Preview 2023 Semi Final - Carlton vs Melbourne Friday 15th September 7.50PM @ MCG

[Aphrodite]

Team is in …



IN: Matthew Kennedy
OUT: Jack Martin (suspension), Harry McKay

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Harry Mckay

Age

27

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

(concussion)

AFL team selection: Kennedy to return

It's two changes to the 22 for Carlton's semi final with Melbourne.

www.carltonfc.com.au

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

 

[ESKIE]

Gawn out?? Tweet from Tom Brown

Aaaah where the tweet


- sent from my iPad in the dungeon

 

[jezzajay]

Gawn out?? Tweet from Tom Brown

Just went to have a look...I've been blocked by Tommy...haha!!!

 

[morningbrown]

Viney is wildly overrated IMO. He's not even tough. Just small.

Our mids should have a field day.

Totally wrong. Will win their B&F and could have made the AA team.

 

[Magruder]

It's a very one-eyed-supporter view, hey?

"All our role players who I am invested in and watch play on a regular basis are amazing. But all the role players for that other top 4 club are rubbish and wouldn't get a game for us."

If you asked neutral supporters to grade these matchups, here's how I reckon it would go:

Weitering = May
Kemp < Lever
Newman > Bowey
Saad > Salem
McGovern > Tomlinson
Cincotta = McVee

Marchbank < Rivers

Acres = Langdon
Cottrell < Hunter
Cripps = Oliver
Cerra < Petracca
Walsh > Viney
Hewett > Jordon

Pittonet < Gawn
TDK = McDonald

Curnow > Fritsch
Cuningham < Neale-Bullen
Motlop < Pickett
Fogarty < Sparrow
Owies = Chandler

Docherty > Spargo
Kennedy > Smith

Blue for the matchups we win, red for the matchups Melbourne win, black for the nil-all-draws.

I reckon our backline (as individuals) are slightly better than theirs. Their small forwards are typically more effective than ours. The midfields balance out with us having better spread while they've got the dominant ruck.

Melbourne are no worse than us outside the top 6 players.

And yet on current form....

Weitering > May
Kemp < Lever
Newman > Bowey
Saad > Salem
McGovern > Tomlinson
Cincotta = McVee

Marchbank = Rivers

Acres > Langdon
Cottrell > Hunter
Cripps = Oliver
Cerra < Petracca
Walsh > Viney
Hewett > Jordon

Pittonet < Gawn
TDK > McDonald

Curnow > Fritsch
Cuningham < Neale-Bullen
Motlop < Pickett
Fogarty > Sparrow
Owies > Chandler

Docherty > Spargo
Kennedy > Smith

Doesn't matter - it's a team game.

Collective sum etc...

 

[BlackGoanna]

Weird feeling . Warm Spring day in September. Carlton playing a big Final.

Finished work for the day and heading into the City for a pre-game late lunch.

I can get used to his. Pumped !!


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[BigFrizz36]

Gawn out?? Tweet from Tom Brown

Is that the tweet from Tom brownn with 2 n's in his surname?

 

[4flagsin5yrs]

Doesn't matter - it's a team game.

Collective sum etc...

100% you're right, but the team can't play well, collectively, if the individuals aren't in good form.

Most of ours are in good form thankfully.

TDK a big wildcard for us, one day he really will rip a game apart - dominate the ruck and kick 3 or 4.

 

[Markyd]

Is that the tweet from Tom brownn with 2 n's in his surname?

Poor spelling on my part, but got told Browne tweeted Gawn was out.
All over twitter at the moment

 

[tarczonandjane]

Love how "beaten by Hogg" McGuane can't ever bear to tip us and always has our opponent beating us by 2 points. Choke on your M&M guernsey after we get the W, the biggest mistake the club has ever made (which is huge considering salary cap scandal, and shifting home games to Docklands, trading Kennedy, amongst many).

My memory is not quite what it once was. Now you’ve mentioned Matty Hogg v Mick McGuane, I have a very, very vague recollection of something happening in pre-season training. But what was it again?

 

[JoeyPBLUES]

*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been offered to go in a corporate box tonight by one of our vendors (large telco, guess who) and I cant go because conflict of interest (I sit on the vendor selection panel for RFP's/RFT's etc for our company).

