Round 7 2005 only 5 years ago. We suffered our biggest loss to Richmond ever.

Carlton 0.2 2 1.3 9 5.3 33 10.6 66
Richmond 7.4 46 13.8 86 19.11 125 23.13 154


Big Irish played his first game and Carrots was omitted.

Interesting that there were as many as 9 players on the park that day that are still on the list and only 5 that played on the weekend.

Wiggins, Thorton, Scotland, Houlihan, Walker, Simpson, Waite, O'hAilpin, Betts

So whilst we are a young team there are a few experienced heads running around in navy blue.





B: 34 Simon Wiggins 32 Bret Thornton 15 David Teague
HB: 29 Heath Scotland 26 Adrian Deluca 31 Jordan Bannister
C: 33 Ryan Houlihan 24 Nick Stevens 1 Andrew Walker
HF: 36 Trent Sporn 8 Lance Whitnall 16 Scott Camporeale (vc)
F: 6 Kade Simpson 30 Jarrad Waite 12 Matthew Lappin
Ruck: 11 Barnaby French 43 Anthony Koutoufides (c) 28 Ian Prendergast
Interchange:
10 Brett Johnson, 17 Setanta Ó hAilpín, 19 Eddie Betts, 21 Troy Longmuir
Coach: Denis Pagan
Emg: Cory McGrath Setanta Ó hAilpín* Ian Prendergast*
In: Ian Prendergast*, Setanta Ó hAilpín*
Out: Andrew Carrazzo*, Callum Chambers*

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Santy is on the bench and also is an Emerg ????

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I can still feel the rage from being at that game. It was the angriest and most humiliated I ever felt at the football and the day I lost complete faith in Pagan. It really dawned on a lot of Carlton folk that we were very sh!te with a sh!thead at the helm

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C'mon Blueboys!

...and it was mother's day.....

Setanta's goal was the ONLY highlight of that match... I remeber we lost every clearance in exactly the same way...Tigers would just push it out back where there was ALWAYS a player free..AAaaarrrrrggghh

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If you remember the previous game was in freo and the boys busted a nut over there but poor conversion cost them the game. They left nothing out on the field but me gets the feeling Pagan really laid into them afterwards because there could really be no other explanation (well maybe the Carrazzo omission ) for that performance. We had started that year with such momentum (some may recall we were $15 to win the premiership!!) but it all came crashing down very quickly.

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Why do people keep digging up this stuff... I'm trying to forget that Denis Pagan ever 'coached' this team...

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James Hird and Essendon* FC - #FOREVERDRUGCHEATS

Funny. The only thing I can remember about this game is O'hAilpin's goal.

Actually, the previous game was the thrilling come-from-behind win against Hawthorn on the Friday night. The Freo game was the game before the Hawthorn one.

We had actually been very competitive over the first six rounds, despite only picking up two wins and a draw. The Richmond game came out of nowhere in terms of the actual size of the defeat but yes, it fell away badly after that.

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Formerly Blues-Back2003.

first game i ever went to ... but real happy i stuck with carlton because im loving them at the moment.

Remember it like it was yesterday. Had contemplated all week whether to go to the game or not, something else came up and I couldn't go. Heard the score on the radio and couldn't believe it.

We'd beaten Essendon* in round 2 and Hawthorn in Round 6. Thought this game would be a walkover. The Tiges started 05 well from memory but missed the finals in the end.

Round 18 we got them by 35 points though.

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Remember the game well. I had wanted to put money on us for the wooden spoon before the game. We were riding a wave of the usual Carlton blind optimism and we were paying something like $30. Those odds plummeted after the match and we collected the spoon later that year.

i couldn't remember it at first, but when you mentioned Setanta's first game and goal I remembered.

This is the only game I have ever left really early. About the 25 minute mark of the 3rd 1/4 I'd had enough and left. Missed the only decent thing of the game... Setanta's 1st goal.

thanks for reminding me

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He was about 30 m out and it floated through.. just

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Koperek.

That game made me start posting on this site

I used to come by and read but was so pissed with Pagan I had to vent

terrible terrible game

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Great goal by Setanta!

I remember that game.....

An image of David Teague giving away a foot in height to Greg Stafford in the goal square

Nice match up Denis

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The most deflated I've ever felt at a game of football. Ever.

Then of course that week of talk back radio was all about Richmond's great future under Wallace.

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#DonTheStash

I remember this game too ... that was when Mark Coughlan absolutely carved us up in the middle and I left at halftime in absolute disgust!

How did Stafford go?

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