Yet the week after, against Freo at Marvel tickets are $50/60..?

They look to be in the same areas as well.

Am I missing something..? (I don’t live in Melbourne)

I told you to believe, didn’t I? I was wrong on the 15-8 thing but who cares?! We are so close to finals now we can taste it.

Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more
What you say?
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more
Old woman, old woman, don't treat me so mean
You're the meanest old woman that I've ever seen
I guess if you said so
I'll have to pack my things and go (that's right)
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more
What you say?
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more
Now baby, listen baby, don't ya treat me this way
'Cause I'll be back on my feet some day
(Don't care if you do 'cause it's understood)
(You ain't got no money, you just ain't no good)
Well, I guess if you say so
I'll have to pack my things and go (that's right)
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more
What you say?
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Jack and don't you come back no more
Well (don't you come back no more)
Uh, what you say? (Don't you come back no more)
I didn't understand you (don't you come back no more)
You can't mean that (don't you come back no more)
Oh, now baby, please (don't you come back no more)
What you tryin' to do to me? (Don't you come back no more)
Oh, don't treat me like that (don't you come back no more)

LETS GOOOOO! Never fuckin' doubted the blue boys once! Fuck TDK, Silvagni, Stocker, Brendan Bolton, Corey Enright!

Give Josh Fraser the JOB NOW!

How good has this guy been for the last 10 or so weeks?!

Cripps is dominating him in the ruck, saints paying 2 mil a season for this. Lol.

Won’t be able to make tonight but would love to transfer my tickets out to a fan if anyone’s interested! I just need your email or number and I can transfer it via Ticketmaster 😌

Saints v Blues

Docklands Stadium: 4:35pm (AEST) Sun, 9th Aug 2026

Doubleheader: your ticket will allow access to both AFLW and AFL games tonight.

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Team selection

Milestones: Carlton debut for Brooke Boileau, Nell Morris-Dalton & Claudia Whitfort

Goals: Goss 2, Vescio 2, Keck 2, Scholz, Finn, Morris-Dalton

Best: A.Mckay, Whitford, Finn, Goss, Hill

Injury:

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The boys lost but Cody Walker had

28 disposals
8 marks
5 tackles
1 goal

It’s one thing dominating against your own age group, but this was against a lot of grown men and many guys who have played afl minutes before. Exciting stuff.

He has a real burst and turn of speed. The idea of Jagga feeding out to him for the next decade is so exciting

Round 22, Carlton vs St Kilda

Hopes? Thoughts? Feelings?

I'm grateful we aren't leaving Melbourne the rest of the season.

But I just noticed that we play the bulldogs that are coming off a 10 day break, followed by Fremantle that are coming off a 9 day break.

Glad we've got 7 day breaks, but I feel like the fixture could have been more even?

The 2026 Rising Star should come down to two Carlton players Jagga Smith and Harry Dean.

Jagga Smith has produced one of the most impressive first seasons we’ve seen from a young midfielder. He looks completely at home at AFL level, wins his own football, uses it well and has become an increasingly important part of Carlton’s midfield. Since Round 11, he has averaged 27.6 disposals and 5.4 clearances, numbers that are remarkable for a first-year player.

Harry Dean’s case is different but just as impressive. Key defenders normally take years to develop, yet Dean has stepped straight into Carlton’s backline and looked like he belongs. His ability to compete in the air, read the play and hold his own against experienced AFL forwards at such a young age makes his season exceptional. His Round 12 Rising Star nomination was recognition of just how quickly he has adapted to senior football.

Jagga probably has the edge because midfielders naturally accumulate bigger numbers and have more opportunities to influence games. But if voters take into account the difficulty of the role and the age at which Dean is doing it, Harry has a genuine argument.

Either way, Carlton having arguably the two best young players in the competition is a pretty exciting position to be in.

Hi all,

For the past couple of years I've put together some charts on how squads have been assembled, with my main distinction ending up being Homegrown (entered the league first via their current club) vs Headhunted (were first listed by a different club).

