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I don’t think we can afford to throw another coach on the pire. I quietly think Voss is a moron, but we knew that hiring him. He is charismatic, competitive, a leader of men, and has an impeccable record of leadership as a player. We can use that.
What I see at the moment is every player in every situation trying to figure out what to do in the moment. Second-guessing, weighing up what the game plan is vs what they see and what they can do. It’s not AFL standard, yet the individuals doing it mostly are - and some of them are so good they can succeed anyway.
We‘re a rabble, but what we desperately need is a bye, an offseason, and some tactical nous. We’re on the ropes eating punches and need to get to the corner. Then come out, use what we have, not play to our weaknesses.
And I think we have to “give up” on some players to move forward. Or at the very least challenge our own thinking, assumptions and hype.
For starters, I’d abandon Silvagni, play Cripps forward, give a combo like Cerra/Kennedy/Walsh in the guts. Rotate Doc and maybe Durds/Motlop regularly to give it something different. Give Dow a month in there. We are so horrendously one-note. We clearly need footskills into the side, so make that a list mgt priority. Try Charlie high, McKay in the goalsquare. Try Saad on a wing as a line breaker. It beggars belief that with Charlie, Harry, TDK any Carlton player anywhere on the ground shouldn’t have one of them as the bail out bomb.
We aren’t THIS bad. Or we shouldn’t be.
What I see at the moment is every player in every situation trying to figure out what to do in the moment. Second-guessing, weighing up what the game plan is vs what they see and what they can do. It’s not AFL standard, yet the individuals doing it mostly are - and some of them are so good they can succeed anyway.
We‘re a rabble, but what we desperately need is a bye, an offseason, and some tactical nous. We’re on the ropes eating punches and need to get to the corner. Then come out, use what we have, not play to our weaknesses.
And I think we have to “give up” on some players to move forward. Or at the very least challenge our own thinking, assumptions and hype.
For starters, I’d abandon Silvagni, play Cripps forward, give a combo like Cerra/Kennedy/Walsh in the guts. Rotate Doc and maybe Durds/Motlop regularly to give it something different. Give Dow a month in there. We are so horrendously one-note. We clearly need footskills into the side, so make that a list mgt priority. Try Charlie high, McKay in the goalsquare. Try Saad on a wing as a line breaker. It beggars belief that with Charlie, Harry, TDK any Carlton player anywhere on the ground shouldn’t have one of them as the bail out bomb.
We aren’t THIS bad. Or we shouldn’t be.