Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
It's Stuart Waitley. Thanks for listening to the podcast. In this episode, your snap judgements from the weekend of footy dominated by Carlton fans. The Monday means test with Adam Simpson, the latest footy news with Tom Morris, and the wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock. You can get in touch at any time. Waitley at sen.com.au. Thanks for listening. Enjoy. Enjoy. 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. 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 progresses.
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.
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Chapter 2: What are the key snap judgments about Carlton's performance?
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. We put ourselves in positions to win the game. So that message seems to be working pretty well.
But our ability to be able to do it for a longer period of time is not at the level it needs to be at. And when the game is against you, you need to defend and you need to fight. And we are not doing it well enough. I can't be any clearer than that. That's about as prescriptive and unvarnished as a coach ever is. What we heard is precisely what the players heard.
There's no point hiding it from public view at this point. What Carlton can't muster is what fuelled Richmond's victory earlier in the day. Obviously really proud of the group.
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Chapter 3: What psychological issues are affecting Carlton's team dynamics?
The difference is temper. Jarvis is in East Burwood. Our lead-off snap judgment. Hello to you, Jarvis.
Good morning, Gerrard. This one really hurts, mate, really hurts. Let's start with the numbers, firstly. It tells the whole story. Since the start of 2025, Gerrard, we've lost 11 games when leading at halftime.
11 games. That's not bad luck, Gerrard. That's a personality trait.
Against the Kildare on Saturday, it wasn't a loss. It was a full psychological disintegration.
When the game was there to be owned, we laid six tackles in the third quarter, Gerrard. Six. That's not pressure. That's permission. There's no leadership, Gerrard. We know that. There's no edge. There's no fear of consequence. And you can see it everywhere. Our defenders, they were disconnected. Our midfield goes missing when it's time to respond. Our ones...
Australian defender Jacob Wiedering, he looks like a player emotionally checked out of the program. If he wants out, Gerrard, random his wish, move him on at season's end. Then there's Harry. I've said it before, Gerrard, the so-called gun-forward, build like Tarzan but plays like Jane. I can already see Brisbane, the coaching staff this week, they don't even need to rub out the whiteboard.
Replace the B for Ben with an H for Harry under the strengths, leave it there as is, blank. There are no strengths, Gerrard.
How on earth are both of those boys on a million-dollar contract? What a sham. Best case scenario might be a medical retirement due to his concussions.
It frees both the player and the club because pretending the situation isn't terminal helps no one. We're bereft of culture. I waited all summer for our game against TDK and Silvani for a chance to show them what they walked away from, where we needed them most. All summer, Gerrard, it was eating away at me. Then I see the rubbish we threw up on Saturday night.
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Chapter 4: What is the outlook for Michael Voss and the Carlton Football Club?
100%. I mean, even Smith. Smith's a great player for them. I'm a secure supporter. But he's missed a full year with reconstruction and he comes back as a whippet. What about going to the gym? They can't have a gym at their facilities. They're never fit and they never will be fit the way they are.
Dean, thank you. Joel's in Bannockburn. Joel, hello.
Good morning, Gerard. I've held my faith in Michael Voss. He was one of the greatest footballers I've ever seen, in my top ten, in fact. He was also one of the greatest captains, a true legend of our sport. But now we can't avoid the fact that his time is up at Carlton. It has to be now. Rip off the Band-Aid and salvage the season, Gerard.
The main reason for me is the leaders of the Carlton Football Club have now become bang on average, and it's bloody obvious to anyone that watches my club. They've lost interest. What has happened to Jacob Wiedering? He's playing selfish football, only cares about his man and not his team. Should be the general right now, but that's an 18-year-old kid who is doing that in Harry Dean.
Harry McKay needs to be traded immediately. He was so average, Jared, he still can't kick. He's a full forward and doesn't know whether to kick a drop punt or a snap around the corner.
We have selection integrity. We have a young Billy Wilson playing in the VFL who's dominating every single week at halfback. He had 41 touches two weeks ago and 30 on the weekend.
And what do they do? They bring in Adam Saad.
