The inevitable question about the coach of Carlton Blues Michael Voss

They would have reasonably expected a higher level of performance. That when their coach talks about returning to their system, they would have a clear idea of ​​which system he is talking about.

Keep in mind that it is the third round. Yes, in this phase of last year Brisbane had not even won a game. But Brisbane was leaving a great ending the year before and had ended among the first five in each of the four years earlier. Carlton does not have that type of record to fall on.

Carlton has now won only two of the last 12 games. The mitigating issues that presented themselves in the low season cannot fulfill a club that was second on the scale in the round 20 last year.

So the questions are these. The man who was good enough to tear them from a Brink in 2023 redone it again? Now I’m not to Brink, but it is approaching. And more generally, there is a growing fear that the moment of the blues with this list is passing faster than they realized.

Can the man who had seconds on the scale only six months ago really be the wrong man to guide them now? Or those curls in the last month of last season and the humiliation of their opening loss in Richmond this year influence its ability to make them go on another accusation to the finals this year?

Rowell resumes his mojo

Matt Rowell is not Matt Rowell in recent years. He returned to the form he showed in the first games of his career.

Rowell broke on the football scene in 2020, accepting Warrior Prince’s Baton of Joel Selwood. He accumulated Brownlow votes at a rhythm that would have attracted a mention of approval by Patrick Crips and Lacie Neale.

Rowell has returned to play like an elite game. It is again an internal and external player. And it should have six bronwlow votes for the first two games of the year.

In recent years. It seemed that Rowell was disappearing in his own game, victim of his own excellence. He was so good at getting the hard ball and inside that he became everything he had.

Every time he took the ball, he would have had an opponent on his back and did not know how to get easy possession. He would regularly take the ball, but unless Noah Anderson or Touk Miller were not there to face it, the goods did not go anywhere.

He stopped being a player who wounded you. But that’s what he’s doing. On Saturday he certainly injured Melbourne and their midfield once praised.

Rowell rediscovered how to get out of the package. He does not give his first choice, but takes a break, uses his strength to get away and his vision to find space and move.

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Now he is using his legs, not to prepare to get up in a tackle, but to feed the attackers and find space. He is running stronger and has found the rhythm necessary to connect the game and deliver within his team forward-50m. It has become more rounded.

These were forgotten about his game. He rediscovered them at the right time, since he is out of contract and at the end of last year he met Geelong and Western Bulldogs while other clubs such as Collringwood have courted him.

He is not playing like an unhappy player who wants to go out. It is invested. But he is playing as a player that those Victorian clubs will be even more anxious to try and reward himself.

The meaning of Saturday’s match should not be underestimated. The only ones were previously shaky and fond of this type of game. At ease at home they could not win on the road, now they still have to play at home and have won both games.

Demons lose identity

Melbourne should be happy to have lost only 10 goals on Saturday. This was a bombing of 15 to 20 goals dressed by 10 goalers.

Ben King scored four goals but he should have had many in half time and end the day with eight or 10.

Melbourne looked like a team that went in the opposite direction to the suns.

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They were beaten by a more complete and cohesive younger team. The midfield was connected by Rowell, Anderson and Miller, with Bailey Humphrey who seemed better within the week as a dynamic and midfielder striker.

For all the out of season speeches of change and cohesion, Melbourne has so far seemed like a team that has lost their identity and has not found a solution to the only big problem that has afflicted them for years (and, yes, obviously Picstt has not been seen this year). Now they are beaten in competition and authorization.

In five of the last nine games they have granted more than 100 points: a threshold that have crossed only three times in 91 games between 2020 and 2023.

The tiger should hold the policeman

RHYAN AND RHYAN MANSELL should accept her ban on three games to push Liam O’Connell at the first time in the arrival traffic. The defender of the saints ended up concluding and leaving this game and the next.

Richmond will feel on display why all these problems have been pushed on the agenda when their young Sam Lalor fractured the jaw from such a type of accident in the pre-installation. Reuben Ginbey, in my mind, should have been suspended even for that act.

The AFL reported the concerns about these problems with clubs at the beginning of the season, so the topic on not changing a policy in the mid -season has little water.

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The further argument that Manga did not intend to hurt the player is absolutely irrelevant. Nobody whose conduct is graduated is accused of doing something deliberately – if they were they would have been accused of intentional behavior.

His approximate conduct was classified as negligent. Pushing someone in the backward forward of 100 kg coming would seem the same definition.

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