AFL: West Coast return from the bye to face a rejuvenated Carlton, who have not lost a game since sacking Michael Voss. Can the Eagles slow their charge to get a rare road win?
The Eagles will be boosted by the return of Willem Duursma, who missed their heartbreaking loss to North Melbourne, while midfield bull Jack Graham will return for his first game since having shoulder surgery.
Tom McCarthy is also back but Tim Kelly will miss with a hamstring strain in a huge blow to their on-ball group.
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Reid on fire
West Coast have not been great this quarter but that’s not on Harley Reid who’s had three clearances, five disposals three tackles and a big bump to boot.
Unfortunately, he’s one out in the midfield at the moment with the Blues swarming.
Hewett has two
Poor from Ryan Maric who had to body the ball and the centre wing but instead sat back allowing the Blues outnumber to clean up the ball.
Eagles defence is outnumbered and George Hewett kicks his second.
CAR 5.3 (33) WCE 2.2 (14)
Walsh and Cripps combining
The Carlton superstars have 13 disposals and four clearances between them.
The Blues have won 11 clearances to 2 and have 11inside 50s to four.
Duursma makes it back to back for the Eagles
Eagles under pressure but a lovely kick from Bo Allan gets them out of pressure as Elliot Yeo takes a one-handed grab.
He gets the Eagles to half forward and a tumbling ball inside 50 gets to Duursma who snaps and goals.
CAR 3.3 (21) WCE 2.1 (13)
A Harley special
Can that fire up the Eagles as Harley wins the clearance, gets space to run, and launches from 50 and belts through a stunner.
CAR 3.1 (19) WCE 1.1 (7)
Blues rolling hot early
There’s just a deluge of Carlton ball for the Eagles to try and defend.
“Major concerns for the visitors,” Mark Howard says as the Blues tumble through a third,
Mitch McGovern makes it two
Carlton are dominating out of clearance early on leading the stat 5-1.
The Eagles finally at least half a contest and Jake Waterman has an early look but he’s tumbling snap on the run is spoiled over.
Blues go end to end
Harley Reid lays a huge tackle to get him up and about early and the Eagles are out with Duursma running up the wing but the kick inside 50 is poor and goes straight to the Carlton defender.
Blues tranition and Harry McKay presents early and converts an early set shot to give them the first.
CAR 1.1 (7) WCE 0.0 (0)
Here we go
Carlton with an early clearance win, but the Eagles defend before Hutchinson coughs the ball up, handing it straight over to the Blues with Taylor Byrne having a set shot from the pocket but it’s spoiled over.
Josh Fraser speaks
“We thought it was improtant we gave the group some direction build some standards and attack training,” he says.
“We’re really respectful of what West Coast will bring today but it’s good to do in unchanged.
“We put a lot of time and effort in the way that we defend and our offence has lifted off the back of that.”
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