG as a forward meant that he was relieved of the usual (heart in mouth) kick-in duties

Re: AFL Rd 13 2025 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Essendon

Reply #14 –
Definition of a crap win…(and some of the comms said it)

Mots looked good,  but was still “almost”, could’ve had half a dozen goals, almost

I can’t work doc out.  At times looked so good in defence.  Missing piece with newy out. But t other times looked fumbly and a liability

King was dominant at times, but then we got killed in the middle at times, which he must be blamed for
 
Walshy brilliant for 2 quarters, but zero for the other 2

Jsos now one of our most important players

We miss H.  Yes HOK was great, but he had 5 contested marks and 5 touches.   He will be great, but we need experienced H who can influence outside of a 1 on 1 grab

Fwd line looks better with Zac in it

Cinc so important

We will,win the next 2, but until we learn to keep that first q of footy going for 4qs, there is no point making finals