Carlton Blues looks inwards for the answers after the last loss of Collringwood Magpies
They could not find teammates open. The balls of hand were suffocated and turned. The footy was abandoned in the half -striker of Collringwood for almost the whole third quarter.
The cakes, despite being older than an RSL club, were the team that played with the greatest joy and hunger.
Blues coach Michael Voss says that pointed conversations will be held this week with players who fight to perform.Credit: AFL photo through Getty Images
“The first half was good,” said Carlton’s midfielder, George Hewett, who performed in an admirable way on Collringwood Wunderkind Nick Daicos. “Only, we are not competing at the required level from AFL Footy, I think in the second half.”
Hewett has put responsibility exactly on the players’ shoulders, supporting the coach Voss “up to Elsa” while he said it.
“I think we just have to have honest conversations on, you know, where our mind perhaps goes individually and collectively as a group, only the level of competition in the second half.”
Does the demanding start with Thursday evening review? “Maybe, I think we players we have to guide him, which we will do because our standards – where our standards go – is up to the AFL standard?
George Hewett by The Blues celebrates a goal against Collingwood.Credit: AFL photo through Getty Images
“We love Vossy, we support him up to Elsa, we just want to perform for him, you know, as if we love him. So, I’m sure he will turn. We don’t have to wait for you to turn, we have to run.”
But does Carlton have enough workforce to make him turn? That the blues do not have a profound taillend; That their fortunes depend strongly on the weekly efforts of Patrick Crypps, on the health of Charlie Curnow and Sam Walsh, on the solidity of Jacob Weitering, was evident during the entire Voss era.
CRIPPS and Curnow were eclipsed against the cakes, the combination of voices forward Slipshod and a wet ball that made Curnota’s task even more difficult. I hope that Harry McKay will return from personal leave shortly.
It must be said that the gaces were more organized, especially behind the ball. This superiority in the method is due to the staff – that is, the most uniform diffusion of Collingwood, the leaders and the strongest fund – or collingwood is more organized by the DINT of their collective coaching panel, led by Craig McRae?
These issues will certainly be meditated, without prejudice to the next month of results, by Graham Wright, the man more responsible for the assumption of Craig McRae in Collingwood and the creation of a strong football operation. Wright takes the witness as a managing director of Brian Cook by the end of the year; If there are big calls to make in Carlton, they will have the Wright stamp.
But whatever the source of deficit, the blues cannot grant this season and a small fixing mercy have been delivered, since they meet the west coast in Gather Round – a game that simply cannot lose. So, they meet North Melbourne on Good Friday; In the current form, this is not a gimme.
It is natural to ask whether the events off the pitch, such as the absence of McKay and the personal issues that have seen Elia Hollands spent time away from the Club-O even the resignation of Luke Sayers as President-Siano were a distraction for the players.
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Hewett, citing his past life with the Bloods in Sydney, did not think the players had shocked. “No, I have been to two big clubs football clubs and this is the closest I saw a group. We are a close group.”
As president of JP Morgan Australia, the new president of Carlton Rob Priestley knows the challenge of the expectations of the meeting market. In the case of Carlton, shareholders are understandably restless, due to the long period without a decent return to their investment.
It is too early to erase the season, as a bad loan, and the blues can mention the recoveries of Hawthorn (0-5 last year) and Lions (0-3 a Premiership)-and their surprising turnaround of 2023-such as demonstrations of the possibilities of recovery of a team.
“Nothing changes,” Hewett said. “I have been to a team {sydney of 2017} which is zero and you are and we have just lost the top four, things change quickly. Get a victory, get that feeling and it will be right.”
Carlton is still talking about themselves as a little performing units, a team of talents that does not hurt. The most worrying possibility is that they are performing much closer to their middle level than 2025.
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