Voss and Austin need to be gone it’s their list I have no confidence in either of them to many poor decisions in who they recruit and still can’t work out why they let Kennedy go he was coming in to he’s prime but instead Voss wanted him gone told him no spot in our midfield but yet he is playing midfield with probably one of the better midfield group in the AFL in hindsight Cripps and Hewitt should have been offered to other clubs both into their 30

And that might be what defines Carlton's impending Voss decision.

The personnel has changed so much – Sunday's defeat featured seven players who didn't kick a ball for the Blues last season and a further five who played 10 games or less – and yet the side's identity has barely changed.

Fast start, slowed, then completely overrun. The same Carlton.

"I don't know what it looked like today, but it feels like we tend to go safe in those moments and we don't take the game on," Blues skipper Patrick Cripps said after the lamentable loss to the Demons.

Nah, it's not the players, even when the players say it's the players.

What Patrick is quoted is actually a fact.

What Patrick is quoted is actually a fact.

Only option is to blow the place up. Trade out Cripps, Weiters, McKay and start again

Cripps and McKay would get you a third rounder and a packet of salt and vinegar chips.

Cripps and McKay would get you a third rounder and a packet of salt and vinegar chips.

If we keep losing, we will get a new coach and perhaps we'll only have to give up 1 first rounder for Cody!

Seriously, it is an absolute outrage that we have had to give up 2 first rounders for Dean and are going to have to give up two first rounders for Cody.
One year after Gold Coast was able to pick up multiple first rounders, as did Brisbane, and only a couple of years after Brisbane could pick up a raft of premium father sons whilst at the top-end of the ladder, and collingwood got nick daicos for way unders. Not to mention, the AFL granting West Coast a freebie with the Oscar Allen compensation. And similar when they enable Gold Coast to pick up Rowell and Anderson because they were mates.

So, in a nutshell, Brisbane, Gold Coast and West Coast have been effectively been handed 'half-price' top 10 draftees, while Carlton, Essendon** and Port are going to have to pay double.

And... although Harry Dean is a great pick up, I very much doubt he would have been picked up or bidded at no.3 if he wasn't linked to Carlton. I do not believe for a second that no-one really wanted Daicos until pick 4 (although, I will grant that it looks to have been an amazing year for top end talent...).

I repeat, what Patrick said is a fact.

It is obvious that the players try to protect their lead in the second halves, instead of extend it by continuing to play as they did in the first halves, ie offensively

Agree. Unfortunately, it's a coaching directive to 'defend for longer' if needed. Opposition know we try to defend and not attack because that is what we are told to do!!!