Where and when: MCG, Thursday March 19, 7:25pm
What it means for Richmond: An extremely unlikely win will declare that the strong force that stormed to last year’s premiership is just as motivated and gunning for another.
What it means for Carlton: It will be a massive statement when The Blues upend the sluggish premiers in the season-opener, especially given it hasn’t won the round one clash since 2012.
The stat: Will Dustin Martin get off the chain? It’s unlikely but in the last three season-openers, he’s cleared 30 disposals and been an influence, especially in 2017 when he booted four really lucky goals as well.
The match-up: Trent Cotchin v Patrick Cripps
They starred in last year’s opening round, so we’re looking forward to seeing the competition’s No.43-ranked midfielder from 2019 (Cotchin) get dominated by the No.6 overall (Cripps).
In the spotlight: Jack Martin
He had to go the long way around to get to the Blues from Gold Coast, and he’ll be keen to show he was worth all the trouble when he runs out on the big (fan-less) stage.
Big call: Carlton’s young guns to fire the hopes and dreams of Blues fans across the globe causing many of them to put money on Carlton to make the 8.
Mottsy’s Tip: Blues by 25 points (I’m being conservative because of the reduced length of quarters).
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Richmond by 40+
Carlton by 1 point 😉
Blues to take it up to the Premiers for a half, maybe three quarters, and then get overrun.
Most of us fielding Cripps, Doch and Pickett tonight?
And a small man in Def. 😉
Pretty happy with an 88 from Shorty!
of 16 touches too lmao
yup GD.
And still 50/50 on dusty!
only 1 hour to lock him in too. it’s going to kill me haha
TU: Oliver Dusty F2
or
TD: Macrae Petracca/Macpherson F2
is dussty a must have now that impact players are more SC relevant…
not long to decide
I’ve dropped him for now.
Not sure about Dusty without a crowd to cheer him on. Really steps up in the big moments.
Could be wrong though….
No Dusty??? Very bold.
Nah, with Whitfield, GG and deep mids, had to find the cash from somewhere. No rookie backs making it even harder.
TU – Dusty
TD – A.Brayshaw + 202k to upgrade elsewhere
Pickett on Field. ( fingers crossed)
Dusty Walsh Doc for the season opener.
Soooo happy the playing the greatest game of All.
Jeeze hearing the echo of the club songs over the PA is very, very eerie.
Why are there no green dots denoting player selection?
NO LATE CHANGES
FINAL INTERCHANGES
Richmond: Daniel Rioli, Toby Nankervis, Sydney Stack, Marlion Pickett
Carlton: Kade Simpson, Zac Fisher, Michael Gibbons, Will Setterfield
Good Luck everyone.
I hope we get through the season with minimal interruptions’
As long as we stay safe and healthy.
All the best.
Doch has been causing me a headache all pre season, hope he goes 120 tonight so i can relax a little.
Ooohhh Mottsy and Sal, this is getting ugly already!!
Lets have some thumb polls here – first one:
T/ U – if you started Doc and Cripps & Dusty & Pickett
T/ D – if you started Doc, Cripps and Pickett only (left out Dusty)
comment others??
Thrown in Jayden Short to the team plus the first option
nice start Nato!! Some big scores there for Pickett and Short with not so high possies … interesting scoring already!
I didn’t have ability to start Short …
This no crowd noise thing is messing with me.
Well, this is underwhelming.
Fanfooty not updating SC scores? anybody know a site that is?
Updating end of the quarter
Kruezer looks bad :/ Rolled ankle it appears and struggling to apply weight on it.
Pittonet at 236k or De Koning 123k only other Carlton ruck available. Wonder whether they will name either of those 2 next week as many might trade if it is De Koning named
Pittonet looked really good in preseason.
Kreuz has “rolled” his ankle, so it isn’t a long term one yet, until assessed.
But could be a clever ploy to save cash for an R3 option while we find out.
Was on crutches at the end of the game so a couple of weeks looks to be the case
SC relevant scores at QT
TIGERS
Martin – 25
Prestia – 20
Pickett – 20
BLUES
Cripps – 30
Walsh – 26
Doch – 22
cripps, 11 posessions.
Yeah, lot of kicks off the ground though. Will finish with poor DE.
qtr time scores
Dusty 25
Pickett 20
Lynch 17
Short 8
Cripps 30
Doc 26
Walsh 23
Martin 9
Dow -2
Newman looking like another injury
He’s all good, but Mcgovern the next into the rooms
Without fans, the umpires are getting lazy.
Cripps been put in a sleeper hold atleast twice for no free. Lot of other rules not being applied.
Tigers have been getting the better of the umpiring decisions that’s for sure.
Normally there’s lots of rule changes and the umpires are applying them in an over zealous way in the first game.
You expect even umpiring? In a Richmond game?
Bwahaha.
Freekicks in the end, Carlton 24 Richmond 18. I cant remember the last time Richmond won a freekick count.
The Blues kicked eight of their 12 goals directly from free kicks.
The Carlton players don’t seem to know that the need for ‘social distancing’ doesn’t apply on the footy field…
Sigh….Blues for another spoon. We bomber fans are sharing your pain…….hehehehehe
Is it because there is no crowd or is it just a really shite game. Or combination
Half time
J. Riewoldt 74
D. Martin 70
K. Lambert 67
D. Prestia 61
D. Astbury 57
N. Vlastuin 52
S. Edwards 50
S. Bolton 49
D. Rioli 46
L. Baker 46
I. Soldo 44
J. Short 44
J. Castagna 44
D. Grimes 41
T. Cotchin 39
T. Lynch 39
J. Caddy 35
S. Stack 32
N. Broad 25
M. Pickett 22
J. Graham 19
Nankervis 8
Carlton
M. Murphy 65
P-Seton 60
P. Cripps 58
S. Docherty 54
Weitering 53
Z. Fisher 41
J. Newnes 37
E. Curnow 36
K. Simpson 35
S. Walsh 34
L. Casboult 32
J. Silvagni 31
M. Kreuzer 30
L. Plowman 28
M. McGovern 27
L. Jones 26
J. Martin 25
Cuningham 17
Setterfield 16
M. Gibbons 11
N. Newman 7
P. Dow 6
Looks like we have to try and predict champion datas love child’s. Some of these scores are unbelievable, they wouldn’t even be able to justify it
Keep it up dusty <3
Do you think Dusty might like that ??
LOL
Here’s hoping Dusty spends significant time on the bench with the game done.
Very happy with Short’s output considering how sh1t he’s been 😉
I’m speaking for all Dusty owners when I say you can f@#k off, AllSaints! Dusty to go forward and snag 3 late goals.
With all due respect of course!
Hmmmm top three scorers at 3/4……happy with the start.
Dusty – 126
Prestia – 119
Pickett -93
Crippss – 112
Docherty – 118
Lynch – 55
Dusty looking elite! Locherty as good as always, great start.
How did Dusty score 30 odd in the last 10 minutes off 2 touches?
Scaling
He waz 94 @3/4 time, thats 32 in the whole last quarter! Have you got him in your team?
Had him in my team until this afternoon. Had both Martins in until this arvo…..
SuperCoach vs Fantasy.
Surely you’ve heard of post match and in match scaling determined by influence.
When is the AFL going to do away with reverse seeding in the first fixture of the year? The fans deserve better than serving up the bottom team every year!
The first 3 years of Blues v Tigers in Rd 1 the blues won by 10+ goals.
That was the VFL mate!
yes, this game and other ‘traditional’ blockbusters….Besides back room pressure to keep serving up teams with the biggest fan base, wouldn’t the old grand final replay as first game of year be good for football? Ess/Coll on Anzac day – shouldn’t be monopoly and so forth…..
Not saying there hasn’t been some great football played over the years – but just dont think should be a monopoly on who plays…..
Agreed, GF reply I like better in Rd 1 but it was never really season opener. Being a top followed team the season opener is the only “blockbuster” game blues have, so if/when they come good, which game you wanna give them.
Queens b’day against the dees was already taken away from the blues in the mid 2000’s because they were shite then
It was actually because the Queen is a Carlton supporter and she hated seeing us lose on her birthday.
Good pick Allsaints with Prestia:)
Very happy with him and Short considering they had relatively quiet games. 527 from 2 premos, 2 value picks and a rookie?! I’ll take it.
C on Dunks tomorrow night! Had the V on Crippa 🙁
Props to those who managed to keep Martin in their side amidst the chaos. I just couldn’t afford him with all these expensive rookies.
It shows what a key forward can be like with Lynch doing little for the game and not scoring well. He may look like a value pick but will be interesting to see how he recovers from this as Richmond have many targets to choose from
It’s alright. He won’t have Weitering on him every week. 😉
How good was JW?! Gonna be a champion.
PS f<€£ you too Thommo … now how the hell do I get him in?! 😉
Delete 2020 team and come back next season 😉
I was thinking watch Whitfield smash out a 140, downgrade him to Dusty and turn one of my ‘not so’ lucky value picks into something better 😉
For all my earlier abuse, not having Dusty isn’t a huge issue. He will have down games which will drop his price
All good Thommo! Sheesh he looked good tho’. Innit!
Got the E on Pickett. Anyone worth bringing in who plays next week but not this so I can loophole him in?
Trealor. Hibbard.
Tremor looks to possibly be longer. Hibberd looks a good thing.
TRELOAR!!
if only I had 615k sitting around….I would…..
Same. I’m looking at Serong, they said he was close this week.
Need Salamanders scoring Anaolomy on Pickett, Cripps and Fusty, please.
Dusty and Pickett kissed on the dick by CD. Cripps looks to be robbed look like a 140-150 game to me watching
Chuck in Short in there to cheers
Will do.