Do you ever fall into the trap of looking at certain players with your expectations too low?

It is a trap because you look for every conceivable positive in their game.

The opposite can also happen of course where your expectations are too high and a true star of the game can upset you because they fluffed one out of their 30 kicks.

Which players have tricked you with low expectations?

Which players who have managed to connect one handball or kick in a game has made your heart skip a beat in hope? Only for you to realise one, two or three years later that despite expectations they were never going to make it?

For me the ultimate was Ben Nelson, I saw him connect a beautiful 15M handball from the bottom of a pack to a running player and thought we had the next Greg Williams. Needless to say I was wrong.

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JR. But that was one kick in a season.

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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.

Jimmae Plunkett

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#DonTheStash

Jezza.
Never won a Brownlow so can't have been much good.

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

Simon fletcher, being one of the first young guys at Carlton to catch my eye in the midfield, we just never blooded young players.

Brett Backwell (the little blonde haired kid from qld), with that goal from the boundary line, and the flair he showed.

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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Little Stevie Kenna - I really thought when we got him, we were building the Mosquito Fleet all over again.

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

all that have failed but so what - I'm a supporter I should love 'em all!

Except for Reid - I hated Reid.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

I'm a sucker for Rookies. AJ is one already fitting into this category as is Jacobs, but they both will make it

JR is the obvious one, he will be Ryan Grigginesque soon!!!

OK, tell me I'm crazy

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Mjonc signing off at 8888

Justin Davies and Blake Campbell.

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There is no footy god

I thought that Adrian Whitehead was it and a bit....

I thought Brett Johnson was going to be good...

My first ever pack of footy cards had a Tom Alvin card in it and he was my favourite from then on...I think I missed his glory days by a year or two but he still played some good footy...I remember him then playing for Sandy in the VFL and he dominated...

I thought you were a WIGGINS fan?

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

Tom Alvin played for Sandy?

Blake Campbell definitely.

Remember him and Thornton being our 'new guys' and thinking 'gee campbell goes alright, but thornton... not that flash.'

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Congratulations CK95

Murray Vance.











































Yeah, you're right. He never showed anything.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Well I thought Livo would never make it, which just goes to show, wait hang on

I was surprised Porter didnt have a better career than what he did, I am fairly certain he would have, if he remained at Carlton.

Simon Fletcher comes to mind as one I was impressed with, Jimmy Plunkett, Prendergast, McCormack. A common thread between these guys is they all seemed to get a bit of the ball, just crap skills which were masked when playing in a decent side (or in Prenda & McCormack's case stood out because they actually COULD get the ball in a crap side)

While not ever making specifically flattering comments, I once thought Trent Sporn was ok.

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I really thought we had something with Karl Norman.................Hell, he even got a rising star nomination.


pitty.............................

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
- Aristotle

I liked Krazy Karl too, for an easily led country lad, he arrived at the club 5 years too early, a time of no leadership and Laurence Angwin.

Though I am sure he and Laurence reminice about old times, playing on Karl's now missing Nintendo Wii

Yeah ditto, remember travelling to Subi to watch a Rd 1 match against Freo - saw him do some very Eddie Betts things (there's only one Eddie though!) - including a mercurial snap from the pocket...

...hardly played a game after that, always wondered why.

Ian Prendergast was the big one for me


Callan Beasy is another that comes to mind and Adam Chatfield