FYI to the OP and any Carlton fan saying "No way bottom 8"...
Reality is, Carlton can quite easily finish bottom 8, and can also finish bottom 5...
We haven't proven anything yet... at all...
You can look at Geelong 06 and Dogs 07 and see how good teams can finish very low because of things that just didn't go quite right
You can look at Hawks in 09... if people were to say in the 09 preseason Hawks to miss the 8... they'd get called a troll... but this is not a scripted competition... and reality is... Carlton can finish anywhere from 1st to 17th... and if someone thinks we're gonna struggle and not make the 8 or even finish 17th... they are welcome to have that opinion...
I do think, if everything goes well in terms of little injuries, the addition of ready players Curnow, Duigan and Laidler and development of Yarran, Garlett, Henderson, White, Lucas, Robinson and Armfield... we can finish top 4...