Preview 2023 Round 8 Carlton vs Brisbane Friday 5th May 7.50PM @ Marvel Stadium

[Aphrodite]

Team is in …


IN: Jesse Motlop
OUT: Zac Fisher, Matthew Kennedy

AFL team news: Motlop returns for Respects

The Blues have named a solitary inclusion for its 2023 AFL Carlton Respects Game.

www.carltonfc.com.au

Backs:	Sam Docherty	Lewis Young	Nic Newman
Half-backs:	Mitch McGovern	Jacob Weitering	Adam Saad
Centreline:	Blake Acres	Patrick Cripps	Ed Curnow
Half-forwards:	Sam Walsh	Harry McKay	Jack Silvagni
Forwards:	Corey Durdin	Charlie Curnow	Jesse Motlop
Followers:	Marc Pittonet	George Hewett	Adam Cerra
Interchange:	Alex Cincotta	Ollie Hollands	Josh Honey
	Brodie Kemp
Emergencies:	Lachie Cowan	Zac Fisher	Lachie Fogarty
	Matthew Kennedy

 

[teddy-hopkins]

Cottrell and Motlop possible additions to the ins list…

No chance Cottrel plays.
Motlop would be very unlucky not to bump Honey back out.

 

[teddy-hopkins]

We match up well.

I think we’ll get them in the midfield - Zorko is a loss they can’t cover.

Agreed. Zorko big out but Rich is arguably worse. Structurally important. Takes a lot of kickouts and they do rely on him for ball movement from the back half.

 

[SurreyBlue]

No chance Cottrel plays.
Motlop would be very unlucky not to bump Honey back out.

I don’t know how many times I can say this, but most players need to earn their spots and bang the door down by big performances in the VFL before being selected. That’s one of the ways you build a successful culture.

 

[teddy-hopkins]

Yes mate - thanks for asking.

Cool. It looked like your post started as a joke then your brain got caught in some sort of mental death spiral.

 

[teddy-hopkins]

Let us not forget how rapidly dining out on some truly sh!te opposition transformed Geelong's season. Hoping that rings true for us.

Amazing how confidence impacts skill level. We couldn't hit even basic targets against StK. 1 week later we were nailing tough passes all over the ground - for the whole game.

 

[JustaBattler]

Whoever has stolen JAB’s account please get out of it. I miss him/her/they.

1. These are the only calls that the MC has to make

a) Motlop for Honey - I reckon 50/50
b) Ed for Kennedy - I reckon 50/50 depending on Kennedy's fitness; and
c) If Kennedy for Ed then Ed V Cottrell as sub

2. The most interesting thing for the Club is the availability of Boyd/Cuningham/Marchbank/Owies and Martin to play VFL

3. We will win this game with this team on Friday night by 3-4 goals.

Newman Weitering Kemp
McGovern Young Saad ( + Cincotta )

Acres Cripps Hollands
Pittonet Hewett Cerra ( + Kennedy /Ed , Docherty ,)

Walsh Harry Jack
Honey/Motlop Charlie Durdin (+ Fisher)

IC: Fisher Docherty Kennedy Cincotta
EM: Ed / Cottrell/Honey

Kennedy V Ed Curnow because Docherty can play defence or midfield or even HFF - which allows for teh inclusion of both Kemp and Cincotta because Docherty's versatility gioves us 8 'defenders' if required. The addition of Kemp bolsters intercept marking game, whilst Cincotta gives a harder edge and greater attacking run than young Cowan.

Midfield is starting to gel now as Pittonet is approaching 100% match fitness as is Hewett. Cerra/Walsh are the link runners to outside - plenty of run on the outside from Hollands and Acres. Fisher might be slowly improving his between the arcs extra linkman role - will have to as Cuningham is the only other potential player who might be given same duties - so pressure will come there - a good thing.

This will be the strongest team we have fielded in ages - and competition for spots is only just beginning.

I'm bullish.

 

[JustaBattler]

Cool. It looked like your post started as a joke then your brain got caught in some sort of mental death spiral.

maybe a tad extended but I was in the mood.

 

[WalshYouLegend]

We beat the 2018 premiers by 108 pts….. what more must we do to earn some respect?

Win. Against a top 8 side.

 

[Jimmyonesix]

Beware the bias of those that have and will reply to you about this. Essentially he had issues in development with effort defensively and kicking. He's clearly a good enough kick now, his defensive and general running capacity are at the level now. He's had virtually no opportunity the last two years and it's kinda at the point where it's not his fault anymore.

