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Good win on the road for the Blues ... a very good win ... powerful 4th quarter. First time beating an Adelaide Club at Adelaide Oval actually.

 
9 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Nah, I made it up

I figured that, telstra PR team, probably just got made redundant 

9 minutes ago, layzie said:

Really hope Carlton are peaking too early 

Not peaking yet. Still more injured players to come back.

 
2 minutes ago, No. 31 said:

Good win on the road for the Blues ... a very good win ... powerful 4th quarter. First time beating an Adelaide Club at Adelaide Oval actually.

It was actually awful…

5 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Not quite

They just beat the third placed team on that team's home ground by 6 goals

Nah I was talking about Port 

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9 minutes ago, No. 31 said:

Not peaking yet. Still more injured players to come back.

Nah, peaking now and you don't win flags in May as they always say.

Also apart from Cerra, Cottrell and Martin they are close to full strength.

Edited by layzie

7 minutes ago, No. 31 said:

Good win on the road for the Blues ... a very good win ... powerful 4th quarter. First time beating an Adelaide Club at Adelaide Oval actually.

Port are perennial pretenders though, we'll see...

39 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

The original team has been on a training camp miles away and were on their way to the oppo home ground on GameDay. Their bus broke down and because their own town is at about the halfway mark between where they broke down and the oppo home ground but in the opposite direction, it was quicker to round up the misfits and take them to the game in the backup bus. 

Did you write the script for the ad? 😄

 
Just now, ElDiablo14 said:

Port are perennial pretenders though, we'll see...

Agreed. But they are a tough opponent at home in Adelaide.


4 minutes ago, layzie said:

Nah, peaking now and you don't win flags in May as they always say.

I think they’re a team that had a patchy April and May but are now working into the season really nicely as evidenced by their last 2 games.

I don’t want to play them in a final, if we’re good enough to make it.

 

9 minutes ago, No. 31 said:

Agreed. But they are a tough opponent at home in Adelaide.

And it doesn’t help that their (Port’s) fans are so loud and there’s so many of them. 

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1 minute ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I think they’re a team that had a patchy April and May but are now working into the season really nicely as evidenced by their last 2 games.

I don’t want to play them in a final, if we’re good enough to make it.

 

Real talk: I can see them in the GF this year. The side is more balanced then ever and they aren't just scoring from stoppage now (apart from tonight). They've even found a use for Zac Willams now forward. It wasn't long ago when nothing seemed to work out for them, now it seems like its all falling their way. Very good side 

11 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

And it doesn’t help that their (Port’s) fans are so loud and there’s so many of them. 

Sounded like almost equal numbers tonight. Hell of a lot of baggers there 


37 minutes ago, DiscoStu17 said:

Sounded like almost equal numbers tonight. Hell of a lot of baggers there 

Carlton has a big following in both South Australia and Western Australia, so many club legends over the years hailed from these two states. The Blues will likely be aiming to draft the two Camporeale boys in the next draft (twin sons of Scott Camporeale who was in the 1995 Premiership team).

8 hours ago, layzie said:

Real talk: I can see them in the GF this year. The side is more balanced then ever and they aren't just scoring from stoppage now (apart from tonight). They've even found a use for Zac Willams now forward. It wasn't long ago when nothing seemed to work out for them, now it seems like its all falling their way. Very good side 

Agree. They're quite far from peaking tbh, their last month has been up and down. Sydney are genuinely peaking and couldn't play any better - too early. 

Blues were my flag tip before it all began and remain so - have all key items covered and their 2nd/3rd string layer are all contributing solidly and knowing their role. They've as a group also discovered the knack of winning - you can see it.

They give me huge '21 Dees vibes and have done for about 18 months 

Carlton are a tough team to beat any given week, but still not sure on them defensively. Up to now they have conceded the 4th highest against. Wait and see if they fix that in the back half.

What do you do next Sunday night??? Blues v Bombers...

2 hours ago, fr_ap said:

Agree. They're quite far from peaking tbh, their last month has been up and down. Sydney are genuinely peaking and couldn't play any better - too early. 

Blues were my flag tip before it all began and remain so - have all key items covered and their 2nd/3rd string layer are all contributing solidly and knowing their role. They've as a group also discovered the knack of winning - you can see it.

They give me huge '21 Dees vibes and have done for about 18 months 

Yeah the balance of the list really reminds me of ours in 21, as well as the number of guys in career best form. 


10 hours ago, No. 31 said:

Good win on the road for the Blues ... a very good win ... powerful 4th quarter. First time beating an Adelaide Club at Adelaide Oval actually.

Don't humanise the enemy 31. 

1 hour ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Carlton are a tough team to beat any given week, but still not sure on them defensively. Up to now they have conceded the 4th highest against. Wait and see if they fix that in the back half.

What do you do next Sunday night??? Blues v Bombers...

unbelievable that they get a 10 day break after a game in adelaide whereas the peptides will be coming off a standard 7 day week after the humidity of playing gc17 up there

they're trying to turn 'king's birthday eve' into a thing the way we and the tigs have turned 'anzac day eve' into a thing

11 hours ago, greenwaves said:

Am I imagining things or have teams been winning a lot on the road this year?

For what it's worth, 29 of 64, I think.

 
46 minutes ago, Ted Lasso said:

Don't humanise the enemy 31. 

He is a blues fan.

PA forward line doesn’t inspire 

Dixon is all huff and puff tuff stuff but nothing more subbed out

marshall underwhelming 

georgiades did well but can’t get a regular game

TDK was good Soldo no good

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