I've watched a few games from the 2011-12 era with Ratts as coach.
The run and stun game we played when Yarran, Eddie, Judd, Armfield, Garlett, Walker and Scotland was devastating.
I had forgotten just how good Yarran was. His ability to evade tackles and run flat out, look up field and just caress the footy low to a lead up forward was nothing less than exquisite. Delicious even.
What a pity his life away from football destroyed what might have been a stellar career.
MM managed to turn that team into a plodding, defensive boring team of easybeats inside two years.
I have no doubt we wouldn't have sunk so low had we stuck with Ratts. He seemed to let the players play more on instinct than the outdated, structured crap MM introduced to the club.
I think the Teague Train will be similar to the Ratts model. I bloody hope so.

Yarran’s downward life trajectory coincided when he split up with his then girlfriend Michelle Trewertha, who used to work in Carlton Media Dept.

Who said Eddie couldn't play well in big games.

Juddy!


Knucklehead Robbo.


The good were very good the average very average. Our problem for a long time.

This thread made me watch it again. so much fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e6kduhXpVY

Friend sent me a photo from todays Herald Sun.
The article is about length of contracts, assuming long contracts like Grundys and Martin's will be a thing of the past with reduced salary caps.

The photo of Martin fending with the caption "who could argue with Martin's contract?", you can see he is "typically" allowed to illegally fend off the player by hitting his throat.

This happened in the Carlton game and nearly every game Martin has played since 2016.

One rule for Martin and another rule for everyone else.
No wonder he gets paid the big bucks: he's a protected species by the AFL/umpires allowed to break the rules.

It is about time the AFL community remonstrate to the AFL about this obvious, ongoing breach of the rules.

Yep.

17.3.2 Free Kicks - Prohibited Contact
A field Umpire shall award a Free Kick against a Player when that Player makes any of the following Prohibited Contact with an opposition Player:(a) executes a tackle that is not legal;(b) pushes an opposition Player in the back;(c) makes high contact to an opposition Player (including the top of the shoulders) with any part of their body


17.7.2 Free Kicks - Rough Conduct
A field Umpire shall award a Free Kick against a Player when that Player engages in rough conduct against an opposition Player which in the circumstances is unreasonable, which includes but is not limited to:(a) executing a dangerous tackle on an opposition Player;(b) making forceful contact below the knees of an opposition Player or executing a forceful action towards the lower leg of an opposition Player, causing the opposition Player to take evasive action;(c) sliding knees or feet first into an opposition Player;(d) using boot studs in a manner likely to cause injury.

https://s.afl.com.au/staticfile/AFL%20Tenant/AFL/Files/2019%20Laws%20of%20Australian%20Football.pdf


And you'd think it's covered by more than one law:






Also, and with regard to the first rule quoted above, umpires nearly always ignore players making contact with the top of an opponent's shoulders when going for a speccy.