Ok, let's use your theory...

Collingwood's injury list is bigger than ours... didn't stop them making us look foolish

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i think its our only choice ... we just simply cant replace another coach. it hasnt worked and it wont work this time.

Assitants need to be reviewed
Recruiting needs to be reviewed

I enjoy going to the MCG home games, same group of people for years so you start to get to know them ... talk about the game, talk about the club etc...

the theme was pretty consistent last night ... it has gone from Voss is done, to ... you know what, i dont think he has the cattle, voss cant kick it for them, voss cant make the on-field decision for them.

honestly, i think this falls on the players, and the recruitment of said players.

we just haven't got the return from any of our "recruits" .. not even close. look at the recruitment of all sides around us at the end of the year, they all got better, they all got players to suit their needs ... we got jagga.

we lost jagga, we lost newman, before a ball was bounced, so whilst every other side has recruited and improved, we started the season in deficit. is it really any surprise we have fallen away?

recruitment is key
development is key

and even then, its not 100% it equates to a premeriship, but you know what, without it, you have no hope. we could have the best coach to ever exist in the AFL, and i dont think it would matter with the way we turn the ball over.

Fair enough, agree with all the above.

I think you’re missing the point, our total list lacks depth so eight out all out.

Collingwood’s list does have depth so they can cope with many more injuries than we can.

I watched the Youtube channel Blue Abroad last night. Terry who hosts it brought up something similar. Said to have a good year we rely on our top 6 players to play well. These being Cripps, TDK, Walsh, Charlie, McKay and Docherty. Cripps has had a very ordinary year. Walsh and McKay have not played much due to injury and personal stuff. Charlie is playing like he doesn't give a stuff. TDK is playing with a massive weight on his shoulders and now likes he just wants to year over and Docherty is finished sadly.
When your best players are all struggling at the same time it is any wonder we are struggling as a team. Having said that the gameplan Voss wants is too taxing and has taken a toll on the group.

If Docherty is one of our top six then Voss deserves an OBE for keeping us above West Coast

By the way, I find this idea of "dependence on the top six" being some trap that only Carlton would fall into kind of unconvincing. If Naicos, Jaicos, Moore, Cameron, Elliott and Pendlebury were unavailable or serving up turds every week, where would Collingwood be? Probably better than us right now, but also nowhere near their current level, either. We haven't even mentioned Newman or E.Hollands, the former most definitely more of a top six player than Doc, the latter arguably in our top 8 on talent and importance. So add Sidebottom and, I dunno, Mihocek to the list of turd-servers. Reckon they'd be facing an uphill battle to make finals in that scenario. It's not just the length of the injury list, it's the stature and strategic importance or uniqueness of the names on the list. Closest parallel is Essendon* when they lost everyone over 6'2"... hey presto, they get smashed every week.

My bad, the other was Weitering not Docherty.
Weitering has had an okay year but not as good as his previous ones.

Like X said, it's who is injured rather than how many...

Pies depth players go ok playing their roles... they even have the luxury of resting 5 of the best v Freo away and still getting the job done... how would they go under Voss' bomb, bomb, bomb system? who knows...

Remember two years ago we had great depth, we were winning, Carlton supporters were happy... this year prior to round 1, with this list, some even predicted a top 4 finish, only to now have changed their tune. 2 years ago mad skillz... today no skills?

I'll give the coaches some credit as they identified that we can't go forward playing the way we did, so they tweaked things a bit and it worked to address a weakness, unfortunately it's created another weakness. We're better defensively but now struggle to kick a winning score. It's created uncertainty and confusion.

The game plan is unsustainable for this group...

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Two years ago we had depth of middle aged players, but the depth players were too injury prone in the long run, so we got rid of them and replaced them with a bunch of youngsters. So we now have no depth. A dumbbell list with a big hole in the middle age bracket.

Not sure you can classify players that can't get on the park due to chronic injuries as depth... on paper maybe

What we did do is trade away scapegoats like Fisher, Dow and to a lesser extent, Owies...

Kennedy would've been handy this year... but he had poor skills... but not at the Dogs

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