What really needs to change at Carlton along with the coach is the culture. We need a coach whos gonna come in and instil the right attitude for players to follow. Tough and uncomprimising. Someone not afraid to weild the axe. Someone who demands excellence and wont settle for anything less.
Brett Kirk could be this man. Stewy Dew could be this man. Leigh Tudor could be this man.
What Mick has done is created the following:
Because of his refusal to drop any of the established players no matter how poor their form is, he has focused all our omission changes between our fringe players and our young and up and coming players.
He has created an atmosphere where our fringe players and our young players are being rotated in and out of the team on just a week's performance, sometimes just even 15 minute performances as happened with Graham last match.
This results in the above players being concerned about worrying about only about their own performance against their direct opponent to the detriment of the entire team.
Look at White yesterday, he was not even a metre from Cameron but had no intention of tackling him, instead he ran straight past Cameron to focus on his own man which left Cameron the space to snap a gaol. The reason he did this was because White was trying to save his own skin, as long as its not his own man that kicked the goal, then he wouldn't be in the firing line to be dropped the week after.
MM needs to tell sit these players down and tell them that they will get a run of 6 or so games in a row and won't be dropped no matter how badly they perform. At least this will free up these players to do the team things without worrying that they will be punished for leaving their direct opponent to help out team mate.