I was at the same function. If I remember correctly Bruce actually held a speech and many said it was the most words they ever heard Bruce speak in a row.......

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TC suffers from the social media illness - the death of respect and constructive discourse by keyboard.

Sticks makes it cos Bruce was a main reason he moved to Carlton???

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Jezza was my favourite. All I remember of Doull was the legend and the fact that he was such a character. Jezza was basically the reason I chose to support Carlton. After that, I didn't really worry about following football until my late teens or even early twenties. SOS would be my next favourite after Jezza.

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Just because I'm offended, doesn't mean I'm wrong.

In those days I was at training every night; and Bruce was a plumber/plasterer?......and he would always turn up in the carpark at PP in his purple Holden Van complete with ladders etc.....and he always said ''G'day'' to me which always made my day.....

I vividly remember the nights when Barassi arrived; and I was talking to Peter Landy one night (who was the main Footy caller for HSV7 who covered the Match of the Day usually) while Barass played Jezza at table tennis in the rooms; and we couldn't get over the catlike reflexes of Jezza; or the must win mentality of Barassi.......great memories.

I remember Tiger Crosswell coming into the rooms one night on crutches; and all the boys yelling out to him ''Barass said you've still got to do laps; no excuses''..... great memories.....

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No ones listening till you make a mistake.

Gee I saw the thread title & thought there has to be some kind of mistake here

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#DonTheStash

Crosswell left us to go to North not for the money you know?

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Doesnt this bring back good memories? He was a wonderful player, very lucky to have been a supporter in such a great era.
I saw Doull recently in Heidelberg, he is now working for Australia Post as a courier i think. He had a newsagency for a few years but got out of that.
He still looks really fit and has the long hair, what is left of it anyway.

Ah Yes, the flying doormat. They don't make 'em like him anymore. Closest thing to a flawless footballer.
Genius and Legend of the highest order.
Big 3 for the CFC (in no particular order) I've seen are Jezza (through videos/DVD's), Doull, and Wayne Johnston. Juddy not that far behind - by career end, though, he will join these guys to make my Fab 4.

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For some silly reason, you people want to assassinate him, and it's just rubbish. You people. All of you, ALL of you!

I'm getting very sentimental......the ever reliable flying doormat. A tremendous player and an ornament to the game. Unscrupulously fair and most popular of all fans (Carlton fans or not).

My personal favorite was Brent Croswell .......the Norm Smith medalist of 1970

Umm I also had a soft spot for Russell Ohlsen & Craig Davis in their early Carlton days.

I saw Bruce Doull in the Hay St Mall here in Perth about 6 months ago. Still an incredibly athletic looking and built like a brick outhouse.

Totally unflappable in his day and just one of my favourite sportsmen of all time.

Yes Doully would definitely be in my top three. He really did "never let you down". Hard for me to remember him ever being beaten (although I am sure he must have been on rare occasions). He never gave up an easy kick; wore his opponent like a glove. Fantastic mark and better spoiler. As others have said, a player of great balance - he always keep his feet to mop up the spoil and rebound the ball.

It was said that boundary umpires used to save their legs when the ball was headed for a Doull contest. They would hang back and just wait for the rebound. Not sure about that, but it's a good story

Great example of a player who just worked hard on his game and got better every year of his career.

Thanks for the thread Rexy ... needed some cheering up this week.

I've told this story on here before but this thread seems like an approriate place to tell it again.

A few years ago at a work function I was sitting next to a bloke who in one of his first game at VFL level was told to go play at CHF and follow Doull everywhere he went. He thought "Huh, why would I be following him around when I'm the forward and he's the backman". He reckons that Doull gave him an absolute bath.



Who was the umpire who retired a while ago who was being interviewed on The Footy Show or similar and who was saying that he once paid a free kick against Doull to which Doull simply looked at him and said mildly "Are you sure?". It was then that the ump realised he'd got it wrong.

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Jeez, you'd have to get the Synbad award for this effort in managing to get Sticks into a totally off topic thread. bravo. :

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The only way for some people to understand is for them to be on the receiving end

Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

Champ of the world.

Was well and truly ready for retirement after the '86 GF though.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

All roads lead to Rome..........

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or Sparta.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

His fist spoil directed to our Mosquito Fleet used to drive all my Collingwood Supporter Mates balmy, especially the frenzied handclapping from the Carlton Faithfull after it was immediately executed.

He was one of the first players to be lauded for generally not only beating but pantsing Royce Hart one on one.

I cant split Jezza or Doull on my list of favourite all time players - but I do remember when Jezza left and went to St. Kilda that they played on each other the next time Carlton played St. Kilda and Doull out pointed him clearly in a few one on one contests, but Jezza 35 at the time and was well past his prime in 1980 and spotting Doully 5 years in age.

So many great and reliable players - which what makes this season's debacle all the more galling.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Actually for most of Spartas existence they were isolationists.
They rarely got involved unless they had to.... The Peloponnesian war which was basically a war between city states alligned with either Sparta or Athens.
Of course Sparta won... even if outnumbered.......


A century later...
When Macedonia was flexing its muscles..
Alexander the Great united all of the Hellenes to head East.. Sparta refused to go as they were not going to be leading it...
""You are advised to submit immediately, for if I win this war, I will destroy your people and all you have." The Spartan reply was "If."


After the Hellenic alliance Alexander wanted it recorded... "MAcedonia and all of Hellenes (Greeks) except the Spartans"

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Favourite player of all-time. Love the Doormat

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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