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Why we will improve rapidly next season

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obbafan Demon

obbafan   128

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Carlton have the born to rule mentality. Have had extraordinary difficulty moving from we can buy anyone good someone else develops to spotting and developing talent.

We have had similar development difficulties but our problem has been incompetence whilst theirs has been delusion (with a fair degree of incompetence due to inability to adjust to spending restrictions).

Rather be where we are.

This is a team we can knock off.

Others?

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Moneider96 Redleg

Moneider96   1,045

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If the pieces click, we are capable of going over Carlton, Collingwood, Adelaide, Essendon, Richmond, GWS, Saints, Doggies, Lions, and maybe Weagles...

Not Brisbane. The others i kind of agree. I think Brisbane will be very good.

rjay Legend

rjay   25,385

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Today on SEN they were discussing snakes and ladders. Lots of impartial commenters had Melbourne going up. Funny thing was the Carlton supporters saying they were a shot at the top four, but you always get that.

They will be lucky to get out of the bottom 2.

beelzebub Legend

beelzebub   23,390

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They will be lucky to get out of the bottom 2.

mate of mine ) actually many are ) Filth

he agreed that pies will slide...Buckley attempting the Clayton rebuild.

Barney Rubble Redleg

Barney Rubble   1,576

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We can't help but improve.

The list appears on paper the strongest and talented we have had for ten years.

It's not going to click straight away, but that magical word that most D'Landers hate is depth right over the ground.

We are not relying on a handful of players to play every game.

If someone goes down injured, suspended, we have equal players ready to step up and take their place.

We haven't had that luxury for years.

bing181 Trident

bing181   9,437

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Herald sun article - The 20 young guns set to light it up in season 2015. Who is your club's young gun? has some optimistic news opinion for us...

1. Jesse Hogan

4. Angus Brayshaw

8. Christian Petracca

13. Aaron Vandenberg

I noticed that as well, and was somewhat astonished (understatement) that out of all the draftees of the last couple of years who are ready to make their marks, they included an unheard of rookie from Canberra. I would have thought there would be 50 players ahead of Vandenberg - but would be very happy to be proved wrong.

Great time of the year - the good news just keeps on coming.

(I'm actually not sure Petracca will do all that much this year, I don't know that he has the tank to do an Ollie Wines. Brayshaw is another story though.)


The Chazz Trident

The Chazz   4,077

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Today on SEN they were discussing snakes and ladders. Lots of impartial commenters had Melbourne going up. Funny thing was the Carlton supporters saying they were a shot at the top four, but you always get that.

It's called expectation. They (Carlton supporters) expect that their team will win enough games to play finals every year, and have a shot at a flag every year. When it doesn't happen, they get nasty.

They don't go in to the start of the season hoping to win more than 4 games. They rarely use excuses.

I say this as I have a number of Carlton friends/associates. All from different circles, but all with the same expectation going in to a new season.

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