Preview 2024 Rd 15 Carlton v Geelong Friday 21 June 7:40PM (AEST) @ MCG

[Aphrodite]

TEAM IS IN …


IN: Fantasia

OUT: Carroll

AFL team news: Blues make one change

It's a relatively settled 23 for the Blues heading into the 2024 AFL Carlton Respects Game.

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Backs:	Jordan Boyd	Jacob Weitering	Brodie Kemp
Half-backs:	Nic Newman	Mitch McGovern	Adam Saad
Centreline:	Ollie Hollands	Patrick Cripps	Blake Acres
Half-forwards:	Lachie Fogarty	Harry McKay	Zac Williams
Forwards:	Matthew Owies	Charlie Curnow	Alex Cincotta
Followers:	Tom De Koning	Sam Walsh	George Hewett
Interchange from:	Lachie Cowan	Corey Durdin	Orazio Fantasia
	Elijah Hollands	Matthew Kennedy
Emergencies:	Caleb Marchbank	Jesse Motlop	Marc Pittonet

 

[ctwenty1]

As it currently stands Kemp has to either play on Cameron or Hawkins.
Probably not for us, but we have never been travelling as well as we are now when he's come back before.

Will be an interesting call for sure. I suspect that he will come straight back in.

Surely Cerra comes in for Carrol. The only reason you would play Cerra in the two's is to get some match fitness

 

[LanceRomance]

Cameron's been playing wing a lot recently. Strangely.

Yes, since his concussion

I suspect they will move him back after the bye

 

[Benaly28]

Weitering should always get the best forward close to goal .. that’s Cameron , he is the only guy that can beat us … cincotta to danger or Holmes , Cowan gets miers , Hewitt to whoever is next in line and the rest of the boys won’t have any issues… we kick straight we pump geelong

Cameron will take him outside 50 if that’s the case not what we want.


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[Benaly28]

Surely Cerra comes in for Carrol. The only reason you would play Cerra in the two's is to get some match fitness

Not sure many ‘guns’ go through the vfl anymore they basically load up on training then come in


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[Monty1978]

Cameron will take him outside 50 if that’s the case not what we want.


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Let him do that , someone takes him when he floats and he can’t kick goals form the centre square , when he floats back weiters covers him.. he kicks 5-6 goals is the only way they beat us on current form.

 

[bigdog43]

Holmes has been excellent this year. I wonder if he's been tagged at this level before?

 

[Blue_Fusion]

Last time the umps had a big say in the game going against us. Very frustrating.

On current form we should win but we can't let Cameron off the leash again.

Well... if the new htb rule is interpreted correctly, we'll have no issues. Then again, even if the old rule was interpreted correctly last time, we missed out on at least 4 htb in our f50.

 

[ozzz]

Holmes has been excellent this year. I wonder if he's been tagged at this level before?

Toss the kitchen cinc at him

 

[Blue_Fusion]

Let him do that , someone takes him when he floats and he can’t kick goals form the centre square , when he floats back weiters covers him.. he kicks 5-6 goals is the only way they beat us on current form.

Not sure about that... even when GC smashed them in Darwin they still managed to kick 100 points without Hawkins and Cameron...

Last time we played them, it wasn't only Cameron that gave us problems, so did 34 yr old Tuohy, Henry (although he was gifted a couple goals).

Their injury list is pretty much non existent atm and the bye will freshen them up... expecting a tough contest but ultimately we prevail by a couple of goals.

 

[Blue and Silver]

Had a thought.

How about we trial De Koning as a Blicavs style centre square mid with Pitt.

Pitt taps, De Koning bashes and crashes them moves forward.

Not all the time, but could add a new look to the group which is hard to counter

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[Ezayyak]

Had a thought.

How about we trial De Koning as a Blicavs style centre square mid with Pitt.

Pitt taps, De Koning bashes and crashes them moves forward.

Not all the time, but could add a new look to the group which is hard to counter

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Won't work. TDK's main weapon is grabbing it out of the ruck and using his agility to do damage by hand or foot. In this scenario he would be pinned for interfering with the ruck contest.

 

[jj1978]

10/10 preview - well done.

But part of the reason we lost last time was the decision to play Weitering on Hawkins.

Hawkins spent much of the last game playing decoy and keeping Weitering away from the play. Hawkins is not dangerous. He is not a threat to kick goals. We did not adjust and we should have.

