Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n Cripps spoke openly to the media in the car park prior to the club press conference, revealing he was one of the first to know about Voss\u2019 resignation.<\/p>\n Carlton chief executive Graham Wright, alongside president Rob Priestley and football boss Chris Davies, then fronted reporters, with Wright declaring the Blues would \u201cattack the draft\u201d<\/a> while refusing to concede specifically to the \u2018rebuild\u2019 terminology.<\/p>\n Carlton holds its own first-round pick this year (currently Pick 3) and Sydney\u2019s after the Curnow trade, which is presently last in the order. It also owns Sydney\u2019s 2027 first-rounder.<\/p>\n However, given changes to the national draft, the Blues will almost certainly need to fork out both first-rounders to match a top-five rival bid for prized father-son prospect Cody Walker, who looms as a top-two pick.<\/p>\n MORE COVERAGE \u2026<\/p>\n \u2018HOPING FOR A MIRACLE\u2019: Voss tells all on \u2018inevitable\u2019 Blues exit, lifts lid on private meeting<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018DOWN THE CHASM\u2019: Savage Blues reality as Voss clean-up nightmare emerges<\/a><\/p>\n “No idea how to be successful” | 02:57<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll certainly go to the draft again this year \u2014 this is the last uncompromised draft before Tassie comes in, we\u2019ve got two picks in this year\u2019s draft \u2014 whether we get to keep both of those, depending on what happens with Cody (Walker),\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we\u2019d also like to have more picks in this year\u2019s draft, and we\u2019ve got two in next year\u2019s as well, so that\u2019d be the way we\u2019ll attack it.\u201d<\/p>\n Wright\u2019s comments come amid ample external concerns over the state of Carlton\u2019s list.<\/p>\n Four-time premiership Hawk Jordan Lewis last week claimed on Fox Footy\u2019s On The Couch just one player from Carlton\u2019s Round 8 loss to St Kilda \u2014 Sam Walsh \u2014 \u201cwould walk into any other side in the competition\u201d<\/a>, based on current form.<\/p>\n Lewis last month also suggested there was \u201ca serious question on whether they (the Blues) can trade Cripps out<\/a> and get draft picks back in and it be a win-win for both clubs\u201d.<\/p>\n Channel 7 reporter Tom Morris on Tuesday night suggested there was \u201cabsolutely a world where Cripps is not at Carlton next year\u201d, but warned: \u201cHow that plays out remains to be seen, because he\u2019s not worth a hell of a lot on the trade table anymore. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s certain he\u2019s going to be there in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n But Cripps, who fronted the media again on Tuesday afternoon, committed to steering the Blues through the next 14 rounds.<\/p>\n \u201cMate, I am contracted until next year. Like I said before, I am really committed in terms of this season,\u201d Cripps said.<\/p>\n Patrick Cripps cut an emotional figure on Tuesday when he spoke to the media. Picture: Michael Willson\/AFL Photos via Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cI am not going to just wave the white flag and waste a year, there\u2019s a lot of footy to be played this year.<\/p>\n \u201cThe privilege to play AFL, any game of AFL, is a massive honour. There\u2019s so many people in the world that would love to play any game of footy.<\/p>\n \u201cThat never gets lost on me and especially for this footy club, I am going to lead it the same way I\u2019ve been doing it for the last six to eight years.<\/p>\n \u201cWear the jumper with pride and keep going for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Melbourne premiership captain and eight-time All-Australian Max Gawn told Triple M\u2019s breakfast program on Tuesday Voss\u2019 resignation felt \u201cpremature\u201d before turning his sympathy towards Cripps.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d be worried if I was a captain with an interim coach for 15 weeks,\u201d Gawn told Triple M.<\/p>\n MORE COVERAGE \u2026<\/p>\n \u2018DISAPPEARED SO FAST\u2019: Voss\u2019 Blues were real deal set to win it all \u2026 until one night started the rot<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018CAREER SUICIDE\u2019: Brutal verdict on Blues\u2019 future, list changes in call for radical coaching move<\/a><\/p>\n Mutual? Blues president on Voss decision | 28:14<\/p>\n \u201cBut obviously the future is just out of the building, so you don\u2019t really know where it\u2019s going. And that\u2019s a weird place for a footballer to be.<\/p>\n \u201cI was obviously captain last year during these three weeks (after Simon Goodwin was let go) and I had players that were worried about their contract. They didn\u2019t know who was going to give them a contract, worried about getting selected.<\/p>\n \u201cSo a week ago, I\u2019m presuming Michael Voss would have been talking about the future still and \u2018Goody\u2019\u2014 after we beat West Coast by 100 \u2014 when Goody got shown the door, and Goody was talking in leadership groups and with me personally about next year. So you\u2019re always talking about that, and now that conversation is just completely gone.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a big job for \u2018Crippa\u2019. He\u2019s had a mountain of work over the last five, six years, and he\u2019s got another big one now to keep, to keep everything going.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if he had empathy towards Cripps, who lived through his fourth coach sacking on Tuesday, Geelong captain Patrick Dangerfield told Fox Footy\u2019s AFL 360: \u201cYeah I certainly do.<\/p>\n \u201cYou feel really guilty as a player, because you go through the pre-season on what you want to achieve and how you want to play.<\/p>\n Potential Voss replacements at Carlton | 02:24<\/p>\n \u201cYou know when you\u2019re 1-8 \u2026 that you\u2019re not executing on that and you do know there\u2019s an air of inevitability around it.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a really difficult situation for players, particularly leaders. But everyone in the building will be feeling a sense of disappointment for Michael and what could\u2019ve been.\u201d<\/p>\n Gold Coast star Touk Miller, who was at the club when Rodney Eade and Stuart Dew were sacked in-season, added on AFL 360: \u201cIt\u2019s pretty emotional, anyone who\u2019s been in that position knows that\u2019s someone\u2019s job and that\u2019s someone\u2019s livelihood \u2026 It all comes crashing down pretty quick.<\/p>\n \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t go understated that you definitely feel a lot of guilt factor in that.\u201d<\/p>\n Cripps isn\u2019t the only established Blues player being discussed as potential trade bait by commentators.<\/p>\n MORE COVERAGE \u2026<\/p>\n 23 COACH CONTENDERS: \u2018Unbelievable\u2019 former star; \u2018ready to go\u2019 mentor and full-circle candidate<\/a><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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