06-15-2020, 01:21 AM
Melbourne kicked one goal in over two and a half quarters. Once we were able to put pressure on their mid-field and defence, they really had very little way of scoring. Once again if we had kicked 5:3 in the last quarter instead of 3:5, we would be having a completely different conversation. I have said this before and I will say it again, winners win because they win, losers lose because they lose. I have believed for a long time that the problem at Carlton isn't the players, the coaches or the administration, and while these things are the creators of this, I believe it is the lack of a winning culture that is holding us back. This is what Elliot and his cronies really destroyed at Carlton.
I once read a story about a professional golfer who potential was very good and the expectations was that he would win a number of Majors, however he found he got more joy out of rolling a fifty meter putt to a couple of inches or just missing, than actually putting the ball into the hole. He got more out of the groans of the crowds than the cheers. He went on to have a successful career playing trick shots at tournaments rather than playing to win.
The question I ask is is the mentality at Carlton such that the players would rather have a heroic failure than commit to the contest from the start and be burdened by the pressure of victory and winning? Are the players happy to be five goals down at quarter time and virtually out of the match, so they can release themselves from the burden of the expectations of actually winning. It is easy to console yourself with the what if we started five minutes earlier, and rejoice in the last minute Murphy goal, than actually come to the contest ready to play and accept the notion that you are not really good enough if you lose.
There was not one side I saw on the weekend that if Carlton committed itself to the contest from the first bounce, that Carlton would not be capable of beating, but if you are not going to have a go in the first quarter you are not going to win, and as long as we are able to hide behind the facade of heroic failures, everything will be ok.
I once read a story about a professional golfer who potential was very good and the expectations was that he would win a number of Majors, however he found he got more joy out of rolling a fifty meter putt to a couple of inches or just missing, than actually putting the ball into the hole. He got more out of the groans of the crowds than the cheers. He went on to have a successful career playing trick shots at tournaments rather than playing to win.
The question I ask is is the mentality at Carlton such that the players would rather have a heroic failure than commit to the contest from the start and be burdened by the pressure of victory and winning? Are the players happy to be five goals down at quarter time and virtually out of the match, so they can release themselves from the burden of the expectations of actually winning. It is easy to console yourself with the what if we started five minutes earlier, and rejoice in the last minute Murphy goal, than actually come to the contest ready to play and accept the notion that you are not really good enough if you lose.
There was not one side I saw on the weekend that if Carlton committed itself to the contest from the first bounce, that Carlton would not be capable of beating, but if you are not going to have a go in the first quarter you are not going to win, and as long as we are able to hide behind the facade of heroic failures, everything will be ok.