Over the past 4 years, Charlie has averaged just under 60 goals per season (58.5). If we've seen his best, I'm more than happy with it.
He had zero pre-season, no warm up games and then had to carry the forward line one-out for the season. Yet he still averaged 11.8 disposals, 6 marks and kicked 32 goals from 18 games. Off a significantly reduced fitness base. Yes Harry is a flake but you don't throw out the bloke who carried our forward line for the season because he struggled to take up Harry's slack.

I think people forget what an athletic freak Charlie is. He's shorter than Patrick Cripps. Yet we expected him this year to beat 2 or 3 key defenders per game who are on average, bigger, heavier and stronger than him.
Get him some support, some midfield talent to deliver the ball and he'll be as good as anyone.
This years Coleman medallist is 32. The bloke who came third is 33. There's no reason we can't get another 5 or 6 years out of Charlie. He's averaged just under 22 games per season the past 4 years so suggesting his body is worn out is unfounded IMO.

I'm interested who we play as a key forward if we ship them both out. Harry Lemmey? The bloke can't get a kick in the VFL.
It's pointless building a strong midfield to watch the ball coming back over their heads faster than it goes in there.
If you want picks, trade the flaky forward. Not the bloke carrying him.
Or ask the captain if he wants to head back to WA.
That's our biggest deficiency. Countering the opposition scoring when we turn it over with an inconsistent, unskilled, unaccountable midfield.

You don't take away a strength to bolster a weakness. You remove the weakness and replace it.

Agree with Bluevain here.

What made Adelaide so imposing this year in part was their three big marking forwards. That Thilthorpe is great. Would they trade out one of the cogs? No.

You need at least two power big forwards. You don't get rid of Paul McCartney out of the Beatles & replace him with Charlie Watts on the drums. Whose gonna write your songs? Ringo?

Tom Morris
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Charlie Curnow had his exit meeting at @CarltonFC
today. He raised the prospect of a trade but it was immediately shut down.

Got My Mind Set On You is the worst song ever written though. We are not trading in George Harrison

From Wikipedia:

Got My Mind Set on You" (also written as "(Got My Mind) Set on You") is a song written and composed by Rudy Clark and originally recorded by James Ray in 1962, under the title "I've Got My Mind Set on You". An edited version of the song was released later in the year as a single on Dynamic Sound Records credited to Ray with Hutch Davie Orchestra & Chorus. The song features a variety of instruments, including a Chinese lute, but it is uncertain whether Ray or the orchestra played the lute. In 1987, George Harrison released a cover version of the song on his eleventh studio album Cloud Nine, which he had recorded on his Dark Horse Records label.

Lemmey, Fantasia and Cincotta delisted

Geez Lemmey was a bust then.

Shame about Cinc. He played some good roles in his time with us.

Now's the time to, at the very least, get rid of one.

Why do Carlton supporters rate them so highly? (Please don't respond with Norm Smith Medals. That's not going to happen again. They've peaked...and deep down you all know it).

If the Swans offer us pick #2 and a future 1st for Charlie then we should take it IMO.

We cant even sign a free agent now. That sucks.