When I was young and the footy was on a Saturday afternoon on the radio, and my old man wasn't taking me to the game. I would listen to every kick, and then depending on the result wear my jumper for the rest of the day and half of Sunday, or take it off if we lost.

What are / were everyone's post result rituals? And I don't want to hear things like "I put my scarf out the car window on the way home", too boring

As I have gotten older they have generally involved beer at the Rising Sun (RIP) Great Northern/ Cricks/ Great Western, but that isn't really the type of thing I was thinking about.

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Forgotten, but not gone

When we win, i watch every news show, sports tonight, buy the paper the next day, see every article on the net. The complete opposite when we lose.

as a kid if we lost I'd take the ball out inot the back yard and replay the game but with me playing and always, always, altering that game so that we won.

if we won I'd take my football outsoide and replay that game with me playing and ensuring the game was won again and again and again.


as a teenager if we won i'd buy every paper i could and drool over the sporting globe of a Thursday(?) with its long write up of the game.

Thanks to places like the Rising Sun i do not remember too many losses.


Now with son in hand we go through the record when we won and evaluate the players, revel in it with the lad, and wtahc as on the trian he plays the game between the windoew seat and his wild imagination.

If we lose I talk about the old days and dream the dream in his liquid eyes of big Nick and Ragsy Gould and others.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Exactly!!!! I shut myself off from the media at all costs when we lose.

If we win I keep drinking.... if we lose, I stop.

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The problem will be made. for the solution to be sold, to your face before your eyes, tolerance is now the new danger

AHAHA, yeh the good old drink can turn any loss into a win.

Oh well there's no fear of me becoming an alcoholic anytime soon...

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The problem will be made. for the solution to be sold, to your face before your eyes, tolerance is now the new danger

Just the scarf out of the car window.Im easily amused.

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All my dangerous friends

What do you mean ? When I was young???

Until the ripe old age of 36, I wore a T shirt to every game that said" On the 7th day G-d made CARLTON.
Still have it at home.

Had it mended when it tore
Gave it a new collar when it frayed.
Would still wear it now except that I was told by others I travel with that it was about time I changed the top.
Since then I've worn a CFC Polo top to every game including the games that I have to sit at home to watch when we play interstate!

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Stay tuned We're in for a BUMPY ride

I have a 'fight back 2003' T Shirt. I have changed it each year to 04, 05 .and now 06. I love it. I wear it to squash each game...and yeah I do cop heaps of shit for it. "You will run out of room you know" ...they say....

Smart bums

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The problem will be made. for the solution to be sold, to your face before your eyes, tolerance is now the new danger

A ritual as a young'un...

If we won:
- Made sure someone at home recorded the channel 7 replay... remember giving up my copy of 'WrestleMania I' when we ran out of VHS tapes
- Bought both The Age and The Hun the next day, just so the journos could tell me what I already knew

If we lost:
- Caught the bus home, went straight to bed, assumed the foetal position... not a word, no dinner, no nothing... weekend ruined. Was so distraught, it can't have been healthy.

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B...

If we win...I drink.


If we lose...I drink.



















I drink.

Where the deuce is my flask?

Welcome to Talking Carlton, SFPDBlue - what do you mean it cant have been healthy, your up at 1 oclock in the morning posting meaningless drivel on a Carlton Chat Room.

If Carlton won, my Sunday Morning ritual was always the same, get up bright and early on ride my bike to the Milk Bar, by a loaf of Vienna Bread, the Sunday Observer and Sunday Press and then go home and sit at the table devouring half the loaf (with lashings of butter and vegemite and reading both papers.

If Carlton lost, I would spend the rest of Sunday pretending that football didnt exist and working out how I was going to get out of school on Monday so I wouldnt face all the ritual teasing from "The Filth" supporters.

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

Winston Churchill

Cheers AGRO... worse still - I'm living in California now so its actually 6:30am here . Just got back from poker night with the boys and jumped onto TC to check for training reports. Have to front up for work in an hour...

I'd turn up the walkman on the train to school so I didnt have to put up with the shyte being dished out...

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Using the microwave is determined by Carlton jumper numbers...defrost bread=Paul Meldrum and 23 seconds...reheat cup of tea=Adam Bentick at 40 seconds + 30 seconds for Jarrad Waite...laughing at what a flower I am= 5 seconds for Andy McKay or even 1 for SOS now Walker, just for the giggles.

Keno/Lottery numbers are always Carlton jumper numbers or premiership years...

When we beat Essendon* I savage anyone I know with a Bomber tendency usually by text message or prank call but I have also decorated peoples front porches with navy streamers and balloons...

When we beat Collingwood I make a donation to some charity for those in poverty.

When we beat anyone else I watch the game at least three time and Dad and I pretend we missed certain parts of the game when we are really just stroking it some more.

I sing We Are the Navy Blues really flower loud in my backyard even if I've had to watch replay at midnight.

Hiya!

Love the avatar...

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

If we win - I go to the pub.
If we lose - I go to the pub.
If we draw - I go to the pub.

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Witty signature required.

I tape the game, then if we win it becomes porn of the week.

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#DonTheStash

hey deano... he's name's darren... milburn.

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B...

What's the time there?? Have you had any sleep yet??