It’s been a tough start to season 2015 for Blues fans in the wake of two disappointing losses. Here’s what’s being said in the media this week:

Stephen Silvagni faces huge task to rebuild Carlton
Herald Sun, Jay Clark

The Carlton legend and recruiting chief is facing, quite clearly, the greatest list management challenge in the AFL.

The Blues are not good enough to compete for a top-four spot in the short-term and are lacking the abundant young talent required to set-up another sustained crack at it in the long-term.

When the Saints and Western Bulldogs reached the same crossroad a few years back, they took a real and committed approach to rebuilding through the draft.

Blues legends call for patience
Herald Sun, Jon Anderson

While the fans may not have a lot of it, patience is being preached by Blues legends.

Four Carlton players contacted yesterday were united that Mick Malthouse and his players will turn around a form-line that has their more emotional supporters baying for blood.

Sav Rocca brought in by Carlton
Herald Sun, Sam Landsberger

Sav Rocca has been enlisted to help fix spearhead Levi Casboult’s wretched goalkicking action.

Rocca, who sits 13th on the list of VFL-AFL goalkickers, started at the Blues last week and will work with Casboult and the rest of the club’s forwards part-time for the rest of the season.

Rocca slotted 748 goals for Collingwood and North Melbourne before playing seven NFL seasons as a punter for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins.

Marc Murphy puts players on notice after heavy loss to West Coast
Herald Sun Sam Landsberger

Captain Marc Murphy has put Carlton players on notice — declaring they need to have a “hard look at themselves” and work out if they really want to be at the club.

The Blues absorbed an array of criticism at the weekend as club greats and AFL legends questioned their effort, fitness levels and talent after slumping to a 0-2 start.

Captain Murphy said his side’s worrying fade-outs — they have been outscored by a combined 119 points after quarter-time — was “definitely above the shoulders”.

Don't question Carlton coach Mick Malthouse: Paul Roos
The Age, AAP

Paul Roos says it's wrong to question whether Mick Malthouse is the right man to coach AFL club Carlton.

Malthouse and the Blues have copped the brunt of pundits' early-season scrutiny after an underwhelming 0-2 start to the season.

Malthouse's former right-hand man Nathan Buckley and Roos both leapt to the three-time premiership coach's defence while appearing on Fox Footy.

"He's a very good footy coach," Melbourne coach Roos said on Monday night.

Malthouse puts heat on team leaders at winless Blues
The Age, Jon Pierik

Frustrated Carlton coach Mick Malthouse has turned the spotlight onto his on-field leaders, while skipper Marc Murphy has urged greater accountability as the Blues seek answers for their winless start to the season.

Crunched by Richmond and, on Friday night, West Coast, having led each opponent at quarter-time, Malthouse wants Murphy and fellow leadership-group members Bryce Gibbs, Michael Jamison, Sam Rowe and Lachie Henderson to play a key role in ushering the side through trouble when the pressure is at its fiercest.

Carlton can’t afford to give in to hysteria
The Age, Rohan Connolly

Late last November, Carlton took a significant stance with the release of a 10-point strategic plan the club called "Key Drivers Of Success".

Under new chief executive Steven Trigg and relatively new chairman Mark LoGiudice, the Blues for perhaps the first time conceded that they had become a mediocre club, one which had a long way to go both on and off the field to recapture the glory of their past.

It was a mature document, which addressed not only the values and branding of the club, but vowed that Carlton would rebuild its list properly and spurn the quick fix.

But football being the pressure cooker environment it is, it's taken just two bad losses for various former club greats and hangers-on to begin running around like a group of chooks with their heads cut off.

Blues must “have a hard look at themselves”
afl.com.au, Callum Twomey

After two listless defeats to open the season, Blues skipper Marc Murphy says every Carlton player needs to strongly evaluate whether he has the desire to be successful at the club.

Following the Blues' 69-point thumping at the hands of West Coast last Friday night, Mick Malthouse's side sits third last on the ladder.

In both the defeat to the Eagles and the round one loss to Richmond, Carlton has started well before being comprehensively beaten.

Murphy, who has struggled to make an impact in the opening fortnight, said the lapses in form would force everyone at the Blues to review their efforts.