Cam Luke

Yep, you want to get the ball in your forward half.

Then you can press up and you can be a bit more aggressive with your starting positions.

But Carlton players and Carlton defenders were 15 to 20 metres ahead of their forwards, trying to read that play.

And once their link-up came and the chain came through,

Well, they just had players goal-side time and time again, and no one adjusted.

Like, Dean didn't adjust.

Wiedering didn't adjust.

They're tall to medium.

Saad was playing 20 metres in front of his man at times, and the ball was coming in thick and fast, and it just kept getting in over the top time and time again in that third quarter.

So there was no adjustment.

Teams want to be aggressive.

I understand that when they defend, but when...

When the brown stuff hits the fan, you've just got to go back to basics.

St Kilda did it really well.

They identified that Carlton were getting them on the outside and moving the ball pretty well, and they shut it down.

And all it took was 10 minutes, and then that was it.

The game was over.

I mean, there's a couple of individual positives coming out of Carlton last night.

I thought Kempen and McGovern, particularly in the first half, worked really hard and had the edge on the St Kilda defenders.

Carroll took a hanger.