Preview 2023 Preliminary Final Carlton vs Brisbane Sat 23rd Sept 5.15PM @ Gabba

[Aphrodite]

TEAM IS IN …


IN: Jordan Boyd, Jack Martin

21

Jack Martin

Age

29

Ht

186cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.2

4star

K

10.0

4star

HB

6.3

4star

M

4.9

5star

T

3.7

5star

G

0.9

4star

D

14.9

4star

K

7.9

3star

HB

7.0

4star

M

4.3

4star

T

3.6

4star

G

1.1

5star

D

8.2

2star

K

4.6

2star

HB

3.6

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.0

4star

G

0.6

3star

, Harry McKay

10

Harry Mckay

Age

26

Ht

200cm

Wt

106kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.9

3star

K

7.5

3star

HB

2.4

2star

M

5.5

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

1.4

5star

D

6.6

1star

K

4.6

2star

HB

2.0

1star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.4

2star

G

1.4

5star

D

8.8

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

2.0

2star

M

4.4

4star

T

0.8

3star

G

2.0

5star

OUT: David Cuningham, Brodie Kemp, Matthew Kennedy, Matthew Owies

AFL team selection: Four changes for preliminary final

Carlton has named its team for the preliminary final.

www.carltonfc.com.au

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

 

[Sweet Seventeen]

Anyone else think that JSOS is a chance for Saturday? Resigned for two year's, now bring him in along with H and Martin. TDK up there as well at times and Brissie not having Payne available. But then this could perhaps make us too top heavy.

Kennedy for H
Cuners for Martin
Marchy for Hollands
Owies for JSOS
Sub Dow

 

[Jimmyonesix]

Pickett’s bump and jumper punch plus slinging Walsh head first into fence. So much for “protecting players heads”!!!!

The picket one does my head in same action as earlier in year breaks a guys nose and gets less time .. ball had gone past him before he launched off the ground . I thought they give maybe 3 definitely 2 -- maybe one for stupidity

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Early menu preparation?

Hindley St Mobster ribs.

Locked in.

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

Anyone else think that JSOS is a chance for Saturday? Resigned for two year's, now bring him in along with H and Martin. TDK up there as well at times and Brissie not having Payne available. But then this could perhaps make us too top heavy.

Kennedy for H
Cuners for Martin
Marchy for Hollands
Owies for JSOS
Sub Dow

We might be going in too tall as it is, don’t think JSOS plays again this year unless we cop an injury to a tall from here on in.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Anyone else think that JSOS is a chance for Saturday? Resigned for two year's, now bring him in along with H and Martin. TDK up there as well at times and Brissie not having Payne available. But then this could perhaps make us too top heavy.

Kennedy for H
Cuners for Martin
Marchy for Hollands
Owies for JSOS
Sub Dow

While I'd love to see JSOS play a finals game, having 3 tall forwards and 2 ruckman will make us ridiculously slow.

 

[Sweet Seventeen]

While I'd love to see JSOS play a finals game, having 3 tall forwards and 2 ruckman will make us ridiculously slow.

Yes, this could only work if Pitt was dropped and JSOS was the relief ruck. But, that won't happen.

 

[4flagsin5yrs]

Brisbane were clearly the best team we played all year in terms of their ability to play the game on their terms imo. We were out of form, but my mates and I all walked away saying "that was like the Geelong game last year" and with the feeling that the flag was theirs to lose (like Geelong last year, albeit not on the level of the Cats last year). The Lions have a different feel about them this year - like they really believe they're the best (which I think is the case) and they're playing with more maturity up forward. I can only assume that since that game we've done a load of work figuring out our best system to beat them, so I'm looking forward to seeing what we produce.

I reckon we've got the talent, but whether we have the system and fitness is another question. I'd be more confident if we were playing more like Carlton 6-12 weeks ago. That being said, anything can happen on any given day and we know our guys will give everything they've got. For that reason alone, we can go in with the belief that we can do this.

Watch the game they played against Gold Coast when GC battered them....

Therein lies the key.

 

[Benaly28]

Don't care how we were playing 6 weeks ago...I was 10 rows from the front the other day and both sides were bloody hard and the pace frenetic. We'll give our all that's for sure

Agree.

I was in Row F and some of the bone crunching hits and tackles were so loud I couldn’t begin to understand what players’ bodies go through.


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[The Blue Weirdo]

Great to have such a positive poster back here.

That's an understatement.
Ranked number 1.

 

[Blues_1864]

Not many "perfect kicks" in a game. Even the Doc kick needed Gov assisting with holding out an opponent

What impressed me about Hollands, was that he just went quickly to a viable option, kept the ball in motion

Yep, penetrating kick too, even if it didn't go exactly where it was supposed to. Hollands looked good with fresh legs, and it got me to thinking that all that gut-running as an 18-year-old has cost us something with his kicking, all season. Nothing a couple of good pre-seasons won't fix, but there is significant improvement to come, for sure.

