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1 minute ago, DubDee said:

Kennedy will get a couple of weeks for that hit but will mean little as he’ll be out for at least a month with that hammy

Looking at the way he grabbed it and winced pretty badly I think it's more then a month.

Guy at his age will certainly take a while to get back.

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8 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

Carlton are very well looked after by the umpires. They continue to drop the ball in tackles and get paid holding the man. It’s insane 

The umpires will have a hard time when the Blues play the Bulldogs, who gets all the free kicks?!

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Carlton are playing well, but Sydney are making some fundamental errors too to make Carlton look better. Everything Carlton have done tonight has turned to gold.

Think we will beat Swans no problem, Blues will be a great challenge, a round 22 encounter will be a cracker, would still back us in though 👍

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1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Looking at the way he grabbed it and winced pretty badly I think it's more then a month.

Guy at his age will certainly take a while to get back.

Bold prediction: Kennedy won’t come back this year. That hammy looked serious. 

Swans need to lock this game down and make the Blue defend more than 10 seconds. Blues will run out of gas but it’s a bit too out of reach for the Swans.

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Forget the free kicks. There is only one team with their head over the ball. You get what you deserve

the Swans have been pathetic. Longmire will be losing his rag in the rooms

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2 minutes ago, CYB said:

Bold prediction: Kennedy won’t come back this year. That hammy looked serious. 

Swans need to lock this game down and make the Blue defend more than 10 seconds. Blues will run out of gas but it’s a bit too out of reach for the Swans.

Could be right. He’s 34 next month. 250 games. What a gun player he has been almost changed the modern day inside mid - you need to have a tall beast in there

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9 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Blues 20 frees to 7 and 5 goals from free kicks. They are playing good footy as well.

The club I dislike most in the AFL. Can’t stand to see them playing well.

As I always say 'Red'...it's good for the competition when Carlton are down the bottom.

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5 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Isn’t it a sell-out tonight?

16% drop in crowd number since 2019 if you take out covid.

Blue supporters coming out of the wood work this year.

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Anyone who thinks the umpires or Sydney have anything to do with this doesn't know what they're watching

I said it after our pre season loss and will say it again now - if you watch Carlton closely they have found a formula. Contested stuff off the chart - ride tackles as well as any team, serious serious front half pressure, killer key forwards - that's all obvious. But watch their contest stuff - they outnumber, they space well, and they've reached the tipping point good teams do where they have so much confidence in winning the contest they're taking risks while teammates are getting tackled. 

Intangible stuff is high too - a team in unison, working for each other, clearly in sync. 

3rd year I think under Andrew Russell - they've found the running power that takes a few years to build. 

Doing it ATM without their #1 ruck, Coleman medallist, and a host of others - there's serious depth there.

8-2 - not had the easiest draw - they absolutely have to be taken seriously. Anything less than a prelim is a failure for them.

Hope it's not against us (serious 2018 Richmond v Collingwood vibes) as they are genuinely the only team that could overpower us both in the midfield and particularly with Curnow, McKay and their honest worker small fwds. 

How they go in Finals is the only unknown - with Voss at the helm and the way they're playing I don't think anything will scare them.  They'll be there right to the very end.

Don't you just hate to see it 

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1 minute ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Wouldn’t be surprised if we play the Blues week 1 at the G. (1v4)

And they’ll probably out number us as well in terms of the crowd.

Although given their recent form they might finish 3rd.

They're every chance of finishing top 2...

This has been coming for a while now and a few of us had posted similar over the last 2 seasons.

The recruiting had been excellent and all they needed was a bit of luck.

Voss is the icing, he will get the credit but the work was done way before he got there.

Cripps is critical to where they finish and I'm not sure he can last a full season...lets see.

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Not a big surprise it's a record attendance between these two sides. Neither Princes Park nor the Lakeside Oval would have held 45,000 and during most of the years Carlton dominated the competition South Melbourne sucked and vice versa during the Sydney Swans era. 

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6 minutes ago, fr_ap said:

Anyone who thinks the umpires or Sydney have anything to do with this doesn't know what they're watching

I said it after our pre season loss and will say it again now - if you watch Carlton closely they have found a formula. Contested stuff off the chart - ride tackles as well as any team, serious serious front half pressure, killer key forwards - that's all obvious. But watch their contest stuff - they outnumber, they space well, and they've reached the tipping point good teams do where they have so much confidence in winning the contest they're taking risks while teammates are getting tackled. 

Intangible stuff is high too - a team in unison, working for each other, clearly in sync. 

3rd year I think under Andrew Russell - they've found the running power that takes a few years to build. 

Doing it ATM without their #1 ruck, Coleman medallist, and a host of others - there's serious depth there.

8-2 - not had the easiest draw - they absolutely have to be taken seriously. Anything less than a prelim is a failure for them.

Hope it's not against us (serious 2018 Richmond v Collingwood vibes) as they are genuinely the only team that could overpower us both in the midfield and particularly with Curnow, McKay and their honest worker small fwds. 

How they go in Finals is the only unknown - with Voss at the helm and the way they're playing I don't think anything will scare them.  They'll be there right to the very end.

Don't you just hate to see it 

I'm watching Sydney fumble in space, be led to the ball, get walked through in tackles and continually lay tackles too high or in the back.

There is plenty about this performance that is on Sydney independently of Carlton.

Carlton are good, don't get me wrong, but Sydney are not in form, having lost two in a row before beating a sub-VFL side in Essendon.

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Carlton are a superior version of the Bulldogs. Reliant on their midfield and forward line to keep the ball out of their defensive 50 and to score enough to outdo their backline weaknesses.

Despite all the hoo-ha over their midfield and forward line, they entered this game with the worst percentage of any top 8 side, which is indicative of their back half weaknesses.

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28 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

It's 20-8 free kick to Carlton.

No wonder the game is an absolute mess and no one is turning up to games.

Absolute [censored] show..

Disgracefully one sided.  How many times has a blue gathered, taken a few steps then either taken on the tackler / been tackled legally then either dropped the pill red hot and/or not made a realistic  attempt yet no free!??

Walsh just then...broke a tackle then fair tackled immediately after but no free!!

If you are not going to penalise a team for not playing to the rules of the game then good luck to the other team putting a winning score on the board.

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