Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Monday morning. This is your town. This is your station. This is Waitley. Good morning. Well, that was a weekend of footy. And after the siren draw, a frenzied finish to the showdown, an SCG shootout that was a delight, the Tigers' heartwarming first win of the season, the Wizards' audacious handball, Jamara's outrageous snap, a ludicrous overreaction to a whiteboard,
And more meddling from the ark where the kids can't be trusted with the technology.
Chapter 2: What are the key issues facing Carlton's performance?
It's ripe for snap judgments. 1-300-736-736. And the 40 Wings temper text is 0433 98 11 16. The difference is temper. What you feel most passionately on a Monday that might find its place as the week goes.
goes on big shout out to our correspondent last week who made special mention of Malcolm Rosas as the unrecognized element of the Swans revival you saw it early everyone sees it now so let's get to it It's hard to look past the morbid case of Carlton where despondency seems to have set in, where the passion has slowly dimmed. They are the team that does go gently into the night.
There's a macabre fascination watching the Blues fold in second halves. It's a rare flaw in a team. Everyone watching and involved is on high alert for it. The stats are ready. The close-up's in focus. On Saturday night, Carlton dominated the first six minutes of the third quarter. But the first sign of trouble seemed to take fright.
A fumble, a missed kick, a missed tackle, a wrong option, a turnover, a free kick, a moment of ill-discipline, a drop mark. The regular foibles in a game spin the doom loop for the Blues. Resistance is broken. Resilience can't be found. There's a certain inevitability about their fates. They seem resigned to it rather than railing against it. And that makes it a deep-seated psychological issue.
Carlton has a fatal flaw. The what is clear as day, the why is challenging, and the how, as in how to rectify it, is beyond those at the coalface. And amid the despondency is now an inevitability. There's no scenario in which Michael Voss wins a new contract. So what does the end look like and when does it come? And that's the grimmest reality of all.
This was a year doomed to fail in its own planning. And the team is failing about as badly as a team can. It's been just a familiar pattern.
And then our ability to be able to just continue to defend when we're up against it isn't at the level that it needs to be at. We're getting these huge run against us. So defensively, we're not strong enough for long enough. It's holding us back. We've just got to be better at holding up. And that's not a back six question. That's an intent from the whole team to get that done.
So, you know, across the whole year, you know, based on the transition of the game, it wasn't at the level it needs to be. We're clear on that, but we've got to get some shift on it if we're going to shift as a footy team. The guys are now quite familiar with what we're trying to get after.
So there's some fundamentals that we clearly need to be able to clean up, but we've got to be far more defensively stronger than what we currently are against any side. So when a side presses, stand up. Stand up. When it's your turn to defend, defend. A lot of it's got to do with intent and what we want to continue to prioritise the football team. So clearly right now it's not high enough.
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Chapter 3: How does Carlton's psychological state affect their gameplay?
What Carlton can't muster is what fuelled Richmond's victory earlier in the day.
Obviously really proud of the group. We're dealing with a fair bit off the field with availability and things like that so I mentioned a post game that this would be easily one of the best wins I've been involved in because of that.
We're dealing with a lot with availability but you wouldn't know it with our spirit and our energy so when you talk about spirit, grit, fight it was the reason why we won the game so really proud of the boys. If we maintain that with our with our fight, we'll be okay.
Spirit, grit and fight. In the Carlton emails since Saturday night, there's a tone of exhaustion, but there's also a pertinent question. What is the plan? What's the plan beyond sacking the next coach? Because right now, it's hard to see. It's a doom loop that's been spinning since the very start of the season, and it's a deep psychological issue at Carlton. The what is clear.
The how to get out of it is anyone's guess right now.
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