Sydney Blue wrote:
Carlton not requesting a PP and the admission that the clubs current plight is of their own doing is probably the most honest appraisal I have heard coming from the club in a very long time
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Every team that finishes last does so of their own doing. Every club anchored for long periods at the foot of the table does so at their own hand. This pseudo ethics/pride/posturing BS does my head in. We are a franchise within a larger corporation. Continual poor performance degrades the value of a once valuable asset. Much as Myers or KMart or Target go back cap in hand to the parent company asking for $$ to invest in a plan to reinvigorate and refresh their once powerful and popular business so must the mighty blues. Any type of emotive claptrap about 'earning respect' etc is so amateurish that is laughable and presumably rolled out as fodder for the numpties at the Sports Bar or the TAB on a Saturday arvo. That massive game on the weekend, the Richmond Collingwood game, the one the state stopped for, the one with the massive ratings and a full MCG, we used to do that all the time. That pathetic flogging at Etihad with a half empty stadium, we used to laugh at other clubs who did that. A powerful Carlton would bring the punters out of the woodwork just like Richmond has, it would fill seats, sell Pay TV subscriptions and sell Medallion Club packages. It would boost ratings and increase the value of the competition. All of these things are much more valuable than any pseudo socialist science experiment inspired by the social planners and serial apologists.