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For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n Unlike in past times, the Fraser-led Blues are no longer relying only on their clearance dominance, flexing a multi-dimensional profile at Adelaide Oval. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just a different Carlton,\u201d former Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley said in the fourth quarter on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n \u201cPort is belting them in clearances, 33-22, but Carlton have scored 6.6 from intercept and 5.3 from stoppage. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just a different game that Carlton are playing.\u201d<\/p>\n Patrick Cripps led from the front with a team-high 31 disposals, eight clearances and a goal, while young gem Jagga Smith notched a whopping 15 score involvements from 27 possessions. <\/p>\n Not even a scathing half-time spray from coach Josh Carr could shock the Power into gear, with the Blues holding serve in a second half that saw Port Adelaide kick five goals to four. <\/p>\n CARR\u2019S TRUMPCARDS TO SPARK \u2018PASSIVE\u2019 PORT BACKFIRE<\/p>\n Josh Carr played two of his big coaching trumpcards.<\/p>\n He delivered a fiery half-time spray then spun the magnets aggressively at three quarter-time.<\/p>\n And the Power were still pummelled.<\/p>\n Despite coming into the match as favourites, Port Adelaide on Saturday night was a shadow of the team that had taken it up to \u2013 and beaten some \u2013 contenders in recent weeks.<\/p>\n Carr\u2019s side had recorded five losses from its past six games by an average losing margin of nine points. The team\u2019s percentage (105.2%) was actually ranked 10th in the competition.<\/p>\n But the Power instead were humbled and made to look second-rate by a slicker Blues outfit that<\/p>\n Port had just three goals to its name when it trailed by 35 points at half-time.<\/p>\n Sensing his players needed a jolt, Carr unleashed a mighty spray, standing in the middle of the Power rooms with his players spread around him.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a bit more normal this year with coaches demanding,\u201d Hinkley said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can see that he\u2019s really forceful in what he\u2019s expecting from his team. And when you look at the scoreboard, he\u2019s got every right to go in and ask some serious questions.<\/p>\n He went up (to the coaches\u2019 box) to change his view, I don\u2019t think it looked much better.<\/p>\n Triple All-Australian Nick Dal Santo added: \u201cThey were some of the messages he would\u2019ve loved to have given during the quarter, but because he went upstairs, he had to pass it on at some stage.<\/p>\n \u201cYou do that to get a response. They\u2019ve been a little passive and a little pedestrian in this first half, so he wants to see something different.\u201d<\/p>\n The spray, on paper, didn\u2019t work, with Carlton kicking 1.3 to start the third term. It took 20 minutes for the Power to hit the scoreboard.<\/p>\n Then Carr went to the whiteboard to flip the script. He moved superstar midfielder Zak Butters to half-back, young gun Jason Horne-Francis to full-forward and sent Jase Burgoyne and Joe Richards into the centre ball-up.<\/p>\n \u201cIt looks like they\u2019ve thrown everything at this when you look at it. There\u2019s a bit going on,\u201d Hinkley said.<\/p>\n Ricciuto added: \u201cI\u2019ve seen Port Adelaide every game since I retired and I don\u2019t think he (Butters) has ever played half-back.\u201d<\/p>\n Todd Marshall goaled within the first 75 seconds of the quarter, but the Blues quickly steadied, kicking the next three majors to secure victory.<\/p>\n \u2018FAIR SHOVE\u2019: STAR\u2019S ACT COULD ATTRACT MRO SCRUTINY<\/p>\n Port Adelaide star Mitch Georgiades might face a nervous wait for the Match Review Officer\u2019s Saturday findings.<\/p>\n Power defender Kane Farrell late in the second quarter kicked the ball towards a two-on-two contest on the wing. Georgiades and Jack Whitlock were there for the Power, while Harry Dean and Harry McKay were in the contest for Carlton.<\/p>\n Georgiades and Dean were at the back of the pack. And as the ball got closer, Georgiades appeared to push Dean into the Whitlock-McKay match-up before taking the mark.<\/p>\n Fox Footy\u2019s commentators didn\u2019t like the look of the incident.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the one we\u2019ve seen players get in trouble for, pushing players into the contest,\u201d Fox Footy\u2019s Adam Papalia said.<\/p>\n Mark Ricciuto added: \u201cAbsolutely. That was a fair shove by Georgiades.\u201d<\/p>\n Dean was sore post-incident, but more because of a sore ankle.<\/p>\n The comments come after the likes of Richmond\u2019s Rhyan Mansell and retired Bomber Dylan Shiel copped bans respectively last year for pushing players directly into an oncoming marking contest.<\/p>\n Mansell was handed three matches after his push resulted in Saint Liam O\u2019Connell getting concussed, while Shiel was handed one game after a tribunal ruled he showed careless conduct and failed his duty of care by pushing Cat Mark O\u2019Connor into the line of fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cdifferent\u201d-looking Carlton has cruised to a second consecutive scalp, overpowering Port Adelaide 13.14 (92) to 8.10 (58)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,23,133,17050,6637,5010,17051,368,17052,14535,564,11973,3948,260,8527,120,524,17049,415,121,68,3048],"class_list":["post-17099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-adelaide","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-average-losing-margin","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-carlton-blues","tag-eye-breakthrough","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-inspiring-win","tag-interim-coach","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-josh-fraser","tag-match-details","tag-melbourne","tag-michael-voss","tag-oceania","tag-port-adelaide","tag-sam-walsh","tag-scott-pendlebury","tag-south-australia","tag-victoria","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779538878_479_poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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