Arrrrrrgģghhhhhh!!!!!!!
Not ok Rick. N O T OK.
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Plus..impossible to have q good jumper combo with them.
What..navy and white jail stripes???
Or ..the unthinkable royal blue jumper??,
Look. .tassie or nothing. Perth' s 3rd team?
Cant reconcile with that..
i do get the Northern blues idea. But with Norf??? C' mon.Dont think its a good cultural fit for us.

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That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,” she said. “He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

Do you know how Instant Noodles are made and what goes in them?

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

can we send this to the board just so as they truly comprehend what they have managed to achieve for this mighty football club

we should also send delegates cimm and club...

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Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas, and oil....... the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off. We apologize for the inconvenience.

In current board we trust

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The only way for some people to understand is for them to be on the receiving end

Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

Is club and the other guy on this site journos? Complete misfits and should tear up their membership now and barrack elsewhere. Basically your carlton or your not. Through hard times and good times. Piss off if you cant handle the current climate.

can just see Damian Barrett bringing this up on the footy show If he is struggling for stories

Close the thread. Carlton would only merge if they were completely bankrupt, but like hawthorn did many years ago, they rallied and won a few premierships since. Financially they are a powerhouse now. Carlton has too much soul and more supporters to ever let that happen. Let alone some of the richest supporters to let it happen. Rubbish thread. Close it down

GOLTZ has smashed this thread harder than he smashed the competition in the 2009 TC supercoach!

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dane's trolling again

Need to look at options Goltz.

Who in charge of bringing back the good times?

I'd settle for hard times with a hint of hope. As long as the hope was based on good planning not quick fixes and pre-season lies.

Haven't seen anything in the current board, admin, recruiting to make me believe they have a steady hand. Have you?

I'd prefer to be Carlton, based at PP but not if its run like it is now.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

if youre witholding funds like i am to this footy club.. u can at least show it you care by bagging the hell out of them...

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Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas, and oil....... the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off. We apologize for the inconvenience.

but you cannot merge

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Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas, and oil....... the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I enjoy the exchange of ideas from you and cimm..
The personal slugs. .
Not so much.

Ps...merging with doggies would be preferable to Norf.
A.B.N.

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That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,” she said. “He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

100% correct

Doggies yes.

Plus we'd get Sedat!!

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I hope Essendon* folds.

cimm has lost his freaking mind.

I'm not sure who I'm responding to but you need to get your facts right.

History has been kind and unkind to us and evryone else.

The chronology of events will tell you it wasn't all our boards doing. I'm not letting past 2 presidents off and free of blame but let's focus on our in house events separately to the other big 3 you refer to because they and we have been dealt a different set of cards and as a result a different outcome.

They, along with you and I are not Nostradamus. There's more going for our club than you make out.

It's easy to say and support an argument that North would rather join Carlton than Essendon*.

Clubs like North Footscray Stkilda Melbourne and even Hawthorn have been threatened by mergers but got through that challenge and grew. We will too.

Hell we tried to take ove the Saints to get hold of Plugger and Winmar, also bought shares in North as a way to absorb them along with Wayne Carey. There has been attempts by our club to absorb others and perhaps may again in the future.

I don't want people like you lot wanting a merger tarnishing our proud history with talks of mergers when it is unnecessary. Hold your breath for 10 minutes if you can't see yourselves barracking for the other big clubs.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

There probably is a bit of story in there for the Journos.

What does the next 10 years hold for struggling afl clubs ?

We all agree the boom is done. We all agree some clubs struggled even during the boom when there was cash everywhere.
I am pretty sure we all agree that no club is going to get the results the Hawks did with their well time fight back.
We know the AFL are planning ahead and lowering prices.
It is fair to say that sponsorship and membership dollars are going to be hard to come by.
We agree that the gap is getting bigger between the haves and have nots (thanks heavs).
We know that membership at Carlton is stagnate and the club isn't going upward in a hurry.
Reading this board we know people are losing interest, not fussed when we lose and apathetic (thanks Synbad).

So what is going to be the big play that saves clubs? Reading what is coming could clubs get ahead of the pack by making a smart play early or should they wait until they are at their lowest and take whatever is thrown their way?

How are poorer clubs going to match it with the big clubs?

Would make an interesting enough story for one of the papers.

Withholding membership cash and bagging the club on TC won't do it?

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Carlton are not poor. We give away a car every raffle.

But in all seriousness, carlton has debt and making good inroads in to that. But, we are far from poor. We have the most expensive coach in the land and have state of the art facilities, which poor clubs dont have and correct me if l am wrong but we are close to the max cap spend that the club can make in the footy department.

So if your only basis for a merger is to merge a playing list in hope of earlier success, then move along.

the worst thing the afl did was to expand into western sydney and gold coast, where people frankly don't care for the game. the obsession for the potential money making with taking the game to a national level overruled all common sense.


the diluted talent across the league, put teams that could have been on the cusp of competing with a couple of winning draft moves, it kept them mid table teams. and the teams at the top, it kept them at the top as the free agents looking to cherry pick a prem flag only realistically had a team or three worth signing with.

the league disparity has never been greater, but its all on the AFL ... adding two teams in two years, was just asinine.

That is not what I am saying at all. You need to read the whole thread.

I am not saying we are poor. There are poor clubs though. We are at the mid to lower end of the scale however and climbing up to be remotely near the big Melbourne clubs is going to take some magic.

I have not mentioned playing lists.

I have two words for you ........ Port Adelaide.