A good piece of prose. I had never thought of the trade being Henderson and McLean V Fevola, a great way to look at it, which really says again that we won the trade.

"But when you look at it, I would say it is actually Henderson and (Brock) McLean versus Fevola. We gave up our pick 11 (to Melbourne for McLean) and got back pick 12 (for Fevola). And we would have taken (Kane) Lucas at 11 anyway."

The recruitment of McLean to the Blues' midfield will allow captain Chris Judd to spend at least some time in attack, an opportunity that excites Ratten.

Ratten said the lessons learnt from the players' boozy end-of-year cruise were many and varied, as tough as it was at the time.

An action plan in terms of the club's revamped but confidential alcohol policy is in place after extensive work with Ray McLean and Leading Teams.

The coach and the club mean business on this.

Asked how confident he was that such an incident will not take place again, the coach was emphatic, wasting few words.

"It won't happen again ... it just won't."

Yep, Fevola + Colyer (?) for McLean, Henderson and Lucas.

Considering what we might have received (Riska+Braddy) I think we should be pretty rapt.

Yep, Fevola + Colyer (?) for McLean, Henderson and Lucas.

Considering what we might have received (Riska+Braddy) I think we should be pretty rapt.

Ratten said the lessons learnt from the players' boozy end-of-year cruise were many and varied, as tough as it was at the time.

An action plan in terms of the club's revamped but confidential alcohol policy is in place after extensive work with Ray McLean and Leading Teams.

The coach and the club mean business on this.

Asked how confident he was that such an incident will not take place again, the coach was emphatic, wasting few words.

"It won't happen again ... it just won't."

I just hope the HUN executive behind the vendetta is exposed.

You really don't read my posts do you?!!

Hey, Bondi, you shouldn't post when you're angry. You're spelling goes to sh1t!

A balanced piece of journalism from the Hun - But coming only after a steady stream of negative Carlton pieces over the past couple of months.

I used to think it was just anti Carlton bias - But now I think it's nothing more than a deliberate and quite cynical exercise on the part of the HUN.

They know that they sell more papers by printing say two negative Carlton articles for each neutral or positive one.

But they cant bag Carlton all the time and be seen to totally alienate all the Carlton supporters - that would be too counter productive.

Instead they feel a need to behave like a sycophant - and deliberately create a perception of some kind of 'balance'.

This attempt at a 'balanced view' is manufactured in order to pursue a perceived sales advantage that the HUN senses that they will obtain by bagging us more often than being positive about us.

Their's is a shallow minded, retributive and judgemental gossip mongering market - and negative gossip to a wide audience of anti Carlton people sells more papers.

The Ratten feature is simply an attempt to create the view that they arent total Carlton haters - even though they feel compelled to do so for most of the time.

Sometimes however they cant help themselves and go too far - scraping the bottom of the gossip monger's barrel.

A good example of this has nothing to do with Carlton - but is their apparent obsession with the state of Mathew Stoke's facial hair - something that has been commented upon in a number of the articles over the past week about the Stokes / drugs issue.

Whether Stokes has a moustache or not has absolutely nothing to do with his present difficulties - but is apparently of great interest to the Herald Sun in their articles on him.