CARLTON coach Brett Ratten took a leaf out of his club's membership manual in engineering Saturday night's 74-point thrashing of Essendon.

'No Passengers' is the Blues' membership slogan for the 2011 season and Ratten was determined to ensure there were no freeloaders in the 22 that took to the MCG to face the Bombers after three losses in the past month.    

"We needed to make sure that no one was jumping on the bus and not paying for their ticket," Ratten said.

"We'd had some really good performances from individuals [in the past month], but collectively we hadn't been as unified in our output.

"We had some good players … who had played a bit spasmodically and we hadn't had this sort of collective output with 15 or 16 contributors to the team let alone 22.

"We wanted to make sure that we weren't carrying too many passengers."

Despite the final margin, Ratten was unhappy with certain defensive aspects of his team's first-half performance and adjusted accordingly. The result was eight unanswered goals in the third term that delivered the Blues their eleventh win of the season.

Ratten was warm in his praise of the outstanding performance of Chris Judd who kicked a goal and had seven score assists in the best-on-ground display.

He was also suitably impressed by the aerial feats of Andrew Walker who took a mark for the ages in the final term.

"That's the biggest mark I've ever seen," he said.

"I said to him at half-time, 'Stay on the ground a bit more', because I thought he was flying at everything and he sort of looked at me when he came off and said, 'Is that OK?' I told him it was [all right].

"It was like he was up there forever. It was an amazing mark."

Eddie Betts kicked eight goals, including a stunning right-foot snap, in a forward line that roared back to life after successive poor returns against the Western Bulldogs and Collingwood.

"I don't think he'd ever kicked over five goals in a game, but now he's got eight. It's good for him to get into some good touch," Ratten said.

"Forward of centre, we've probably been a bit stagnant in the last month. We hadn't really run as hard as we could.

"Run creates chaos [for opposition teams] and everything opens up, but we've been stagnant in the last month, so it was really good to get our forwards really moving into that space."

Matthew Kreuzer was also a key cog in the Blues' attacking machine. Seven matches in to his return from a knee reconstruction, the 22-year-old sent a scare through the Carlton camp when he appeared to jar the joint, but Ratten gave him a clean bill of health after the match.