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Collingwood are looking for their eleventh win in a row to put a stranglehold on the competition, while Carlton desperately needs to win to keep their September dreams alive, and possibly save coach Brett Ratten. We’ll have live AFL scores and commentary from 7:50pm AEST.
Not many people will be expecting the Blues to take the Pies scalp tonight, but it simply must be done to maintain their hopes of finals in 2012.
It was only twelve weeks ago when the Blues put on a clinic on Friday night footy against the Pies to beat them by ten goals and rocket them into flag favouritism.
It’s hard to believe the fall from grace the Blues have suffered. Only six different players will run out tonight compared the team of round three, but in those six it includes Marc Murphy and Jarrad Waite who are crucial to Carlton’s structure.
Carlton will also blood a debutante; young Andrew McInnes, a 191cm medium defender from Dandenong Stingrays.
The blowtorch has been put on the coach, Brett Ratten, whether fairly or unfairly, but it’s time to see how much ticker these Blue boys actually have.
Collingwood on the other hand are flying. While they’ve had their fair share of injuries, it hasn’t seemed to bother them. They’ve brought in young players in the process and they’ve shown they’re up to the level.
Dane Swan is arguably in the best form of his career, and there really is nobody in the Carlton line up that you can see stopping him.
It proves to be a massive test for the Blues, the final stage of their horror month playing the competition’s top teams, so it will be exciting to see how they respond.
Can they pull off the impossible or will the Pies keep marching on towards September glory?
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