Where do you think Carlton will finish in 2017?

[LoveNavy]

How true - it's too early to say whether the list is better. It's easy to say at this stage that last years and this years draftees will mean we have a better list in another 2 years time, but we just don't know.

When you look at the list the problem is that the 12/13/14 drafting and trading is a train wreck, and we therefore have very few guys with 40-60 games experience who a solid AFL footballers. Doc and Crippa are it really. We have a massive hole in the middle of the list, and you can't lose experience like Tuohy, Jamo, Walks and Hendo and replace them with kids and hope to get the same results in the short term. You are likely to go backwards.

In a perfect world 4-5 of Boek, Whiley, Tutt, Jones, KJ, Gorringe, DVR, Menzel, Temay, Graham, Giles, Holman, Everitt, Smith, Dick, Foster would have developed into solid players who contributed strongly week to week - even that would be a 33% strike rate. Instead we got almost nothing out of that cohort, so we now have to keep playing White, Casboult, Armfield and Daisy because we have nothing better. And we have to keep blooding a high proportion of players with under 25 games experience and pray we find some diamonds in that group.

Indeed. Errors were the rule. Successful drafting the exception. Add in the shinanagins of the board et al. And you write off almost a decade of development.

Next chapter is now in draft form (no pun intended ^-^). We all share the hope that our club get it right this time. My faith is steadfast and I back the youngsters in.

My Edit. I still have us bottom 4. We'll have a patch here and there where our ducks align and the opposition are off. Mostly though, we have 23 chances to work through our list decisions come year's end. We have opportunities to play the youngsters together. To build the bonds that will become the foundation of our future success.