CARLTON CEO Cain Liddle says the Blues would need a "very, very good offer" to part with the number one pick from this year's NAB AFL Draft.
The club has received the pick after finishing last this season, but there has been discussion it may trade the selection for slightly older elite talent to bolster its young list.
"For me, I'm happy to let the [list management team] make a decision on what needs to happen," Liddle said.
"They've obviously got the best interests of the Carlton football club at heart and what I would say is, very clearly, there's some high-end talent at this year's draft.
"For [trading the number one pick] to be even considered it would need to be a very, very good offer, and that's something our list management team needs to discuss."
With Adelaide key position player Mitch McGovern telling the Crows earlier this week he would like to be traded, Carlton has been seen as a good fit for the 23-year-old.
Liddle said it would be a boost to supporters' hopes to land a player of McGovern's calibre.
"We've got a bit of a gap in the 23-to-26 age group, we need to start filling that gap of talent with players who have done three or four pre-seasons.
"What you'll see this year is a much more balanced approach going into trade and draft period from Carlton. There's elite talent sitting at the top of the draft, but it's time to start looking at how we can build some more players into that age range where we have a gap at the moment."
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Carlton presented to the AFL Commission on Wednesday in a meeting scheduled several months ago.
Liddle said priority picks, among other special assistance, were among the matters discussed, but the club didn't receive a specific date from the Commission as to when a decision would be made regarding help.
"As you know, special assistance can take a number of forms with AFL clubs, whether that be financial assistance, fixture assistance, specific football assistance or master plan assistance.
"We spoke to the Commission about a whole range of areas from a special assistance perspective, and the agreement that was made with the Commission was those discussions for the time being are best kept between the club and the Commission.
"In the fullness of time, we'll be happy to discuss in intricate detail what they are.
"I ran into (AFL football operations manager) Steve Hocking last night and he said they'd come back to us in the next couple of weeks, potentially with some more questions."
Liddle said he believed the club will have fewer Friday night matches in 2019, after the Blues played four times on Friday and once on a Thursday night this year.
"I don't think we'll be seeing too many Friday night games. We accept that, we have to take our medicine, we only won two games [for the season]," he said.
"What I'm hoping is that the AFL doesn't forget we have a number of traditional rivalries with big clubs that we don't want to lose. We'd be hoping that if it's not going to be Friday night, which we're expecting it might not be, that they're on Saturday afternoons."