He's just not playing in front of cerra Walsh Hewett Cripps and the big and main knock on his game - he gets lost when playing the secondary positions of a resting mid still. So he's innefective in the f50. So fitting him into rotations is tough.

His vfl form as 'the guy' is fantastic. He gets 30-40 touches and kicks goals most weeks. Lightning hands etc. Just is what it is atm it seems with midfield rotation and mix in the firsts.

Like lipinski at the dogs

 

[Jimmyonesix]

North would take him. They had Cunnington and Sheil playing in their midfield on the weekend and they are not youngsters and also had the 5th oldest team take the field.

Adelaide could do with an extractor also ..

 

[The Dochs in]

Payne not to be underestimated against Charlie. He has good athletic traits which won’t make it easy for him and Andrews the height to challenge H. Our ground level guys need to be on

 

[Juddernaut08]

Win. Against a top 8 side.

like d cats?

 

[WalshYouLegend]

like d cats?

Yep, like that except the Lions this time.

 

[FitzroyBlueBagger]

No chance Cottrel plays.
Motlop would be very unlucky not to bump Honey back out.

Just finished looking over the game, the first time since watching live on Saturday i know Honey’s stats weren’t jumping of the charts but he actually had his best game so far this season, yes it hasn’t been a high bar with how he has gone so far but he actually positioned himself much better, was more involved in play, application /pressure better and had a couple of clever moments as well as a goal…
I’m inclined to changing my initial thoughts in omitting him with giving him another run hoping he can again improve some more with another run…
At least we seem fortunate this week that we have some good choices if we feel the need for any changes…

 

[BlueTang]

Beware the bias of those that have and will reply to you about this. Essentially he had issues in development with effort defensively and kicking. He's clearly a good enough kick now, his defensive and general running capacity are at the level now. He's had virtually no opportunity the last two years and it's kinda at the point where it's not his fault anymore.

He's just not playing in front of cerra Walsh Hewett Cripps and the big and main knock on his game - he gets lost when playing the secondary positions of a resting mid still. So he's innefective in the f50. So fitting him into rotations is tough.

His vfl form as 'the guy' is fantastic. He gets 30-40 touches and kicks goals most weeks. Lightning hands etc. Just is what it is atm it seems with midfield rotation and mix in the firsts.

One of the best summary’s on Dow I have seen. Well put

 

[AndyWalkersGirl]

Ok. I think we'll win this. Blues by 17.

 

[COBALT BLUE]

We match up well.

I think we’ll get them in the midfield - Zorko is a loss they can’t cover.

Neale and Bailey....tag least one
Mc Cluggage..can also lift them.......Lions play tempo and build momentum for sections of quarters,our zone ball can work on them to slow them,defocus
Tough to wear them out tho......Voss will have to connive something
Lions have had Blues pegged way back even when they were also weak cause they play tough and play to exhaustion (can be unwise)

 

[RAPPA]

1. These are the only calls that the MC has to make

a) Motlop for Honey - I reckon 50/50
b) Ed for Kennedy - I reckon 50/50 depending on Kennedy's fitness; and
c) If Kennedy for Ed then Ed V Cottrell as sub

2. The most interesting thing for the Club is the availability of Boyd/Cuningham/Marchbank/Owies and Martin to play VFL

3. We will win this game with this team on Friday night by 3-4 goals.

Newman Weitering Kemp
McGovern Young Saad ( + Cincotta )

Acres Cripps Hollands
Pittonet Hewett Cerra ( + Kennedy /Ed , Docherty ,)

Walsh Harry Jack
Honey/Motlop Charlie Durdin (+ Fisher)

IC: Fisher Docherty Kennedy Cincotta
EM: Ed / Cottrell/Honey

Kennedy V Ed Curnow because Docherty can play defence or midfield or even HFF - which allows for teh inclusion of both Kemp and Cincotta because Docherty's versatility gioves us 8 'defenders' if required. The addition of Kemp bolsters intercept marking game, whilst Cincotta gives a harder edge and greater attacking run than young Cowan.

Midfield is starting to gel now as Pittonet is approaching 100% match fitness as is Hewett. Cerra/Walsh are the link runners to outside - plenty of run on the outside from Hollands and Acres. Fisher might be slowly improving his between the arcs extra linkman role - will have to as Cuningham is the only other potential player who might be given same duties - so pressure will come there - a good thing.

This will be the strongest team we have fielded in ages - and competition for spots is only just beginning.

I'm bullish.

AFL Injury list has since been updated, now listing each of them as 2-3 weeks away.

