Question time

[flyboy77]

No argument from me there.

Guarding space in the hope a miskick results in a turnover is doomed. We have zero intensity and the players are always standing by as the opposition just kick to the spaces and allow their team mates to run through it. The zone then breaks down as four Carlton players then engage in a half hearted chase which leaves 3 opponents free who then run on harder.

Even when it does work and we get an intercept mark, our instant response is for another three payers to push back to set up for the slow backwards kicks to transfer play. The opposition run harder to close off the ground on the other side and we end up just kicking long down the boundary line to a contest. Given 4 of our guys are spread out in the defensive 50 for this wasteful set up we are then outnumbered when the long kick happens and generally turn the ball over.

When this doesn’t happen we usually just get the ball and kick long down the boundary first chance we get.

On rare occasions when we try and link up to run through the centre in numbers we actually look good - as evidenced by the games against the dogs and first half against the Hawks.

This has been happening for a long time. So my question is why won’t the coaches change the plan? Why won’t they try carrying the ball more to use our younger legs, using Ed to nullify the opposition’s best mid and using a different backline set up where everyone gets 1 player and keeping a spare man back who is the main initiator of the aforementioned run and carry off half back?

And yet we all but bested the Pies...that's what baffles me the most (and don't give me the they're young BS).