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Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - Gointocarlton - 07-13-2023
(07-13-2023, 01:55 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I disagree. Fremantle and Gold Coast are both 7/9 in the W/L (the same as us except for the draw), and Hawthorn can and did beat the Lions. You don't win those three consecutive games by 10 goals without doing a fair bit right.Agree and disagree. Agree the last three wins were good, very good in fact. Disagree if we were to beat PA and Coll that they could be construed as negative. PA and Coll will play in the GF IMO. If we were to beat them both it would be massive for us and we would definitely gain some respect in the wider football community. Every game from now on is an elimination final for us. Whether we sneak into the 8 or not, games against teams above us are practice finals so we should be going hell for leather to win them whether it benefits us now or in future (as Doc said on 360) doesn't matter, we will learn something one way or another. On 360 the other night, Doc talked about the work they have been doing around how they want to play, what they stand for and what they want teams who we have played to say about us. It reminded me of a T-Shirt I saw a guy wearing at one of the very few local soccer games I went to years ago. It read "Loved by few, Hated by many, Feared by all". I'd kinda like my club to be known like that.
You can pivot any victory towards the negative. If we beat Port, then we can say it doesn't mean anything because they were due for a loss. If we beat the Pies, then we can say McRae had a rare bad day in the box etc., we got lucky with the umpires etc.
Whether we play brilliantly or awfully for the rest of the season, those three victories were good.
Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - LP - 07-13-2023
(07-13-2023, 02:30 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:Hated by many, Feared by all". I'd kinda like my club to be known like that.Might be too late for that.
The last time I saw national survey figures, within Victoria we were the 2nd most supported team narrowly behind the Filth, nationally we were actually 1st on the supporter base.
I suppose it's because the Filth tend to only flea to interstate when they are being pursued by authorities!
( Yes I know it's flee not flea, but for the filth using flea seems so much more appropriate! )
Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - bratblue - 07-13-2023
Looking like Dixon and Rioli are out as well.
Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - PaulP - 07-13-2023
(07-13-2023, 02:30 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Agree and disagree. Agree the last three wins were good, very good in fact. Disagree if we were to beat PA and Coll that they could be construed as negative...............
I guess what I was getting at is that some will put a negative spin on anything. You only need to read page 1 of this thread to see that some are positioning any possible victory as the Port equivalent of the Keating "recession they had to have."
Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - DJC - 07-13-2023
(07-13-2023, 01:55 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I disagree. Fremantle and Gold Coast are both 7/9 in the W/L (the same as us except for the draw), and Hawthorn can and did beat the Lions. You don't win those three consecutive games by 10 goals without doing a fair bit right.
You can pivot any victory towards the negative. If we beat Port, then we can say it doesn't mean anything because they were due for a loss. If we beat the Pies, then we can say McRae had a rare bad day in the box etc., we got lucky with the umpires etc.
Whether we play brilliantly or awfully for the rest of the season, those three victories were good.
Me too!
This season is remarkable for the unpredictable results; it seems that any team can get up on match day regardless of the opposition. Even the cellar dwellers have recorded wins or threatened an upset.
Freo and Gold Coast were above us on the ladder when we played them. Gold Coast have had some significant wins this season; Geelong, Richmond, Footscray and Adelaide. Freo has accounted for Sydney, Geelong, Melbourne and Essendon. Hawthorn beat Brisbane and St Kilda.
Then there's the manner of those wins; we didn't just fall over the line, we handed out decent shellackings.
It's going to be a tough assignment but, if we play the same relentless footy that we've produced over the last three games, we should prevail.
Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - Lods - 07-13-2023
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There’s some sore boys at Port Adelaide we hear. Could be as many as five changes. Unconfirmed, but the whisper is Jason Horne-Francis and Charlie Dixon among the absentees against Carlton. Not sure Lycett has come up again either.
Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - ratlice - 07-13-2023
When was the last time we won 4 in a row?
Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - rocky - 07-13-2023
(07-13-2023, 04:47 AM)Lods link Wrote:Sam Edmund
@Sammy__Edmund
There’s some sore boys at Port Adelaide we hear. Could be as many as five changes. Unconfirmed, but the whisper is Jason Horne-Francis and Charlie Dixon among the absentees against Carlton. Not sure Lycett has come up again either.
Wouldn't be the first time that all the planets are in alignment for a memorable underdog victory, for us to fail miserably. My scars over the years have not healed over yet.
Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - PaulP - 07-13-2023
(07-13-2023, 05:13 AM)ratlice link Wrote:When was the last time we won 4 in a row?
Not sure, but the recent one I remember is R5-R8, 2016.
Re: AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide - Gointocarlton - 07-13-2023
(07-13-2023, 05:13 AM)ratlice link Wrote:When was the last time we won 4 in a row?Last year, rounds 7 8 9 10