AFL Rd 18 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

[Gointocarlton]

Wanganeen 1993

Was he a defender then or mid/fwd?

[Professer E]

Nah, a professional diver and umpire harasser.

[Thryleon]

Ports midfield is a lot better than anyone here is giving them credit for.  Boak pops up when the going gets tough.  Ollie wines is playing good footy.  SPP throws his weight around and is like a bull in a China shop.  Butters and rozee have a great one two punch and plenty of outside run.  This will be a good contest at the source. 

[ElwoodBlues1]

Ports midfield is a lot better than anyone here is giving them credit for.  Boak pops up when the going gets tough.  Ollie wines is playing good footy.  SPP throws his weight around and is like a bull in a China shop.  Butters and rozee have a great one two punch and plenty of outside run.  This will be a good contest at the source. 

Lycett and Duursma look like playing too...

[Gointocarlton]

Ports midfield is a lot better than anyone here is giving them credit for.  Boak pops up when the going gets tough.  Ollie wines is playing good footy.  SPP throws his weight around and is like a bull in a China shop.  Butters and rozee have a great one two punch and plenty of outside run.  This will be a good contest at the source. 

Im certainly not dismissing their midfield, they are top shelf, bat deep and ours has it work cut out this week.

[Mantis]

This is the hardest challenge not even considering just the midfield. To stay within 3 goals by the final siren is a huge result. I will be happy if we stay close to 2 or 3 goals behind at the end of the game. Might fall 4 or 5 goals short. Either way, we need the experience against a real contender. A side that is a bench mark. If you make the top 8, you come up against sides like Port each week. Surely it must be character building your club needs. To learn from. This is where Voss can use his past experience. Am I wrong?

[Gointocarlton]

This is the hardest challenge not even considering just the midfield. To stay within 3 goals by the final siren is a huge result. I will be happy if we stay close to 2 or 3 goals behind at the end of the game. Might fall 4 or 5 goals short. Either way, we need the experience against a real contender. A side that is a bench mark. If you make the top 8, you come up against sides like Port each week. Surely it must be character building your club needs. To learn from. This is where Voss can use his past experience. Am I wrong?

Agree. I think we can make it hard for them and make it a close game IF we bring the intensity and pressure of the last 3 weeks. Forget who we played, the attitude, effort and selflessness in our last three games is what teams like PA and Coll bring every single week. If we can at a minimum replicate it against these contending teams, Ill be happy. Of course a win would make me ecstatic.

[WASurfer]

And not forgetting Horne-Francis in the midfield and forward as well. Will definitely be a step up from the opposition of the last 3 weeks.

[LordLucifer]

We have not beaten anyone of substance thus far this season, the three wins recently mean nothing.

Roll Port and we may be taken seriously, lose and we are back where we belong.

This is a winnable game, must pull out all stops.

[PaulP]

.............the three wins recently mean nothing.
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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.