https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/05/03/one-positive-and-one-negative-from-your-clubs-round-7-performance/Quote:
Only five teams – Adelaide, St Kilda, Essendon*, Hawthorn and North Melbourne – have given up more points than Carlton this year, who are still too easy to score against.
The Bombers cut the Blues to ribbons in the first quarter, with their forwards having a ton of space to work into.
Coming up against the Bulldogs this week, Carlton must get their defensive structures right if they are to have any chance.
This means clogging leading lanes and not relying on Jacob Weitering, Liam Jones and Lachie Plowman to win one-on-one contests without help.
Yay.
The problem we have not blocking up the "leading up lanes" has was exposed big time in round 2 when Williamson has given that job and failed miserably.
Williamson got dropped and we won the next 2 games, but lets face it the opposition were up coming developing teams Freo and GCS, so we weren't tested that much. Not sure if anyone was blocking those lanes against them TBH.
Williamson returned to the team against Port to fill in the injured Parks who had replaced him, and we saw the lead lanes open up again.
It can't all be one player, because he didn't play in our win vs Effendope*, nor our loss against Lions where in both games thie phenomena of leaving heaps of space in the oppositions forwardline, leaving one on ones Plowman with Tippa, or Jones on Hooker, and Weiters on Jones, with no one around for support.
Its Teagues game plan from the day he started.
He inherited a low scoring team with a defense first mantra, and let them off the leash to win a few games. The team had a defensive mindset at the time, but that was gone in 2020 and 2021 thus far with 5 goal leaks the norm, and lead lane ways there for the taking.
Team defense is an important element of defence. Its easy to stretch the defenders to creat space. We see it with Carlton every week.
Has to have a bettr defensive plan to play against the big boys. We use to stifle scoring with Bolton but now we need to plug the leaks.