“They are non-competitive. They have enough talent but why are they non-competitive? I would rather have a bunch of kids who want to wrestle and scrap and stand for something than stars who think they are good.
“They need to control their own destiny,everyone has to be accountable for what they do and peer pressure is stronger than coach pressure and I don’t see it at Carlton.
“This is the essence of it,if you don’t have a group that demands it of each other then you don’t get a result and that is what I see,too many non-competitive players happy to coast. They need someone hard and demanding in there.
“Mitch McGovern just does not look like he wants to compete and there’s a few more there –[Sam] Petrevski-Seton doesn’t and Lachie Plowman can’t[compete]. The selection of some of those blokes is ridiculous,don’t tell me Lachie Plowman can stop Robbie Gray. You serious? Robbie Gray?”
“[Patrick] Cripps fights and scraps and[Sam] Walsh is a superstar,he is demanding and a competitor but I don’t see it from enough of them. Who is the general in the forward line? Can you tell me who it is? They don’t have one.”
Maclure and other former Carlton people who did not want to speak on record were frustrated that the Blues had been playing a mature side but were not flag or finals contenders.