Preview 2023 Rd 18 Carlton vs Port Adelaide Saturday July 15 4:35PM @ Marvel Stadium

[Aphrodite]

Team is in …


IN: Tom De Koning

12

Tom De Koning

Age

24

Ht

201cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.0

2star

K

3.0

1star

HB

5.0

4star

CL

0.5

2star

HO

1.5

4star

No current season stats available

D

8.0

2star

K

3.0

1star

HB

5.0

4star

CL

0.5

3star

HO

1.5

5star

OUT: Matthew Kennedy (knee), Lewis Young

33

Lewis Young

Age

25

Ht

202cm

Wt

99kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.6

3star

K

7.5

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

4.4

4star

T

1.6

4star

MG

197.9

3star

D

4.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

1.0

1star

M

3.0

3star

T

0.0

1star

MG

26.0

1star

D

14.4

4star

K

8.2

4star

HB

6.2

4star

M

6.4

5star

T

2.0

4star

MG

181.6

3star

After starting last weekend as sub, George Hewett

29

George Hewett

Age

28

Ht

187cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.7

4star

K

7.4

3star

HB

10.3

5star

M

2.7

3star

T

4.1

5star

CL

3.3

5star

D

13.8

3star

K

4.8

2star

HB

9.0

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

2.8

4star

D

11.2

3star

K

7.8

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

3.4

4star

T

4.0

5star

CL

0.4

3star

has been elevated into the 22

AFL team news: De Koning named for return

Tom De Koning will return for Carlton this Saturday.

www.carltonfc.com.au

Backs:	Brodie Kemp	Jacob Weitering	Nic Newman
Half-backs:	Jordan Boyd	Mitch McGovern	Adam Saad
Centreline:	Blake Acres	Patrick Cripps	Sam Walsh
Half-forwards:	Lachie Fogarty	Charlie Curnow	Matthew Owies
Forwards:	David Cuningham	Harry McKay	Jack Martin
Followers:	Tom De Koning	Adam Cerra	Sam Docherty
Interchange:	Alex Cincotta	Matthew Cottrell	George Hewett
	Jack Silvagni
Emergencies:	Paddy Dow	Ollie Hollands	Caleb Marchbank
	Jesse Motlop

 

[Arr0w]

The last 3 weeks looked exactly like the Eagles game. Opposition applies zero pressure and we play fast, attacking footy and kick lots of goals.

Fremantle turned in their worst effort of the year. Hawthorn were awful and didn't kick a goal for an entire half. Suns had a historically bad quarter. And the Eagles are arguably the worst side in AFL history. Those are our wins surrounded by convincing losses against finals contending sides.

If we pump Port this weekend I'll be driving the *in bandwagon right into September.. but I think we need we need to temper expectations until we win an actual contest.

Dockers actually applied elite pressure in the 1st half, but we just choked them, a side that has beaten 3 top 8 sides

Analysis by win loss is flawed, but we are a completely different side at the moment

And if we beat Port, the rhetoric will be that they have outs and due for a loss

Rinse and repeat

 

[katmanblue]

Pies will DESTROY dockers by 10goals plus.


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It'd be great if they dont

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[Rosscoe 17]

Kennedy was the Curnow draft

Thought Kennedy was recruited in 2017 and Curnow drafted 2015.

 

[luke livingston seagull]

They both ended their careers as rebounding defenders that played against small forwards. You're sitting here telling me about Matthew Hogg, but did you just tune out the proceeding 24 years?

Final 44 games (2 complete seasons) starting positions for Houlihan and Lappin:

Hoops:
Forward 23
Interchange 12
Back 6
Mid 3

Skinny:
Forward 22
Interchange 9
Mid 8
Back 5

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

Hollands - 1 game back in the VFL after a lengthy layoff and not even the best player in a fairly one sided game... straight back in as an emergency.
Binns - in the best few players every week and probably best on against Coburg... crickets

While I hate the idea of players debuting as the sub, he should at least be named as a reward for his bloody good season.
Even Dow can crack an emergency spot after not playing at all and coming off a concussion.

