Autopsy 2026 Rd 4 Carlton vs North Melbourne: What is this sport anymore?

[TENACIOUS]

Some days are bigger, than being depressed over 4 points and today is one of them…

Well done North and Carlton on another special week for sick kids

 

[Jatz]

According to some, Wright knew he was terrible, so he kept him with the grand strategy of getting better draft picks.

That’s not even 4D chess, that’s some sort of 8D chess being played if that’s what he’s done.

 

[Just Kreuzing]

We needed to be harder for longer.

And also need to “own it”

 

[Thrawn]

That’s not even 4D chess, that’s some sort of 8D chess being played if that’s what he’s done.

It'd make Don Tzu blush.

 

[le dominateur]

Even though the free kicks were nearly even in the end, felt like we copped a reaming.
Need another rebuild, this squad ain’t it.

 

[smlz]

I dont understand why its not possible to rotate some players through the midfield. I dont think I have seen Ainsworth in there at all. Byrne, Boyd, the guy that holds the iced coffee sign. Just change it up for 5 minutes, try something...

 

[Blightys Barrel]

Will Hayward hang your head in shame, absolute ****ing mercenary of the highest order

Excuse the intrusion, but his 2 undisciplined acts resulting in down field free kicks were coach and club killers. Trying to be the big tough guy and those 2 goals were the difference in the end.

I also did not understand why Voss did not send McGovern to the backline when Weitering went down. He could have stopped some of those marks by the Kanga forwards.

 

[juzza316]

One of the worst lists in the AFL with Port and Dons. Every other team is well ahead of us.
Sacking Voss isn't going to stop this team finishing bottom 4. There is no dead cat bounce.
I dont really care if he left now or stayed until the end of the year, as long as he isn't coaching next year.

 

[lilJeffyG]

Sorry Wrighty but we are 100% going to ruin your legacy and reputation. After you have finished with us you to will be on the scrapheap. You are a brave, brave man.

 

[Burgers45]

Unfortunately in only his 2nd game for our club, we got nothing from Taylor Byrne, when maybe in hingsight, vfl form player Flynn Young should have been selected ahead of him.

Haywood has put in another shocker, and his position in the side should be questioned.

Actually I thought when Weitering went off injured our backline became disorganised and loose, and we lost some structure.


Other poor contributors were Frankie Evans who made some bad errors under pressure and missed a vital last quarter goal at a vital time in the game.

Lewis Young

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Lewis Young

Age

27

Ht

202cm

Wt

99kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.6

3star

K

7.5

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

4.4

4star

T

1.6

4star

MG

197.9

3star

D

4.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

1.0

1star

M

3.0

3star

T

0.0

1star

MG

26.0

1star

D

14.4

4star

K

8.2

4star

HB

6.2

4star

M

6.4

5star

T

2.0

4star

MG

181.6

3star

tried hard but makes too many mistakes under pressure, and now that Weiters looks like missing a few weeks with concussion, the wiil have to take Weiters spot.

Derksen in his 1st game was ordinary, like a dear in the headlights, but must be given more time. North's outside runners just got on top in the final quarter, and their teamwork & desire to win was just too much for our players.

Hope the MC can get it correct next week against the Crows?

 

[Just Kreuzing]

Excuse the intrusion, but his 2 undisciplined acts resulting in down field free kicks were coach and club killers. Trying to be the big tough guy and those 2 goals were the difference in the end.

I also did not understand why Voss did not send McGovern to the backline when Weitering went down. He could have stopped some of those marks by the Kanga forwards.

1 undisciplined act, the first free was ****ing soft….

Him not finding enough of the ball & impacting positively is the biggest issue!

 

[bourbons]

Not a Carlton fan but a semi regular visitor and a friend.

You’re close lads and ladies. So close.
Weitering doesn’t get concussed you win.
Even three or four of those soft / non existent frees not being paid against you, you win.

Still. Voss doesn’t know how to close a game, so therefore your players don’t.

New coach and you’ll be right.

As always, look after each other Blues

Delusional imo (assuming you're actually serious), they're as bad as they've been for 10 or more years. Worse really, considering 10 years ago they had no talent at all on the list and now its clearly an ongoing mental component alongside deplorable skills. 80% of the list is non AFL standard complete garbage, including some of our supposed better players. Will Hayward 6 touches lol, Carlton'd already.

Took the young fella today, he asked on the way home "when will we have hope?", how sad is that. Didn't have the heart to tell him the truth - full rebuild alongside Tassie coming in and another decade in the wilderness incoming.

 

[bourbons]

Again

Its the only positive at the moment, free money you can set ya watch to this shit

 

[jj1978]

Special mention to Pitto... we need a new ruckman.

Lovely bloke pitto and tries hard for a bloke not all that talented but he couldn't even put their backups to the sword.

39 hitouts but we lost centre clearances. Only 11 disposals. 1 mark for the whole game. 2 extremely lucky free kicks for goals.

He'd be a great backup ruckman at any other club. He's our number 1. Needed him to stand up in that last quarter - he's got a huge physical advantage and he just had no impact.

He’s a Swifty.. nuff said.

 

[BluesByNature]

Delusional imo, they're as bad as they've been for 10 or more years. Worse really, considering 10 years ago they had no talent at all on the list and now its clearly an ongoing mental component alongside deplorable skills. 80% of the list is non AFL standard complete garbage, including some of our supposed better players.

