SENIOR Coach Michael Voss doesn’t believe the turning of the tide is too far away for Carlton. 

Referencing their poor performance in recent weeks, Voss said that he has seen a group - both players and staff - committed to working through a tough moment and seeing the other side.

Consistency in execution and tidying up their conversion were among the features of Carlton's game which Voss said the Blues would need to focus on as Friday night's clash with Melbourne fast approaches.

“We just have to keep going into depth around our game plan,” Voss said. 

“We need to be able to execute for longer – there’s still some things we need to clean up in our game to take the next step. 

“We’ve been up against some really good opposition so that’s tested a few phases of our game and it hasn’t all quite come together, but we’ve certainly made some steady progress, and we want to make a bit more progress tomorrow.” 

Carlton's output on the scoreboard has been among its concerns in recent weeks, with key forward Harry McKay addresses his own conversion on the Ben and Harry Podcast.

Backing in his player, Voss said he was impressed with McKay's openness and honesty.

“It speaks more to his vulnerability – the fact that he’s in a space to feel safe enough to share that, I think it takes an enormous amount of courage to do that,” he said. 

“I was pleased that Harry felt comfortable enough to share his vulnerabilities, because I don’t think we see the human side of players often enough.” 

With Patrick Cripps taking to his Instagram earlier in the week after misinformation, Voss was adamant that the Club needs to stay united and connected with one another behind the four walls.

It's something he believes the football department has done and will continue to do.

“We will continue to support our people,” he said. 

“We should stand our ground as a club as well. We feel like we’re building a strong culture here: we’ve spent a lot of time on our leadership, a lot of time in our coaching structures, the way we want to play – we’re going after it pretty hard. 

“Performance isn’t where we want it to be, but that doesn’t mean we’re not making progress in a lot of other areas.” 

Coming up against a top-four side in Melbourne, Tom De Koning will shoulder the majority of the ruck load - in the absence of Marc Pittonet - in taking on the duo of Max Gawn and Brodie Grundy.

Voss said, suitably supported by Jack Silvagni, that De Koning would be up for the task.

“[Melbourne’s] two rucks have been a really significant difference at their respective clubs – Grundy is an unbelievable ruckman and Gawn speaks for himself,” he said.  

“Tom [De Koning] is up for it, he can’t wait for the night and we just have to support him as best as we can. 

“With ‘Pitto’ being out for a couple of weeks, it’s not foreign to him so he’ll be able to do that for us –  obviously 'SOS' has done that role as well so he’ll be well supported.”