the Blues\u2019 four-point win against Richmond on Thursday night<\/a>. <\/p>\nDean got physical with Richmond spearhead Tom Lynch – who\u2019s not one to shy away from some push and shove – throughout the evening. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not gonna cop it; obviously, you\u2019re going to give some back and show that you\u2019re not here to be pushed around,\u201d Dean added. <\/p>\n
The 18-year-old, in just his second game, was stout in defence with seven spoils in his first MCG appearance. <\/p>\n
Saints great Leigh Montagna said: \u201cI love it. The confidence; he\u2019s a competitor. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just going to be a guy who\u2019s going to want to win everything. So, for Carlton fans, to have him at the club for the next 15 years, it\u2019s something to build around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blues win in 4-point thriller at MCG | 03:40<\/p>\n
Hall of Fame Legend Jason Dunstall added: \u201cHe reminds me so much of the old man, who I played against. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got an attitude, for a young kid that\u2019s come in, playing his second game, and he\u2019s giving it to a big name like Tom Lynch – I love it. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s aggressive, he has a crack, he\u2019s got a great defensive mindset. He\u2019ll spoil first \u2026 I like what he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dean lauded the support of Jacob Weitering as he seamlessly settles into the Blues\u2019 defence. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been really good to me,\u201d Dean said on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cTo have Jacob down there – also Lewis Young – to have those boys down there; it\u2019s been unreal.\u201d<\/p>\n
“We were targeted all week” | 09:08<\/p>\n
Dean also gave an insight into skipper Patrick Cripps\u2019 message to the side as Carlton stood up against the Richmond storm in the waning minutes. <\/p>\n
\u201cCrippa said to us: \u2018Everyone\u2019s got to lift, we\u2019re all leaders here – you can\u2019t just rely on one or two people, we all have to lift\u2019,\u201d Dean recalled. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just thought to myself: \u2018It\u2019s not going to be easy – nothing\u2019s easy in this game, it\u2019s the best of the best. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, there were five or two minutes left, I just thought \u2018this is it, just two minutes left, just give it (my) all, and hopefully the siren sounds\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jagga Smith is justifiably all the rage among Carlton supporters, but Harry Dean is absolutely looking the part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,2095,64,63,55,639,3239,124724,266086,65804,2536,3231,3465,133741,3257,2041,2067,7800,6858,672,266087,85,12120,2614,4899,148132],"class_list":["post-536432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-carlton-blues","tag-defensive-mindset","tag-first-year-player-status","tag-four-point-win","tag-harry-dean","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-leigh-montagna","tag-lewis-young","tag-michael-voss","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-patrick-cripps","tag-richmond","tag-richmond-tigers","tag-siren-sounds","tag-sports","tag-tom-lynch","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-virginia","tag-young-kid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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