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

 

[Uncle Fester]

our defence is way better than theirs...

After Andrews, who do they have of any ilk?

I was trying to be reasonable/fair. A/B graders: weitering, newman saad. Mitch borderline. Them. Harris, probably starcevich. Mckenna and coleman borderline

 

[Coops93]

ya reckon?

I might've seen it pop up once or twice over the years

 

[lily of laguna]

Bit quiet in here today everyone is on a plane I guess?

Go blues,

By estimates we have purchased 14k tickets with blue barcodes I wonder how many brissy ticket holders are blues fans living up there with lions membership ?

Geez if the crowd is closer to 50/50 rather than 75/25 that’d mental!!!


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[sbwan]

Bit quiet in here today everyone is on a plane I guess?

Go blues,

By estimates we have purchased 14k tickets with blue barcodes I wonder how many brissy ticket holders are blues fans living up there with lions membership ?

Geez if the crowd is closer to 50/50 rather than 75/25 that’d mental!!!


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Suspect if you're passionate enough to fly up you'll make a bit more noise too. Suspect they'll very much outnumber us but we'll be almost as loud.

 

[Ezayyak]

Bit quiet in here today everyone is on a plane I guess?

Go blues,

By estimates we have purchased 14k tickets with blue barcodes I wonder how many brissy ticket holders are blues fans living up there with lions membership ?

Geez if the crowd is closer to 50/50 rather than 75/25 that’d mental!!!


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This cannot be understated. It would simultaneously give us a boost and somewhat throw off the Lions players. A friend of mine who is well connected, was told that the are still plenty of tickets that haven't been sold.

Brisbane is deservedly favourites and it makes perfect sense that they are. It is just that as Carlton supporters we've got this funny feeling about tomorrow, and rightfully so.

 

[macky99]

This cannot be understated. It would simultaneously give us a boost and somewhat throw off the Lions players. A friend of mine who is well connected, was told that the are still plenty of tickets that haven't been sold.

Brisbane is deservedly favourites and it makes perfect sense that they are. It is just that as Carlton supporters we've got this funny feeling about tomorrow, and rightfully so.

l don't believe there are any tickets available at all.
Pretty sure game is a sell-out which you would expect, certainly no online tickets available since early in the week.

 

[thylacine60]

Suspect if you're passionate enough to fly up you'll make a bit more noise too. Suspect they'll very much outnumber us but we'll be almost as loud.

Still recovering from windburn after yesterday's flight up. I thought the Bonza ticket was cheap but strapped to a wing has its inconveniences.

 

[NavySteel]

Having 4 of our best players Martin Mackay curnow doc close to goals gives me great optimism we will score heavy -- with motlop on pure football ability it is probably the most talented we have been in front of goal all year --

As long as our mids are focussed on two-way play, I agree.

But equally, we have to bull the contest.

 

[TheReal99prelim]

Meh - not sure on Hollands TBH. Can see him being targeted. Kemp really stiff. Owies as the sub for me.

Nobody will be targeted. The risk of an errant shoulder or elbow to the face or head is too great for someone to miss a GF these days

I'm tipping Maynard will play ultra conservative tonight...just a gut feeling

 

[Monty1978]

I’m overseas and such a contrast reading media outlets and then coming here to get my confidence back .. can’t really gauge the vibe .to me feels like media think it’s gonna be a massive blowout .. im
Kinda in between and feel we can beat anyone on the day then love reading everyone’s posts , pumps me up … are brisbane really that good??? Or does the media outlets just don’t like us ?

 

[Arr0w]

Nobody will be targeted. The risk of an errant shoulder or elbow to the face or head is too great for someone to miss a GF these days

I'm tipping Maynard will play ultra conservative tonight...just a gut feeling

Only time it could happen is if the win is out of reach

Although, still could happen early if it's in the balance and adrenalin is high

 

[4flagsin5yrs]

Go Blues.

 

[Coops93]

Just sourced 2 tickets to the game. Stoked!

Just hope I'm with the Blues fans and not the Lions... might not make it out otherwise.

