{"id":537025,"date":"2026-03-13T04:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:31:11","slug":"carlton-blues-analysis-after-win-vs-richmond-tigers-patrick-cripps-admission-video-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537025\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlton Blues analysis after win vs Richmond Tigers, Patrick Cripps admission, video, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

A post-game admission from Patrick Cripps in a nutshell encapsulated the Blues\u2019 maiden win of the season<\/a> – which didn\u2019t feel awfully victory-like. <\/p>\n

And a three-time premiership star believes a \u201cmassive\u201d worry remains as Carlton continues to battle second-half demons.<\/p>\n

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Carlton survived a late Richmond storm at the MCG on Thursday night to officially rebound from last week\u2019s collapse in the Harbour City, but again it was a hard watch for the navy blue faithful. <\/p>\n

Carlton had the game on its terms in the first half, igniting an exciting high-handball brand that led to several threatening scoring opportunities – and giving cause for hope in a similar fashion to last week. <\/p>\n

But like in Opening Round, that brand couldn\u2019t be sustained – and really, the difference was simply that Sydney mercilessly punished the Blues, and Richmond – and Tom Lynch – didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

And signing off from a post-match interview with SEN radio, Cripps – in a concession – put it simply but adequately. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to say one last thing \u2026 (it\u2019s) so important as a club we stay together. This year\u2019s not going to be smooth sailing, but the most important thing is you ignite together,\u201d he said late on Thursday night. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen things don\u2019t go your way, you stick together – but when the good times come, let\u2019s enjoy them together.\u201d<\/p>\n

“We were targeted all week” | 09:08<\/p>\n

The outright acknowledgement that progress will be far from linear this year is stark, even if most already predicted that to be the case. <\/p>\n

And triple premiership forward Jack Riewoldt, who called the game for Fox Footy on Thursday night, believes the key issue remains between the ears. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s real \u2026 I think there is a massive mental load on Carlton,\u201d Riewoldt told Foxfooty.com.au on Friday. <\/p>\n

\u201cConsistently, they\u2019ve proven to themselves that they get a bit of the wobbles. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you\u2019ve only got to rewind back a week, and even a year to the Richmond game in Round 1 last year to know that they wobble \u2026 and you take a Tom Lynch worst masterclass in goalkicking of all time, and it probably saved Carlton in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Blues had almost as many missed chances as Richmond, repeatedly squandering opportunities to put the result beyond doubt earlier in proceedings. <\/p>\n

Yet Carlton and Voss will continue to look inward for an explanation as to why they can\u2019t close out games stronger – despite showing the \u201cfight\u201d that the coach alluded to in his press conference<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey (the Blues) had their opportunities – Lachie Fogarty could\u2019ve put the game to bed if he\u2019d kicked that goal a minute into the second half (which would have made the margin 33 points),\u201d Riewoldt continued. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a few things I think Carlton got wrong on the night, and Michael Voss has obviously addressed the elephant in the room – that they need to fix what\u2019s going wrong in the second halves of games. <\/p>\n

“I’m not here to be pushed around” | 02:15<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be the big watch for everyone until they can actually show that they can consistently perform post that half-time break – I\u2019ve got no doubt they\u2019re racking their brains potentially on who starts on the ground, what warm-ups they do, the psyche, the mental load, all that sort of stuff. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, they just don\u2019t have the answers, and they were probably lucky that Richmond didn\u2019t run over the top of them again last night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlton recorded 16 fewer inside-50s than the Tigers, with Richmond going at 43 per cent scoring efficiency from 60 entries. The Blues\u2019 44 entries were almost 10 fewer than their 2025 season average. <\/p>\n

And despite dominating at centre ball-ups early, they wound up losing the centre clearance count. <\/p>\n

The Blues managed one goal after half-time and looked largely incapable of getting anything going forward of the ball until Will Hayward found Zac Williams for his decisive set-shot goal at the 20-minute mark of the final term. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m literally stunned with what we saw play out in the second half,\u201d Hall of Fame Legend Jason Dunstall said on Fox Footy in the post-match. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw them stop in the second half last week, the Blues. They stopped again (on Thursday night), there was no run. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo kick one goal in a half of football, and hang on and win a game, it\u2019s just that the opposition weren\u2019t good enough to execute when they had their opportunities, to actually get the game done.<\/p>\n

‘Not up to scratch’ Yze’s blunt verdict | 08:54<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m flabbergasted that they hung on. I felt nervous for the Blues all the way through that second half, because you could tell what was happening. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in the end, I felt sorry for the Tigers, because they probably deserved to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saints great and First Crack analyst Leigh Montagna added: \u201cA win\u2019s a win, and that is all Carlton was after – but it probably was one of the least convincing wins I\u2019ve seen, the way that they completely stopped in the second half. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey should have put that game to bed, Richmond, in those third and fourth quarters, with all the looks they had.<\/p>\n

And two-time flag-winner David King, who\u2019d noted the simple difference between winning and losing was all that mattered for Voss after a trying week, acknowledged the Blues\u2019 inability to maintain momentum for a whole match. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey can\u2019t sustain the way they want to play. Right now, that\u2019s the challenge,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cDo you continue on? Of course you do. (But) they\u2019re going to have some of those problems along the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A post-game admission from Patrick Cripps in a nutshell encapsulated the Blues\u2019 maiden win of the season –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,266298,3239,147189,266300,1818,266297,266295,7483,2105,2536,3231,1823,33693,266299,3465,70785,647,46214,3257,677,7800,266301,145954,668,672,108340,12166,62647,85,266294,12120,660,266296],"class_list":["post-537025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-blues-win","tag-carlton-blues","tag-centre-ball-ups","tag-centre-clearance-count","tag-david-king","tag-decisive-set-shot-goal","tag-exciting-high-handball-brand","tag-final-term","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-harry-dean","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-jack-riewoldt","tag-james-wiltshire","tag-least-convincing-wins","tag-leigh-montagna","tag-maiden-win","tag-melbourne","tag-mental-load","tag-michael-voss","tag-oceania","tag-patrick-cripps","tag-post-game-admission","tag-post-match-interview","tag-press-conference","tag-richmond-tigers","tag-scoring-efficiency","tag-season-average","tag-sides-loss","tag-sports","tag-threatening-scoring-opportunities","tag-tom-lynch","tag-victoria","tag-zac-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537025","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=537025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}