Just wanted to see everyones views on this matter:
Up until recently Carlton has been a team who has year in year out been prepared to trade away their first round picks for established players to do a "pinch hit" for the premiership. What I do believe and there was no way of knowing this at the time as I am sure the players drafted were researched, but the picks in this draft are part of the problem of where we sit today. Before I have a heap of people jumping up and down I want to note that I am not saying this is THE problem, nor am I saying that these players are to blame as I am sure we drafted them on merit. But in this draft we had 3, yes as crazy as it may sound in a draft with carlton, 3 first round draft picks. These picks yielded Livingston, Wiggins and Sporn. Looking at these three players we may see that two of them are at the moment not considered in our best 22 and whilst I will admit that Livo has been much better this year we do need to remember that up until Feb this year everyone held the view he should go. Lets compare these three players to the possibilities of Burgoyne, Cornes (kane), Coughlan, Hadley, Mcphee, Kerr etc. who went in picks after our first round.
Now some people may be asking what is he on about. Its simple, all 6 of the players mentioned here would be definate keys to our team. WHen you have the first crack at prime talent it cant be wasted and that is being shown up now when we should be building teams around these players who have had 4 years to develop, not seeing them in the red of the Bullants.
Just wanted to see anyone else's view. To see the other draft picks in that draft follow this link (This link keeps replacing "afl[dot]com[dot]au" to "carltonfc.com.au" so please change it if it wont work for you when this is changed (WHY CANT I WRITE AFL..... WHY AUTO CHANGE IT!?!?!)
http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=draft& ... eid=177899