I think BV summed it up best a few weeks ago:

It's 2003 all over again.

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#DonTheStash

It just shows how incredibly thick management are - they don't learn.

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

Don't think its as bad as 2003.
We can recover, and recover quickly, but we must do everything right.

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James Hird and Essendon* FC - #FOREVERDRUGCHEATS

I think my little man is going to be a GWS giant.

Don't think I could live with the guilt of making him a blue.

Side benefit is I can take him to the odd day out here in Canberra without out fear of disappointment.

I remember reading an article on Kevin Sheedy where he said when he came to Essendon* they still hadn't got over the 1968 GF loss to Carlton. That he (and others) had to turn the whole culture and attitude around, that at Essendon* they still after years of mediocrity considered themselves a great club, when in fact they were crap and living in the past. Sound familiar?

Carlton is best f^&% the rest. Now there's a blue print for you.

everything right?

what about just getting the basics right on field first???

work rate, 1%ers, leadership, team sacrificial acts etc...

I would start there with some home truths to the players....and its critical that the PLAYERS do the soul searching. This is their problem, they need to develop solutions and take responsibility for their performances out on the ground.

If they don't like Aussie rules or the carlton football club - that's fine, go somewhere else and play, or take up darts or golf....

BUT DONT masquerade in the great carlton Jumper and soil the soul of the warriors who bled and sweated for the club in its past..

The Dominator put his neck out before the start of the season and said that Mick malthouse has made the carlton football club a happy place to be in, and that he expects a big season this year....

what would Bruce Doull be thinking - we know he wouldn't say anything - but what would he be thinking?

I know that Peter Dean would love to be still playing in this great jumper

Even the Super Brat and Borg

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Unite behind what?

I pay about $750 a year for a membership and turn up every week. What else can a supporter actually do? It's not like we have any say as to what happens with the board.

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Audere est Facere

I think it's worse than 2003 simply because our playing list is in much better shape than it was back then.

There should be no bloody excuses at all for what happened last night. NONE!

I agree with what you say but your comment above seems to be the major issue at hand. We need new crew however the constraints make this difficult. In the past I believe Carlton supporters do get behind change i.e. Collo's ticket is one example.

However we should not have to put up with the same people making the same poor decisions over and over again. How do we get a new crew? Wait for Sticks to hand pick them? Is that a new crew or more bad decisions from the current crew?

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It is not as bad as you are lead to believe.......it is %$#^& worse!!!

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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.

...and beat them by nearly 100 less than 2 years ago.

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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.

The worry I have is we will win a couple of games, add in a couple of handy performances and everything will be okay.

When will the people at Carlton realise how bad we are? The comments by MM last night really worried me. Didn't realise how bad we are??

I listen to Swann on the radio and everything is fine?? Is that what we really think? Supporters at the game yesterday were expecting us to lose and lose badly. It wasn't a surprise to most of us. WTF is going on?????????????????????

We have a enough talent to win a few games but we are so far off top 4 its scary. It's not only that but the effort and lack of care that is it for me.

Kernahan needs to go, Swann needs to go (or at best keep out of football decisions) and McKay definitely needs to go. That's just the start.

PS I am also still angry with the Thomas trade. When we start recruiting Collingwood Premiership players our culture has hit an all time low!

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

Carlton had 47 1%'ers to Essendon*'s 35.

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

Funny because no one wanted the port job.
Hinkley was the last resort, that's how good their list looked.

Also the whole playing personalities thing needs to be adjusted.

Hearing that rowe is getting AFL minutes over Cas, despite being an inferior player and much, much less of a prospect, but a better 'personality' than what casboult is.

That stuff sticks in my craw. We're here to win, not play favourites. (Which is a big knock on Malthouse's entire career, re plays his favourites).

The bombers are not 81 points better than us.

FMD - 3/4 time we were winning the taps at close to a 3:1 margin and were getting smashed. Imagine if the bombers had broken even in the ruck. We deserved to lose by 100+

If we play like that again, Melbourne might win next week...

Sorry just read your post, but I'm glad someone else remembers

Just shows it can change and change quickly IF you have the right people in charge.

Don't underestimate how much influence Alan Richardson had when Ratten was coach then as part of the Port rebuild. He is a first class coach who has a poor St Kilda side playing good hard team football.

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#NewBlues beginning 25th August 2015

Is it any wonder with Sticks "the top up, we're close, we can pinch a flag with this list" Kernahan in charge of this club and it's football direction since 1997.

He should be asked to flower off right now, and the current Board as well, otherwise we will just sugar coat and overate where we are as a club AGAIN and make the same flowering mistakes all over again.

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

Winston Churchill

tackles were about even at 57 to 51 in our favour and the contested ball was about even at 123 to 125.

Inside 50 was 55 to 29 in essendons favour

And marks inside 50 were 21 to 7 in their favour

They had more of the ball with about 450 possessions to our 317.

What does that tell you???

(1%ers are measured differently by every club, some include pressure acts some don't - what did you think of our harassing and pressure acts last night? Very impressive intensity and team related acts by the boys wasn't it Effes??? I know I was impressed - I have never seen anything like it in my life)

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