2026 - What do we think?

camel · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2025 8:31 am

Sidefx wrote:

camel wrote:

Sidefx wrote:

…will change the way goals are kicked…

This is the big opportunity for Voss and co to sort out and make a huge improvement to the way we play.

Of course we will all miss a firing Charlie who ignites the crowd and is great to watch when he's on song. We will also miss his late quarter efforts in defence in tight games.

But, we have to do things differently now precisely because of the personnel we have. We need to find a new way, a better way. I think/hope with Davies around that our coaching group will be better aligned and that will reflect in our ball movement.

I have no doubt it will change, we tried this year but were unable to maintain it for more than a quarter until the end of the season.
Putting the right players into the mix will change everything IMO.
We will have a new attitude in the playing group with 5 mature players added and new coaches.
Not sure how much influence Davies has on the ball movement but I hope we can deliver something more reliable and less taxing.
The players love Voss, we've heard enough people say it, especially the new guys coming in, 5 players that have come to play for him.
A lot to look forward to.

I don't suspect Davies will have direct impact on the way we play (I could have worded that better). Rather the support he provides to Voss, the other coaches, and the way they are structured will hopefully improve and as a result we will see the coaches performing better as a unit.

Sidefx · **Joined:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 1:55 pm **Posts:** 7332

camel wrote:

Sidefx wrote:

camel wrote:

Sidefx wrote:

…will change the way goals are kicked…

This is the big opportunity for Voss and co to sort out and make a huge improvement to the way we play.

Of course we will all miss a firing Charlie who ignites the crowd and is great to watch when he's on song. We will also miss his late quarter efforts in defence in tight games.

But, we have to do things differently now precisely because of the personnel we have. We need to find a new way, a better way. I think/hope with Davies around that our coaching group will be better aligned and that will reflect in our ball movement.

I have no doubt it will change, we tried this year but were unable to maintain it for more than a quarter until the end of the season.
Putting the right players into the mix will change everything IMO.
We will have a new attitude in the playing group with 5 mature players added and new coaches.
Not sure how much influence Davies has on the ball movement but I hope we can deliver something more reliable and less taxing.
The players love Voss, we've heard enough people say it, especially the new guys coming in, 5 players that have come to play for him.
A lot to look forward to.

I don't suspect Davies will have direct impact on the way we play (I could have worded that better). Rather the support he provides to Voss, the other coaches, and the way they are structured will hopefully improve and as a result we will see the coaches performing better as a unit.

That makes more sense, yes I agree also.
Better unity all around.
Losing exposes the cracks in a club and some of those cracks have been removed.

carntheblues · **Joined:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:05 pm **Posts:** 2868

Sidefx wrote:

camel wrote:

Sidefx wrote:

camel wrote:

Sidefx wrote:

…will change the way goals are kicked…

This is the big opportunity for Voss and co to sort out and make a huge improvement to the way we play.

Of course we will all miss a firing Charlie who ignites the crowd and is great to watch when he's on song. We will also miss his late quarter efforts in defence in tight games.

But, we have to do things differently now precisely because of the personnel we have. We need to find a new way, a better way. I think/hope with Davies around that our coaching group will be better aligned and that will reflect in our ball movement.

I have no doubt it will change, we tried this year but were unable to maintain it for more than a quarter until the end of the season.
Putting the right players into the mix will change everything IMO.
We will have a new attitude in the playing group with 5 mature players added and new coaches.
Not sure how much influence Davies has on the ball movement but I hope we can deliver something more reliable and less taxing.
The players love Voss, we've heard enough people say it, especially the new guys coming in, 5 players that have come to play for him.
A lot to look forward to.

I don't suspect Davies will have direct impact on the way we play (I could have worded that better). Rather the support he provides to Voss, the other coaches, and the way they are structured will hopefully improve and as a result we will see the coaches performing better as a unit.

That makes more sense, yes I agree also.
Better unity all around.
Losing exposes the cracks in a club and some of those cracks have been removed.

I am bullish about next year as we will have to adjust our ball movement into F50 which has been our biggest issue. Haywood, Florent and Ainsworth are all good kicks with pace so that should help us. They also increase our depth. Sorry to lose Charlie but we move forward and at his instigation we have recruited for the next few years and have gained great flexibility for the next 3 drafts. Important given the changes going on. Sometimes out of adversity comes opportunity!
GO BLUES!

bondiblue · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2025 2:38 pm

Frank Carspew wrote:

We have to be better in 2026 when we have traded a vice captain whose view is Carlton’s a hard footy club to play for when you’re not playing well and it’s a lot of pressure there ( used car salesman D Orazio talking on behalf of his client and the reason why he left Carlton ) PATHETIC great leader NOT and terrible choice as vice captain
This is after slinking off to Geelong in May trying to get a trade
Piss off to Sydney and hide you and the used car salesman can get stuffed you have no good will left with our club or it’s supporters

Love this post

Yeah....piss off.

london blue · **Joined:** Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:08 pm **Posts:** 3357

Looking forward to adding more bloods culture. Best mates Hayward and Florent joining Newman/Hewett (both outstanding recruits).

