{"id":583854,"date":"2026-04-03T23:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583854\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:50:13","slug":"afl-2026-carlton-fans-call-for-michael-voss-to-be-sacked-after-loss-to-north-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583854\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL 2026: Carlton fans call for Michael Voss to be sacked after loss to North Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may only be four weeks into the AFL season, but Carlton fans have simply had enough and want change.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues delivered the latest chapter in their second half fade-outs on Friday as they blew a 21-point fourth quarter lead against North Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports | <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/afl?pg=default&amp;extcamp=ncaeditoriallinkafl-edt-new-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=nca&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>North kicked the final five goals of the contest to secure the 10-point win with Blues fans left incensed and the pressure amplifying on coach Michael Voss.<\/p>\n<p>Through their opening four games of the season, the Blues have been outscored by 166 points in second halves.<\/p>\n<p>In an even more damning stat highlighted by the Herald Sun\u2019s Tim Michell, they have led for 383 minutes out of 492 \u2026 that\u2019s 78 per cent of game time that they have been in front.<\/p>\n<p>And yet they sit at 1-3 on the season with the only win coming courtesy of Richmond\u2019s Tom Lynch being horrifically inaccurate in front of goal. <\/p>\n<p>The fade-outs have left Blues fans up in arms and demanding heads to roll in order to save anything on the season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e6cc19b27c0055cf8c2aa608908df439.jpeg\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Dan Gorringe loses it after fresh Blues disaster\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Blues player turned media personality Dan Gorringe summed it up best for the fan base, posting a video of himself emotionally distressed in the shower shouting for the club to sack Voss and sack everbody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t keep going on. Please sack him, sack everyone,\u201d Gorringe said in the upload which you can view above.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/codeaflau\/status\/2039987679119770049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Code Sports <\/a>posted a video to social media talking to Blues fans as they streamed out of Marvel Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGot to be the worst Easter I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d one fan said.<\/p>\n<p>Another added: \u201cYou know what mate, cancel your membership. This is done. There\u2019s no point anymore. It\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlton post-game uploads on social media were met with a vast array of mixed emotions with plenty calling for Voss to be shown the door while others pinned the blame on the playing group.<\/p>\n<p>Carlton fan Daniel Barillaro wrote on X: \u201cI and all Carlton fans have done our best to believe and support. But this is genuinely ridiculous. We are the laughing stock of the league. Can\u2019t support this. Mentally it\u2019s broken. Emotionally it\u2019s sapped. Physically it\u2019s unrewarding. It\u2019s gotta change. Unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jared Ryan Masters wrote on Facebook: \u201cPress conference tonight announcing Voss sacking??\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carole Atkinson wrote: \u201cThe coach can only do so much, the players must take responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darren Quint posted: \u201cSwing the axe on half the team first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Ken Hussey echoed that sentiment by posting: \u201cSwing the axe at player level first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voss addressed the media following the third loss of the season and said the club\u2019s inability to \u201cmanage moments\u201d cost them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, coming out of half-time, the challenge was laid bare for us to be able to step it up a gear,\u201d Voss said in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly did that, our tackle rate was low (in the first half) \u2014 I think mainly because there were so many uncontested marks from both teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then to dial up the pressure in the third quarter and from that point on, I felt like \u2014 from quarter-time, to be fair \u2014 that looked like more of our game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have to manage minutes, and we have to manage moments. And we didn\u2019t, and they were good enough to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voss was then asked if it\u2019d become a mental thing for the players &#8211; being able to close out games &#8211; prompting the veteran mentor to pause for a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>He then said: \u201cI didn\u2019t suspect it was that way today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut (I) understand the query, probably in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when you look at the group, and you get to know your group pretty well, you can see how engaged they are and the detail in their roles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir intensity around the contest, ability to have composure in the game when it was needed, and I thought for large parts of the game there are a lot of gains to acknowledge in that area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we also can\u2019t walk past the fact that you\u2019re not finishing games. So, our ability to ice that game was from a really strong position, and we weren\u2019t able to do it. So, we\u2019ve just got to own that and go to work on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The club will get their chance to prove they aren\u2019t struggling with mental demons when they take on the Crows next Thursday at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Voss will be sitting in the coach\u2019s seat remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/sack-him-fans-turn-on-michael-voss-after-loss-to-north-melbourne\/news-story\/795eed239106efd2b967ade6fa396172\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Sack him\u2019: Fans turn on Michael Voss after loss to North Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may only be four weeks into the AFL season, but Carlton fans have simply had enough and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-583854","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583854","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=583854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}