 

[Benaly28]

What kind of crowd is expected? I only just upgraded my AFL membership to a reserved seat because I just had some plans changed which means I can go instead of watching on TV. I managed to sit in L1 premium which never happens for me unless I get really organised and upgrade as soon as they go on sale. Maybe I've left it late enough that they just released a bunch of extra seats on L1 or is there just going to be a small crowd?

45k


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[Graffy4242]

Fantastic analysis and goes to show how much better we are with players that are natural forwards and more aggressive

Martin especially is so important to structure and system

Jack's physicality in the Forward 50 has allowed the ball to stay in there rather than exit easily. He's a potential match winner for us.

 

[Benaly28]

Not sure who is creating the so called ‘hype’ around us.

At this stage we’ve beaten teams below us albeit in great fashion but until we knock over a legit top 8 team the jury is out and so it should be.


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[4flagsin5yrs]

The good Lord is no twig, he is built like Charlie but doesn't have Dixon skills.
The first year player is the grandson son of Alistair Lord of Geelong & Brownlow Medal fame, and loves smashing packs.

92kg vs. Charlie's 110kg (++)

I know who I'd rather be 'smashed' by.....

 

[HarryFlashman]

Hollands - 1 game back in the VFL after a lengthy layoff and not even the best player in a fairly one sided game... straight back in as an emergency.
Binns - in the best few players every week and probably best on against Coburg... crickets

While I hate the idea of players debuting as the sub, he should at least be named as a reward for his bloody good season.
Even Dow can crack an emergency spot after not playing at all and coming off a concussion.

Fair point, Hollands coming back off a decent injury, you would think the more apt & conservative approach would be another game in the 2s.
It’s not like he tore it up.
The Binns story is “they are building him up & he’s not big”- but your splitting hairs on the size difference with Hollands & Binns has been killing it. Doesn’t appear to particularly smart managment.

 

[GordonBlue]

The last 3 weeks looked exactly like the Eagles game. Opposition applies zero pressure and we play fast, attacking footy and kick lots of goals.

Fremantle turned in their worst effort of the year. Hawthorn were awful and didn't kick a goal for an entire half. Suns had a historically bad quarter. And the Eagles are arguably the worst side in AFL history. Those are our wins surrounded by convincing losses against finals contending sides.

If we pump Port this weekend I'll be driving the *in bandwagon right into September.. but I think we need we need to temper expectations until we win an actual contest.

I concur that there are people getting way ahead of themselves, however I don't like the justification by downplaying the previous performances.

Suns may look down now, however we took their confidence away. Had they beaten us, they would have been top 8. Pressure number by GC was actually very high. They did come to play.
Hawks are not as bad as they look. Yes, they have their poor games, however only 2 games earlier they had easily accounted for Brisbane.
Freo at home in any year are tough, however they had only just easily defeated Essendon at home and again look at their numbers and they still came to play. They had nearly 80 tackles.

We made each of those three teams look as bad as they did.

Put the Eagles aside. I don't find it relatable to the team playing now.

I am not clearing my September schedule yet. However the previous three performances have been of a very high quality and should not be diminished.

I think most of us feel that this week will tell us what we want to know.

 

[Raging Blue]

Fremantle threw everything at us in the second quarter. They ramped up the pressure big time but we did something, which we've done the last few weeks, that we haven't seen in many, many years. We've held up, ramped up the pressure ourselves and counter-punched with scoreboard pressure.

Granted we've played three sides in the bottom half but technically all three games were over by half time. We are obviously playing a top side tomorrow but there is an air of confidence in the manner we are playing that makes tomorrow a very winnable game.

We need to stop thinking top 4 & bottom 4. About 15 teams should be measured as ranked between 6 to 12. There are no top 4 teams but someone has to make up the numbers.

That's why if you have your full list and time your run, anything is possible. Look at Swans, no injuries last year. Pies & Port have advantage because they can rest players but week off to start finals mitigates that if you get there.

Our wins have been impressive by the manner we have won them. Different to the previous year and early this year when we were relying on individual brilliance. We won but you still felt frustrated afterwards.

The past 3 wins have had chemistry, instinct, selflessness, speed, class and suffocation about them. A true team first, defensive mindset. You felt confident for the first time watching them during the game.

