I think back to the early days of Jurgen Klopp's tenure at Liverpool FC. At one of his first press conferences, he said his first order of business was "to turn doubters into believers". Essentially throwing down the gauntlet to supporters to stop groaning and filling the stadium with anxious silence, and start roaring the team on with a sense of destiny. Not long afterwards, after Liverpool had scored late to draw at home vs West Bromwich Albion, a perennial yo-yo club, he took his players in front of the crowd, had them hold hands and salute the crowd for their belief and support. The press and rival fans all laughed at this German idiot - WBA is crap, scraping a draw at home is a poor result for a big club, what is he doing? I actually thought of that moment when we scraped home against Richmond, and Cripps and Voss were derided for seeming happy with the win. Well, that WBA result established a bond between manager, team and supporters that produced an amazing era for the club, full of trophies and magical nights. Perhaps Carlton fans would do well to look it up and think about what lessons we can learn. It's perhaps harder for an AFL coach to establish such a rapport, given the relative size of the arenas and the coach's place within it, and Voss is no Jurgen Klopp (but nor is any other AFL coach). It's hard to get an accurate read on AFL crowd vibes on TV, but everything I read here and hear on podcasts suggests we are transmitting doubt and anxiety. Perhaps it is time to radiate belief. You may say it's the team's job to make you believe first. But maybe you need to find that home draw against West Brom to get things going.

Pathetic display. This is who to blame...

Coach: Voss
Senior Players: Cripps, Weitering, McKay, McGovern, Walsh, Kemp, Pittonet, Williams, Hewitt, L. Young

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Jagga