Carlton midfielder Ed Curnow has fired back at former Blue Rhys Palmer for his jab at the club on social media.
Palmer played just one senior game in the navy blue, with previous stints at the Dockers and Giants. He was delisted by Carlton at the end of 2017, and had this to say about his former club following their disappointing 57-point loss to the Dockers.
โEveryone talks about draft picks and developing youth, but no-one talks about culture.โ Palmer tweeted.
Everyone talks about draft picks and developing youth but no one ever talks about culture....
— Rhys Palmer (@rhysCpalmer) June 16, 2018
Curnow did not take kindly to the tweet, saying that Palmer's post was irrelevant.
โIt just annoys me that that gets traction that comment,โ Curnow toldย The Sunday Footy Show.
โItโs just frustrating that Rhys feels like he has to make that comment and I think that only serves Rhys, so just ignore that.โ
Curnow insisted that the Blues were on the right track, despite the outside scrutiny on the club.
โI donโt think so, we talk about it as a club (our direction), the guys understand externally there is a message going out about how we are going about our rebuild and weโre going about,โ Curnow said.
โWeโve had this high turnover at the football club in the last couple of years, but inside the club โ the standards are extremely high.
โBolts (Brendon Bolton) puts a lot of pressure on our leaders, every player at the club, to be a better player and to challenge each other and so thatโs what itโs like at the club at Carlton.
โOn top of that youโve got the other coaches involved that are pushing the standards and so are the players. It really is, itโs hard to say that weโre not winning but the environment is strong during the week and we have strong relationships, so itโs just not going our way at the moment, but it will turn.โ
