Perhaps even fourth if we're reasonably lucky with injuries.

My kids reckon top four, for sure.

Guy at work thinks we'll miss the eight, but my mum reckons we'll make the Grand Final.

All of these opinions hold exactly the same amount of weight as some bloke from the Herald Sun called Robbo, some bloke who played football 25 years ago, and some bloke who works as a journalist and sees four Carlton games a year but thinks that bloke Gartlett goes ok.

Your Mum told me we'd come 9th????

They must have us confused with Ninthmond.

I have Carlton pulling out some real surprises this year and finishing third. Optimistic? Maybe, but I believe it will be a big year, a huge year.

St Kilda and Collingwood will challenge again. Hawthorn is being over rated, I believe they have more gaps than the Blues. And the Doggies will be strong again.

1 Coll
2 StK
3 Carl
4 WB
5-17 Who cares

Your top 50 is usually pretty good John but I thought you had Luke O'Sullivan a bit high at 27.
Just my opinion though.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

First half of last season we were top 5, in the second half of the season we were bottom 5. Who knows where we'll finish?

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"We used to sit around and talk about how bad the game plan was." Anthony Koutoufides

Do you know I was speaking to a friend of a sister of a cousin's uncle's nephew's picture on the wall with ice melted on the floor and a fish gasping 'Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo' while sawing a table in half to create a hole so James Hird could get his head onto the ground

and she told me

we'd finish somewhere between last and first

though not necessarily in that order.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

I am hoping top four

BMjnr just wants us to win a final

My ex who barracks for Carlton is confused. She wants Carlton to win a premiership but because she hates me want us to win a wooden spoon cause she knows it will make me miserable

And the guy at the Gym still thinks I barrack for Collingwood

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" -Winston Churchill

L.M 35-06

My dad just wants to see us play a final in Melbourne for the first time in years and doesn't care where in the 8 we finish as long as we play in September in Melbourne.

I want us to make the preliminary and think we should finish 6th.

Great thread John.

The 'new social media' is steadily stripping down the credibility and influence of the less than thorough 'journalist'.

It's amazing how far humankind has come from the old days of simply swallowing what we were told by the old media.

I think we'll finish 6th!

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I support the Navy Blues whatever happens!

The AFL captains seem to think we'll make the 8 ... just.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/a ... 6023268538

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In relation to the Brownlow I think Chris Judd voted for Marc Murphy and the rest of the Captains are idiots.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

We have a very easy draw...natural improvement alone should ensure we finish high up in the eight....

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"Truth, for the tyrants, is the most terrible and cruel of all bindings; it is like an incandescent iron falling across their chests. And it is even more agonizing than hot iron, for that only burns the flesh, while truth burns its way into the soul"     — Lauro Aguirre

John M pfft !!! Another hack journo who doesn't know footy. When was the last time he watched us play ??

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Scott, things aren't as happy as they used to be down here at the unemployment office. Joblessness is no longer just for Philosophy majors - useful people are starting to feel the pinch.

Catch JohnM on Sports Today Tuesday and Thursday, on the Run home with Francis and Ox on Monday and Wednesday, on AFL 360 on Foxtel on Wednesday night, on On The Couch when Mike is crook, on 3AW pre Game saturday, and on Triple M Pre Game sunday.

And out the the front of the G suckin down a durry every quarter, half and 3/4 time break...

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Congratulations CK95

Wait till you see my Top 50. I'm going to put either Dayne Beams or Steele Sidebottom in the top 10, to generate debate and clicks.