I heard Ratts bent him over a pinball machine, and laughed menacingly whilst he deprived him of his dignity. Then he went to an all you can eat restaurant, and ate all the food, and they had to close the restaurant, then went home where he slept in an oxygen tent, which he believes gives him secret sexual powers....

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BLUES 2010: PAV AND JUDD = FLAGS. DOING IT FOR THE LOVE OF DICK PRATT.

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR TALKINGCARLTON SUPERCOACH 2009 YET?

Who?

WTF????

This club is a joke right now.


Sticks, Swann, Ratts................ i'm more than convinced that all of them have to go.

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
- Aristotle

How many do we have???

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Just wondering if it is the bloke i am thinking of. He was a the property guy though.

Makes sense..

Only have to look at how many people are coming out of the woodwork on here with "inside mail" that hasn't been seen since the demise of Pagan.

The lifeboats are being manned....

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BLUES 2010: PAV AND JUDD = FLAGS. DOING IT FOR THE LOVE OF DICK PRATT.

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR TALKINGCARLTON SUPERCOACH 2009 YET?

All good if the club gets a REAL cleanout.

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"Get ready, Teddy - you're on": Ron Barassi half time 1970 Grand Final

Bringing in Malthouse has got "Dennis Pagan" written all over it. I hope the club has learnt.

And to those throwing up stats of 5 GF in 10 years get your facts right. One of them was a replay. Ever consider that even Collingwood saw the writing on the wall (ie spent force) for Malthouse and wanted him out at the end of his last two years - maybe, just maybe Brad Scott, Nathan Buckley et al had something to do behind the scenes with their GF appearances in those two years. Have a listen to the dribble Malthouse speaks on radio. Its embarrassing.

If Rats has to go, and is not the best man for the job, then so be it. But bringing in Malthouse will be a massive (and expensive) mistake.

This club is a disgrace right now..

First we had sweeping repeated public comments from Ratts and Sticks about being Top 4 material, and that opened us to mass public ridicule when this started faltering.
Then we had the disasterous pre season campaign
Then injuries exposed our lack of depth
Then our VFL coach basically wallks out
Now this fallout...

Lose badly the next two weeks and things will get much much worse

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James Hird and Essendon* FC - #FOREVERDRUGCHEATS

Reminds me of Hawthorn 2004...

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BLUES 2010: PAV AND JUDD = FLAGS. DOING IT FOR THE LOVE OF DICK PRATT.

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR TALKINGCARLTON SUPERCOACH 2009 YET?

Anyway, if there are problems internally they best get sorted out and quickly, but I won't be taking every journo's findings as gospel.

Cordy brawls with everybody at the club.

First it was Shane O'Sullivan .. then it was Ben Baressi .. then it was Tim Smith .. then it was Luke Webster .. and now it's Brett Ratten.

He has pretty much also ensured long time Carlton staff within the footy department have been treated like shit when they were told they were unwanted....

This is the primary reason why I dislike Cordy.

I think our players poor condition is mine

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T E A M

The more things change the more they stay the same. Rewind back to 07 and you could almost copy and paste some of the 'Sack pagan' posts, replace Pagan with Ratten and carry on, nobody would notice. Back then they axed Pagan and quickly installed Ratts. If they axe Ratts and quickly install MM/Roos/whoever will we be back posting the same in 2015?

I remember reading somewhere that the Man Utd board came very close to sacking Alex Ferguson when Man Utd were almost relegated 2-3 years into his tenure at the club. Lucky they held their nerve!

I dont know what is going on but panicked lurches from one coach to the next wont win us a premiership, just ask Richmond (who coincidentally seem to be going forward under a young coach)

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"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?" Billy Connolly

Nah.

I dislike him on a more personal level.

Where do all of these High Performance Manager types come from? Is there a TAFE somewhere running a diploma of high performance management? Are these guys personal trainers on steroids? What is the career path to become a High Performance Manager? There seems to be some kind of mystic process shrouded in the fog of an ancient ritual that sees some super fit dude somehow manage a transformation from the guy at the gym that runs the Spin classes into an extreme trainer. I know there are courses in human movement/performance etc at Uni, are these guys with impeccable credentials in academia that have also trained up olympians etc and somehow catch the eye of an AFL club?

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"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?" Billy Connolly

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"In better news for Blues fans, Jarrad Waite was not named on the club's injury list."

Yes.

Highly qualified, hard working and professional.

But they do have to work within the clubs/coaches goals I would think.

I've been critical of the conditioning of the players as they appear to me to be on the slim side.

I would think the conditioning goals and outcomes are agreed to by the head coach before the season starts.

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I hope Essendon* folds.