graemep wrote:
Put it down to fear!
You could start to smell it two years ago, but it has become palpable.
Predators across the globe dine out on it.
We are CARLTON - (you know the rest!)
This exactly.
Its all the fact they hate us because we are a threat again. We may not do it this year, but we should be in the mix for a while.
If we went down like we did to Essendon*, we would of been going into meltdown on this forum about OUR deficiencies. Seems many Bomber fans refuse to ever acknowledge they could possibly be being flogged in a finals match due to their own shortcomings. Its all OMG CARLTON CHEATS $@^$%*# WE ARE SO BRAVE, INJURIES, COURAGE, HIRDY, BOMBER, KEY POSITION PROSPECTS (so on and so forth).
I like how Pies fans say it will be a failure for us if we don't win a flag with Judd, though conveniently forget the 14 flagless seasons their future coach Nathan Buckley played in.
The frightening for them is I can see us bending them over next year as well. They just don't have the cattle the fitness or the system.