Preview 2023 Rd 22 Carlton vs Melbourne Saturday August 12 7:30M @ MCG

[Aphrodite]

Team is in …


NO. CHANGES.

AFL team selection: A three-year first

Carlton has named its team for Round 22.

www.carltonfc.com.au

Sam Docherty

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Sam Docherty

Age

31

Ht

187cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

22.3

5star

K

15.1

5star

HB

7.2

4star

M

6.6

5star

T

2.4

4star

CL

1.1

3star

D

22.6

5star

K

16.0

5star

HB

6.6

4star

M

7.0

5star

T

0.6

1star

CL

0.4

3star

D

11.2

3star

K

6.0

3star

HB

5.2

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

1.4

4star

CL

0.6

3star

will play his 150th game in the Navy Blue guernsey - the jumper he grew up wearing as a supporter - as Carlton looks to continue its strong run of form from recent months.

Last weekend’s sub, Ed Curnow is the sole omission from the Round 22 team: he has been named as one of four emergencies alongside Jordan Boyd (now available after suspension), Sam Durdin

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Sam Durdin

Age

28

Ht

199cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.7

2star

K

6.2

2star

HB

3.5

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

1.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

11.2

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

3.8

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

1.6

4star

and Josh Honey. One of those four will be named as sub an hour before the bounce.

Backs:	Alex Cincotta	Jacob Weitering	Adam Saad
Half-backs:	Nic Newman	Caleb Marchbank	Brodie Kemp
Centreline:	Blake Acres	Patrick Cripps	Oliver Hollands
Half-forwards:	Jack Martin	Tom De Koning	David Cuningham
Forwards:	Lachie Fogarty	Charlie Curnow	Matthew Owies
Followers:	Marc Pittonet	Sam Docherty	George Hewett
Interchange:	Matthew Cottrell	Paddy Dow	Zac Fisher
	Jesse Motlop
Emergencies:	Jordan Boyd	Ed Curnow	Sam Durdin
	Josh Honey

 

[windows1]

So with the likely inclusions of Cerra and Boyd, who comes out?

Boyd, if Kemp is out to injury, otherwise Marchbank

Cerra, tough but Dow back to the sub, Ed out

Cerra? Thought he’s 2-3????

Why is McKay a chance? Thought he’s out until finals?

 

[Arr0w]

Cerra? Thought he’s 2-3????

Could play next week, might give him another week to be cherry ripe

Why is McKay a chance? Thought he’s out until finals?

Didn't mention McKay in that last post, but no far away

 

[Red Bull]

Boyd in for Marchbank this week and what will be will be.
Hopefully all the troops back for GC and GWS and the run to the finals …

 

[Bletch]

Could play next week, might give him another week to be cherry ripe



Didn't mention McKay in that last post, but no far away

<touch wood>
Reasonable chance we're at full strength (less Mirkov/Williams/Philp) for GWS.

 

[windows1]

Could play next week, might give him another week to be cherry ripe



Didn't mention McKay in that last post, but no far away

Thought you said in an earlier post he was 50/50?

You got mail?

 

[Arr0w]

Thought you said in an earlier post he was 50/50?

You got mail?

Working to play against the Demons, might be more conservative now

 

[windows1]

I’d love McKay to play next week

 

[skadoosh]

Boyd and Cerra will come in for this game, which makes it a genuine 50/50

Given the likely changes for both sides ( at this stage) us by 4 goals

Is your Cerra in based on the info from DQ, or you have other little birdies?
Cerra in would be massive for our team.

 

[agro]

Height is an issue - we were exposed early on by Collingwood and to a lesser extent St Kilda.

Charlie needs some help, or we need to be a lot smarter going inside 50, and perhaps use Martin more.

Marchbank needs to lift and pick up the tempo, so far he’s still going at VFL pace.

 

[windows1]

Is your Cerra in based on the info from DQ, or you have other little birdies?
Cerra in would be massive for our team.

DQ? What info?

Ducking love Cerra

 

[skadoosh]

DQ? What info?

Ducking love Cerra

XxDQ82xx said Cerra would be back next week.

 

[james Dean]

Marchbank needs to go. He was a liability today.

If McGovern is fit he needs to come in. Otherwise bring in Boyd.

Corey Durdin for Fogarty

 

[Benaly28]

Voss said only expects Boyd to be back next week.


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[BlueLocke]

Fogarty had a down game but Durdin doesn’t have any real body of work behind him, especially with the VFL bye, so hesitant to make that change. I’d keep him in until Cerra or Walsh return.

