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Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #75 –
His career is over. Again lol.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #76 –
Quote from: madbluboy – on
Team mates didn't want a bar of him after the match.
As portrayed by who, the media, the coach, did you ask them?

Didn't Bolton tell you need to become comfortable being uncomfortable?

If we as a team can't deal with this in a serious and respectful manner, show some care and respect for someone besides you in the trenches, how do you seriously expect any of them to deal with the public pressure of AFL?
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #77 –
To the winner the spoils.

Contrast the commentary about Elliott missing goals for the first 3 Qtrs with that of Harry.

btw., As bad as some of the shots at goal might be, the horrendous missing of targets in open play is even worse, but it's not just Carlton doing this in 2026. Games in general are more like episodes of The Keystone Cops than football.

The thing that differentiates us is not the poor skills, we are the same or equal of the rest, it's that a lack of leg speed / closing speed prevents recovering from the initial error, and it also hinders our ability to take a toll on the opposition's errors. Our list needs to be better skilled just to be equal because we have less time and space.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #78 –
Looks like it was a mental health issue. Heart rate very elevated throughput the game, sleeping an issue. Looks like one issue we have to be sensitive the way we approach it. Looks like it's a real issue. Not sure if he is manic/depressive and we got a manic episode last night. As I said,  I remember Rhett Baynes.

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #79 –
What an embarrassing club we have become. The EH
Quote from: madbluboy – on
His career is over. Again lol.

Yep and so it should be.

Shows how brain dead our coaches are to not notice. Fans from level 4, eating a pie having a beer - were talking about after the warm up. :o

HTF did it take to late in the last quarter from them to think maybe there is an issue here.

How disconnected is this club and i dont mean the players

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #80 –
Quote from: laj – on
Looks like it was a mental health issue. Heart rate very elevated throughput the game, sleeping an issue. Looks like one issue we have to be sensitive the way we approach it. Looks like it's a real issue. Not sure if he is manic/depressive and we got a manic episode last night. As I said,  I remember Rhett Baynes.

Addiction is a mental health issue im told. Just a nicer way of saying it

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #81 –
Quote from: laj – on
As I said,  I remember Rhett Baynes.
Same social media reaction, lots of people throwing rocks none of them knew what was going on, lots of guesses most of them 100% wrong.

This is when the Caro's of this world tell you ten versions of the same event, lots or if, but, maybes, this and or that, then weeks or months later come out and write "I told you so!"
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #82 –
Quote from: shawny – on
Addiction is a mental health issue im told. Just a nicer way of saying it
In fairness, addiction is more often than not the consequence of a long series of problems and events, it's rarely the root cause of a problem but a futile attempt to escape from it. That is why it's often starts with and is identified as mental health.

It's no good guessing about last night.

A while back I talked about scary trends in football, from amateur to professional ranks blokes are/were taking high dose paracetamol 1 - 2 hours before games. Pre-emptive self-medication because it stops the pain from in game collisions. But it leads to problems after the game, the AFL don't talk about it but it's endemic and has been for at least two decades. fwiw, It's endemic in rugby as well and most collision based professional sports. A famous past player has even talked about it in the media and it's just glossed over. The professional sports take it even further, handing out prescription only jabs to numb painful conditions. What happens the night after the game when these things wear off?
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #83 –
Quote from: shawny – on
HTF did it take to late in the last quarter from them to think maybe there is an issue here.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXNV9wrk_wY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Someone in the stands took this video of the pre-game warm-up, how that slipped through the net beggars belief. 
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Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #84 –
Quote from: laj – on
Looks like it was a mental health issue. Heart rate very elevated throughput the game, sleeping an issue. Looks like one issue we have to be sensitive the way we approach it. Looks like it's a real issue. Not sure if he is manic/depressive and we got a manic episode last night. As I said,  I remember Rhett Baynes.
You have to ask what was he doing on the field? We have all this focus on concussion and looking for symptoms, passing tests etc and Elijah clearly wasn't right and even the general public could see he needed help  yet he is allowed to continue.
The AFL should investigate both player and club as it was a serious breach of care imo.
Put yourself in the parents position seeing your son in that state on a football field and it should never happen again...
 

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #85 –
Quote from: LordLucifer – on
Quote from: shawny – on
HTF did it take to late in the last quarter from them to think maybe there is an issue here.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXNV9wrk_wY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Someone in the stands took this video of the pre-game warm-up, how that slipped through the net beggars belief. 

I watch him in the warm up in the centre when they were practicing ball ups, he had a white vest on and went to handball over his head and completely missed the football. That is totally unlike him. Now that I think back to the Sydney game, didnt he grubber the ball about three times? I remember thinking his foot must be jabbed up due to some sort of injury.
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
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2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
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2025-Carlton can win the 2025 AFL Premiership

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #86 –
Quote from: PaulP – on
I agree Lods. The math ain't mathin' wrt Elijah. There's clearly more to the story than meets the eye.

As to the game, another one where we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. A kid barely out of nappies misses 2 shots on goal, the best player in the comp needs to put on a clinic to get his team over the line, we had one player looking out of sorts, and we lose by 5 points to a coach who is supposedly a master motivator and master tactician.

The only reasonable conclusion from this is that we need a new football department. In fact, I would implore the club to create two new football departments, just to be on the safe side.

Best we do a complete cleanout to be sure.

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #87 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
You have to ask what was he doing on the field?
I know I've piled on about our headspace issues as a team, but this is just another example that there is something horribly wrong with our sports psychology and health departments.

We are a professional organisation, we probably have tens of university-trained professionals circulating among the players pre-game, and yet EH ends up out there!

I feel the chance that they all failed to notice something is negligible.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: AFL Rd 6 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

Reply #89 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Quote from: laj – on
Looks like it was a mental health issue. Heart rate very elevated throughput the game, sleeping an issue. Looks like one issue we have to be sensitive the way we approach it. Looks like it's a real issue. Not sure if he is manic/depressive and we got a manic episode last night. As I said,  I remember Rhett Baynes.
You have to ask what was he doing on the field? We have all this focus on concussion and looking for symptoms, passing tests etc and Elijah clearly wasn't right and even the general public could see he needed help  yet he is allowed to continue.
The AFL should investigate both player and club as it was a serious breach of care imo.
Put yourself in the parents position seeing your son in that state on a football field and it should never happen again...
My only conclusion today EB is that the medical staff thought it best he be out there with his team mates. Up until 3/4 time he spent 84% TOG. They rested him in the forth and ended up on 60%.
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