At least one Carlton premiership player I spoke to believes the Blues should be ready to peak three years from now. He doesn't want them to fully hit their straps any earlier. Why?

Jarrad Waite has developed as a tall defender and gets fine support from Brett Thornton and Michael Jamison.

Melvey. melvey, Melvey, a positive article suddenly turns into quicksand - how do you get out of bed in the morning?

Who wrote the article? The Journo's name didn't come up.

Defensively the Blues have improved out of sight. Last year the average score kicked against them was a whopping 132 points a game. Now it is 104, which is just six points above the average.

QFT- fair dinkum, Melvey, how can you say you have Carlton's best interests at heart when you are so pessimistic about, what three players turning 29 next year (as a matter of fact, it's only two but who's quibbling!). To me, that's a good sign of a team having maturity at the top end,as well as the bottom end. It also means we're one step closer to #17......bring it on!

but we must move Banno on,

Bannister is holding us back from being a top side when he will provide depth and breathing space for Grigg and Bower to develop an AFL sized body.

The day Carlton makes a finals appearance I reckon Melvey is going to neck himself...

...or jump onto TC and try to rationalize how playing finals is a disaster in the making, and it's never going to work, and we need another 15 years down the bottom.

Then again, I know that the only reason he posts this bullshit is because people jump at him and scoff about how neagtive he is. It's all about the attention, isn't it Melvs?

I need no attention. I don't accept mediocrity and am the harshest of critics as i only want the best.

I think to many of our supporters have some little love affair going on with some of our players and have deluded thoughts of there playing abilities. take off those rose coloured glasses

I will be honest and say i would disappointed if we don't make finals next year.

I don't think you realise just how hard it is to win a premiership and if Ratts and co mean business, tough decision have to be made.

People bang on about our super midfield and our 3 number one draft pics and all of a sudden there is this expectation on us. Just the like the Saints who failed miserably as they didn't get he support act right.

3 number one draft picks don't win you a premiership buddy.

Fair enough. I had already seen your point, and without saying so I was already in agreeance that our main concern should be that we don't end up like St Kilda - all potential and expectation, and no delivery on the goods...

I don't sugar coat our team and individual players - but I know that a lot do on here and through inflated ideas of different players worth some tend to get defended to the death. Example of this is that as a whole on TC, there are only 2, possibly 3 players who we unanimously agree should be shafted at the end of the year (we know who they are) - different posters will defend the rest, even the lousy ones on basis of potential and the fact that they are wearing navy blue...


All I'm really trying to say though is that if almost.every.single.post wasn't so negative in it's prose, other posters would be noticing you making some good points (and i know you make a fair few) - rather that giving you shit for being negative.

And the fact that is so constant despite the disdain for other posters, could suggest that this poster backlash is exactly the reason why you do it in the first place.

I'd like to be wrong though!