Carlton’s depressing six-game dropping streak is over after obliterating a disappointing Gold Coast by 59 factors on the MCG to ease strain on coach Michael Voss.
The Blues got here to a life with a unprecedented 9.3 to 0.3 second quarter to blow Sunday’s match huge open with half-hour of energy.
After conceding the primary two targets of the match, Carlton slammed by way of the subsequent 12 in a efficiency extra paying homage to their 8-2 begin to the 2022 season quite than this 12 months’s disappointing marketing campaign.
The Blues’ run of unanswered targets was their most in a row for 25 years as they cruised to a 18.12 (120) to eight.13 (61) victory after the Suns largely held their very own after halftime.
But the harm was performed throughout a devastating interval of dominance throughout the second quarter, with the 54-point margin the second biggest by any time period this season after Geelong hammered Hawthorn 10.5 to 0.0 on Easter Monday.
They had misplaced their previous six matches and eight of their previous 9, irritating the membership’s giant supporter base that had goals of ending their 10-year finals drought.
Unlike latest weeks when the Blues have been booed, supporters gave their group a standing ovation as gamers walked off the MCG at halftime and cheered as Carlton scored 100 factors for simply the third time this season.
Carlton’s under-fire midfield lifted, with out-of-contract tall Tom De Koning firing within the ruck and permitting Brownlow medallist Patrick Cripps, Sam Walsh and Adam Cerra to dominate the Suns’ younger brigade of Matt Rowell and Noah Anderson.
In his one hundredth recreation, Harry McKay completed with a game-high three majors in a confidence increase for the 2021 Coleman medallist who has skilled some psychological demons kicking for purpose this 12 months.
As good as Carlton had been, Gold Coast’s lack of workrate within the second quarter was an enormous concern for a group with ambitions of taking part in finals for the primary time of their 13-year existence.
The Suns notched up spectacular wins in Darwin towards finals contenders Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs.
But the bye got here on the improper time for Gold Coast, placing of their worst efficiency of the season when a victory would have catapulted them into the highest eight.
The Blues’ bye developing can be rather more pleasing after a badly wanted victory, earlier than going through Hawthorn on the MCG in spherical 16.
Meanwhile, Gold Coast (6-7) have a season-defining fortnight again at Heritage Bank Stadium forward with residence video games towards Hawthorn and premiership favourites Collingwood to return.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
