08-08-2022, 05:17 AM
What can be said? It was as a pathetic effort for the first three quarters I have seen in 20 years. I mean to say, after the sanctions and under Pagen, we had a crap side, we were broke, had crap facilities and a Coach no-one liked. What was the excuse for yesterday. I remember talking to David McKay at time and telling him all I wanted was a side that has a go because I believe that if you have a side that has a go, you can bring in better players over the time and the Club will improve. What we have done overt he past twenty years is only bring in good players and what we haven't done is develop a team that has a go. Over the past twenty-five years we have had teams that have picked and chose when they were going to turn up for matches, picked and chose which quarters we were going to play, and picked and chose within quarters whether they would have a go. We lost the final against Brisbane all those years ago because the ball was in dispute in the middle of the ground, the Carlton players decided it would be a ball up and stopped playing while the Brisbane players kept going, won the ball sent it forward and they got a goal. Game Over.
There is no team plan if you are not going to win the ball, there is no team plan if you are not going to kick and handball the ball to your team mates, there is no team plan if you aren't going to stick your tackles, there is no team plan if you are not going to run and create and there is no team plan if you are not going to put pressure on your opponents when they have the ball.
When I use to work, teaching and trouble shooting in organisations, I used to say that if you cannot identify the problem you cannot identify the solution. I remember looking on in horror at the start of the season when Sayers was doing a press conference with Voss and Cook and he started trying to convince people of the correctness of the decision to sack Teague and Liddle by saying the players were chanting Vossy, Vossy, Vossy and Cookie, Cookie, Cookie. Why players would be chanting the name of the CEO is beyond me.
Yesterday further demonstrates what I have been saying for years now, it is not the players, it is not the coaches, it is not the administration, it is not the Club Presidents and it is not the Boards, though many on the Board need to have a good hard look at themselves with the continual leaking to the media over the past twenty odd years. The problem is the culture of the Club.
The worst part of Elliot was that he destroyed the winning culture that Barassi, Nicholls and Harris developed in the 60's and 70's. When Elliot drove the salary cap breaches he basically said that the only way we can win is by cheating. The culture of the Club has changed since then but it now believes it can be successful if it is better than everyone else and only if there is a messiah to lead us because clearly we ar incapable of doing it ourselves.. Pagen, Malthouse, Judd and now Voss, were all suppose to be messiahs btut they have all turned out to be just naughty boys.
Our problem is that we have a losing culture. As I have said a number of times, winners win because they win and losers lose because they lose. Our Club wallows in the celebration of the mediocre. We don't only celebrate the good old days and great performances of teams and individuals we dwell in the past and hope someone will bring us to the promised land. Collingwood is a pretty ordinary side yet they have won eleven games on the trot, nine of which have been under two goals. When was the last time one of our teams made a charge of any sort. The players and Club talk about how great the fans are but they give us nothing. They play with process and without passion. If we are on top then everything is fine, however if our opponents turn up with fight and have fire in their belly, Carlton just turn it up. I am not just having a go at the current team. This has been happening for twenty-five years. As I have been saying, it is cultural. Losing has got to hurt. It doesn't and hasn't for a long time. If it had hurt then something would have been done about it by now.
Just give me a team that is going to have a red hot go throughout an entire match week in and week out. We have got the players, we have got the Coaches and we have got the administration. If we give 100% 100% of the time, success will take care of itself.
There is no team plan if you are not going to win the ball, there is no team plan if you are not going to kick and handball the ball to your team mates, there is no team plan if you aren't going to stick your tackles, there is no team plan if you are not going to run and create and there is no team plan if you are not going to put pressure on your opponents when they have the ball.
When I use to work, teaching and trouble shooting in organisations, I used to say that if you cannot identify the problem you cannot identify the solution. I remember looking on in horror at the start of the season when Sayers was doing a press conference with Voss and Cook and he started trying to convince people of the correctness of the decision to sack Teague and Liddle by saying the players were chanting Vossy, Vossy, Vossy and Cookie, Cookie, Cookie. Why players would be chanting the name of the CEO is beyond me.
Yesterday further demonstrates what I have been saying for years now, it is not the players, it is not the coaches, it is not the administration, it is not the Club Presidents and it is not the Boards, though many on the Board need to have a good hard look at themselves with the continual leaking to the media over the past twenty odd years. The problem is the culture of the Club.
The worst part of Elliot was that he destroyed the winning culture that Barassi, Nicholls and Harris developed in the 60's and 70's. When Elliot drove the salary cap breaches he basically said that the only way we can win is by cheating. The culture of the Club has changed since then but it now believes it can be successful if it is better than everyone else and only if there is a messiah to lead us because clearly we ar incapable of doing it ourselves.. Pagen, Malthouse, Judd and now Voss, were all suppose to be messiahs btut they have all turned out to be just naughty boys.
Our problem is that we have a losing culture. As I have said a number of times, winners win because they win and losers lose because they lose. Our Club wallows in the celebration of the mediocre. We don't only celebrate the good old days and great performances of teams and individuals we dwell in the past and hope someone will bring us to the promised land. Collingwood is a pretty ordinary side yet they have won eleven games on the trot, nine of which have been under two goals. When was the last time one of our teams made a charge of any sort. The players and Club talk about how great the fans are but they give us nothing. They play with process and without passion. If we are on top then everything is fine, however if our opponents turn up with fight and have fire in their belly, Carlton just turn it up. I am not just having a go at the current team. This has been happening for twenty-five years. As I have been saying, it is cultural. Losing has got to hurt. It doesn't and hasn't for a long time. If it had hurt then something would have been done about it by now.
Just give me a team that is going to have a red hot go throughout an entire match week in and week out. We have got the players, we have got the Coaches and we have got the administration. If we give 100% 100% of the time, success will take care of itself.