Stuart Waitley

They couldn't quite get it on the board, but they dominated.

And then there's just a sequence of small things.

I watched it back yesterday, a fumble, a miss kick, a miss tackle, a wrong option, a turnover, a free kick, a moment of ill discipline, a drop mark.

But it all conspires in a way that you just have to be able to, the goldfish is, these are just the regular foibles that afflict any team in any quarter.

Yet for Carlton, the magnitude of it grows to the point of paralysis.

And they concede to their own fate.

I can't remember a team with such a short breaking point.

They'd broken and they were still in front.

Yeah.

I can't explain it either.

I mean, other than the fact that it is so difficult to get out of.

You need a 10-goal win, really.

You need to be up by such a margin where it doesn't matter what happens, we're done.

Whereas at the moment, and I think I heard Justin Longmeier talk about handling small leads.

Is it their issue?

Completely different issue than Carlton.

But being 12 to 25 points up doesn't cut it at all if you're Carlton.

And how you deal with it from a

From a coaching point of view is one thing, but from a leadership point of view, having played for a bit and how you handle a moment in time, a drop mark, a missed tackle, a

My teammate's done something wrong or I've done something where it's gone away from what the plan was.