Autopsy 2023 Rd 22 Blues win a thriller. Finals closer.

[Blue Doormat]

At the ground with my 15 year old who has known nothing but heartbreak and disappointment.

So happy for him.

 

[Kramer1]

I've been burnt so badly, but I may just be in love with this team again...

 

[JuddyBuddy]

Do we dare dream? We've now beaten 3 of the top 4. Surely we're in the conversation.

 

[Revenant1965]

5th best percentage. Pies, Dees, Brions, Cats (!), Blues

 

[xDQ82x]

I can't put into words how much I love this club or what it gives me back.

But glad dam we are back to playing great footy win or lose I'll take it.

Dow, the haters have to go.. he went back to the Magoos and has grown and should be in the starting midfield when all stars are back.

Onwards and upwards

 

[AT97]

Dow is making any pending decision on him very difficult

i wont be happy watching him in a different guernsey

If they do make the call that he goes it certainly won’t be for the token pick that John Ralph thinks.

 

[DangerousD]

What a game

 

[jungojungojungo]

Hey I just woke up from a coma. Are Carlton the best team in the AFL?

 

[Robbo's my hero]

I haven’t recovered yet. We deserved to win it. I thought we’d lost it. And then the jubilation of a finger tipper. The boys should be proud. It was one hell of an effort.

 

[T2B_]

I could just about turn for Nic Newman

I must admit, they were so spent late and under so much heat, even Nic looked human again a couple times.

Still great the majority of the game though.

 

[ctwenty1]

Another easy win against a top 4 team with a third of our best players missing.

Next.

Yeah- a few posters in here getting too excited over not much.

What’s going to happen in here after number 17?

 

[ferrisb]

Wonder how much we were after 6 loses in a row. Have to be 100-1

We were eleventy five billion to one.

Pretty sure.

 

[Dramoth]

Beat overall day as a Carlton fan since the day of the 99 prelim

Knocking Bitchmond out of the finals in 13 was also pretty damned good!

 

[ferrisb]

I could just about turn for Nic Newman

#PutYourNoodlesOut

 

[SpiritOfCarlton]

Melbourne's four best players had fantastic games.

Their bottom 6 players had pathetic games.

Our bottom six players contributed much more and that was the difference in the game.

Team football.

 

[agro]

Still in Iowa

 

[ferrisb]

Knocking Bitchmond out of the finals in 13 was also pretty damned good!

Was there.

Was glorious.

Was too long ago.

 

[Magical_EddieBetts]

I could just about turn for Nic Newman

His mine, back off!!!

 

[ctwenty1]

Marchbank with the Hand of God

Looks a bit like Caleb

 

[Opium]

Did Paddy Dow stand up when it counted … or did Paddy Dow stand up when it ……. Counted !!

Like I said. This will be the making of Dow. Needs to stay.

 

[I bleed Blue]

Poster on the Dees board enquiring why snicko wasn't used to see if it was touched

Cant make this stuff up

 

[JuddgementDay]

That was so much fun at the MCG

Everyone pretty much ignored the first qtr, and only cared about the footy after Matilda had won

Then the Baggers won, right down to the point after the final goal review

Now, we are almost locked in for the finals - super team effort - bring it on

 

[Quazza]

 

[tarczonandjane]

Let’s focus on Melbourne for a minute. Just for context, they are a serious football side. They cracked in hard all night. They were confident and on a winning streak. They had some important players out, but mainly had their best 22 out there. They’ve beaten Collingwood. They’ve come from the clouds to beat Brisbane.

And we were out there without six or seven of our best 22. And we beat them. Let that sink in for a minute. We took on pretty much the best team in the comp, who were playing high intensity football, and we beat them. Just have a think about that.

There’s so much more I could say. But I will leave it at this. Did Brodie Kemp somehow morph into Stephen Silvagni? What a mark.

Can’t wait to see the boys play in person on the Gold Coast next weekend! Go Blues!

 

[TeeJay Blue]

I don't understand all the chest beating here. Am I the only one who is not at all happy with the win? Our season now looks to have an asterisk on it all over a rather dubious score review.

Don't get me wrong, 8 in a row looks sweet on paper, but it now looks undeserved.

The game will always have controversies. But this one kills me inside. I want my team fighting and winning fair.

Wouldn't it have also been better to lose that one for the sake of the players' psychological approach? I don't want them getting ahead of themselves now in these last two games.