1. 2020 Recap
What could have been? Carlton had their finals hopes in their own hands before losing key games in the second half of the season and missing out on a maiden finals appearance since 2013.
The Blues showed genuine improvement last year and were much more competitive then they had been in past seasons. Other than their loss to Adelaide they were very competitive in most matches they played and may well have made finals had they been able to prevent multiple runs of 5+ goals against.
Those runs cost the Blues on far too many occasions. In nine of their 17 games the Blues conceded a run of five goals or more, and while they were able to win some of those games, most of those runs turned out to be the difference between winning and losing.
A season of close but not close enough for the Blues.
