Autopsy AFL 2024 Round 20 - Blues v Port Fri July 26th 7:40pm AEST (Marvel)

[Randomizor]

This is the kind of game that really makes you wonder…

Do we actually need commentators?

 

[beema limapep]

There will be a lot of shiny new scarfs being burnt outside Marvel tonight

 

[SuperSub17]

If not for the dubious umpiring in the first half, Port would have won this by 10 goals.

9 goals for the game under the roof.

7 of those in one quarter coinciding with a free kick avalanche.

Not good times for Carlton

 

[Randomizor]

Imagine, if only you had that 1 more day break, you'd win!

Only, football results don't work that way. No mention of this being Carltons 3rd loss from 4 attempts. Outclassed on your own deck to a travelling team.

To be fair to Carlton they’ve blamed every loss on injuries this year, but then you look at the injury sheet and it’s all Z-graders. This time, however, they had some genuine talent missing.

 

[Coasters7]

5 day break?! cry me a river Brown - has happened often to Freo this year, and they keep having to fly!

Complaints about the 5 day break are f*cking hilarious given Carlton played at Marvel last week against North and haven’t left Melbourne for a month, while Port were in Adelaide last week (albeit not a huge flight) and were up at GC the week before.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Can we bring our outs in too? Or are injuries only counted to Carlton?

Who were you missing? Marshall and McEntee?

 

[HTPunter]

I don’t think any reasonable person thought that was a goal - have you been to a game? Every supporter base is full of low socioeconomic fat idiots that cry about everything

Definitely a goal. Port got a fair few handy 50/50 calls in the last, but that was a clear goal.

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

It's amazing how much bigfooty slows down after a Carlton loss.

 

[HTPunter]

Who were you missing? Marshall and McEntee?

Powell-Pepper, Finlayson…

if you count Jack Martin who never plays more than half a season and when he does it’s 10 touches 1 goal a game,

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Powell-Pepper, Finlayson…

if you count Jack Martin who never plays more than half a season and when he does it’s 10 touches 1 goal a game,

They are out for the year

 

[Delisted]

Are Carlton the new bulldogs just without sneaking a flag?

 

[Atomboy]

What’s with all the Blues dipshits booing Horne-Francis ?.

Is it because his socks are too high ?.

 

[Elixuh]

What a win by Kenny and the boys. Carlton entering pretender status fast. Look shaky as a house made of straw

Great win Port!

 

[revo333]

Karma to the Blues fans who stuck it to the Bombers fans last friday night.

 

[10571z]

Carlton a one trick pony. Throwing away a season.

 

[btdg]

Complaints about the 5 day break are f*cking hilarious given Carlton played at Marvel last week against North and haven’t left Melbourne for a month, while Port were in Adelaide last week (albeit not a huge flight) and were up at GC the week before.

As far as I can tell, Carlton are the only team to be scheduled for a 5 day break all season outside of Thursday matches (where it is unavoidable). The only other scheduled instance is the Bulldogs next Friday (vs Melbourne). Obviously a bit of bad luck this time around to have 4 injuries last week and one in the first quarter tonight too.

But that takes a fair bit away from Port who were very good after half time. Made the adjustments necessary to cover Curnow properly, tackled and pressured a tired opponent and converted their chances down the stretch.

The fixturing is stupid and frustrating in a very close season (mostly because it is so unnecessary - there's a heap of other games that could have been tonight and not required anyone to have a 5 day break), but only one of many AFL stupidities

 

[sthmelb_dimmies]

Port by the same distance SOS parks from Ikon park when he picks SOJ up from training.

Picked it

 

[Demonic Ascent]

you cant call that a goal, it never even crossed the line before hitting the post , if the ball had stayed in play it would have been called play on, the fact it hit the post afterwards means that it should have been called as hitting the post

I agree, it's great seeing Carlton lose and all but that decision was wrong. The ball had to have crossed the line before hitting the umpire for it to be a goal. If it did not cross the line and then hit the umpire and then hit the post before crossing the line it is a point.

But sucked in Carlton about time they got the wrong end of a score review, their last 3 games against us were won because of dodgy score reviews

 

[HairyO]

When I saw Curnow had 5 free kicks I assumed he kicked a bag and a half.

Dunstall only got 5 frees once in his entire career. He took 18 marks and kicked 17 goals that game.

I guess Hawks are ****ed next week. AFL will need to go full ****** to ensure the Blues stay top 4.

 

[Handyandy]

Blues never in it
Once the umps quit backing em they were crap

 

[prisoner777]

On the positive side we only lost by 14 points despite having Harry, TDK and Acres out plus Cripps and Walshy both below par. The worrying issue is that the team has lost its mojo ...the cohesion and ball pressure has been missing for a month or so.

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

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How right you were.

Was an easy call. We went too hard in the first. Lost a runner early for another inside mid.
No tactical sub and no petrol tickets left.
Always thought we'd drop one of Port or Pies games, so just need to make sure we win the Pies one now.
My ladder predictor for the past few weeks has had us finishing 3rd, with Lions moving to 2nd.
Winning against Port and Pies was the only way of keeping 2nd IMO, unless some other results go our way.
Is what it is. Been fun carrying on about the umps though.

 

[E Shed]

Aliir was immense. JHF pretty damn good.

I had to look at the stats as I didn’t see Dixon hold a single mark but apparently he took one. He seems pretty cooked.

Entertaining comeback.

No Acres no Carlton!

 

[Mudhoney]

Can anyone give a neutral view on how the game played out? Genuinely interested in this game but missed it due to other commitments.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

As far as I can tell, Carlton are the only team to be scheduled for a 5 day break all season outside of Thursday matches

Oh, so they're not the only team then