2017 Round 4 : Post Game thread - Carlton V Gold Coast

[jeza]

Though the result was disappointing, it was clear from the game that Carlton have nailed the past two drafts, despite what Mathew Lloyd says.
The fact there were two or three bewildering umpire decisions which cost us goals, two skill errors that cost us goals and we missed five or six shots on goal that we should have kicked, maybe Sav should work on all our players goal kicking.
We need to keep playing the kids, we need to bring in Cunningham, McKay & Polson in the near future, and we need to nail next years draft as well.

The opposition kicking 14.3 at one point doesn't happen very often. Just wasn't our day.

Lloyd's article was the most biased pile of cr#p I've ever read.

Any club who recruits 30 players in 2 years is going to have recycled players and there will be some who don't work out. We've gone heavily into the draft and let go senior players like Hendo, Yarran, Bell, etc. to get there.

There's also his example of Smedts. We traded Touhy for Marchbank, Pickett and Smedts. He claims Smedts was a mistake - maybe - but he's only 1 of the 3 young players we got for 1 old player.

If you go looking for negatives you can find them anywhere.