Preview 2024 Rd 20 Carlton vs Port Adelaide Friday 26th July 7:40PM AEST @ Marvel Stadium

[Aphrodite]

Team is in …

3 Changes

AFL team news: Three big additions

Mitch McGovern is among a trio of inclusions for Friday night football.

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[Blue Ratts]

Missed it by that much Stamos

 

[juzza316]

Huge blow for TDK, big Blue cleared of concussion

Carlton will be without its star ruck/forward for several weeks after scans revealed significant injury

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you would hope that TDK scan would be precautionary only given they persisted to play him. Acres on the other hand

 

[SurreyBlue]

Gut feel - we have just passed a heavy training load getting ready for this game plus finals.
As long as the injured are either rested or ok - I bet this game might be a little different to the last month.

 

[RAPPA]

Worried about Blacres - so damn important to our structure and such a tough player. Gets overlooked in comparison to the “bigger name” players in our team but he’s such a vital player

 

[Soapy V]

Massive game IMO

We need to sort out our best line up and find our mojo again.

With finals only a few weeks away we need to start playing better football in the lead up

I also think Top 2 will be a huge advantage this year so we need to keep winning

 

[Blue Dimension]

Would love to reward Binns but given midfield squeeze with Kennedy and Cerra playing outside the square - I can see us moving others there (e.g. Cerra) first.

 

[Soapy V]

Gut feel - we have just passed a heavy training load getting ready for this game plus finals.
As long as the injured are either rested or ok - I bet this game might be a little different to the last month.

I asked a number of people about this last week and was told 100% not true

If anything we are having trouble getting most players on the track for a full week

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

It's an interesting game match up wise again.

If TDK is not 100%, then Pittonet has to come in. He will match up well on Sweet anyway.

Port played 3 tall defenders on the weekend. We will have two tall forwards, unless we select the two ruckmen. If we don't have two rucks, then McKay will be the 2nd ruck and on those occasions, Port will have 3 key defenders and we will only have Charlie up forward. That means that all our entries have to low and direct.

I can see us needing presence up forward and going for the two rucks again ... go figure right?

Down back, they have the undersized athletic Georgiades who loves to get on the lead. The hulking Dixon who leads out from the goal square and can take a pack mark (but will be second ruck also), and the tall but inexperienced Ollie Lord.

If McGovern is ready to play, he will come in no matter what. He would suit Georgiades. Weitering is obviously playing.

So we need another option out of Durdin, Kemp and Marchbank. The latter two are undersized against Lord, assuming Weitering gets Dixon. Kemp's athleticism vs Marchbank's (relative) experience. Durdin can take Dixon or Lord height wise. He'd probably match up more with Dixon pace wise. But we lose on the ground with Durdin. He is strictly a Prestigiacomo style stopper. Bring the ball to ground, neutralise the contest, then step back and let everyone else clear the ball.

One thing we could do is rotate McGovern and Kemp/Marchbank if either Georgiades or Lord gets off the chain.

Elsewhere on the ground, we will need a Cottrell type to try to nullify Dan Houston

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, assuming Cincotta gets the job on Butters again.

Port have Evans and Rioli as their small forwards. Saad will get one. The other is up for grabs, so maybe Boyd does come back.

I do think we match up well against Port, but we are not in form and it's hard to know which players to trust right now.

 

[Sweet Seventeen]

Absolute no brainer to rest TDK this week. Other players who are a bit banged up should have a rest as well. In saying that, Acres is incredibly important to our structure and if he does not play. Then, could well be the difference between winning and losing.

Hopefully Pitt can rise to his usual standard and at least break even.

McGov, Boyd and Kemp should sure up our defence. Marchy for Durds, you would think.

I would not be risking Walsh with his back history. 5 day back-up and on the concrete again, he is to valuable to risk.

Cowan will make way for Kemp, love the kid but he was poor.

Full game for Cuners makes sense to me.

 

[Crippa#9]

Worried about Blacres - so damn important to our structure and such a tough player. Gets overlooked in comparison to the “bigger name” players in our team but he’s such a vital player

Voss was reluctant to divulge what type of injury/soreness he had. Suspect it must be ribs or shoulder

 

[CAPSTAN1995]

Watching from behind the goals yesterday, Cerra was pathetic, Durdin's not good enough but we have nothing else. Bit worrying with Walsh playing sore/injured, same with TDK. As a team we were shocking, full credit to North they are going to be a good team, we are too slow and one paced. Have noticed the quick teams like the Dogs, Adelaide, GWS have beaten us, Hawk's are going to run us off our feet at the G.