Teams will be taking note on the way we are playing now for sure. Let's see how we respond.

 

[kreuze_missile]

OK you've all got me convinced.

I'm booking in the premership tattoo now.

Go blues.

 

[Juddernaut08]

The last 3 weeks looked exactly like the Eagles game. Opposition applies zero pressure and we play fast, attacking footy and kick lots of goals.

Fremantle turned in their worst effort of the year. Hawthorn were awful and didn't kick a goal for an entire half. Suns had a historically bad quarter. And the Eagles are arguably the worst side in AFL history. Those are our wins surrounded by convincing losses against finals contending sides.

If we pump Port this weekend I'll be driving the *in bandwagon right into September.. but I think we need we need to temper expectations until we win an actual contest.

respectfully disagree 1000%.

The eagles game was a thrashing but the ball movement was still very different. we still kicked high and long every time ... just that we had far superior talls who made it work because Eagles had no-one to match up with them.

The last 3 weeks we've moved the ball better and particularly going inside F50, we're finding people in space with better leading patterns. It has been less predictable than the "bomb it long to charlie or mckay and hope they mark or give a crumb".

 

[passmark]

Jack's physicality in the Forward 50 has allowed the ball to stay in there rather than exit easily. He's a potential match winner for us.

Yes. I hope he’s lurking in the vicinity of a certain son of a gun when we play the pies.

 

[Bamboo Harvester]

Hollands - 1 game back in the VFL after a lengthy layoff and not even the best player in a fairly one sided game... straight back in as an emergency.
Binns - in the best few players every week and probably best on against Coburg... crickets

While I hate the idea of players debuting as the sub, he should at least be named as a reward for his bloody good season.
Even Dow can crack an emergency spot after not playing at all and coming off a concussion.

For mine, it actually makes sense for Dow to be the sub. He's had the week's break and the VFL have a bye this week, so if nothing else, he'd be cherry ripe to go into this game.

Ollie looks like he needs a bit more time in the magoo's after his injury, and poor ol' Binnsy still waiting it out. I reckon WCE could be the perfect opportunity to debut him.

Marchy you would imagine has been named emergency in case Gov don't get up.

 

[thylacine60]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/carlton-coach-plays-down-expectations-after-three-wins-in-a-row/news-story/765df8bb8b5bc8d704b867bf5cd402a2

 

[Arr0w]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/carlton-coach-plays-down-expectations-after-three-wins-in-a-row/news-story/765df8bb8b5bc8d704b867bf5cd402a2

“We’ve maintained that as a message for quite a period of time now, but it certainly has gained a lot of traction in the last little while,” Voss said.

 

[Kramer1]

OK you've all got me convinced.

I'm booking in the premership tattoo now.

Go blues.

Christ I hope so...

Been waiting ten years to update my 2013 premiership tatt.

 

[agro]

No Robbie Gray

9

Robbie Gray

Age

36

Ht

183cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.9

5star

K

9.8

4star

HB

10.1

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

3.2

5star

G

1.4

5star

D

13.3

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

7.3

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.6

4star

G

0.6

4star

D

10.4

3star

K

6.6

3star

HB

3.8

3star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.4

4star

G

1.4

5star

to rip our hearts out - ball is in our court.

 

[SkyhorseTamer]

No Robbie Gray to rip our hearts out - ball is in our court.

Kreuzer! Become a hero!

 

[JustaBattler]

“We’ve maintained that as a message for quite a period of time now, but it certainly has gained a lot of traction in the last little while,” Voss said.

Voss said the form reversal had come from working on the simple things, like contest work and pressure around the ground, that had dropped off.

“We’ve maintained that as a message for quite a period of time now, but it certainly has gained a lot of traction in the last little while,” Voss said.

“There was some simplicity in it. I think when you go through the last little period of time you got to look at what’s really important to your game.”

 

[agro]

Christ I hope so...

Been waiting ten years to update my 2013 premiership tatt.

Been waiting 28 years to change my PIN.

 

[Mezzoculo]

fmd........

Forgot my dentures?

 

[thylacine60]

“We’ve maintained that as a message for quite a period of time now, but it certainly has gained a lot of traction since we've been taking more notice of BigFooty”, Voss said.