Effes wrote:
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/four-points-the-self-destructive-blues-the-plan-to-stop-daicos-in-his-tracks-20230506-p5d6ai.html
Why Carlton have the blues
The theory has been you stop Paddy Cripps and you stop Carlton. And it’s true, to an extent.
The other part to the newer theory is that, presently, you can rely on Carlton to do your job for you. Carlton helps stop Carlton.
This is not to diminish Brisbane’s outstanding, intelligent effort and intense pressure on Friday night, but Carlton are the most self-destructive of the top eight teams. They’re ball use is just dreadful for a side with pretensions to finals.
Carlton gave up 85 points from turnovers on Friday night, their worst turnover performance since 2021 and the fourth-worst of any side this season. Bearing in mind some of the poor teams at the bottom of the ladder that is quite some feat. They now concede 46 points a game from turnovers on average.
In the last month, Carlton have given up 62 points against Adelaide, 52 against St Kilda, were ahead against West Coast in outscoring them by 16 points from this scoring source, and then they had the 85 points they gave up against Brisbane.
Clearly in those last four games lowly West Coast distorts the figures. If you take that game out (and therefore look at them against three other teams in the top eight) then Carlton have been just awful and bottom three with North and West Coast for points conceded from turnover. Even Hawthorn is above them
Bear in mind they were not always this bad, even this year. In the first month, even against other good teams, they were the opposite of what they are now. They were very good at forcing the opposition into turning the ball over and in that first bracket of four games they outscored their opposition from scores created by turnovers. But in the last month they have fallen to pieces.
What Friday’s game revealed is that Brisbane did their homework on the Blues. Yes, they went to work on Cripps and the Carlton captain consequently had it only 17 times, but they also went in with a plan knowing that Carlton have been vulnerable to giving the ball back and being scored against.
Thanks for this from The Age Effes
Its obvious Voss doesnt pay enough respect to the opposition's strengths, and Turnovers from bad kicking in particular is terrible.
Coaching and Players. Fixable.