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Whether or not we agree on the why, I think you can see that there is an insufficiency there. My question is whether or not those players you speak of are truly not good enough skill wise like you say, or whether it is actually a coaching problem…Mmm it's a bit of a reach to say we don't have a system... We just play a different way to most of the other contenders this year.
I think it's a system more reliant on individual talent than others, but that's how our list is built so that's what we're forced to work with.
Carlton have a very straight forward game plan, try to get the ball in the hand of our best users in Saad, Newman, Elijah Hollands, Cerra etc who can penetrate the corridor and change angles, if they aren't open then we more often than not kick it down the line to Curnow, Dekoning and Mckay who will be surrounded by crumbing mids and half forwards out on the wings. This is because we only have a select number of 'good' kicks in the team capable of hitting those targets where as a team like the Swans have far more consistent foot skills across the park which allows them to slice through opposition teams even when certain players are well held. It also helps that Curnow, Mckay and Dekoning are excellent at bringing the ball to ground so it's a perfectly viable option for us.
Our defense has been leaky regarding stoppage and centre clearances but we're still the number 1 defense of turnover in the competition according to CD and the 2nd best score from turnover team in the comp too.
You don't get that return re turnovers unless you've got a fairly good system or at least something that works most of the time, it's just not as pretty or consistent as others.
I think what you definitely do have is too many confidence players who pick and choose when to turn it on, so that doesn’t help (and I think it’s one of your major flaws). But what makes me lean towards the coaching is that other than throwing Curnow into defence for obvious reasons, rarely do you see Vossy implement a change mid game in an attempt to shift momentum. You seem to have 1 mode (if you can call it that), and that mode is too reliant on randomness and contested marking. Even some of the poorer outfits have a discernible method of moving the ball up the ground. With you guys it’s a genuine mystery what is going to happen. It’s a case of rolling the same randomness dice over and over again in the hopes that a few players link up and their individual talent gets you over the line, which in many cases it does because there are some genuine guns in there. But if you want to win 3 finals games in a row against the very best to take out a granny, to get lucky 3 times in a row is going to be a stretch.
I think you are aware of it anyway. I’ve just been more so bemused by a large cohort of Carlton supporters who ooze confidence thinking they are actually a great ‘football’ side. Then after a couple of losses (expected ones imo), they seem surprised and dumbfounded. I had never been more confident tipping the dogs and gws this year.