AFL Rd 15 2024 Pre-game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong

[WASurfer]

EB....I wouldn't be surprised if there's a late change and Stanley comes back in...or the other ruckman. Hard to see them just going with Blicsav....who would their backup ruckman be for 5-8 minutes each quarter? Blicsav can run all day but doing it while rucking would be a huge effort.

[madbluboy]

We smashed them in the ruck and in the centre last time. It did not matter, we couldn't stop their rebound.

[Thryleon]

Yep so this time around we will break even in the ruck, but they have a new clearance beast to worry about in De Koning.  I reckon they will counter punch us again.  Lets hope our players dont become too reactive like last time and go closing down the ball carrier between the arcs leaving outnumbers in defensive fifty.  There were at least 6 to 8 goals that could have been prevented just by holding position last time.

[LP]

Last time we played them we didn't have Saad or McGovern, relying on Young, and Stengle got off the hook multiple times.

Also at the other end of the ground they cleaned up pretty everything at ground level inside our F50, we had four lightweight SF players in Carroll, Owies, Ollie and Binns who barely touched it out bodied by the heavier Handbagger defence. It won't be so easy with Williams in our F50, but they have Stewart back to compliment Guthrie and Tuohy.

TDK will have a much tougher gig this week, TDK will probably win the taps but find it much harder to follow up against Blicsavs. But at least if Blicsavs is focussed on TDK he can't be also guarding Cripps. As long as the umpires don't change the ruck rules half way through the game like they did last time, hopefully Scott's complaints have no impact.

[PaulP]

Still not getting the hostility towards Fantasia. Has played 10 games this year, and as per the club's official statement, missed the R13 Essendon game with a shoulder injury.  And back in tonight.

[LP]

Just have to trust the MC.

[BluePhantom]

We are a different team than when we played them last, we now have a fit team playing well and they are on the slide.

[pertz]

Still not getting the hostility towards Fantasia. Has played 10 games this year, and as per the club's official statement, missed the R13 Essendon game with a shoulder injury.  And back in tonight.

He's just no good , simple. He's off the pace, fumbly under pressure, doesn't hit the scoreboard- need I go on?

[LP]

We are a different team than when we played them last, we now have a fit team playing well and they are on the slide.

Fogarty was out back in Rnd 7 as well, someone I forgot to mention.

Could we, should we take someone like Stewart, Tuohy or Guthrie out of the game by having Cincotta tag them?

[kruddler]

Stewart was missing last time IIRC, he is a huge in for them