I don't remember that kind of language in TNG and what would Picard be talking about threads for unless he was talking about crap Starfleet uniforms.

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Tonight even more symptomatic of 20 years of ineptitude my god we are soulless weak insipid spineless and not just talking about the players
We need to take action this is a disgrace we are so far behind the league leaders it's not funny
Need to hammer this board

does the portrait have to go too???

whatabout the old lady... senior VP we have.... how do we tell her???(after all we must eternally be grateful ... eternally means forever... the portrait is like our eternity ring ...
bear gleeson too??.. he did the 150 players...

lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater here...

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Either we change or we snuggle up to ineptitude.

The board has to go. They made the call to knife Ratten when he was getting the maximum from the list.

Get used to this fans. Its the new carlton

that was one of their ripper decisions

but they appointed him in the first place was a bigger problem.. because they panicked with what they could do next

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it's not the new Carlton, it now is Carlton, been that way for a while

don't be surprised if we don't win a premiership for at least another 10 years

that will be 30 years before a premiership, that is mind boggling

oh well, at least my youth was peppered with premierships

One thing I'll say about Ratten, his gameplan was just about on point. Run, carry and spread through the corridor is the new AFL.

There's a meme my family is happily post on Facebook showing a Carlton watch with words along the lines of resetting the clock 8 years in the past. Pretty much sums up where we are.

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This is third hand information however I wouldn't be surprised if Tom Elliot shakes things up a bit in a nice way since he is friends with most on the board. He is being told to stay away because of his surname.

Tom is a smart guy and has fantastic connections. Hope this information is true.

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

the thing that worries me is I could't give a @#$%&!. Mick stays Mick goes who the @#$%&! cares. Ineptitude is an elixir, it makes being shit so easy to get used to, just ask the board. I bet people are still back-slapping them. This club is [REDACTED]. Its the new Melbourne. one day soon we'll have a paltry collection of old stayers and their sad, gloomy children who hear about the grand old days but see nothing but shit and misery.
Go @#$%&! yourself carlton! wait...you have..over and over over the past 20 odd years. What made us strong now kills us and we cannot seem to grasp that simple fact.

Wish I could follow another club the only thing left is to accept the ineptitude and cheer when something lovely happens.

Oh the ghost sleeps well, do not wake him...good times are gone,, the forests are dead...welcome to carlton's climate change...we are dead...we are dead...not with a bang but a whimper...

i remember..I remember when...and therein lies the death knell...we only have memories...memories and the sweet smell of another year accepting we do not belong...Forget Everest, lets try to climb the @#$%&! stairs!

I give my son permission to barrack for whoever he wants...I have seen the misery of his Melbourne cousins and would wish that on no one.

Will we ever be carlton again?

Will we?

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the thing that worries me is I could;t give a @#$%&!. Mick stays Mick goes who the @#$%&! cares. Ineptitude is an elixir, it makes being shit so easy to get used to, just ask the board. I bet people are still back-slapping them. This club is [REDACTED]. Its the new Melbourne. one day soon we'll have a paltry collection of old stayers and their sad, gloomy children who hear about the grand old days but see nothing but shit and misery.
Go @#$%&! yourself carlton! wait...you have..over and over over the past 20 odd years. What made us strong now kills us and we cannot seem to grasp that simple fact.

Wish I could follow another club the only thing left is to accept the ineptitude and cheer when something lovely happens.

Oh the ghost sleeps well, do not ale him...times are gone,, the forest are dead...welcome to carlton's climate change...we are dead...we are dead...not with a bang but a whimper...

i remember..I remember when...and therein lies the death knell...we only have memories...memories and the sweet smell of another year accepting we do not belong...Forget Everest, lets try to climb the @#$%&! stairs!

I give my son permission to barrack for whoever he wants...I have seen the misery of his Melbourne cousins and would wish that on no one.

Will we ever be carlton again?

Will we?

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with the twenty half back flankers he was busy collecting???

only 3 of them could play at the one time...

which means 17 were going to be delisted .... which means.. we dont have second and third rounders in our team atm.

he is not here so he can be looked upon fondly for his one eliminational finals win in 5 years... (same as mm in his one year mind u )
also remember rattens last year

maybe the year we win eliminational finals.. we then fall away faster

better to not make finals than risk that ....

but we have a terrible balanced list.

we dont even have a midfield

we have mids.. but there is no variety in the mids we have...
we have a heap of depth in one type of midfielder and none in all the other types

terrible terrible list management

its taken years to get here... we never actually left here though.. thats the weird bit.... it was all a mirage

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Have you been satisfied with these areas of the on field performance by the players?

Intensity
Work rate
Pressure acts
1%ers (tackles, blocks, sacrificial acts etc)
Leadership


A large chunk of our list over the years have been imposter Carlton players - never let them off the hook that easily....

Our club has not been able to string more than 4 consecutive wins together for over a Decade - may need to go back to when Brittain was coach to see that.

With the exception of the 2011 season where we played with a little bit of consistency (but still had the same problems every month or so), we are looking at WASTED SEASON after WASTED SEASON...

And Mick Malthouse said last night that "HE DIDNT SEE THIS COMING"?

Maybe Mick can go on another book launching tour to think about whether he wants to actually coach this team or not...

As far as the carlton board is concerned? Well it has always been a little power toy for Oligarchs and corporatized and politicized male egos...

This time our board has a HUGE flood light shinning on it

Nowhere to run now....

The magic of Dicks Portrait in the board will not help - the only portrait

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Might have 'the chat' with my kids today. Give them permission to follow any other club they wish. It's bloody cruel to make them follow this club.

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Cret i am mystified with the significance of Dick Pratts portrait in the board room.... just one portrait of so many presidents... but just his is hanging.
Did he win us any flags? Am i unaware of something historical and momentous?
Why isnt it George Harris' portrait if just one?
Or why not all the presidents portraits?

What the hell is this all about????

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No! He is a 3aw shock Jock who wants to rehabilitate his daft old man. If we can't do better than that, we are truly woeful. We need to get away from the same cosy few families. I want people with no connections with anyone on the current board

funny... the guy with the surname thats abit black sheep would be better than the guys who have the acceptable surnames in my opinion.

why would u not allow a guy on who actually would be easily on the top of that group for brains and nouse???

on one hand a guy cant go on the board cos his father lost the plot in the end
and on the other we have a guys portrait and 2 members of his family on the board after that guy stole 700 million from australia??

get real!!!

truth is if elliott bankrolled the club hed be on too....

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Am waiting for pigs arses media ban to be lifted this week.

What's the stauts on refunds for the 150th Gala dinner? I don't think me being within that proximity of the players is safe for anyone.

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I don't know Mr S - that is a matter for the Oligarchs and their foot solider slaves...

I have been studying the leadership quality, 1%ers and work rate for the players and the team as a collective at least since the early 1980s and the past decade or so has been absolutely deplorable to say the least......

I have changed my mind about not renewing my membership this year (again - even though I was given a free membership last year for some ridiculous reason). I will be visiting the club this week to buy a membership.

Whilst my youngest son supports the club, my eldest who will 11 soon, asked me after the Richmond loss whether I would get angry if he barracked for another team.

I want to attend this years AGM and for that one needs to be a member again.

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