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Pleasing to get a positive piece from the Hun. To say the least it will be interesting to see how things pan out, especially with our scoring options. A test for the coaching panel. Really looking forward to the season.

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"our electorate seeks less to be informed and more to be validated." Sad times.

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.

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"GIBBS."

We gave them our 2nd round pick #27 as well.

The fact that he consistently mentions Kreuzer as a forward option in the post Fev era is the No 1 reason as to why I think we will make the 8 in 2010 and won't fall into the great apocalyptic chasm that so many predict around here.

I've seen enough of him forward in the past few years to think that this freakish player will terrorise backlines for years to come.

Yeah, some positive CFC news most welcome, too.

But I thought Essendon* were the only ones replete with forward options. I'M CONFUSED!!!!

I found this part particularly interesting, and easily forgotten


BTW, in true hun form, the 'booze cruise' does get a mention here for those that don't want to click the linkand is the last thing mentioned in the article. But at least there's some light to cap it off...

Good to see Leading Teams earning their dollars.

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It certainly is Pleasing to see a lot of my favorite cliches form 2009 will be bandied around again this year, I mean look...at the end of the day, it's always evening again, and to borrow from Elvis...
A little less conversation and a lot more goal-action will be entirely welcome.

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That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,” she said. “He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

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

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

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Agree 100%.
Wasn't happy initially when we did the trade, was absolutely spewin that we couldn't get Danny Bradshaw and Riskatelly on board. But hindsight is a wonderful thing.

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"GIBBS."

Actually, it worked out to be Fevola + Callum Bartlett (#27) + Jordan Gysberts (#11) for Henderson + Lucas + McLean.

@#$%&! the HUN

The article isn't as positive as some think.

There'a a lot of questions raised and te Blues Cruise still gets a mention, let alone being the headline article on their website.

Lert the HUN continue its appauling vitriol and they will continue to devalue themselves amongst the whole footy community. People get sick of the same old story over and over again...iy says something of the capability of its plethora of so called journalists busy yrying to find stories. Ha.

The HUN are a bunch of no hopera and plagiarists. Their footy journalists are below average, and seriously simple. Sometimes I wonder if they are boafide journalists or kids on work experience.

Watch them come back and suck up to Carltonians, after their efforts to derail our potential sponsorship signings and degrade our reputation all fails before their eyes.

Well the vendetta against Carlton was always going to fail. I just hope the HUN executive behind the vendetta (the one who had the problem with the Carlton official at Portsea over summer) is exposed. He's looking like a dead set dill atm....just like he's muppets who are singing his song.

@#$%&! the HUN and don't ever forget the shit they have given us in the last 4 months. Don't forgive them. The owe us heaps.

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Nothing wrong with that article at all...no evidence of a vendetta in my eyes.

Of course the booze cruise got a mention...it's still recent news, and Ratts obviuosly had some things to say about it.



The next few months are a real test for the club as a whole....now we will see how much or little we have grown.

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

Ratts looks more like Alfred E Newman than Alfred E Newman does.

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Of course I do Doc Sherrin. And I value them.
Now don't be sore about my dissappointment in your comments about training posts.

The abovementioned quote is part of a rumour which may or may not overtime change in context. Isn't that similar to what the HUN do to us everyday.

Now tell me what that quote has to do with your post on the subject?
I'll tell you, you're reading things as you want them to be.

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

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Do you mean "YOUR spelling......"?

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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.

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Well put blueman.

And that's why I'm not getting sucked into that article.

I want real positive pieces with substance and vision and appreciation of our kids, their efforts and their development (refer to Bumnbers HUN articles)....substance and evaluation which shows the reporters are doing their homework rather referring to chat lines.

The article isn't really pumping up our tyres. The HUN has just seized to bombard with negative news about Carlton for a momment. That's negatvity for public consumption, and worse of all, to discredit and devalue the CFC brand.

Good luck HUN. Not! And start sucking like sucks do. It is all going to catch up to you.
The footy public as I said yesterday will tire and are tiring of reading the same old same old day after day....and not just CFC supporters.

You will have to get fairdinkum one day HUN.

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