It would be foolish to waste our best defender on a has-been plodder. Weitering would benefit from a matchup where he can sag off and intercept.

I'd play Weitering on Neale. Kemp gets Cameron. McGovern to Hawkins. Hell even Cowan could do that job even though he'd be giving up 40kg.

Pitto on Hawkins perhaps? McGov on Rowan, Kemp on Cameron and Weiters to intercept and general.

 

[le dominateur]

Wow, posters underestimating Hawkins here.


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[gbatman]

Geelong are probably the only team where we feel like having another big defender would be useful. I think Weitering on Cameron at times would work. My worry is that if he's on Hawkins, Hawkins is going to take him away from where he needs to be.

I would not rule out a roll of the dice with Marchbank, for Cameron. If fit he's a tall with a huge tank, so the ideal matchup for Cameron. Cameron takes him up the field, if he gets lazy, Marchbank is smart enough to know how to drop back in defence and sit in the hole and intercept.

I would not go with MArchbank but I know it will be discussed as it's a no brainer matchup for Cameron.

McGovern probably gets the job and shares it with Kemp. I think if Cameron is up around the midfield then Kemp goes with him. Rather not have Gov chasing arse and covering a lot of ground. We like to get him free and use him as a kicker coming out of defence.

Will be interesting to see how the defence works things out. Things work well for us if our midfield defends well and the ball is coming in long.

I think we can dominate them in the middle again. This time we can be more efficient going forward.

 

[ESKIE]

I’m a firm no on Marchbank

 

[LanceRomance]

Wow, posters underestimating Hawkins here.


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Great player but having an average year... is probably why.

Not saying he won't kick a bag next week though.

 

[Stickitupthem]

If they get Dangerfield and Guthrie back then I would expect their poor run of form to be over. We haven't had much luck in terms of timing playing this mob

If we are worried about those we are in trouble this time we are much better balanced us by plenty
Going early Harry bog

 

[Drexl 31]

I would only add motlop.
Cerra needs a game in the vfl
Martin needs 2 games in t

10/10 preview - well done.

But part of the reason we lost last time was the decision to play Weitering on Hawkins.

Hawkins spent much of the last game playing decoy and keeping Weitering away from the play. Hawkins is not dangerous. He is not a threat to kick goals. We did not adjust and we should have.

It would be foolish to waste our best defender on a has-been plodder. Weitering would benefit from a matchup where he can sag off and intercept.

I'd play Weitering on Neale. Kemp gets Cameron. McGovern to Hawkins. Hell even Cowan could do that job even though he'd be giving up 40kg.

Cowan on the Hawk would be a sight to see.

 

[Juice030103]

This time around: No Young, No Pitto, Cincotta tagging, Williams forward, better game plan.

We didn’t have saad or gov either

 

[Juice030103]

Wow, posters underestimating Hawkins here.


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Eh not really. Weitering has owned him and he’s not the same player. Age gets to everyone. He could kick a couple but not enough to win them the game anymore

 

[TrueQldBlue]

Weiters couldn't keep up with Cameron. He roams all over the ground sometimes even playing down back or on ball for stages these days. Stick him on Porkins and if he's beating him comfortably maybe he can sag off him and play a bit looser to intercept more entries.

I reckon Cotter's would be able to follow Cameron around the ground and just tell him to negate Cameron's game.

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[TrueQldBlue]

Cowan on the Hawk would be a sight to see.

Too small and Hawkins would mark everything with his extra reach

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[TrueQldBlue]

Eh not really. Weitering has owned him and he’s not the same player. Age gets to everyone. He could kick a couple but not enough to win them the game anymore

Yes Weitering beat the Hawk last time so he will get that assignment.

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[BigFrizz36]

Eh not really. Weitering has owned him and he’s not the same player. Age gets to everyone. He could kick a couple but not enough to win them the game anymore

If anyone bar Weitering plays on Hawkins the Cats will plonk Hawkins in the square and he will simply monster them. Doesn't matter how old he is he is simply too strong for Kemp or McGovern.

 

[jj1978]

I’m a firm no on Marchbank

Agree this game is too important in cementing our top 4 position (whilst impacting another top 4 threat) to risk on a 50/50 chance of Marchbank needing to be subbed out due to another innocuous injury. It's not that we all don't like Marchbank, we just can't trust his body anymore.