While that sucks... Let me tell you you will enjoy it more sitting in the stands (i know that sounds strange) but the atmosphere ESPECIALLY if we win will be worth it. You can't/don't get any atmosphere at all sitting in the box with a bunch of impartial supporters milling around talking work....

 

[thylacine60]

Aaaah where the tweet


- sent from my iPad in the dungeon

You should still have the key to the cupboard. Chop chop......

 

[Manhattanite]

Gawn out?? Tweet from Tom Brown

I think he tweeted that yesterday before teams were announced and was clearly wrong


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[branedotorg]

*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been offered to go in a corporate box tonight by one of our vendors (large telco, guess who) and I cant go because conflict of interest (I sit on the vendor selection panel for RFP's/RFT's etc for our company).

can't you declare a conflict of interest at work?

 

[Blue__Balls]

Poor spelling on my part, but got told Browne tweeted Gawn was out.
All over twitter at the moment

Nothing on the Dees board about it - sounds like maybe someone's trying to wind you up.

 

[jimsta10]

be careful of fake twitter accounts. click on them and sus it out before saying breaking the news lol

 

[Blue__Balls]

And yet on current form....

Weitering > May
Kemp < Lever
Newman > Bowey
Saad > Salem
McGovern > Tomlinson
Cincotta = McVee

Marchbank = Rivers

Acres > Langdon
Cottrell > Hunter
Cripps = Oliver
Cerra < Petracca
Walsh > Viney
Hewett > Jordon

Pittonet < Gawn
TDK > McDonald

Curnow > Fritsch
Cuningham < Neale-Bullen
Motlop < Pickett
Fogarty > Sparrow
Owies > Chandler

Docherty > Spargo
Kennedy > Smith

Define "current form", and qualify it with how many of Melbourne's last X games you have watched siren to siren and analysed with anywhere near the same attention to detail as you would with Carlton.

 

[ESKIE]

You should still have the key to the cupboard. Chop chop......

ok

 

[Sinjin Smith]

can't you declare a conflict of interest at work?

Not for this one. I thought about running it by my boss however I am in a leadership position. He expects me to make independent, smart decisions. I had to decline it straight away, I'd love to go however my career is sort of important

 

[thylacine60]

Not for this one. I thought about running it by my boss however I am in a leadership position. He expects me to make independent, smart decisions. I had to decline it straight away, I'd love to go however my career is sort of important

Putting career, future stability, family & income before your footy team? Ok then......

 

[ParapMarkets]

*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been offered to go in a corporate box tonight by one of our vendors (large telco, guess who) and I cant go because conflict of interest (I sit on the vendor selection panel for RFP's/RFT's etc for our company).

Maybe Sinjin Snr can go disguised as you? He can really emphasise that it’s been an incredibly stressful week to explain the older appearance.

 

[Sinjin Smith]

Putting career, future stability, family & income before your footy team? Ok then......

I know right?? This whole mature/responsible/level headed thing isn't getting me anywhere. I need to go back to being in my 20's.

 

[Garters]

Love it how SEN commentators say its a 50/50 game but Melbourne are the better team and they will win.

They did manage to land on 100 despite then contradicting it. Brownless the other day on Triple M when he was asked re his thoughts on the probabilities out of Bris, Coll, Melb winning the flag hit 110, then contradicted it with his opinion. My daughter (grade 4) piped up from the backseat with "Dad, that man is wrong that doesn't equal 100!"

If nothing else at least they are providing real world examples for primary school kids to get their mathematical teeth into!

 

[Garters]

Can't fathom this...

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More buyers than sellers.

Nothing more

 

[Magruder]

NGL, my anxiety level is starting to reach peak. Not sure if the contribution was leg day or the 4 cups of coffee.

only 4? lift FFS...

 

[BlueSuede]

Doesn't matter - it's a team game.

Collective sum etc...

I reckon that's a big change for me. I used to go into games thinking, 'Gee, Cripps will need to have a blinder, Curnow will need to kick heaps', OR 'I hope Gawn doesn't get a hold of us... how will we stop Lever intercepting?', etc.

Now, I just think about the way we play as a team. Our best players don't always have to have their best games for us to win (see last week). But, dare I say it, the system holds up!