I constantly put myself down for being an eternal optimist about our Blue Boys, but its just my nature. Having not lived through the dominant 70's and 80's and before then i cant FULLY understand just how dominant the club is, but i know damn well we're the best team in the history of this league, and having lived through a relatively dominant 90's it sh*ts me more than anyone to have lived through the past 5years.

After listening to Heath Scotland on SEN the other day, i was given so much more optimistm. Scotty put it perfectly when he said that we cant comprehend just how much the team relies on Nick Stevens, without Stevo our midfielder who gets the number 1 tagger is the young developing Marc Murphy, and the younger developing Bryce Gibbs would get 2nd tager, which is why we've played him down back to try and get him a kick or two...not to mention that his body cant cope with 22 weeks of footy in the middle...so all things considered, our boys are being nurtured superbly by the coaching staff by not feeding them to the lions so to speak.

The Club has no misconceptions about where we're at, nor should us fans. At the start of the year, winning 7 or 8 games was a realistic target, and in many ways it still could be, but in all seriousness, winning 5 games and picking up picks 1 and 4 will put the club SO far further forward in development that we'll be in a position next year to win 10 games and threaten for the top 8. We have a forwardline with more options than Windows XP, and a team which this weeks 25 selected players consist of 9 guys with less than 50 games, and a further 9 players played less than 100 games...its ridiculous how well our boys are doing all things considered. Sure there's no such thing as an honourable loss, but id MUCH rather lose like the past 3 weeks where we've kicked an average of 18 goals and have been competative than lose and have kicked an average of 6 or 7 goals like StKilda have been playing.

The fans have thrown support behind the boys again this year, knowing full well that we're this close < > to meaning something again. So im willing to wait another 13 weeks and look for positives rather than call for heads to roll when in reality we shouldnt have many expectations rather than 13more weeks of competative footy, because that should be expected from any team in any position of struggle....

Go Blues...

Nic

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Cuck Follingwood

Yes I can totally understand what your saying and in many ways I agree with you but Bannister getting a game when everybody at the club knows that he's 100% certain to be delisted at the end of the year is a complete disgrace.

great post

glad to see some positives on here.

Except that winning 5 games would mean that we miss out on the priority pick. To qualify for the priority pick before the first draft round, we need less than 16.5 points (4 wins) at the end of the season. We currently have 8.


And just like Windoze, we keep on seeing that "blue screen of death".

OK, I don't really mean that; but comparing us to WinXP? Jeez!

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Let Bannister have one last crack.

Hopefully he plays like his life depends on it....because it does!

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They coud'nt.....could they?

How many last cracks do you want to give a guy?

1

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They coud'nt.....could they?

That was two years ago.

That was his second to last crack

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They coud'nt.....could they?

Bannister may be on his last chance, but at the start of the year Essendon* fans would have put Jason Winderlich in that boat, and he's having a pretty decent year. Ryan Houlihan had about 5 last chances and he's a big part of our line-up (regardless of him playing 5m behind gun forwards)


Nic

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Ive been waiting 5 years, another year or 2 isnt going to hurt.

having the galahs out of the club and being run by Pratt and his loyal servants is enough to get me through for a few years.

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You rock Teen Spirit. A more composed and passionate post than all of the sooky one-up bullshit written on the main board here for a long, long time.

Enjoy the new era dominace when it comes TS.

I agree.
It's nice to see a young person write something well thought out and well presented.
There's hope for the education system yet.
That's the Spirit.

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glad to know im not ehe only one thinking this. As much as i adore this website, things can tend to get very negative at times which doesnt really help the cause much.

GO BLUES!


Nic

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Cuck Follingwood

Teen spirit,

Good post.

Andain,

Bannister has been brought into the side for a particular role and you may disagree but we don't have a lot of players capable of playing on ball, down back, or up forward, and following an opponent all over the ground.
He has been playing consistent footy in the Bullants and given the position we're in he deserves his chance.

well said Teen Spirit!

We still don't have a lot of those players. Bannister is a hack plain and simple. He's a useless tagger, he has absolutely no vision whatsoever and his skills are appalling.

This is the worst player selection made in the history of the Carlton football club. Pagan and everyone else involved in this disgraceful decision should be hanged. That means you too Kernahan!

lets hope you have the 'jynx' factor i have...every time i say 'he cant kick this' no matter who's got the ball they seem to kick a 55m ripper. And whenever i say 'good player this guy' they seem to miss the target...If you're anything like me (heaven help you if so) Jordy will get 22 kicks on the weekend while Tagging Acker who gets 7touches haha.


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No doubt but I wouldn't be holding my breath. He's already had 7 seperate opporutnities to prove to the club that he's a useless hack and prove it he has. He's the worst player in the AFL.