 

[myblueroan]

1. These are the only calls that the MC has to make

a) Motlop for Honey - I reckon 50/50
b) Ed for Kennedy - I reckon 50/50 depending on Kennedy's fitness; and
c) If Kennedy for Ed then Ed V Cottrell as sub

2. The most interesting thing for the Club is the availability of Boyd/Cuningham/Marchbank/Owies and Martin to play VFL

3. We will win this game with this team on Friday night by 3-4 goals.

Newman Weitering Kemp
McGovern Young Saad ( + Cincotta )

Acres Cripps Hollands
Pittonet Hewett Cerra ( + Kennedy /Ed , Docherty ,)

Walsh Harry Jack
Honey/Motlop Charlie Durdin (+ Fisher)

IC: Fisher Docherty Kennedy Cincotta
EM: Ed / Cottrell/Honey

Kennedy V Ed Curnow because Docherty can play defence or midfield or even HFF - which allows for teh inclusion of both Kemp and Cincotta because Docherty's versatility gioves us 8 'defenders' if required. The addition of Kemp bolsters intercept marking game, whilst Cincotta gives a harder edge and greater attacking run than young Cowan.

Midfield is starting to gel now as Pittonet is approaching 100% match fitness as is Hewett. Cerra/Walsh are the link runners to outside - plenty of run on the outside from Hollands and Acres. Fisher might be slowly improving his between the arcs extra linkman role - will have to as Cuningham is the only other potential player who might be given same duties - so pressure will come there - a good thing.

This will be the strongest team we have fielded in ages - and competition for spots is only just beginning.

I'm bullish.

Love your enthusiasm.
Mine is still curbed.
I am bullish that Motlop repalces Honey 100 per cent because he was never dropped. Therefore he is ahead of Honey on the list. (and in actuality).
In Motlop.
Kennedy sub again because it worked.

 

[marcmurphy3]

Honey was okay on Saturday but still only kicked 1 goal and had sub 10 possessions in a drubbing. If Motlop plays he almost certainly does that or more likely better.

I think the way Voss would look at it is Motlops body of work over the past few months is better then Honeys. Selections aren't made on single games.

 

[branedotorg]

Right now, I think our best hope is Lions, Dogs, Suns.

Leaves at least 1 win from Pies, Demons, Swans(away), * as the breakeven

swans have no backline right now and are falling apart, really depends on who comes back for them between now and our game

 

[Blueing]

Seems last week we had better structure down back with the inclusion of Kemp, Saad and Cinacotta finding his feet nicely at AFL level, allowing Doc to get into the midfield and do some damage...But the Eagles are very average side and i belive if Vossy sticks with the same structure, the Lions will be a good test to see if we how we fair against the better sides that will be making finals this year.....The only change i think, see fit is Motlop for Honey.....Even though i belive Honey did really well last week.....see how Cripps and Walsh do against Neale and Dunkley, with Zorko and Rich out this is a very winable game for us.... we win it in the middle we win the game in my opinion.... Go Blues

 

[JustaBattler]

Just finished looking over the game, the first time since watching live on Saturday i know Honey’s stats weren’t jumping of the charts but he actually had his best game so far this season, yes it hasn’t been a high bar with how he has gone so far but he actually positioned himself much better, was more involved in play, application /pressure better and had a couple of clever moments as well as a goal…
I’m inclined to changing my initial thoughts in omitting him with giving him another run hoping he can again improve some more with another run…
At least we seem fortunate this week that we have some good choices if we feel the need for any changes…

I was suprised when I checked the stats which show that there is (what I would call) only minor difference between all of Motlop/Durdin and Honey - Motlop's major difference is goals per game slightly better than both Durdin and Honey - Voss is playing like for like - which is consistent with his messaging. Both Motlop and Honey can kick a longer range goal although both don't get tested too much.

 

[katmanblue]

I was suprised when I checked the stats which show that there is (what I would call) only minor difference between all of Motlop/Durdin and Honey - Motlop's major difference is goals per game slightly better than both Durdin and Honey - Voss is playing like for like - which is consistent with his messaging. Both Motlop and Honey can kick a longer range goal although both don't get tested too much.

Honey is much quicker and fitter.

Motlop is more dangerous around goal.

If you could combine the two, you'd be Dr Frankenstein.

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[JustaBattler]

Honey is much quicker and fitter.

Motlop is more dangerous around goal.

If you could combine the two, you'd be Dr Frankenstein.

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I was very impressed with Honey's composure when he set up Jack - on the burst most players would have gone the snap - instead he assessed and kicked a perfect little lob over the head of defenders into a chest mark and goal for Jack - his set shot kicking has always been a strong point as is his straight line running speed. I like him.