Carlton have a pretty tough draw for the rest of the year, but I can see them acting as a spoiler and upsetting teams like North Melbourne or Collingwood as the finals approach. Those late games against bottom four clubs are often a banana skin for teams around the edge of the eight.
Ultimately there's a lot of randomness in how the bottom few spots on the ladder work out.
If Carlton beat GC this weekend and due to our % and the current few games against the elite coming up to even make it worse then I see it being out of GC and us for the bottom two.