\n Jacob Weitering says that the best way for the Blues to move forward from a disappointing 2025 is \u201cabsolute alignment\u201d.\n <\/p>\n
\n By Cristian Filippo, Carlton Media\n <\/p>\n
IT WAS the comment on SEN from Jacob Weitering which pricked the ears of his skipper, Patrick Cripps.<\/p>\n
Speaking in the final week of the season, Weitering said that the best way – the only way – for the Blues to move forward from a disappointing and frustrating 2025 was \u201cabsolute alignment\u201d.<\/p>\n
He doubled down on those comments when two of the Blues\u2019 senior leaders sat down to chat about the year that was for Carlton Media.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a playing group, we\u2019ve got to be all in,\u201d Weitering said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can only speak for the playing group. As a player and as a leader, you want to feel connected, you want to feel safe and you want to feel trusted. Trust is bloody hard to build, and it\u2019s very easy to lose.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to be pulling in the right direction. We\u2019ve got to have alignment – absolute alignment – on where we want to go and what our purpose is.\u201d<\/p>\n
After two years of finals football, the Blues will once again be watching on when the competition\u2019s best teams compete in September for the ultimate prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For captain Cripps, that hurts. And he wants his playing group and Club as a whole to \u201cembrace that [expectation] – and not be suffocated by it\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the raw and honest things. That\u2019s Club-wide,\u201d Cripps said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to learn to deal with and enjoy the noise, because if you harness it the right way, even moments like the last quarter against Gold Coast, it\u2019s addicting. If you harness it the wrong way, you get a lot of players low on confidence and overthink.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more we talk about expectation, normalise it and realise we\u2019re a footy club\u2026 we come in with the right energy, build the right habits, have the right standards – that\u2019s when we\u2019re going to be at our best. I feel like that\u2019s really clear moving forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the challenge, but that\u2019s also the excitement I see. If we get that right, there\u2019s a powerful beast behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Weitering says that the best way for the Blues to move forward from a disappointing 2025 is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-110464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}