Preview 2024 Elimination Final Carlton vs Brisbane Saturday 7th September 7:30PM AEST @ The Gabba

[Aphrodite]

Team is in …

AFL team news: Blues welcome back six

Tom De Koning is one of half a dozen of Carlton inclusions for the elimination final.

www.carltonfc.com.au

6 Changes :-

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Docherty the type of man to get my heart racing.

I love this decision. Let it fly boys, Brisbane you've activated our trap card (the Doch).

 

[majesticseacapt]

LFG

 

[djholmes]

Doc in and no TDK … DJ at his absolute best here

Yes I am at my best - docherty is playing. lol

 

[Stig O'Hara]

He’s a ripper, Doc.

Nothin’ stops him.

 

[passmark]

7 injuries in one game and you right the club off from that game?
Every club would have got slaughtered in the same circumstances


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It wasn’t just that game. We’d been shit for 6 weeks prior.

 

[Matty411]

i told you boys docherty was playing and you all laughed at me lol.

Question now becomes - sub or starter? I'm still big on him being the sub and bringing him on at the half. That or post him in a less-contested spot and manage his minutes.

 

[Stamos]

Docherty to return for Blues’ elimination final, 183 days after ACL injury

Carlton’s Sam Docherty will make a miraculous return to football in this weekend’s elimination final against the Brisbane Lions.

www.theage.com.au

https://archive.md/ht1rz

 

[Arr0w]

Lord is built for finals

 

[CCurnow3votes]

Lord is built for finals

Love what he’s done so far - such a young kid, in & under handing it out to Crippa - he’s got 200 games written all over him.

 

[RAPPA]

Up the Doc!

 

[Soapy V]

Yes I am at my best - docherty is playing. lol

Can we revisist Marchbank Cerra Martin and Williams at HB?

 

[WyntersGame_]

Emotionally i love thay Doc is in, but logically i struggle with rushing players back in from serious injuries, particularly into a finals campaign

While I love his heart and professionalism I wonder if we are setting ourselves up for an in game issue. We have seen how rushing back players has affected us this season.

But congrads to doc, his professionalism and heart is what makes him the player he is and what I wish all our players were like.

 

[jimsta10]

From Round Zero to Hero!

Welcome back Doc, we love ya!

 

[HereComesJuddy]

B: Cowan Weitering Cincotta
HB: Saad McGovern Newman
C: OHollands Cripps Acres
HF: Williams McKay EHollands
F: Kemp Curnow Motlop
R: TDK Walsh Docherty
I/C: Lord Kennedy Hewett CDurdin/Moir
Sub: Moir/Binns

 

[carlton_99]

Blues veteran to face Lions less than six months after knee reco - https://www.afl.com.au/news/1211257

Key takeaways

• McKay and Curnow expected to play
• McGovern likely to play
• Williams, Cerra, TDK and Martin all trained to varying degrees during match sim session and are pressing their case for Saturday night.
• Boyd unlikely to feature with an adductor injury.

 

[HereComesJuddy]

Lord is built for finals

If Lord misses I think we have missed a trick and the MC have lost the plot

 

[Neese]

Even if he only plays a half how motivating is this for the team?

 

[HereComesJuddy]

Even if he only plays a half how motivating is this for the team?

Suspect Doc won’t be sub and will be named in the 22. I also expect he will most like play all of the game. The amount of work he has done, I’d want him with ball in hand in the last few minutes of this match

 

[Michael Jezz]

I’d written the entire club off after the Hawks game.

Stick with your convictions based on what you see. Writing us off as capable of winning a premiership the way the club is managed, seems rational. However, current talent and football department management is 100% capable of winning finals. Logic suggests we are a 6th to 8th team. The rest is miracles, which do happen

 

[Soapy V]

If Lord misses I think we have missed a trick and the MC have lost the plot

Yep. Issue is with Docherty Charlie McKay Williams McGovern maybe TDK coming back who goes out?

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Emotionally i love thay Doc is in, but logically i struggle with rushing players back in from serious injuries, particularly into a finals campaign

While I love his heart and professionalism I wonder if we are setting ourselves up for an in game issue. We have seen how rushing back players has affected us this season.

But congrads to doc, his professionalism and heart is what makes him the player he is and what I wish all our players were like.

It's not a soft tissue injury, it's a ligament injury. The risk is he does another ACL or he doesn't. If he does another ACL, that would be terrible, but I don't think there's any more liklihood of that happening now than in say 6 months time in Round 1 next year. It's not like the ACL repair is a soft tissue injury that gets stronger and stronger over time.

 

[NavySteel]

THIS is the boost we need going into Saturday...

If Doc's return doesn't completely get a rocket up the whole squad, I don't know what will...

Ollie, to DOCHERTY, to Acres......

 

[Opium]

If Lord misses I think we have missed a trick and the MC have lost the plot

Lord was the leading pressure player last game. Needs to play.

 

[Aphrodite]

THIS!

 

[swuzzlebubble]

Yep. Issue is with Docherty Charlie McKay Williams McGovern maybe TDK coming back who goes out?

Assuming 5 changes...
Owies, Motlop, Durdin, Carroll + one of the newbies