 

[katmanblue]

If Payne does not play it is a massive bonus for us/Charlie.

I'm pretty sure he'll play. They were saying just a niggle on the Brissy board.

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[Show_Me_The_Money]

The picket one does my head in same action as earlier in year breaks a guys nose and gets less time .. ball had gone past him before he launched off the ground . I thought they give maybe 3 definitely 2 -- maybe one for stupidity

It's an absolute joke the guy jumps off the ground to bump and it's only deemed careless.

 

[Blues_Man]

I'm pretty sure he'll play. They were saying just a niggle on the Brissy board.

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well they would know ...where's the eye roll emoji

 

[Blues_Man]

While I'd love to see JSOS play a finals game, having 3 tall forwards and 2 ruckman will make us ridiculously slow.

Pitto and TDK worked a treat ...as if they will change a winning formula for a player who hasn't played for over a month ?

 

[Wickzki]

There's only two games on this week, media will latch on to any story and run it into the ground to fill time.

I've been living here since we 2015. They've had injuries at this stage of the season before. There's never been OTT media coverage like this one.

I've gotten behind them most years (except this year, obviously).

I know he's been injured. They're just treating this one very differently

 

[Soapy V]

I know Lions are favourites especially as it’s at home for them.

But we have a number of genuine elite players that can drag us over the line

If Charlie McKay TDK Cripps Walsh and/or Cerra have a day out we win

 

[ESKIE]

Hindley St Mobster ribs.

Locked in.

We’re ( sis & I) are having mussels… tomato chilli garlic a few ‘erbs

 

[reg_lower91]

Imagine the pressure the kid was feeling... had to know it was the last roll of the dice.

Under those circumstances the kick wasn't too bad at all and Doc made it work so what's the problem?

Wasn’t perfectly executed, but it was the perfect kick. It left for the Dees player to think they had a chance at spoiling, which led them to over-commit and then you know the rest. Saying this all in hindsight of course, but imagine being 18 or 19yo and you have that moment with that roar of the crowd and that pressure. I wouldn’t want it.

 

[ESKIE]

I know Lions are favourites especially as it’s at home for them.

But we have a number of genuine elite players that can drag us over the line

If Charlie McKay TDK Cripps Walsh and/or Cerra have a day out we win

Nice to have you back on here Soapy

 

[reg_lower91]

I have a genuine belief we can win this game. Certainly not an expectation, but a belief.

It’ll be bloody tough. But we can do it. I know we can.

 

[katmanblue]

well they would know ...where's the eye roll emoji

They'd know better than us.

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[Benaly28]

We’ve won both our finals with hardly any input from Charlie and Harry in the first final and obviously no Harry in the second.

Sure we’re banged up and not playing with the fluency of the other 3 teams left but we have one big advantage….




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[katmanblue]

For me, the game hasn’t changed in this respect. The quicker you move the ball the greater the chance of catching an opponent out of position. Ollie’s kick tumbled properly, hit the target and Doc was off to the races. The whole sequence from Weitering to Acres was perfect. A work of art. That’s what I love about footy.

That sequence is absolute gold.

Up there with:

"James catches, puts up a 3, won't go. Rebound Bosh. Back out to Allen. His 3-pointer. Bang!"

I'll never forget either.

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[katmanblue]

Anyone else think that JSOS is a chance for Saturday? Resigned for two year's, now bring him in along with H and Martin. TDK up there as well at times and Brissie not having Payne available. But then this could perhaps make us too top heavy.

Kennedy for H
Cuners for Martin
Marchy for Hollands
Owies for JSOS
Sub Dow

The elusive hyphen is crucial.

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[The Blue Weirdo]

Brisbane were clearly the best team we played all year in terms of their ability to play the game on their terms imo. We were out of form, but my mates and I all walked away saying "that was like the Geelong game last year" and with the feeling that the flag was theirs to lose (like Geelong last year, albeit not on the level of the Cats last year). The Lions have a different feel about them this year - like they really believe they're the best (which I think is the case) and they're playing with more maturity up forward. I can only assume that since that game we've done a load of work figuring out our best system to beat them, so I'm looking forward to seeing what we produce.

I reckon we've got the talent, but whether we have the system and fitness is another question. I'd be more confident if we were playing more like Carlton 6-12 weeks ago. That being said, anything can happen on any given day and we know our guys will give everything they've got. For that reason alone, we can go in with the belief that we can do this.

We are definitely playing far more conservative, slowing down play and hugging the boundary more than we were during our dominant period and during that time we defeated some very good in form sides.
Is this due to conserving bodies for the GF, different personnel, players carrying injuries, increased finals pressure?
We are still getting over the line but I'd like to see faster transition from D50, run and handball chains and burst from clearances again, without sacrificing contested footy.