- maybe a different nickname would be better Molsey.

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"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies." - Gene Hill

how good was our forward line at the start of the game

Campo - Lance - Morell
Lappin - Fevola - Chambers

some serious talent in that forward line

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Got to love the stare Down by Setanta on Llyod

Nah, I like it. Imagine that being called out with each defensive play..."FIST"!

Which is why I was puzzled why he spent a lot of time on the bench especially in the 2nd quarter - because we struggled to get the ball out of the centre when he wasn't in there. Out of all the players we recruited last year - McGrath will more than make up for some of the 'duds' like Mott/Kenna etc we picked up.

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

Winston Churchill

One positive that I would like to add is that we are winning without Koutoufides and minimum input from his understudy in Waite.

It's just the beginning but boy it feels good.

Massive positive for me is that 21 goals were kicked! When was the last time we kicked that many in a game? Also very pleasing to see that whilst Fev dominated with 6 goals - he didn't have to be the main focal point. We have options up forward now, and that is proven by the fact that there were 10 other goal scorers besides Fev!!

Carrazo - four or five center clearances - looked reasonably comfortable for someone that normally plays in the backline!

Chambers - didn't know he could play as a tagger - but clearly HE CAN!!

Well, a career in the adult film industry beckons if AFL doesn't work out...

Nothing wrong with being a good fister...

I think the biggest positive on the night was some of the passages shown by Carrazzo. I posted this elsewhere, but he will follow a similar path to Rats the way he is going. He's deceptively quick and has great composure.

Negative, Norman. He looks like he'd rather be elsewhere at the moment. How does he look at training. Does he appear disinterested there as well? I will be very disappointed if he doesn't push on. He definitely has the attributes to make it at AFL level.

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C'mon Blueboys!

hmmm, i expected some carrazzo positives to be mentioned here but i think some of this is a bit uncalled for. carrazzo missed 3 passes in a row in his first few possessions; i was killing the bean bag i was sitting in with punches. granted, last quarter was very good.

p.s. i know this is very un-carlton of me to post a negative as we approach a grand final

pps i wonder if carrots will have to play BP this week though; sampi may call for carrots to go back given his good performances on davey.

Horses for courses Molsey.
Carrazzo will never have the skills of Stevens but his creative skills are first rate.
His ability to win clearances out of the centre was exceptional.
I dont mind if he kicks a 30 metre grubber out of the middle.
As long as its going our way, the opposition dont have it.

His ability to create an option is excellent as well.
When we recieve a mark or free kick and play comes to a stop, Carrazzo often provides a running option to break up the play so we arent kicking to contests.
The skills of reading the play and creating a viable option is the best skill of all.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

good to know that Carrots is a horse; must make him popular with some of the fans.

Yeah, I know all that BV, I really do. not many fans out there realise that he's a midfielder playing BP because our list requires it; not the other way around. but as a midfielder his kicking is at times poor. he seems to go through phases; in the VFL last year he had a few games where he was 100% effective, man he was good. And then there's others where he dribbles it around. hot / cold syndrome.

perhaps in the new pagan empire some of these guys are OK; wiggins, carrots as ball-winners who put their balls on the line a hell of a lot of the time. while we're winning of course its ok, its just when they give up a goal that we'll all complain. perhaps as we recover from draft pick losses such players will naturally fall away, i'm not sure.

from my perspective, we should be mindful of the downsides while showering with praise.

LOL! Agreed!

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The great are great to us only because we are on our knees. Let us arise.
--Robert Collier

ok.... if you dont like the fist.... what else can I say... well, its a clenched fist...

THE CLENCH!

If his performances keep up, I like "The Rock". His performances have been solid.

If we are to use the Rock analogy then his performances that were Sandstone are becoming something a lot tougher. Still not granite though.

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The great are great to us only because we are on our knees. Let us arise.
--Robert Collier

So many positives for me.
The main positives were the the perfomances of the "whipping boys".
Yes I've been doubtful of the futures of Simmo, Livo, Davies, Carrazzo, Wiggo but over the last few weeks these players have SHOWN SOMETHING at senior level that gives me hope that they might have a good future with the blues.
As each days passes the more respect and admiration I have for Dennis Pagan grows. What a master coach he is.

Being saying for a while that Lappin has to play forward and is in all aus form. Deluca gives us another target and stretches opposing defenses with his height...
Liked Kade Simpson as well...nice left foot kick and a stylish player who knows what he is doing when he gets the footy.....
Livo....one of his best games....timing was good, and got to most contests.
Thought French did well and a bit of a pat on the back for Davies who did well when he came on the ground..
We have a problem in the ruck when French isnt rucking..prenda is ok around the ground in general play but we lose soemthing when Frech isnt on the ball and the opposing rucks take over....wouldnt want to see prenda rucking for too long this week especially with West Coast having some decent talls...all in all a very good game from every Carlton player and Pagan should be very happy...

He has shown nothing, zilch.I am still waiting for some kind of sign that he will make anything that reesembles a n afl player. I hope i am wrong!!

Where am I?

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It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.

Relax Sue, everything is very normal, nothing to see here, it's going to be just fine. Now come with me.

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that'siti'mnotchangingthistagain......!

In the Tardus?

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

This is the best thing from this thread. 13 years later...

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Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores.