Where and when: Metricon Stadium, Saturday 10th April at 7:25pm (AEST)
Last time they met: Rd 13, 2020: Carlton 7.18 (60) def Gold Coast 4.3 (27) at TIO Stadium
As you can tell from the score, this was a flogging minus the straight kicking by Carlton. They controlled the game with Murphy, Cripps and Jack Martin winning plenty of the ball and were never headed by the Suns. To be fair to the Gold Coast, they had played through consecutive short breaks of 6, 5 then 4 days and were never switched on from the first bounce.
Match Preview: While the Blues and Suns are young teams, both teams now have enough experience that their fans are expecting improvement. A good way to show that improvement would be by defeating other teams outside the top eight. So here is their chance!
Gold Coast have the home ground advantage while the Blues showed an improved effort last week so neither team has any excuses here. This won’t be a pretty match but there’s sure to be plenty of intensity.
Thommo Watch:
Gold Coast
I don’t own any Suns since poor old Matty Rowell went down with injury again, so my interest in Gold Coast is more about the development in the young guns, my favourites being Lucosius and Anderson. I will keep an eye on the replacement ruck with Witts out for the season.
Carlton
I am a proud Sam Walsh owner and enjoy watching his explosive pace around the packs in 2021. The argument of who is better between Rosee and Walsh is swinging back his way at the moment!
Thommo’s Tip: Carlton by 12 points (This is getting embarrassing – record 3 from 9)
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No late changes
Sam Flanders (GCS) and Matthew Kennedy (CARL) the subs.
With Kosch out should i take a risk and get a 0 or trade him out and risk Dow scoring a shit score and losing cash.
TU: Trade Kosch out for Chapman
TD: Take a zero in defense and buy Impey.
Is stewy dew the only coach in afl that doesn’t look fit enough to still play?? It’s been a good paddock.
Greenwood playing on Cripps.
This round is gone to the shit…
1/4 Time 0- Blues lead 2.4.16 to Suns 1.2.8
GCS
Jack Bowes 47
Brandon Ellis 35
Touk Miller 35
Hugh Greenwood 35
Jack Lukosius 30
Samuel Collins 26
David Swallow 25
Sean Lemmens 24
Oleg Markov 23
Wil Powell 22
Ben King* 21
Chris Burgess 17
Noah Anderson 15
Nick Holman 14
Lachlan Weller 13
Jarrod Harbrow 13
Caleb Graham 13
Charlie Ballard 13
Ben Ainsworth 12
Darcy MacPherson 9
Alex Sexton 4
Sam Flanders 1
Izak Rankine -3
BLUES
Patrick Cripps 35
Marc Pittonet 34
Sam Docherty 33
Marc Murphy 29
Ed Curnow 28
Michael Gibbons 26
Jacob Weitering 26
Liam Jones 26
Lachlan Plowman 25
Jack Newnes 23
S. Petrevski-Seton 22
Eddie Betts 20
Matthew Cottrell 19
Jack Silvagni 18
Sam Walsh 14
Lachlan Fogarty 13
Levi Casboult 13
Paddy Dow 9
Will Setterfield 7
Adam Saad 6
Luke Parks 6
Matthew Kennedy 1
Harry McKay -2
Walsh and Dow doesn’t bring a decent score i lost this round…
It seems like the condition on the ground is affecting the players and the score.
I said Dow was gone this week, but guess who managed to hold himself in the team due to many other players out this week…..
Kosi now traded to avoid a defensive doughnut
Dow better reach his BE at least had to keep him cause of Kosh being managed
3/4 Time and its the Blues by a point
SUNS
Hugh Greenwood 126
Touk Miller 103
Noah Anderson 87
David Swallow 85
Lachlan Weller 79
Jack Bowes 73
Brandon Ellis 71
Wil Powell 63
Darcy MacPherson 60
Ben Ainsworth 53
Chris Burgess 52
Oleg Markov 49
Alex Sexton 47
Jack Lukosius 46
Samuel Collins 44
Izak Rankine 38
Ben King* 37
Sean Lemmens 37
Charlie Ballard 32
Nick Holman 30
Caleb Graham 29
Jarrod Harbrow 28
Sam Flanders 2
BLUES
Ed Curnow 113
Marc Pittonet 83
Matthew Cottrell 80
Jacob Weitering 73
Marc Murphy 71
Sam Docherty 69
S. Petrevski-Seton 68
Liam Jones 66
Adam Saad 64
Patrick Cripps 62
Sam Walsh 61
Lachlan Plowman 54
Eddie Betts 54
Jack Newnes 53
Michael Gibbons 53
Lachlan Fogarty 49
Harry McKay 37
Levi Casboult 34
Will Setterfield 29
Paddy Dow 28
Luke Parks 24
Jack Silvagni 21
Matthew Kennedy 1
How does Cripps go down in the last qtr
What an actual joke!! Should be at least 90 odd
Unbelievable!
Scores froze with about 10 mins to go. Cripps finished with 99.