It is becoming obvious to me that most sides view Carlton as the team they would love to beat.....the new Collingwood if you will...as we are seen to have 'so much money,' 'so many no 1 draft picks' and 'Bought the best player in the league!'
Although this is not nessisarily a bad thing, the effect is that we always seem to come up against a team that is switched on and plays out of their skins, such as the Freo game last week, every time we play the bumbers and so on...

As an avid AFL follower i go to most Adelaide and Port Power home games and i have noticed that even the crowd gets more involved when they play against the Blues. Surely if this is the case many of our wins and losses have been unfairly scrutinised as most of the time only the opponents position on the ladder has been taken into account when judging the performance.

Thoughts?

so......in other words, they know were coming??

It is becoming obvious to me that most sides view Carlton as the team they would love to beat.....the new Collingwood if you will...as we are seen to have 'so much money,' 'so many no 1 draft picks' and 'Bought the best player in the league!'
Although this is not nessisarily a bad thing, the effect is that we always seem to come up against a team that is switched on and plays out of their skins, such as the Freo game last week, every time we play the bumbers and so on...

As an avid AFL follower i go to most Adelaide and Port Power home games and i have noticed that even the crowd gets more involved when they play against the Blues. Surely if this is the case many of our wins and losses have been unfairly scrutinised as most of the time only the opponents position on the ladder has been taken into account when judging the performance.

Thoughts?

Hey guy above me do you actually SUPPORT Carlton.

Hey guy above me do you actually SUPPORT Carlton.

What do you expect when the club comes out telling everyone "WE'RE COMING"

We've been the laughing stock of the AFL and our marketing department think they can buy back respect with stupid slogans and Dick Pratts money.

Has anyone noticed how the Bombers have gone about earning back respect? There motivation behind the resurgence of there club was how everyone had written them off as bottom 4 side in 2009.

We used Pratts money to print up some posters and billboards to tell everyone we are coming.

Doesn't matter whatever everybody else is doing. I don't respect the Bumbers with their game plan. I really don't. They can have their play on at all costs as plan A, B and C. We will still have the personnel... Yarran may even surprise you...I bet he'll be a good one by 2011...he's very young you know. Gotta get em when you can and we did at pick 6 as an investment...it wont go wrong (barring injury).

Lets wait and see if we make the finals first; there's another 7 rounds to go and we are 1 game plus percentage ahead. Win against the Swans at home (a long time coming but due...because we are coming at them) and we are a couple ahead. It is highly probable we make the 8, but lets wait and see.

Next year, another preseason under the belts of the kids (most of our list), 6 new inclusions and I'd say a mighty scalp in trade time. Then we will be seriously coming.

It's all about Carlton. They all want our scalp because there's so many of us Australia wide and we are coming, no doubt (ebbs and flows atm, that's all)

Come on Melvey you can do it. Believe with me ....Come on...you can do it

The brilliance of Melvey's position is that no matter the outcome he's a winner.

If we fail, as he oft contends we will, he gets to sit atop his high horse and say "I told you so".

If we succeed he gets to bask in that success and glory with every other Carlton fan who has rode out the storm.

But, to answer Juzzy's question... I'm not really sure if he does support Carlton. Perhaps it'd be more apt to say "he follows Carlton", because 'support' isn't really what he lends the Blues.

I don't believe in our coach and some of the boys that take the field don't either.

Melvey, you have zero way of knowing whether that's actually the truth, so just cork it. For your own sake. You're starting to look silly.

Everyone wants to beat Carlton?

Wow, I never would have guessed.

So, are we to understand that, say;

Essendon* don't want to beat Geelong;

Brisbane don't want to beat Port; or

Richmond don't want to beat Collingwood?

Don't Carlton want to beat eveybody else?