like voss said we got them at the right time but i never expected to win by that amount great pressure and team work BUT

Im looking forward to watching the replay tonight, its always better to watch it when youre not waiting for the implosion and the opposition to kick 6 straight and win by 14....

yes, thats how we are conditioned as Carlton supporters

PS Loved seeing a goal where the last two guys in the goal square are our wingers (Cotts and Acres if I recall) shows some hard running!

D.King on SEN today seemed to be a bit all over the shop in his opinion about the Blues, which is fair enough I mean we have only just started to win again.
G.Whately as usual a lot more articulate.

Did he liken Jesse Motlop to Thierry Henry?

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The evenness of Saturday's performance is best summed up by our own MVP votes. Only one player in the current top 10 for the season registered votes - Nick Newman with 4 votes, who before this week was 10th on the leaderboard.

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Whoa

That's a good thing.

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Good answers to this question. Still think this win was better than all of them

Agree round 3 2012 was the high watermark of this century, where we finally announced we had arrived. But what a false dawn it was. I remember leaving the round 8 game vs Adelaide realising that group would never make it. We missed finals and sacked Ratts at the end of the year.

Teague’s first game was also a great win and a great watch. Not a relevant game though. We jumped an interstate team on our home deck who let a big lead slide after a couple of injuries. We were still dead last after the win and only finished 16th that year.

2001 is a good answer but I barely had hair on my balls back then so I feel like it doesn’t count.

The Richmond, dogs and Sydney games last year were all really good, but still none as emphatic as this one.

If we knock off collingwood in two weeks maybe then we can get excited.


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Personally I enjoy each win but won't be getting excited until we play and win a final. Not that I don't think that can happen this year.

GO BLUES!

Was shocking. Rarely think umoiring turns a game, but this could have it was so bad. If Port had been kicking straight in the first half there could have been a lot more scoreboard pressure on us and confidence for them thanks to Ray the chump. I met a boundary umpire in the 90s (who didn’t barrack for blues) and asked about Goldstein and if he really was as biased against Blues as it looked to supporters and he said 100%, totally hates Carlton with a passion. What’s the point of Mike Fitzpatrick being chair of the AFL board if he can’t protect us from insipid, hateful umpiring from a certain umpire who is always the one.

Acres took some clutch defensive intercept marks too IIRC.

His game is transformed with more runners around him to share the load moving the ball into our F50.

Gary Lyon commentating on the replay (apart from saying some dumb and obvious.stuff ad nauseam!) highlighted that passage where Acres took possession at the defensive end of the centre square ~10 min into Q2.

Acres weaved through ports on-baller brigade traffic and rather than the MOONBALL dump kick to the opposition which we became so familiar with he finds Walsh outside with a rifle of a handball, Walsh running hard as always steps/cuts inside a Port defender and then delivers beautifully to Cunners sitting 20m out, straight in front of goal.

It’s what we’ve all been asking for for weeks. CHains of play, more runners, more pressure, more footy IQ. It’s funny how the entire team lifts and what appeared to some of us as hack players look invaluable all of a sudden. AFL Footy is a weird game.

IMO the inclusion of 3 proper half forwards who know what they're doing & are clean when the ball is on the deck, has improved us immensely all over the ground.

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Plus converting your chances. After kicking 3.7 early in the second quarter, we then kicked 15.7 to finish the game.
The oddest aspect of the game was in the second quarter, just after Cottrell kicked a goal. The resulting centre bounce was being set up and PA didn't have a winger on the far side. Acres was yelling at the umpire (About 5 metres away) and gesturing with his arms that there was a 6,6,6 infringement and all the umpires totally disregarded it. Port won the stoppage, got it forward and eventually Rozee kicked a goal. Bizarre.

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That's bizarre.
The ignorance from the umpire is jaw dropping.

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If you look at the way that whole game was umpired, not really that bizarre at all.