CARLTON midfielder Ed Curnow has slammed the comments made by former blue Rhys Palmer on social media.

Speaking on The Sunday Footy Show, Curnow suggested that Palmer’s comments were best to be “ignored” with the former player lashing out at the struggling Blues.

“It just annoys me that that gets traction that comment,” Curnow told The Sunday Footy Show.

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“It’s just frustrating that Rhys feels like he has to make that comment and I think that only serves Rhys, so just ignore that.”

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The 123-gamer Palmer hit out at the Blues on Twitter during Saturday’s clash with Fremantle, not holding back his thoughts on his former club where he played just a sole game in his one-year on the list.

“Everyone talks about draft picks and developing youth, but no-one talks about culture.” Palmer tweeted.

The Blues failed to kick a goal in the opening half of the match, booed off the ground by their fans — eventually losing by 57 points.

Having played 132 games in the navy blue, Curnow backed up the views presented by coach Brendon Bolton after the match.

“I don’t 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 we’re going about,” Curnow said.

“We’ve had this high turnover at the football club in the last couple of years, but inside the club — the standards are extremely high.

“Bolts (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 that’s what it’s like at the club at Carlton.

“On top of that you’ve got the other coaches involved that are pushing the standards and so are the players. It really is, it’s hard to say that we’re not winning but the environment is strong during the week and we have strong relationships, so it’s just not going our way at the moment, but it will turn.”

Despite fielding an older and more experienced team in the heavy loss to the Dockers, Bolton was forthright in his stance that the club will continue to grow over time.

“To learn how to play consistently at a high, high level, it just doesn’t happen immediately,” Bolton said in his post-match press conference.

“It’s a learned behaviour. We’re too inconsistent with that at the moment, we’re not happy about it and we’ll work our way through it, but it is a learned behaviour.”

Carlton’s full scale rebuild has seen a large turnover of players over multiple years, under general manager of list management and strategy Stephen Silvagni, resulting in the Blues winning just one game in 2018.

“Each year we’ve dropped the age profile significantly to get young talent in the draft,” Bolton said.

“In essence, this is our youngest year. We’re not using it as an excuse but we’ve been to the draft and we’ve done that, coupled with injury to some key players.

“Is it difficult and challenging? Yes — but we’re up for the fight and we will keep working our way through that.”