a cauliflower just like roos

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

EFA

Then maybe they shouldn't use first round draft picks on blokes they are going to have sitting on the bench for 3 quarters of the game.

Poor old swannies.

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dane's trolling again

I think its a challenge for other sides to compete with a team that can spend an extra 800k per season on players than everyone else.

Should ask him how Veszpremi, Everitt and Daniel O'Keefe are going.

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

Stiff shit.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

They will use the usual 'we can't bottom out in a Sydney market' BS they usually spin. The extra room in the cap allowed them to get McGlynn, Kennedy, Seaby and Mumford at the end of 2009. They are very well run and target the right guys to get, but the point is other clubs simply can't afford to do what they do in targeting quality established talent because they don't have as much to spend.

They seem to think their this highly ethical club who has had to do it 'the hard way'.

Ask Hawthorn how much Sydney offered Josh Kennedy and Ben McGlynn, compared to what they could offer.

Edit. Adam Chats just beat me by a minute.

..er...Go Blues.

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"They're [REDACTED]'

That 3rd quarter was awesome and I was lucky enough to be sitting at the Lockett end in where we were pinging the goals from. The crowd around us were going wild, it was almost like sitting in the Heatley Stand during one of our famed premiership quarters in the early 80's. They were given a standing ovation.

Just read this. What an absolute joke.

Sydney not allowed to use their first round draft picks, only offer big contracts to established players..poor Sydney

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I love my AFL Membership as this year it has been just awesome to go to every Melbourne game that the Blues are playing in and see them perform well, even when we lose to Collingwood and Geelong.

What the team showed yesterday is that they can change the game to be on their terms, whereas in the past if the game wasn't on our terms to begin with, we'd lose. Ratten and the coaching staff have to be applauded for getting a mentality into the group to be able to wrestle a game back into their favor. This is what Geelong have been able to do in their premiership campaigns. Collingwood not so much, they have more or less won on total team brilliance/domination. It'll be interesting when we play them in a few weeks.

Love or loathe the guy, Adam Goodes is a damn good player when he's on song. He reminds me of a fit and firing Kouta.

Saw Hampson go down in the centre circle (looked like a knee straight away) and thought that Sydney would get on top because you could see Kruezer sucking in the oxygen in the last quarter as he had to go it alone in the ruck. By the 10 minute mark of the final, he was running on the spot. Imagine when he is 4-quarters fit? The papers are right when they say he becomes one of our most important players.

The tackle on Ellard was a shocker from Mumford and interesting that the umpire initially called Ball Up but changed it to a free kick.

If Marc Murphy didn't take another 3 votes yesterday, it'll be interesting. Barring injury, get your hard earned on him now.

Russell was in fine form again, and Duigan even though he had a few grubbers go past him, he counted where it mattered - clearing the contest, taking defensive marks and running hard.

It's a real shame that Hampson is out (or so it appears). He has the tank and ability to match Cox and Natinui, not sure Warnock does. Interesting question - are we still happy to have off loaded Jacobs?

So Carlton are now 4 games into what I thought could be a 7 game winning streak before we meet Collingwood. I figured that Sydney would be the hardest of the lot and we smashed them. I didn't think West Coast were convincing against Port yesterday and in a more open encounter, Carlton should be easy favorites next week.

Exciting times to be a Member of Carlton or the AFL. I can't wait until 2.10pm next Sunday.

I was happy with the 4 points.

I am still keeping a lid on it.....

Let's just get this straight once and for all - we DID NOT offload Jacobs, he wanted to go to get more first team football and good on him for that because he would be 4th fiddle this year.

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"I will rejoice in their anguish, delight in their failure and revel in our success"

We are Carlton, @#$%&! the rest !!!!!!

He was close to our best player against the bombers.

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"We used to sit around and talk about how bad the game plan was." Anthony Koutoufides

Team song (seeing Channel 7 went to the news)

http://www.youtube.com/carltonfctv#p/u/1/9UQaWhGGjy0

Gary Rohan and Lewis Jetta haven't excatly set the world on fire either.

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There is no footy god

It's clearly because we stole all the decent players before they were available.

Hear that Gary and Lewis? That's how highly your coach rates you.

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY