Carlton Blues vs Gold Coast Suns: AFL live scores, blog, highlights

Do you actually grasp the turnover of players in that 3 years, the list has just been put together and now is when the hard work starts and I emphasise starts because this is effectively year 1 of this whole list playing together, hence the 5 year rebuild not 3. You can judge Bolton, SoS and the whole club when this current list has had a chance to actually play together for more than 5 minutes. We spent 3 years putting the list together and 2 years of that time building a team defence mindset, now it is time to add to our game plan as the players learn to play together. So finally for all you dimwits out there we are right where we should be, again it all starts now so get with the program and back off until it is time to judge the results of 5 years of hard work rebuilding a whole team and football club, this has been the biggest team rebuild ever attempted in terms of player turnover, that has taken courage of the sort most clubs only dream of having the balls to try. And we will stick together and finish the job regardless of outside noise which like most things written by commentators and others about Carlton is just uninformed knee jerk reaction garbage.

Wow, there sure are a lot of people bagging out a very young Carlton side that played against a superior Suns side on Saturday. The Blues played well for a side lacking a ruckman and playing kids in roles that needed men. The Suns have been quietly recruiting role players and developing Academy players to the point that they are competitive this year without Gaz in the side. The Suns have a deeply talented no-name midfield, a forward line that loves Etihad and a backline that continually repelled everything thrown at them Carlton were good. The Suns were very good.

I prefer him to be getting 30 and making errors than gettin 15 perfect, skill errors are easy to fix, finding the ball is hard.

9 turnovers 8 clangers. I hope I don’t get to see him play like that again for a long time Macca.

If yesterday is his worst game for the year he will be very happy! Get Kennedy back in the side and Murphy will thrive.

Yeah Murphy’s had a pretty ordinary start to the year but it’s only 2 games so not worried. The Bont was awful last week too but I’m not writing him off just yet either.

Do you jotice the word could? You will also notice the phrase "if they replicate their round 1" effort, clearly they didn't yesterday but as people said last week you don't lose too many getting 67 inside 50's! ;)

Yep I do realise we lost, a very disappointing loss as well, but that doesn't make your observation correct. No one is saying Murphy played well but he was still able to get 30 touches (many more apparently that he fumbled) and kick a goal, it is hardly a ours day on the park, tidy up a his disposal and he is close to best on. And I fully expect Murphy's leadership was on show for all to see, he is a quality captain. And who would have bought a lightly built second year player might be a bit more outside, still 24 touches is promising, as for Cuningham 21 touches at 86% DE in your first game for the year is a promising start. You never did answer my question on the reject to drafted ratio?

Carlton's "prized recruits" are probably on a combined quarter of the money that Tom Boyd is getting paid to play reserves so I'd say SOS probably did nail them. Well said, you're correct again.

I think someone claimed the Blues could very much be 3-1 after the 1st month. They'll be lucky to be 1-3 after that month by what I've seen the last two weeks

You do realise you're dodging questions again? Why do you have so much interest in Carlton? If you can't answer simple questions but are happy to attack the clubs that the questions are about then it shows the kind of individual you are. Everyone on here is seeing the sad little thing that you really are and it's not only the Carlton supporters that are seeing it. And no, it's not a personal attack on my behalf, rather an observation.

You do realise Carlton lost? Again. Murphy's DE was terrible,and he constantly fumbled breaking down chains of play. His leadership was again there for most to see. I thought Fisher was pretty good.SPS probably doesn't have enough taste for the contest as yet,Cunningham was nothing to be excited about. You do realise you snaked into my comment?

30 possessions, 5 clearances, 7 marks, a goal and 488m gained (5th most for the game, second most for the blues) is a "form drop off" most players would love to have. Factor in no Kreuzer or Kennedy and a support cast predominantly under 21 and those stats get even better. Still no answer to the simple questions? How about this one, what did you think of Fisher, SPS and Cuningham yesterday?

Cheers Pete,I'll be at the dogs game tomorrow with some WC fans so hopefully our ongoing poor form improves or questions will need to be further asked. What's your take on Murphy? He's been terrible. He looks like he's really slowed down,or is he just missing Gibbs,or is he having to do to much on the inside? Is there another reason? He was down to 38% efficiency at one point. Maybe he's just out of form but his drop off has been enormous.

Yes Matty it was a poor performance and Weitering is badly out of form. I do disagree on Bolton though. While the win loss ratio last year may not look good there was a substantial improvement in performance given the number of young players blooded and a more difficult fixture. There were good wins over GWS, Sydney, Essendon, Hawthorn and Collingwood. We do face another tough year with the loss of Gibbs and Docherty, and not having a full time ruckman today badly hurt us. We do need to somehow make ourselves a more attractive destination for players...not being able to pick up Rockliff or Devon Smith hurt after losing Gibbs last year. Let’s see how the Dogs go tomorrow. They need to hit back hard after their shocker last week.

Yeah Cat it may have been more exciting to watch last week...but take out the 5 goals in first 11 minutes and those ludicrous 50 metre penalties and our performance was no better than previous years

Yep can’t afford to be having Casboult as full time ruckman again

You really are a sad little thing aren't you. I asked you that question because as you well know you made a statement weeks ago that you won't back up. Why do you even care what happens at Carlton? I don't expect an answer to that question because you're not very good at answering them. You remind me of that Brad Paisley song "Online". Look it up on You tube if you don't know it. You might want to worry about the rabble that you barrack for because they're going backwards faster than what you say Carlton are

Once again you can't answer simple questions.

The same ole tired things being rolled out again, just out of interest how many "rejects" were playing today versus how many draftee she from post2015?