Is that all you've got?

If criticism is constructive, then it appears you're out of your league.

where things went wrong??????

we got smashed!!!!!

Thats where things went wrong....


anyway.... glad to see you enjoyed the analysis and you got happy about something and all positive and tingly.

We can fix it .... its just been 5 games straight.

Great analysis Doc.

Refreshing to see people trying to explain where things are going wrong rather than going off half mad searching for coaching candidates

Well, in your own little repetitive way you analyse stuff all the time, our list is out if whack because we have too many HBF's...unlike most of the warriors going off at the moment I at least give you some credit for that.

Its one thing to get angry and yell and type nasty things about Ratts and Gibbs and delve into the past to re-write history and turn McVeigh's behinds into goals, but at the end if the day what do you think a new coach is going to do? Sit down and say well no point analysing whats happened over the last month, we got smashed, thats all we can say about that.

Our coaching staff, and that means Ratts, Richardson, Roos if we get our way here and can drag him off the couch, need to understand we've moved away from contested footy, are being smashed at the stoppages and the rest of our structure has fallen away because of it. Fix that and our forward and defensive structures get the support they need.

Or we can just get angry

Stats only give a small proportion of the answer
The problems this club has are deeper and arnt explained by stats

doc?

what we need to do is to put the bigger bodies in the midfield and play more man on man footy.

different to a bunch of taggers who play k reactive game of footy chasing arses.

Milne didn't do much on the weekend!

he did against us!

Joseph got no touches.

he was tagging!

way too many taggers to find the ball as a collective unit!

Sanderson says he only ever has one tag. Ratten has multiple, and these players become spectators not getting the ball. No wonder leaving too much to too few.

I'm really not sold on Ratten.

Too defensive.
Doesn't innovate, just copies trends. The day of multiple tags ended years ago.
Overt focus on run instead of getting the pill in the first place. Ess n Adel players are physical monsters whereas our boys seemed to have slimmed down if anything.

Analyse the numbers game and you can start to piece together the puzzle that is our midfield conundrum at the moment. The key stats for mine - and I dare say the coaches - are Contested Possession (CP), Disposal Efficiency (DE), Hitouts (HO), Hitouts to Advantage (H2A) and the all-important Clearances.

Team CP DE HO H2A Clearances

Carlton 151 73% 26 5.2% 39
Richmond 136 72% 38 4.75% 32

*Andrew Carrazzo with 17 contested possessions and 7 clearances.

Team CP DE HO H2A Clearances

Carlton 165 73 51 31.37% 47
Brisbane 137 69 35 25.71% 37

*Marc Murphy with 20 contested touches and 10 clearances. Andrew Carazzo with 16 contested possessions and 7 clearances.

Team CP DE HO H2A Clearances

Carlton 151 76% 56 26.78% 50
Collingwood 123 71% 44 9.09% 32

*Andrew Carazzo with 17 contested possessions and 11 clearances.
*At this point of the season, Andrew Carrazzo was responsible for 18.38% of Carlton’s overall clearances and 10.98% of their total contested possessions.

Team CP DE HO H2A Clearances

Carlton 140 71% 36 44.44% 35
Essendon* 142 72% 48 37.5% 38

*You know the story. Carrazzo injured early - no one picks up the slack and Jobe Watson finishes with 20 contested possessions and 13 clearances, whilst Brent Stanton was allowed to do as he pleased with 28 uncontested possessions.

Team CP DE HO H2A Clearances

Carlton 126 77% 54 9.25% 30
Fremantle 125 75% 32 18.75% 40

*Won 63% of the available hitouts against a team minus Sandilands, yet only 9.25% of those would be to advantage.

Team CP DE HO H2A Clearances

Carlton 144 69% 47 31.91% 28
GWS 131 71% 24 33.33% 41

*Won 66% of the available hitouts - yet smashed in the clearances.

Team CP DE HO H2A Clearances

Carlton 141 68% 60 18.33% 37
St. Kilda 136 74% 25 32% 42

*Won 70% of the hitouts for virtually zero advantage. Saints minus McEvoy.

Team CP DE HO H2A Clearances

Carlton 123 75% 53 24% 42
Adelaide 151 71% 57 36% 48

*69 point loss
*Carlton clearance total Rounds 1-3: +35, Rounds 4-8: -38.
*No Murphy and No Carrazzo? They produce 36.53% of Carlton's clearances and 20.7% of Carlton's contested possessions.

So the midfield set-up needs a shake up. What might have been working against teams in Rounds 1-3 has seemingly gone out the window in Rounds 4-8. The Match committee has no choice but to select Brock McLean. We need to win more clearances. That's why he's at the club. While the coaching staff can analyse these numbers and do all the video review in the world - what can you do about lazy footballers who a) ignore their role and b) have an inflated opinion of their footballing ability??

The turnaround must be player driven. Laziness is unacceptable at this level. The players must adhere to the coaches instruction. Captain included. They'll be measured this week. Doesn't matter about the margin - there will be strict KPI's this team will have to adhere to and if they're not met...expect regular 6am sessions at South Melbourne beach until the message sinks in.

HOW does Carlton fix its slump? After wiping out their opponents in the first three rounds, the Blues have struggled in recent weeks.

The midfield

FOOTBALL is won in the midfield and the money stat is clearances.

Above article describing the way we are conceeding goals gives me flashbacks to the pre season game against North Melbourne - if they won a clean clearance they'd goal with ease, we didn't look like winning the ball back and the same has happened against St Kilda, Adelaide and Essendon*. Adelaide 9 goals from stoppages on the weekend.

the bench marks I'm interested in are made up from independent assessing of this football club and how it goes about its business from top to bottom!