This is a little bit hypercritically rich coming from a supporter whose club has managed to entice plenty of big names north of the border with mountainous bags of cash in recent years, with Lockett, Hall and in recent times Franklin and Tippett springing to mind easily.
True today, Carlton deserves plenty of criticism as we were abysmal, bordering on the pathetic ... but its hard not to argue, we wouldn't have a been a much more competitive scoring unit with the latter two mentioned above occupying FF and CHF !!!
So perhaps your team's own words should be noted:
From October last year:
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Carlton could be in for a busy trade period, with list manager Shane Rogers declaring his club's interest in recruiting GWS tall Kristian Jaksch, as well as Bulldogs pair Liam Jones and Jason Tutt.
But Rogers has ruled out any chance of Bulldogs free agent Shaun Higgins heading to Visy Park.
"We've never, ever spoken to Shaun Higgins," Rogers told AFL Trade Radio. "We did inquire through his manager for about a five-minute window where we just wanted to know what was going on and [ask] was he prepared to move?
"At the time they said, 'He's not, he's a Bulldogs player,' and that was enough for us. We moved on."
or these bon mots from the same time:
"Pick six is a really vital pick and that player needs to be a 150-game player, so we're reticent to give that up," Rogers said. "So we'll have to try and work out some other things.
"Jaksch has indicated he would like to come to us ... we're in negotiations with them [GWS] and we've had some chats along the way.
"That might be a difficult trade to get done, but we'll continue to be in there fighting and try and get our man."
Of course we now know they did give up pick 7 for Jaksch and Whiley.
Oh and then they gave up Jeff Garlett and pick 83 for picks 61 and 79.
This was the Carlton take on that trade:
"It was time for him to have a fresh start and we are pleased to have been able to facilitate that by reaching agreement on a trade with Melbourne.
"Securing the fourth round draft pick gives us some options in terms of the remaining trade window and the upcoming AFL draft. We will now look to use that selection to continue improving our list as we look with optimism to season 2015."
Even the AFL can't save Carlton from themselves.