What's wrong with Carlton

[DJC]

West Coast are horrible...their WAFL version is getting hammered every week and their recruiting sucks bigtime, they need a cleanout on and off the field. I never thought I would see such a poor WC team given their finances and membership resources.
I think we can also look at the Richmond game and view that as an unspectacular result too and we gave away 2 points. They are terrible and also need a rebuild and new voice in the coaching box.

West Coast might be horrible but we scored our first >100 points winning margin since 2011.  That's what the better teams do to teams that are struggling and we haven't been able to manage that for far too long.  West Coast has 18 players out with injury, including some of their better players and they'll trouble teams if they can get some key players back.  Of course, West Coast defeated GWS, who have been competitive in all of their games and got wins against Adelaide and the Swans.

Richmond is another team with a significant injury list and they will be a force in the second half of the season.  They had a much stronger list to choose from in Round 1.

It wasn't so long ago that folk were writing Geelong off too.

Despite some lopsided results and apparent easybeats at the bottom of the ladder, it's a very even competition and any team can get rolled if it's a little off its game.

I expect we'll hear "Brisbane don't travel well" and "They missed Zorko and Rich" when we win on Friday.

Only a premiership will silence the doubters ... and that's how it should be.  But that doesn't give self-proclaimed "experts" like McGuane the right to go unchallenged when he serves up a load of unsubstantiated waffle.