George Hewitt is dominating every week and they keep Adam Shearer on the side. Gerard, the crowds will start dying now on Beyond Shattered and don't want to go anymore because it's too much of the same crap week in, week out. Voss out, Gerard. We have royalty sitting in the wings right now like Longmuir, Simpson and Hinkley. Even Buckley waiting in the wings to coach my great club.
Graham Wright, fix our club, please. We desperately need your soul.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Michael Voss provide about team performance?
A third had them with one. And then one has them with two wins. Okay. All right. We're starting to whittle down. We are whittling down. But the draw knocks everything out. Because the exercise wasn't one through 18. It was the brackets of 10 and one, nine and two, eight and three. I'm telling you, they should put up a million dollar prize market for predicting the ladder.
Make it a million bucks and see how many people get involved. They could do it four times in a year. Anyway. Just for our ladder prediction competition, that was the cause for extra time on- Yeah, I'm a big player. You tell me the ratings. I know it's as boring as some of the other subjects in the AFL. But the extra time, if it was, I think it's next score wins.
Chapter 6: How does the conversation shift to ladder predictions and competition?
And the ratings on that and the eyes on that, if it was, okay, here we go, next score wins. Because you don't want to, I think if it's next goal... It could be 15 minutes. And if it gets three minutes and three minutes, that's just footy. I want to see next score wins. Like, why wouldn't you do it, Gerard? Is it the history piece? Yep. Yeah. Okay. I just think it'd be a ratings bonanza.
And then people would just embrace when the word's out, it's a draw. And here we go. And then the two minute drills you train at training. Yeah. All right, we're in next score wins mode, guys.
Chapter 7: What are the key takeaways from the Bulldogs' recent performance?
Let's see how we go. Because you don't want to go all out attack, but you also don't want to go all out defense. I just think it'd be pretty cool to see. So I would like to poll the 75,000 people at the ground, just the 75,000 people at the ground. And one of the questions, are you prepared to lose to win? Or are you taking your two points and going home? No. Win. No one's going to win.
For two points. I don't care who you are. No one's, surely not. If you're competitive, if you have one bit of competitive instinct in your body, you are not going for a draw. Are you? No. Not if you're in the 75,000 there.
Chapter 8: What are the implications of player injuries on team strategy?
No. I think it's fine to do it from a sterile point during the week. But in the hot-blooded moment of Thursday night. Oh, it would have been so good. Keep going. Yeah. Yeah. It would have been so good. Anyway, and the people talk about the wind and that sort of stuff. That's bad luck. If you had the wind for the whole quarter and you couldn't get in front, that's on you.
So I can't see any negativity to it at all. Zero. Good stuff. You've made the case compellingly there. The 40-week temper text is 0433 9811 16. The difference is temper. The pressure index is coming next. For City Power, Melbourne's weather, shower or two, a top of 20. City Power, working in all conditions to keep your power connected. Essential ads.
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Waitley on SEN. Those deeper back men used the footy better tonight, so we didn't have that same vulnerability on counter-offence. We didn't turn the ball over as much as we did we have in the early stages of the year.
Luke Beveridge, the Bulldogs coach. So a couple of categories to work through here. The first is the pressure index for Osborne rooftop and bar. Enjoy happy hour with the footy live and loud. How are you looking at the Bulldogs? Well, they've got a big month coming up, haven't they? They've got Port, Carlton, Melbourne and Collingwood in the next four weeks.
So that's going to set up whether they're going to return to, you know, what we saw in the early part of the year. And I thought the stepping stone of this weekend was pretty important for them to, to, to have a swing and be competitive and be right up for the fight, play with that spirit they can play with. And he's mentioned then about the
The vulnerability with the Bulldogs' backs isn't just the defense and the ability to defend. It's actually how they move the ball from D50. So they've been struggling to get it out. And a lot of the times it's either a kick in or a D50 exit. And they've been conceding a lot of vulnerability. back half turnover into scores, real basic ones.
So they turned the ball over 21 times in their back half this week, which is not too bad. And they only conceded four goals too for the day. So they were having horrendous turnovers in their back half. So as much as it's about the defence and how they set up defensively, but it's also around offence to get it out of there and not allow a return of serve off an exit. So that's a step forward.
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