Carlton coach Michael Voss is having not one of the idea Friday night time’s blockbuster conflict with Collingwood looms as a make-or-break second within the Blues’ AFL season.
On a five-game profitable streak, Carlton can take one other vital step in direction of a breakthrough finals look with an upset of their conventional rivals on the MCG.
Equally, a loss might be an enormous blow to the Blues’ top-eight probabilities.
“We’re not building it up as that moment, that’s for sure,” Voss stated.
“We’ve got another game against a really good opposition and we want to put out our best.
“We’re fairly clear on what we want to have the ability to do and the roles that we want to have the ability to fill and the type of footy that is going to get us the win.
“What you make of it, you can write about it … but it’s (nothing more than) an important moment for us to be able to play against a really good opposition.”
A crowd of as much as 90,000 has been tipped for the competition – a chosen Collingwood house sport – as Carlton search their first win over the Magpies in Voss’s tenure as coach.
The sense of event isn’t misplaced on Voss, who was a boyhood Carlton fan earlier than forging his identify as a star participant and premiership-winning captain in Brisbane.
“(Collingwood) is an arch-rival for our football club, so we understand the night and the occasion, but we can’t play the occasion,” Voss stated.
“We’ve got to make sure that we get after the game itself. We’re just looking forward to it. We’re really excited.”
Voss is in search of to steer Carlton to their first finals look since 2013.
Collingwood ruined the Blues’ finals probabilities final yr with a well-known one-point comeback win within the final spherical of the home-and-away season.
“Some of the noises at the end of last year were some of the loudest I’ve ever heard,” Voss stated.
“Just to be able to be in that environment often and to get that exposure to these particular games … they do take on that little bit of extra meaning.
“We’re definitely conscious of what is in entrance of us and the rivalry that exists.”
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