Hopefully that is the case. He was interviewed after the game and didn't appear to be proppy.

I agree. I will say at a guess he isn't at anywhere near 100% (I think he is carrying something). Then again didn't he have 10 possies in the first qtr? But yes, he is well below what he should be for sure.

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The last 2 games up to the 15 minute mark of the 2nd quarter 17.12 from that point on 6.16 and I would say probably at least another 8 shots that failed to score.

It conversion that is the issue in 2nd half


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That was by far the least enjoyable 6 goal win I have ever sat through.

Ugly football after 1/4 time.

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Will never take personally witnessing a win for granted. Especially with my son.

So good for the first 1.5 qtrs.

Very, very average thereafter.

Haven’t answered any questions.

Our general skill level is no where near the level required.

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Take the win but .......

5 goals after quarter time (2 of those in the second half) against the bottom team
Outscored by same team after quarter time
Kudos to Ollie (never stops)
Might be a debutant next week if Charlie, Harry and HOK are all out
Might even see Pitto to assist against Xerri

The uninspiring season that is 2025 continues ....

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Totally. It’s just a farce.

HOK was injured and didn’t play the last 1.5 quarters.

Yes indeed.

There in lies the frustration of being a Carlton supporter. I've never been so pissed off at a Carlton team. This side promises so much and delivers naught but disappointment

I can't for the life of me work out of its a fitness thing or instructional from the coaching group led by Voss. Are they trying to play tempo footy? We are capable of dynamic exciting football which is what we do early, but then we try to slow the game down and manage it. Problem is we can't turn it back on. Once we slow the tempo down, all we do is invite the opposition into the game. Then they get a sniff and their belief grows while we get stuck in a run of negative, slow dour ball movement and can't snap out of it.

I just can't see this happening if Craig Macrae was at the helm. The buck has to stop at Voss. Another wasted season beckons. And another wasted generation of talented footballers at the Carlton football club under an inept coach

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My view is we simply don’t have the skill level
We have recruited average pace and average kick players
The players who have the skill level are pea hearts playing down the forward line

If you look at the game in isolation WC could not have played any worse in that first quarter
Zero pressure smashed at clearance no hard defensive running
Conditions got very greasy after that and WC played tougher footy
West Coast actually one clearance overall
They beat us after quarter time because they matched us in the area of stoppage and contested footy
We actually lack pace and skill to combat it
This despite dominating the ruck

We have to have more pace around the ground
We don’t have it
Voss could debut Wilson this week and play Saad further up the ground
Doubt that will happen
So it’s not an attitude
It’s a skill level

Dropped a few marks before then

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for mine, it's coaching and/or fitness.

we get the lead with run and dare and looking for the corridor. then we slow it down to the contested grind along the wings and slow play it. that is 100% instructional from the box.

are players getting told not to run & overlap bcos it bends them out of defensive shape and voss is happy with what we got? or, does voss/ coaching tell them to slow it down bcos they know they aren't fit enough (like say pies, cats) to do this for 4 qtrs?


either way ... for me. coaching has to take the fall. they can do better with this list.

someone mentioned earlier. with no walsh i was looking forward to lord in the middle. the only mid who sticks tackles, lowers his eyes and delivers a beautiful F50 kick. but no, voss sticks motlop and his zero contest, zero awareness, poor footskills game into the middle. it kills me.

keeps picking docherty, and every week docherty does very little. another game of turnovers while his direct opponent runs past his jogging ass time and time again.

We played the late Sunday game and won and this morning it's like it didn't even happen.

Reckon that’s disrespectful to how West Coast played after quarter time
They matched us in the areas concerned
If we want to make the 8 we will probably need around 14 wins and a % a bit more than106.7 given the dogs that are outside the 8 have a larger %

What Voss has done this year is tightened us up defensively but we don’t score enough
There was no cue in the rack
West Coast matched us after quarter time
There was no pressure of losing that game from quarter time either
It may be different this weekend
Reckon North and Clarkson feel they owe us
If we lose then we can definitely kiss this year goodbye

Totally agree with the Docherty Motlop thing
Voss is not a smart coach

Voss's presser was so frustrating.
He says the same crap every week. And when he pronounces Foorrrr uzzzzzz instead of For us. OMG stop.

He is not very clever. This slow stop start kick footy doesnt suit us. The players look confused when they do it, its not natural. Yet he persists. Stubborn mule.

Charlie mentioned that we have been instructed to play slower. Every game is the same, we come out after half time and we do the same things.

Acres missing that gold 1 metre out, far out Voss should have pulled him off the ground straight away.

yeah exactly. charlie all but confirmed it's coaching tapping the brakes on the wide open play, not the players.


i think that's why some players look miserable. they just wana play footy. not grind out along the wings falling asleep from boredom. it's dour footy.

I have waited all season to get back Cincotta and Cottrell bc imo their smart and hard running is the thing that gels the team to play a great running game.

Of course that is when we have the other hard runners like Walsh and Hollands both playing too.

Fantasia showed his preseason form and ran to the right places, as does Cerra week in week out.

Voss in his presser didn’t blame ifatigue for our drop off, but made note we dropped our intensity. Happens every game after half time. WTF.

Bottom line for me is we went into the game with 7 injuries, and we lost Charlie and Skull, which brought the numbered injured to 9. We can’t win when we have more than 8 out, especially during game, which must have affected rotations.

I’m going to watch the game this morning to gather my thought.

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