Marchbank will surely stay until McGovern returns; we’re already an undersized backline.

If Boyd comes straight back in it’s for Fisher, who was remarkably effective as our 7th defender.

 

[Benaly28]

Oliver will be back.


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[CaptainCharisma]

It will be interesting what we do with Boyd, he was good before suspension.
I can't see it being Marchbank to go out for him if McGovern isn't ready. The coaches seem to like the mix of Weitering with two hybrid talls (Kemp, McGovern/Marchbank)

Any other changes are going to be dependent on an injury update but I am sure we will stay conservative. The players coming in keep doing the job for us.

 

[CCurnow3votes]

Voss said only expects Boyd to be back next week.


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They’d be daft to rush anyone - although from training reports SOS must be close

 

[macky99]

Pitto, Doc, Owies, Fog won't be rested

McKay 50/50Walsh not ready, nor Durdin

Cerra yes, Boyd walks into the side

Cerra won't play against Melbourne possibly week after.

 

[Accidental genius]

Boyd in for Marchbank this week and what will be will be.
Hopefully all the troops back for GC and GWS and the run to the finals …

Marchy did make a lot of errors. He’s been rusty since coming back to afl level in last 2 games. I was thinking he’d be better today but whole team was fumbly so not sure what to make of Marchy game in isolation.

Was worried about their talls today. They marked a few. If we go with Boyd (who I rate) instead of Marchy it might leave us a bit short down back?

 

[Arr0w]

Marchy did make a lot of errors. He’s been rusty since coming back to afl level in last 2 games. I was thinking he’d be better today but whole team was fumbly so not sure what to make of Marchy game in isolation.

Was worried about their talls today. They marked a few. If we go with Boyd (who I rate) instead of Marchy it might leave us a bit short down back?

Petty out

 

[CrazyJoeFevola]

Regardless of how selection goes next week the one thing I think we really need to do is really seek out Martin on the lead. With Harry and JSOS out I think we need to treat him as our 2nd key forward and TDK as the 3rd. He plays a lot taller than he is, has incredible hands, wiry strength and top positioning. Perhaps most importantly, if he knows he ain’t going to mark it, he is adept at bringing the crumbers into play. We’d be silly not to direct more entries toward him.

 

[Les Grossman playaaaa]

<touch wood>
Reasonable chance we're at full strength (less Mirkov/Williams/Philp) for GWS.

Apparently Philp will be in the 2's this week.

 

[Accidental genius]

Regardless of how selection goes next week the one thing I think we really need to do is really seek out Martin on the lead. With Harry and JSOS out I think we need to treat him as our 2nd key forward and TDK as the 3rd. He plays a lot taller than he is, has incredible hands, wiry strength and top positioning. Perhaps most importantly, if he knows he ain’t going to mark it, he is adept at bringing the crumbers into play. We’d be silly not to direct more entries toward him.

Yeah I agree. I was yelling every time we kicked to a pack in f50. It just wasn’t working and I’m not sure why we keep doing it. It was clear Charlie was out numbered so obviously one of our forwards should have been free. It’s absurd.

Martin owies motts cunners all need to provide more leads and our ball carriers need to seek them out.

 

[CrazyJoeFevola]

Yeah I agree. I was yelling every time we kicked to a pack in f50. It just wasn’t working and I’m not sure why we keep doing it. It was clear Charlie was out numbered so obviously one of our forwards should have been free. It’s absurd.

Martin owies motts cunners all need to provide more leads and our ball carriers need to seek them out.

Absolutely, like I said Martin needs to be treated as a main target IMO and Owies and Cuningham are both very capable of providing neat little leads, they know where to go, let’s use them. Motlop is capable of that as well but we really need him at the drop of the footy, his crumbing IQ is through the roof and he’s pretty hard to stop when the ball is pinging in.

 

[Jimmae]

I don't buy into resting players. Can't flirt with form.

We are fighting for our life with 3 tough games to come
No resting anybody …
They all get a rest after r24 if we make it
And a bigger one if we don’t

Ok, how did you two feel about the form of Fogarty, Docherty, and Owies? They were shit, and I'm putting it down to fatigue.

Doc is a great player, so he battled through, but he was knackered and on 74% game time to try and keep him going for next week. I don't think he'll come up. Owies was solid, but his pressure quickly fell away. We're seeing some of the same problems from the first half of the season, so to challenge an in form team we need to rotate a little bit.

Longer term, the squad will be fitter, but right now we're breaking a cycle that's gone on for seasons.