Re: What's wrong with Carlton
Reply #11 –
Thry....3-2-1 after 6 games on the face of it isn't too bad. But when you compare it to how we played in those first 10 or so games last year...it's probably what McGuane is referring to. Either we've dropped right off or other teams have improved way more than us. It's the way we're playing that's the worry. The Geelong game was probably our best given who we were playing...but even they were off the boil in those first few weeks and we nearly let that one slip in the last quarter as well. Richmond have been ordinary and we gave up a win there too. We were lucky to scrape past GWS. North was probably the one where we could've really put the foot down but even that day we let them kick the last 4 goals after a pretty tight first half. In most games, it's been one, maybe two good quarters of footy.
It seems that everything that was working for us last year, isn't this year.
I've witnessed us attempting to learn how to play tempo footy, and implement a different game style. We went back to the blistering stiff against North for about 10 mins.
We are going to put it all together sooner or later and work out when to go fast and slow. It's not all doom and gloom.