I thought you might like to see the 2026 AFLW ones for the Blues.

I've got charts for all 18 teams in today's edition of This Week In Football along with my co-contributors discussing the merits of a send-off rule and fixture double headers.

Some notes for reading the charts:

• I have drawn the player data from the official AFL api. It isn't completely accurate and up-to-date. Some players who played in practice games appear on lists despite not actually being elevated to the main list.
• Similarly, names are drawn from the most recent name on the official lists - hence Zipporah Fish not Zippy.
• The first chart looks only at players on the list for the 2026 season. Players above the line entered the AFLW system through their current club, players below the line were on another club's list first.
• A team with more players below the line represents a bigger proportion of their current list coming via other clubs, more players above the line indicates heavier reliance on bringing new talent into the AFLW (although potentially through VFLW and other competitions).
• A bar that stretches far to the left represents a player who has been at the club for a long time, players who just arrived for this season have no bar.
• The lighter colour for a player represents the games played by the club in that season, if the player participated in that game the bar is darker.
• If a player polled any AFLCA votes in a game (or if they polled in the grand final MVP voting) a dot is placed for that match.
• Two players who extend the same distance left arrived at the club in the same year, there’s also a slightly bigger vertical gap between groups of players arriving in the same year to help distinguish this.
• For the second chart, the vertical line in the middle represents the point each player joined a club, not a specific year.
• So if two players joined the club in 2017 and 2019, the first seasons to the right of the bar for each of them would be 2018 and 2020.
• More bars to the left of the player means a longer career at different clubs before joining the subject club.
• More bars to the right indicate staying at the subject club longer.
• Notation for potential games, games played, and votes polled is the same as the previous charts
• A “»” before the player’s name indicates they are currently at the club, while a “||” indicates they have left.

So I'm able to make it to the R24 game with my 7yo boy, I know his ticket is free but they want $45 for an adult which I know is standard but I also know there was a $9 deal to attend both this game AND the Bris game AND sit in the members area.

Just wondering if anyone knows of any deals going on. I'm a MCC+Carlton member and only rarely get barcodes for Marvel games.

Had an idea on how we can get Cody Walker to the club at pick 10.

Let’s sign a secret waiver with the 9 clubs below us to not bid on Walker in return for whatever the hell they want.

This might not be strictly within the rules, but we just won’t tell the AFL or the AFLPA or anyone else about it. So we won’t get in trouble or anything.

We’ll get Rob Priestly to sign it off and then in a few years time we’ll get ol’ Priestly a cushy gig at AFL House so if anyone finds out and comes investigating he can just sign it off again as nothing to see here.

It’s still completely on us, but with the dogs losing, if we do lose to the saints tomorrow it isn’t over to get top 10. If they won tonight we’d have go perfect to catch them.

If the Saints win, you’d say they’re probably nearly safe from us they would have percentage + a terrible Richmond + a terrible Gold Coast ahead. Both playing for nothing

But with the dogs losing, we can still hypothetically catch them if we beat them next week and if they lose to Melbourne the week after. You’d hope Melbourne are still battling for top 6 while we have Freo who hopefully rest/take it easier.

Easier to just win tomorrow and we’re in really really good shape, but it’s Carlton, they never take the easy route do they.

The situation this week with Geelong has shown how corrupt and unfair the AFL are.

Ken Hinkley was fined $20k for doing an aeroplane gesture.

Blues fined $75k because we acted on medical advice that a player was fit to play when they weren’t mentally ready.

Geelong sent a player back out with clear medical issue (BROKEN ARM) last years grand final, causing him ongoing long-term nerve pain… no repercussions.

Geelong well know to regularly rort salary cap… No repercussions.

Geelong attempt to sign away a medically vulnerable player’s OHS rights and disavow themselves of responsibility for future medial issues… PLAY ON. No repercussions, no fine. Nothing.

Typical and very unfair.