{"id":645184,"date":"2026-05-02T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645184\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:44:13","slug":"michael-voss-press-conference-after-carlton-loss-to-st-kilda-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645184\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Voss press conference after Carlton loss to St Kilda, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under-fire Carlton coach Michael Voss says his side needs to be \u201cfar more defensively stronger\u201d following a disappointing 39-point loss to St Kilda<\/a> at Marvel Stadium on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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The Blues were broken open in a rampaging third term.<\/p>\n

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After holding a 19-point lead late in the second term, the 1-7 Blues conceded nine consecutive goals to fall to a five-goal deficit at three-quarter time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is that defensively we haven\u2019t been strong enough this year,\u201d Voss said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are just getting scored against too much.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have got to be far more defensively stronger than what we currently are against any side.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when a side presses, stand up. And we are currently not doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Blues lost clearance 24-34 and were beaten 11-16 in centre clearances.<\/p>\n

Voss was clear that his midfield was outplayed, with the Herald Sun\u2019s Chief Football Writer declaring on Fox Footy it was the most \u201cblunt\u201d and \u201cfrustrated he has seen\u201d the Blues coach this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeaten,\u201d Voss clearly stated in response to a question on how he saw his midfielders.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t think we need to beat around the bush, we were beaten.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were beaten all over the ground, we lost valuable clearance, which is valuable territory and that\u2019s a strong part of our game that clearly we didn\u2019t get in order tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo again, in small patches, not long enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In an intense press conference, Voss was particularly disappointed in his side\u2019s lack of execution across four quarters.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur ability to be able to do it for a longer period of time is not at the level that it needs to be at,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the game is against you, you need to defend and you need to fight and we are not doing it well enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t be any clearer than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blues defender Harry Dean was ruled out of the game with a suspected groin injury. Young midfielder Lachie Cowan passed his concussion tests.<\/p>\n

Voss said star defender Jacob Weitering was \u201cokay\u201d and was dealing with a corky.<\/p>\n

The Blues take on Brisbane at the Gabba next Friday before returning home to face the Western Bulldogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under-fire Carlton coach Michael Voss says his side needs to be \u201cfar more defensively stronger\u201d following a disappointing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-645184","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\/645184","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=645184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}