‘He’s a great mentor’: Cripps’ backs Voss as coach laments lack of fight in Port thumping
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‘Didn’t come with an appetite’: Voss laments lack of fight Carlton coach Michael Voss was left to lament the Blues’ lacklustre start against Port Adelaide as they suffered a humiliating 50-point loss with the heat rising on the embattled coach.
The Blues’ alarming lack of early fight will trigger fresh debate about the coach’s contract after Port booted the initial eight goals of a lopsided encounter.
“We just didn’t come with an appetite to the contest,” Voss said.
“What I feel right now as a leader is, I feel really disappointed for our people – we feel like we’re creating a great environment, but we’re not getting the results we’re after.
“We’re enormously disappointed … but it’s time to come together, not isolate.”
Asked specifically if he was the right man for the job, Voss said he was in “no doubt” about what the club’s current set-up was capable of achieving.
“When you look at a body of work … when you look at sort of the results and the shift we’ve had in our game style this year, there’s been a genuine shift in our numbers, and in a really good way,” Voss said.
Carlton coach Michael Voss. Credit: AFL Photos
“We were 14th for forward of centres last year. We’re now third.
“I could rattle off a lot of [numbers]. Clearance wise, we score. We don’t get scored against [at] the stoppages.
“Yet [with] all those things [measurements] today, we weren’t able to stop. They scored from stoppages. We gave away marks. We couldn’t build a contest and the pressure around the ball, so we had to find other ways to be able to try and score.
“But that doesn’t leave me in any doubt, any doubt whatsoever, about what we’re trying to create here.”
The Blues boss also launched an impassioned defence of Charlie Curnow after the forward had a return of 0.3 in the heavy defeat.
Voss had no problem with the output of Curnow, who was the key target in the forward line with Harry McKay missing.
“I thought Charlie competed really hard today,” Voss said.
“I thought he competed really hard today. He has had some form struggles, and I understand he’s probably copped some attention because of it but, I tel
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