Add the Davies and Boak to that, I sense we are growing up

SurreyBlue · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:32 am **Posts:** 10946

Frank Carspew wrote:

We have to be better in 2026 when we have traded a vice captain whose view is Carlton’s a hard footy club to play for when you’re not playing well and it’s a lot of pressure there ( used car salesman D Orazio talking on behalf of his client and the reason why he left Carlton ) PATHETIC great leader NOT and terrible choice as vice captain
This is after slinking off to Geelong in May trying to get a trade
Piss off to Sydney and hide you and the used car salesman can get stuffed you have no good will left with our club or it’s supporters

I will miss such a talent, but I think most have been turned off due to his behaviour during the trade period.
It was poor and everything was deliberate to deliver damage to the partnership between club and player.
I think personally the worse of all was to blame the supporters. Just embarrassing on his behalf.

The ONE point I still can't get my head around, why the flower did we make him VC? That is just typical of our club poor management.

bluehammer · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2025 5:49 pm

I look at Hawthorn and think 'their list isn't loaded with stars'.

They have a game plan that works for them mostly, but they really don't have star power.

We've tried the supercoach method of top ending and rookies. It failed. So we'll try the mid range consistent, approach

DesEnglish · **Joined:** Fri May 18, 2007 2:10 pm **Posts:** 2972

Anyone be surprised if our first four games were:

Sydney in Sydney
Tigers at the G
Away to the Aints at Marvell
Then Pies at the G.

Reckon double ups against the Aints and Sydney are safe bets.

london blue · **Joined:** Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:08 pm **Posts:** 3357

reckon you might be right Des

Frank Carspew · **Joined:** Thu Sep 04, 2025 11:46 pm **Posts:** 245

A couple of interesting snippets from Adam Simpson on Melbourne radio today

Said he thought both Swans and Carlton won the Curnow trade but said with what Swans coughed up it was a classic case of the Swans blinking at the end of the trade period

He wondered as most of us how Charlies body would hold up and this may ultimately be determined later on down the track

When asked whether Carlton and Melbourne next year couldnt expect much success in 2026 Simpson said he thought Carlton was not like Melbourne who are rebuilding

He said that everyone has underestimated the amount of and impact of injuries at Carlton in 2025 and therefore Blues should be ok in 2026

camel · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2025 2:28 pm

Did he say he was eying off Vossy's job?! :lol:

Frank Carspew · **Joined:** Thu Sep 04, 2025 11:46 pm **Posts:** 245

No mention but I think Horse is more likely in the frame

GWS · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2025 2:49 pm

Frank Carspew wrote:

No mention but I think Horse is more likely in the frame

Even the prospect of losing a grand final seems appealing these days…

missnaut · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2025 3:15 pm

DesEnglish wrote:

Anyone be surprised if our first four games were:

Sydney in Sydney
Tigers at the G
Away to the Aints at Marvell
Then Pies at the G.

Reckon double ups against the Aints and Sydney are safe bets.

Yeah, it'll be that or close to it.
Double up against the Filth as per, and I reckon we get Richmond twice next year.

Sidefx · **Joined:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 1:55 pm **Posts:** 7332

carntheblues wrote:

I am bullish about next year as we will have to adjust our ball movement into F50 which has been our biggest issue. Haywood, Florent and Ainsworth are all good kicks with pace so that should help us. They also increase our depth. Sorry to lose Charlie but we move forward and at his instigation we have recruited for the next few years and have gained great flexibility for the next 3 drafts. Important given the changes going on. Sometimes out of adversity comes opportunity!
GO BLUES!

Go Blues!!

Navy One · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2025 9:52 pm

Frank Carspew wrote:

No mention but I think Horse is more likely in the frame

14 more players and he gets his team back

buzzaaaah · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:31 am **Posts:** 17897

I don't know how they do it every year, but Carlton has me excited for 2026.
Not top 4 material, but the season is up for grabs, if our game plan is not the same garbage we saw for most of the year

bondiblue · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2025 12:04 pm

buzzaaaah wrote:

I don't know how they do it every year, but Carlton has me excited for 2026.
Not top 4 material, but the season is up for grabs, if our game plan is not the same garbage we saw for most of the year

I'm bullish too
I would have liked to have used our pick 11 on a ready made player....Humphries TBH, and would have liked Khamis for forward depth.

I feel we have moved on most of our injury prone players, and for that I think our injury list will improve. I'm a strong believer the game plan couldn't be executed when we had more than 8 on the injury list. The numbers don't lie. We won all our games with less than 8 injured, including against Cats. Must be the tipping point for skills.

We started 2025 with 13 out injured and finished the season with 16 out injured.

Gov and Williams are the last of the injury prone on our list. Gov may not survive the cut, and the Williams contract ends in 2026. Hopefully Kemp will be eased back and is depth, and hopefully Smith and Walsh have injury free years ahead of them. Only way top cover injury is depth. We are in deep shit if injury hits our KPs, where we have no depth unless we find a couple SSP's.

GMCbris · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2025 12:20 pm

I also dont want to believe the media who think we have set ourselves back a few years in a rebuild/reset. I feel we havent changed us too much from last year and added more attacking firepower. Im also excited for 2026

Sydney Blue · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2025 1:52 pm

I was flat going into last year
Nothing we have done has changed my mind this year

smells like 2003 to me - In Morrell Harford - Teague McGrath Scotland Johnston Stevens

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