I think a reason we are struggling to play our system well this year is because its been over a year since Andrew Russell trained the squad and as Carlton are getting fit and playing good footy, were losing conditioning and playing poor footy, I think this issue is criminally under rated.
Also we tend to rely on runners and kicking down the boundary which relies on quick disposal, speed and quality possession, which has not clicked very often this season.
McEvoy as a defender has pros and cons, when we put pressure on opponent mids, McEvoy cleans up in defense, but if we drop pressure then opponent forwards just run laps around him.
Our work out of defense is ok, it's our mids bombing into our forward line that has been an issue for around 3 years, this very rarely happened prior to 2016, because we had some amazingly consistent quality in the midfield, Lewis, S.Mitchell, Hodge, Burgoyne all had over 70% DE and some close to 80% DE, now all of our mids are between 55%-65% DE which means they connect less with team mates and that is obvious when you watch us play.
As for style, were playing the Mick Malthouse style of football he perfected at Collingwood, win ball in backline, keep near boundary for less hurt if you turn over and then create turn over to score easy goals, right now we have no way of creating turnovers and our movement is too slow, as are our players from less than elite fitness.
Also we tend to rely on runners and kicking down the boundary which relies on quick disposal, speed and quality possession, which has not clicked very often this season.
McEvoy as a defender has pros and cons, when we put pressure on opponent mids, McEvoy cleans up in defense, but if we drop pressure then opponent forwards just run laps around him.
Our work out of defense is ok, it's our mids bombing into our forward line that has been an issue for around 3 years, this very rarely happened prior to 2016, because we had some amazingly consistent quality in the midfield, Lewis, S.Mitchell, Hodge, Burgoyne all had over 70% DE and some close to 80% DE, now all of our mids are between 55%-65% DE which means they connect less with team mates and that is obvious when you watch us play.
As for style, were playing the Mick Malthouse style of football he perfected at Collingwood, win ball in backline, keep near boundary for less hurt if you turn over and then create turn over to score easy goals, right now we have no way of creating turnovers and our movement is too slow, as are our players from less than elite fitness.