Gilly34 wrote:
Why isn't it topical? Because it doesn't fit your cutesy metaphor? Maybe the tank and water isn't really dirty, but the big fish all got a rare disease, and the little fish are finding it difficult to adjust?
The topic is the culture and environment of the Carlton Footy Club. The cutesy metaphor is irrelevant. There are a million threads devoted to why we lost to Port Adelaide. This isn't one of them.
I'm happy to debate the injuries and how missing Levi Casboult, Marcus Davies, Sam Rowe, Jordan Russell, Simon White from our best 13 players really impacted us causing us to lose by 9 goals against the 15th placed team, but not in this thread.
This thread is discussing why Carlton as a footy club has underperformed since 1995 (notwithstanding an unexpected GF in 1999 and some bad luck in 2000). Reducing it to what ailed us in one game, or in one set of games, or in fact in one season, loses sight of the bigger picture. There's something rotten in the state of Denmark.
And you know what? We might even win on Friday, and we might win the next four, and we might make the 8 after all, and we might even sneak into the top 4, and hope against hope, we might pull off a miraculous premiership, and then we might even win 3 in 5 years!! Well, I give you all carte blance to slag off at me and tell me I'm a flower-wit and see ME next Tuesday.
And believe me, I really am a rose-colored glasses supporter. Ask GWS. Ask Synbad. I always argue that it's not as bad as it seems. We had a nearest the pin sweep on Saturday night. Synbad won tipping Port by heaps. GWS was second tipping Port by 1. Everyone else tipped Carlton by a little bit. Moshe tipped Carlton by 60!!!!! Did my five bucks cold. And in all my 3 tipping comps, I'll probably tip Carlton on Friday. And I'll be there and get stuck into those supporters that leave at 3/4 time when we're 10 goals down, because since my first game in 1964, I have NEVER left a game early. And as I said to someone else on Saturday: "Doesn't matter where we are, I always think we're gonna win. I have these feelings. I'm a romantic. I reckon Ratts and Juddy will fire them up, and we'll smash 'em".
So that's me, my religion is Carlton, my family is Carlton, my grandson came to the Richmond game with me dressed up in Carlton gear - he was 10 weeks old at the time; Carlton is in my heart. But when I think with my brain, as opposed to my heart, and when I look with my eyes, I see something is not how it should be. And if we don't make a noise about it, it might go on for another 16 years. Because here's the fear I have:
- In 3 years, no more Juddy, Scotto, Simmo, Waite
- In 6 years, no more Walker, Murphy, Jamo
- If no success in next 2 years, great signings like today's won't happen, and this great bunch of kids we've been building since 2005, will fall apart, we'll bottom out, and have to start again - and then another 16 years doesn't seem so fancilful.
So, that's what I'm discussing. If you don't agree or you have another opinion - fine. Discuss it. Give me your views. But don't come into the thread talking about other stuff - we already have that covered......
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Great post.
