Blues try something different, but end up with same sad result

April 10, 2026 — 8:41am

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Carlton changed a few things, except the outcome.

This was Carlton doing things differently but also the same. They were trying to play differently, or altering the mix of players, but the sameness was in the outcome.

Michael Voss at least demonstrated this week he was prepared to try something different. The decision to drop George Hewett was considered surprising given he won the best and fairest last year. But it shouldn’t have been a surprise.

You cannot keep losing, and keep losing the same way, and not change things. The Blues could not go back to a midfield mix of Paddy Cripps, Adam Cerra and George Hewett when it had not been working, and it was becoming clear the game was going in another direction.

Hewett was the casualty of the Blues’ need to change that mix.

Cripps was on the bench at the start of the second quarter when Adelaide split the game open in a nine-minute burst. But the skipper has also been........

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