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Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #75 –
Losing is just not an option here.

We should win and win easy.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #76 –
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Losing is just not an option here.

We should win and win easy.
I have been trying to convince myself of this in the lead up but I cant help but feel anxious. Years of losing the unlosable has conditioned me to be like this. 
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 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #77 –
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Losing is just not an option here.

We should win and win easy.
I have been trying to convince myself of this in the lead up but I cant help but feel anxious. Years of losing the unlosable has conditioned me to be like this. 

Backs against the wall against poor sides we usually take care of business.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #78 –
It reminds me about the claims we don't defend, and how the inference becomes players like Gov or Weitering, when to me the "not defending" starts at the other end of the ground.

Last week I saw BigH and Kemp chase blokes they could not possibly catch, to the point of their own detriment, I can't say I saw every Carlton forward doing the same and that left our Mids and HBFs exposed to numbers they could not cover!

That one weak link can be anywhere on the ground, and it only takes one on a ground the size of the MCG to create an undefendable amount of space!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #79 –
Whether or not we win is open for debate.

Im reviewing the side we are carrying into this one, and am not necessarily enthused with the team balance.  The Tigers dont lack run, and I would have thought that someone like Jordan Boyd in this week would make more sense than Matt Carroll.   To me, Carroll and Mcgovern fill the same hole 3rd tall intercept without a lot of run and carry.  Boyd gives us more run and carry.   

On the surface of it, Young, Weiters and Dean looks like too much tall timber, but the Tigers are going in with Faull, Armstrong and Lynch as tall players. 

Pittonet and Nank is a good match up.  Nank brings aggression, but pittonet brings strength.  That match up is good.  Up forward im a bit concerned though. 

I was less worried about this yesterday, but wondering if we missed a trick here.  Luckily the Tigers are also going in tall and have selected a lot of tall timber in the side.

"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #80 –
I really hope those inside the football department take the Tigers as seriously as they take the Lions, Swans etc. We are not in any position to be complacent or cocky IMO.

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #81 –
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Up forward im a bit concerned though.
If you mean our F50, I agreed, and it's not because of the departure Charlie or SoJ, it because we've had this issue of low scoring efficiency right through and before the tenure of Charlie and SoJ. Even before Voss.

It's the one thing we seem unable to correct, and let's not forget relative to his predecessors Voss has corrected plenty!

Do we know when the problem started, some will claim the departure of Betts set in the rot! Ignoring coaches, economic and administration issues, the biggest football mistake I've seen our club make in my lifetime. Dick Pratt would go and get the best, we let the best go, and it burns us to this day!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #82 –
Tigers are a bunch of rebuild kids and battlers, as MBB said we should take care of them easily and have a big win imo. I don't expect to see us defending for our lives in the last quarter or blown away in one quarter like last week.
Need a good win for confidence and while the media probably won't be impressed with anything we do at least we might get the club off the front and back page of the papers and settle a few people down .

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #83 –
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Losing is just not an option here.

We should win and win easy.
I thought that 12 months ago, and we were 7 goals up half way through the second quarter....
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #84 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Tigers are a bunch of rebuild kids and battlers, as MBB said we should take care of them easily and have a big win imo. I don't expect to see us defending for our lives in the last quarter or blown away in one quarter like last week.
Need a good win for confidence and while the media probably won't be impressed with anything we do at least we might get the club off the front and back page of the papers and settle a few people down .
I doubt the weather is going to be conducive to heavy scoring. Hopefully I'm wrong, but this is how luck like the luck of the weather, can influence a season.

The naysayers will claim I'm making an excuse in advance, I must be Nostradamus.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"
 

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #85 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Tigers are a bunch of rebuild kids and battlers, as MBB said we should take care of them easily and have a big win imo. I don't expect to see us defending for our lives in the last quarter or blown away in one quarter like last week.
Need a good win for confidence and while the media probably won't be impressed with anything we do at least we might get the club off the front and back page of the papers and settle a few people down .

Agree however i thought exactly the same thing when we played them in R1 last year and when we played the roos.

Despite our clear edge in quality if you compare the 2 squads fielding tonight that in itself counts for little and we are far from a certainty to get the 4 points if we are basing it only on that. Tactically we are bottom 4 and evey team that plays us knows that are never out it and if they get a run the flood gates will open. 

We are a fickle club at the best of times and my worry is the players no longer believe in as he has idea what levers to pull (oh except put cripps forward) if the game is not going to plan.

My heart says it will be a 10 goal win but this current list finds new ways to disappoint me so until the game is beyond doubt im far from confident   

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #87 –
Quote from: tonyo – on
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Losing is just not an option here.

We should win and win easy.
I thought that 12 months ago, and we were 7 goals up half way through the second quarter....
This does nothing for my anxiety levels, just gives me PTSD on top.
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 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #88 –
Does shizen weather suit us over Nthmond?

I think so, scrappy inside footy should be our go, and when the wind gusts that is the sort of footy you get, our average foot skills won't be such a handicap if both sides are missing targets. As long as we can force Nthmond into long kicking while keeping the intervening space closed up.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 1 2026 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond

Reply #89 –
Quote from: shawny – on
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Tigers are a bunch of rebuild kids and battlers, as MBB said we should take care of them easily and have a big win imo. I don't expect to see us defending for our lives in the last quarter or blown away in one quarter like last week.
Need a good win for confidence and while the media probably won't be impressed with anything we do at least we might get the club off the front and back page of the papers and settle a few people down .

Agree however i thought exactly the same thing when we played them in R1 last year and when we played the roos.

Despite our clear edge in quality if you compare the 2 squads fielding tonight that in itself counts for little and we are far from a certainty to get the 4 points if we are basing it only on that. Tactically we are bottom 4 and evey team that plays us knows that are never out it and if they get a run the flood gates will open. 

We are a fickle club at the best of times and my worry is the players no longer believe in as he has idea what levers to pull (oh except put cripps forward) if the game is not going to plan.

My heart says it will be a 10 goal win but this current list finds new ways to disappoint me so until the game is beyond doubt im far from confident   
Understand your thoughts Shawny but I'm trying to remain positive  for these next few games or it's going to be a miserable long season if we can't get to 3-1 and at least know we are no worse than last season and
with a bit of luck can progress a bit further.
Seems there is always another disaster waiting around the corner for the Carlton football club so we need to bank a few wins and hopefully ride the bumps.