2018 Rd 2: Post Game Prattle: Carlton vs Gold Coast

[Thryleon]

Fair call. Also means we are still at least 3-4 years from being competitive?

Not competitive,  but challenging for a flag.  This "build" we embarked on has been about keeping us off the bottom of the ladder whilst all our players who are "not up to it" start to move on.

It gets worse.  We start to lose blokes like Murphy,  Simpson and the like over the next couple of years.  These guys are our most able to compete players at the moment (4 quarters week in and week out for an entire season). 

@EB1, put the two twenty twos that ran out yesterday next to each other and you start realising just how under rated gc are.

Swallow or cripps?
Martin or Wright?
Lynch or Curnow?
Witts or Levi?
Harbrow or Simpson?
May or Jones?

If you picked one side out of both our twenty twos yesterday to play next week, Gold Coast would Have more players than us in their best 22 by two to one, because at the moment we are promising but not delivering. 

@kruddler,  I didn't see many who contested worse than they did the previous week, we just aren't big and strong enough yet.