“THERE’S no doubt that when we play as we did in the weekend, as players, we’ve got to put our hand up.”

Carlton leader Jacob Weitering is backing his teammates in to respond this Sunday at Marvel Stadium.

For his sixth straight season at IKON Park, Weitering and his Carlton side find themselves at 0-2 after two rounds, with the Blues to host the Dockers on Easter Sunday in search of its first win.

As attention and external noise has ramped up towards those inside the four walls, Weitering said the Blues needed to get back to their strengths and, quite simply, ‘get the job done’.

Speaking on SEN with Gerard Whateley, Weitering said it was up to the playing group to do what they needed to do come game time this weekend.

“We haven’t been able to get the job done and we put our hand up for that. Our defensive intent and the way we played on the weekend was not good enough,” Weitering said.

“We’re a very good contested side. It’s not something that we’ve been terrible at [this year], but it’s not something we’ve been very good at.

“We’ve got to be confident in our ability to play football. We’re 0-2 now, but we can certainly turn that around.”

The reigning John Nicholls Medallist, Weitering spoke strongly about his desire for team success and to not just have individual accolades to show for his career when it’s all said and done.

With a fortnight down in a 22-week season, Weitering was confident that the Blues had the personnel and the game plan to turn things around — but their destiny was only what they made of it.

“For me, you play team sport for a reason. Individual accolades certainly come along the way and I was incredibly proud and humbled to win the best and fairest — but we’ve been 0-2 for six years straight and that doesn’t register team success,” he said.

“At the end of my career, I don’t want to look at my best-and-fairest trophy and not have that team success. That’s the main goal for me,

“At the moment, it’s certainly frustrating that we’re not getting the job done. It’s a week-by-week process and the good thing about this year compared to last year is we’ve got another five games to get through.”

Speaking about the wash-up from IKON Park this week, Weitering said there was time for plenty of robust conversations — particularly given the 10-day break between matches.

“‘Teaguey’ is very demanding on us and he understands that we need a push in certain weeks, and this was one of them,” he said.

“There’s no doubt that we got a bit of a rev-up in the review on Monday and the boys responded in training on Tuesday.

“The one thing that I’ll say about ‘Teaguey’ is that his relationships with the players is stronger than ever. As a leadership group, we completely back him in to give us a game plan to perform each week.”