Shit.


I was going to say he talks a lot of shit too.


But if you are going to ban yourself I withdraw that remark.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Mick might not have evolved, but I wish we could tackle and apply pressure like Mick's 2010 team.

Our team's biggest issue for a long time has been its mental weakness. If nothing else I expected Mick to be able to fix that. He hasn't.

I don't know why or how this is but our players seem to be immune to improving their mental strength and their consistency of application. Trade anyone.

People will say you can't trade the captain, and under normal circumstances I would agree, but we don't have a team culture worth protecting, so on that basis, any player that can help to improve our list with a post-season trade should go.

I think the arrival of Judd made a small blip of improvement, but any benefit he brought to the rest of his teammates has been long lost.

Judd isn't perfect, but he's a bloody good player. Despite that, he should not be the one leading the way on field in 2015.

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I was just gonna take one for the team

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

In fact what the hell is Armfield doing...saw him running a couple of times...couldn't possibly have been tagging his man at that stage.....


DROP!

Gee these clowns are lucky we're running out of lumbering talls ( And lumbering smalls)...that's the only reason they're getting a game.

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

Now THAT'S leadership!

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

Like everyone else i am sick of the excuses and justifications for garbage performance after garbage performance. We keep coming up with all the crap like we are rebuilding and there are injuries and a lot of kids in the side. How many goddamn years are we expected to swallow these rubbish lies. We have been rebuilding since the mass exodus of 2001 when we tried to plug holes in the team by getting reject players from other clubs. Apart from a few good players we seem to have continued that tradition of recruiting garbage players. Our recruiting is a joke.

As for our coaches we seem to have made a habit of chewing up and spitting them out and wrecking their careers. Yes getting rid of Ratten was probably an overreaction to the gold coast debacle but now who would want to coach here and have their career wrecked by a team that acts like they don't care and/or just have no talent.

I have followed the club for nearly 40 years, from when they were a champion team who stood for something and had pride in the jumper and the club. I have not been able to say that for many years now and am almost embarrassed to tell people i am a carlton supporter.

I wouldn't mind it as much if i saw improvement, but it is light years away. Every game they make the same mistakes such as not manning up, turning the ball over, not trying, having no system forwwrd etc..

If i can find his email i am going to email the president because as someone who has been a member for 16 years now i want to know where my money is being spent other than rubbish publicity stunts like the hovercraft. I expect if i get a reply it will be one pathetic excuse because that is all this once great club seems to be now and will continue to be for the next decade or two.

Was anyone else annoyed when they saw Geoff in the box?

Let's microwave our memberships

And cut up our scarves!


AND burn our bras! Just for good measure!

I have no idea. When was it?

When was the last time his opponent got 30 possesions? That's his job. It's Jone's job to kick goals.

If Curnow does his job ans Jones does his we are a better team for it.

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Yes.

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What position did Mr Hover Craft play tonight? He's getting quite a few games!

Absolutely
Really shows where the priorities are around Royal Parade.
The Pratts , Mathisens and the Doc through cash at us, and we dance like little strippers at a bucks night.
Pathetic!!

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It sure was.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Hover Craft covered more territory than Bryce Gibbs tonight...

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I wasn't saying he wasn't. I'm saying Pendlebury is more worthy and there is no reason why that may not have been evident even then. Collingwood may have still taken Murphy and may have preferred Thomas over Pendlebury but they still seem to have gone against consensus. Even Verbs on this site hinted that there was no reason to believe that Collingwood didn't choose the right players when everything finally comes out in the wash up. That was when Verbs used to be a valued contributor had yet to turn into a Malthouse hating automaton.

I'll give us Gibbs, I'll even give us Lucas and arguably Kreuzer. However, Murphy was a small bloke with no real great speed, Pendlebury was an athletic standout, younger, still developing and fresh out of Basketball. He could do a bit of everything, took the game on and looked like he belonged. I'm not talking about risk aversion, I'm talking about ranking players as you see them.

You can have a few washouts but you regain that elsewhere. We played it safe with most of Hughes' era, went a bit wild when that wasn't working and gave away too many draft picks. We need the endeavour to actually make the tough decisions, take the chances at the opportune time and play it save when that is actually the wisest thing to do, not the default option. We've played a rationalized game on beggar's money.

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Just because I'm offended, doesn't mean I'm wrong.

The mouse I'm using is covering more territory.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Who was actually good tonight? I mean, I can't even pick someone.

I watched the first half with my son tonight. He is five. His mother passed away from cancer six months ago. You don’t need to get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to kick a sack of leather around a park to have a blessed life. You just need to make it through without having to explain to a child that their mother is dying.

He loves the Blues. The song is one of first sounds he heard. I sang it to him in the delivery suite when the midwives took my wife to the bathroom. He stopped crying. We still sing it every night at bed time. When my wife was in hospital interstate for treatment, and we were both away for weeks at a time, he taught it to his grandfather (a league man) and made him sing it at bedtime instead.

This year is the first year that he has actually watched football. So he doesn’t really know the Blues of course, and is as interested in the fixture on my smartphone as he is in the game. He just loves them because I do. But he doesn’t understand why we keep losing when we are team that never lets you down.

He started Auskick last week. His club are the Giants. The Giants are second, he gets that much. He likes the Bulldogs too because their mascot looks fierce and such details are important to five year olds.

I know how this story ends because it is the story of why my father supports Collingwood and I do not. We are losing the next generation, like we lost the one before that. That’s not the tragedy though. The tragedy is, I’m not sure I can remember why I would want him to stay. He has been let down enough.

Yep, those are the 2 games I've seen live this year!!!

I thought the Subi performance was bad but this one easily tops it!!!

Mind you I was expecting a loss and was actually really surprised when I looked at the odds which had Collingwood as only marginal favourite (I don't bet but it's interesting when doing your tipping)

Docherty.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.