Preview 2024 Round 24 Carlton vs St Kilda Sunday 25th August 3:20PM AEST @ Marvel Stadium

[Aphrodite]

Team is in …

AFL team news: Blues make one change

Carlton's team is in for the Round 24 clash with St Kilda.

www.carltonfc.com.au

1 change

IN: Saad
OUT: Williams

 

[aussierulesrules]

I just realised how solid the aints form has been, making a win on the weekend all the more impressive and a fantastic platform heading into September.

Yeah we’ve won 5 of our last 7, with an average winning margin of 39 points, and two of those 5 wins were against current and almost-certain-to-finish top 4 teams.

So we’re now playing about as well as we have since Lyon returned, and seem to have finally found the balance between attack and defence.

We’re still 2nd for points conceded, but have kicked 99 or more points in 4 of our last 5 games.

So our game is in really good order.

If we come to play and you win this, you’ll thoroughly deserve your spot on the grid. Last week was super-meritorious.

Hopefully it’s a good game, with no more injuries to either team.

 

[LanceRomance]

Membrey will probably play like he is a chance to win the coleman

 

[morningbrown]

No Brad Hill is huge, but we'll still need to be 100% switched on to be a chance.

 

[LanceRomance]

No Brad Hill is huge, but we'll still need to be 100% switched on to be a chance.

We usually struggle with Hill, membrey and King. Sinclair can be a handful.

 

[SurreyBlue]

Just what we need - a StiKilda supporter telling us if we are worthy to play finals or not.

Well considering we have been sitting top 4 all year ... yeah not worthy - FMD.

 

[sweethoney]

Membrey will probably play like he is a chance to win the coleman

Anyone one know how close we were to actually landing him last trade period?
On gettable they said we tried but couldn’t get a deal done then said we aren’t interested in him this year

 

[LanceRomance]

Anyone one know how close we were to actually landing him last trade period?
On gettable they said we tried but couldn’t get a deal done then said we aren’t interested in him this year

We were after membrey?

 

[Aphrodite]

We were after membrey?

Doubt it.

 

[AB_Blue]

Rumours were last week that big TDK may be right to go for the saints game….geez that would be handy…..

 

[sweethoney]

Doubt it.

Last year we were according to gettable during the week

 

[sweethoney]

I’m confident even booked Flights booked to Brisbane already just incase the airlines want to up the flights again

 

[ESKIE]

Yeah we’ve won 5 of our last 7, with an average winning margin of 39 points, and two of those 5 wins were against current and almost-certain-to-finish top 4 teams.

So we’re now playing about as well as we have since Lyon returned, and seem to have finally found the balance between attack and defence.

We’re still 2nd for points conceded, but have kicked 99 or more points in 4 of our last 5 games.

So our game is in really good order.

If we come to play and you win this, you’ll thoroughly deserve your spot on the grid. Last week was super-meritorious.

Hopefully it’s a good game, with no more injuries to either team.

Must be so frustrating playing so well & getting it right when the season is shot & nothing to play for.

 

[juzza316]

Yeah we’ve won 5 of our last 7, with an average winning margin of 39 points, and two of those 5 wins were against current and almost-certain-to-finish top 4 teams.

So we’re now playing about as well as we have since Lyon returned, and seem to have finally found the balance between attack and defence.

We’re still 2nd for points conceded, but have kicked 99 or more points in 4 of our last 5 games.

So our game is in really good order.

If we come to play and you win this, you’ll thoroughly deserve your spot on the grid. Last week was super-meritorious.

Hopefully it’s a good game, with no more injuries to either team.

Not sure why injuries would matter to the saints, but nice post anyway. Some good wins recently from the saints, will be a tough one for us with all our outs.

 

[Zlatan]

Play none of them and just hope Port beat Freo.
Buys them 2 more weeks to be ready for finals if we make it …

You might be kidding, but this is a close second in what I’d like to happen this week.

 

[brad_fisher]

Everyone is too distraught by injuries - the injuries don't matter. We can still field 23 players even if they haven't played AFL footy before, they're still in the team and have been training all year long already.

The boys will lift for a big game and to do Vossy proud, just like they did on the weekend. They know that finals is on the line, Vossy will give them the heads up before the game about what to do and who plays what role.

 

[Sweet Seventeen]

The Saints have been in pretty decent form since the bye and have just embarassed an in-form, top 4 team in Geelong.

They're hardly a pushover. In fact, given their form & our injuries they should be winning this.

Agree Paddy, no pushover indeed. I have no real expectations for us, in this game. Just want to see us take it on.

Looking forward to seeing our youngsters play with real excitement and light it up.

This may well not be enough, as we are returning from W.A. and our record at marvel this season is ordinary.

Aints should probably start favourites, should be a pretty close game.

Don't really rate the pussies, we beat them comfortably as well. Of course, we did have a much stronger team then.

 

[WreckTangle]

Harry confirmed not playing. In Kemp we trust!


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[ESKIE]

a few tests this week !

 

[SolGoodman]

Charlie and not Harry being the test for this week was not on my bingo card.

 

[brad_fisher]

If all the "tests" go our way, we can play McGovern, Durdin and Williams (Williams wasn't listed in the injury report update, so presumably it was just cramp) and welcome back Saad, Curnow and Fantasia. Very positive.

 

[Thrawn]

If all the "tests" go our way, we can play McGovern, Durdin and Williams (Williams wasn't listed in the injury report update, so presumably it was just cramp) and welcome back Saad, Curnow and Fantasia. Very positive.

Wasn't Gov ruled out already?

 

[Aphrodite]

UPDATES on seven Blues leading into Round 24

Injury news: Round 24

Five Blues are tests to play for the final game of the home-and-away season.

www.carltonfc.com.au

Mitch McGovern

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Mitch Mcgovern

Age

29

Ht

190cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.1

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

2.9

3star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.2

4star

MG

189.8

3star

D

7.6

2star

K

6.5

3star

HB

1.1

1star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.9

3star

MG

179.6

3star

D

10.8

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

3.0

5star

MG

218.0

4star

(hamstring)

• Experienced some hamstring tightness during game against West Coast
• Availability: Test

Corey Durdin (shoulder)

• Has pulled up well from his shoulder incident on the weekend
• Availability: test

Adam Saad (hamstring)
- Availability: test

Charlie Curnow (ankle)
- Availability: test

Orazio Fantasia (calf)
- Availability: test

Harry McKay (quad)
- Availability: one week

Jack Martin (hamstring)
- Availability: one week

 

[SolGoodman]

How desperate are we to actually make the finals? Desperate enough to risk Charlie?

Gonna be interesting come Thursday at 6:20pm…

 

[brad_fisher]

Wasn't Gov ruled out already?

Listed as "test" on the Injury Update

 

[ESKIE]

Give those ferals something to think about