 

[Monty1978]

im looking at it this way

mids - close - but we are better
key fwds - us by a mile
small fwds - got to give them that one
defence - close
rucks - close - but who would you rather have - pitto and tdk or OMac & Joe...... im on pitto and tdk

the crowd - the gabba crowd wont know what hit them when 10,000 lunatic carlton supporters start making noise - it wont be as onesided as they expect / are used to

reasonably confident blue boy here - $3.10 for us is just crazy

Their forwards overall are better than ours
Our backline is way better than theirs
Our midfield batts deeper so ours is better
Their ricks are better than ours
Gabba is the difference for mine and what makes it harder for us
If this was at the G the odds would be reversed or in our favour

 

[Aphrodite]

Blues by 17 points

Is that an omen for another one of these Soapy V

 

[NavySteel]

I’m overseas and such a contrast reading media outlets and then coming here to get my confidence back .. can’t really gauge the vibe .to me feels like media think it’s gonna be a massive blowout .. im
Kinda in between and feel we can beat anyone on the day then love reading everyone’s posts , pumps me up … are brisbane really that good??? Or does the media outlets just don’t like us ?

I guess it'll be if Brisbane can handle the pressure. Our pressure has been outstanding on our dream run.

Compared to last time we played Lions, we're a totally different team.

How will Lions respond?

we'll know in the first quarter, I reckon.

 

[Aphrodite]

H to kick 8. Bookmark it.

Goals ?

1.2

 

[ajb72]

Still recovering from windburn after yesterday's flight up. I thought the Bonza ticket was cheap but strapped to a wing has its inconveniences.

Could be worse? You could've gone as Qantas baggage and there's a fair chance you would never make it.

 

[swuzzlebubble]

l don't believe there are any tickets available at all.
Pretty sure game is a sell-out which you would expect, certainly no online tickets available since early in the week.

 

[Pixelshooter]

I reckon if we can keep in touch with them until half time, we're a decent show. We need to make this a 75-80 point ballgame. Anything north of that and we'll be struggling.

 

[Blue__Balls]

Payne out, Gardiner in for them would be like Weitering out, Durdin in for us.

Structurally they've lost their defensive anchor, and the bloke coming in has next to no recent AFL form to judge him on.

Almost certainly going to change the way their backline structure up and approach the game. If we can get an early jump and kick a few goals through Gardiner's man then it could engender a real cat amongst the pigeons type response that rattles their whole team.

 

[Thrawn]

There has been a little bit of talk on the footy shows and in the papers about Brisbane going after Doc, Cripps and Acres due to their known injury problems in recent weeks and before it happens i want to put it out there, bring it on.

Voss and co are taking a gamble by playing all three, with all three clearly hampered by injury, but when you name a side and a player runs on to the ground, they are deemed fit and able to give everything for their team. I would expect the same from our players, no favours to the opposition, when they go near the ball, hit them hard, fair and make them earn everything.

Edit. On taking injured players in to games is a risk and if it doesn’t work, you can’t complain, we had a choice to replace them with fit players but didn’t, the choice was ours, win or lose we need to own that.

Cripps is getting better week by week though, and his lower body isn't hampered at all. Neither is Acres', a bruised collarbone will get better as time goes on as well. The only question mark is Doc, if Voss was correct in saying that he was playing with a torn calf.

The injuries to the first two certainly didn't hamper them in the SF.

 

[thylacine60]

Cripps is getting better week by week though, and his lower body isn't hampered at all. Neither is Acres', a bruised collarbone will get better as time goes on as well. The only question mark is Doc, if Voss was correct in saying that he was playing with a torn calf.

The injuries to the first two certainly didn't hamper them in the SF.

I just don't trust uninjured players.

 

[lily of laguna]

This cannot be understated. It would simultaneously give us a boost and somewhat throw off the Lions players. A friend of mine who is well connected, was told that the are still plenty of tickets that haven't been sold.

Brisbane is deservedly favourites and it makes perfect sense that they are. It is just that as Carlton supporters we've got this funny feeling about tomorrow, and rightfully so.

I’m not too sure about tickets being available as I know of lions members who still couldn’t get seats so I reckon it’s gonna be packed.


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[Stamos]

The only question mark is Doc, if Voss was correct in saying that he was playing with a torn calf.

That was the month prior to the GWS game that he sat out. Had 3 weeks off, is fine now.