Took the young fella today, he asked on the way home "when will we have hope?", how sad is that lol. Didn't have the heart to tell him the truth - full rebuild alongside Tassie coming in and another decade in the wilderness incoming.

Its rigged anyway! Collingwood, fill up to the brim wioth superstar father sons for nothing, Brisbane the same, gold coast academy players etc. Ours finally come along? Oh no sorry pay 2 first round pics for them and suffer.

We should take it all the way through the court system and lodge an injunction against the AFL, but wait right up until the day before the draft to do so

 

[Ninja Worrier]

We bid on Cochrane first, giving us a free end of 1st round pick on night 2 of the draft.

Then we draft Butler

Then we match the Cody bid which at worst will be pick 3. Sydney 1st + North 2nd will cover the majority of that with potentially a deficit into next year depending where they finish.

End result is, Butler + Walker + pick 19

Take that and run vs winning a couple of pointless games to finish 15th and paying a king's ransom to match a Walker bid at pick #1...

It's so not Carlton for things to fall this way....as I said watch us finish second bottom and pay a king's ransom for Cody

 

[thechamps2025]

Special mention to Pitto... we need a new ruckman.

Lovely bloke pitto and tries hard for a bloke not all that talented but he couldn't even put their backups to the sword.

39 hitouts but we lost centre clearances. Only 11 disposals. 1 mark for the whole game. 2 extremely lucky free kicks for goals.

He'd be a great backup ruckman at any other club. He's our number 1. Needed him to stand up in that last quarter - he's got a huge physical advantage and he just had no impact.

Not sure what game you watched. Was our best kicked 2 goals and won hit outs. Our midfield has always been a plight too slow and no footy iq in there,

 

[agro]

What a funny game football is – with the ball’s spheroid shape it’s such a topsy-turvy swings and roundabout type of game. You just never really know how that funny old ball is going to bounce.

So really its just a pointless exercise trying to apportion blame as to what happened out there today – I mean the umpires those bunch of scallywags you can’t really blame them as the evidence we can find for that is not really well tested. The boot studder not really their fault that players can’t keep their feet, the players all tried their best, they don’t deliberately set out to miss targets. Coaches, they are not deliberately strategizing for us to lose. Management and Corporate they certainly have the best interests of the club at heart.

So lets just put it down to one of those things, keep calm and carry on. And for those Carlton members and supporters heading over to Adelaide next week to support the boys my admiration, esteem, consideration and honour, goes out to you.

 

[thechamps2025]

This whole spin that we sack coaches… we gave Pagan 5 seasons, Ratten 5 (shouldn’t have been sacked), Bolton 4 and now Voss 5 and that’s sufficient. Mick and Teague were an absolute cluster faaaark and everyone knew they needed to be purged.

When you have players looking to want to be demoted to VFL then the coach is cooked. Instead of analysing the game this week the coaches need to sit and analyse themselves.

The key word used incorrectly is coaches. They don't coach anything they are game day managers that's it

 

[jj1978]

According to some, Wright knew he was terrible, so he kept him with the grand strategy of getting better draft picks.

Don’t buy it… mentioned this in the Voss thread but you don’t invest in a mentor, such an array of fresh assistants if that’s the case. Going by recent comms GW stating it was the list, so no wonder they look like they don’t GAF.

What does Voss do on the bench? Never see him instruct players, be of value sitting there. It’s like he knows he’s so useless on game day and passes the reigns to Hansen and co that he thinks he needs to look like he’s doing something.

 

[thechamps2025]

Yeah the Sydney game will be the template. 12 goal quarters against.

Bringing Cerra in had the exact effect we all thought it would. Made us even slower in the middle. Took midfield minutes away from Walsh and Jagga. Madness.

This is when it gets super frustrating - when literally every supporter can see this happening in advance yet Voss does it anyway.

He's not getting sacked because the players have let him down... blah blah. It's because he is legitimately the worst coach in the league.

He's not getting sacked as it would be a waste of money. They should say to him your not getting a contract and hope he resigns.

 

[allrighty]

The other 17 clubs must laugh at us.
Don’t worry , when the whips are cracking the Blues will show humility…**** that.
I want ruthlessness and arrogance to be put back into our psyche.
Enough of this new age woke bullshit

I come in peace. I don't think real supporters of the other clubs are laughing.

No one likes to see a slow motion train wreck in real life. Like most of you I guess I was in awe of Voss as a player.

Sadly as a coach he hasn't got it and he has needed to bust some arses, publicly so as someone posted above. But for some reason the corporate lingo is all he's got at pressers and the message is not being heard or even listened too anymore IMO.

I have many scars from past encounters with you guys, but don't think for a moment no-one else shares your pain.

 

[thechamps2025]

I dont understand why its not possible to rotate some players through the midfield. I dont think I have seen Ainsworth in there at all. Byrne, Boyd, the guy that holds the iced coffee sign. Just change it up for 5 minutes, try something...

That would require some form of plan b from voss

 

[bourbons]

The scary thing is Norf (and Melbourne) are pretty shit teams.

Looking forward to playing some actual top 4 sides…

This. A rare win would have been nice and all but if we had managed to stumble over the line it changes nothing.

Legit 2 to 4 win season with a few 100 point hidings, strap in

 

[juzza316]

That umpiring today was as bad as I could ever recall. A truly horrendously umpired game. there are no words for how crap that was.