Might as well tank for the rest of the season I guess. Absolute fluke we are on 2nd spot. Our team is built for finals where it will be a stoppage to stoppage dog fight. Quickness gets negated in finals heat.

 

[Benaly28]

We lose this game, and we'll likely drop to 6th or even 7th.

Brisbane should account for the Suns, Freo should smash West Coast, you'd think GWS will do Melbourne, and the Cats should roll North.

Crazy logjam of a ladder from 2nd to 13th.

I would t assume anything anymore trying to pick winners and games is nigh on impossible.


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[Benaly28]

Thoughts on giving Lemmy a crack in the backline.

Don’t think he’s ready especially in a pressure cooker situation which we’re in for the next 5 weeks.


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[goreds]

Ok, so TDK out for a while. Let’s hope Pitto can stand up by himself!

 

[RAPPA]

Voss was reluctant to divulge what type of injury/soreness he had. Suspect it must be ribs or shoulder

I think one of the articles posted on the AFL site suggested a foot injury, but he has had a history with shoulder injuries. Either way, if he's out then hopefully it's just a week.

 

[Benaly28]

Ok, so TDK out for a while. Let’s hope Pitto can stand up by himself!

You hearing punctured lung as well?


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[Aphrodite]

 

[bigdog43]

Every big team has had a drop off at some point this year. It was only four weeks ago that we beat Geelong by 10 goals. We'll figure it out.

 

[goreds]

You hearing punctured lung as well?


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Not hearing good things about Acres either, I hope it’s just bruising…

 

[Crippa#9]

Absolute no brainer to rest TDK this week. Other players who are a bit banged up should have a rest as well. In saying that, Acres is incredibly important to our structure and if he does not play. Then, could well be the difference between winning and losing.

Hopefully Pitt can rise to his usual standard and at least break even.

McGov, Boyd and Kemp should sure up our defence. Marchy for Durds, you would think.

I would not be risking Walsh with his back history. 5 day back-up and on the concrete again, he is to valuable to risk.

Cowan will make way for Kemp, love the kid but he was poor.

Full game for Cuners makes sense to me.

Suspect there is going to be some very stiff players to be demoted over the next few weeks...

i think Cowan probably could do with a week off. Hate dropping Kennedy but with Gov coming back, Hewett & Cerra in the team he's a hard one to plug. Hardest to drop is Carroll who shown nice improvement yesterday albeit got beaten by his opponent. Feel like he's building confidence but Boyd's role is more important defensively.

Sam Durdin stays in one more week given the aerial threat of Dixon / Georgiades / Marshall? + he may need to give us a chop out in the ruck...

McGovern for Cowan
Martin for Kennedy.
Boyd for Carroll (Cerra moves back to midfield)
Pitto for TDK

Cuningham, Cottrell or Elijah as sub

 

[Coona Blues]

TDK is one tough SOB

Gaining more and more respect with each passing week for mine. We have a bloody good one here.

Get well soon mate. Lungs will be OK soon enough, and will give you a chance to get over the other niggles King.

Pitto more than adequate back up.

 

[swuzzlebubble]

Foot fracture too.
Out for h&a season

 

[Faucon Bleu]

Might as well tank for the rest of the season I guess. Absolute fluke we are on 2nd spot. Our team is built for finals where it will be a stoppage to stoppage dog fight. Quickness gets negated in finals heat.

What are you talking about? Did I say anything about tanking? Or us being second a fluke?

 

[Aphrodite]

Fractured foot & punctured lung

De Koning out for home-and-away season; Swans dealt a bitter blow; clubs sent a ‘please explain’

Carlton’s tough win over North Melbourne has come at a cost, with a fractured foot to sideline star ruckman Tom De Koning until the end of the home-and-away season. Meanwhile, the Swans are battling their own injury issues.

www.theage.com.au

Carlton’s tough win over North Melbourne has come at a cost, with a fractured foot to sideline star ruckman Tom De Koning

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until the end of the home and away season.

The 25-year-old had scans this morning after spending the night in hospital due to a collapsed lung. He is recovering well from the lung issue, but the foot injury will take close to six weeks to heal.

 

[jimsta10]

hot diggity damn.

ChatGBT said its a 1-2 weeks injury, can someone whos had it before confirm? I dont trust AI