idle wrote:
Bit of an anticlimactic no win situation today unfortunately. If we win there's really not much to celebrate. Its a depleted Essendon**. If we lose, well, we are on the bottom of the ladder for a reason one could argue. I don't see any upside to today's clash. Two once great clubs reduced to the laughing stocks of the AFL. Wannabe try-hards vying for the title of not as sh*t as them I guess. Carlton's business model of buying the best talent available (true free market capitalism) versus the AFL's socialist based dictatorship system will always be at odds with each other. Under a free market system Carlton ruled the roost. Since the AFL's socialist system was introduced 20 years ago, that severely punished Carlton for sticking to its business model - now called cheating - we have been decimated. Essedon tried another avenue to bypass the socialist system by drug cheating, but big brother has ways and means of dealing with all noncompliance. Of which we're more than happy to point the finger at a once great and powerful adversary to accuse them of the same. When all along we share the same enemy.
Two once great clubs who share a common misfortune. Today we go to the arena to kill each other for the emperor at the Colosseum ...
I’d agree there are similarities, hubris and idiots running both clubs and messiah complexes.
While I don’t think we would have been as dumb as Essendon* fans regarding Hird I think SOS is the current messiah following in the footsteps of Malthouse, Judd, Pratt, Pagan etc.
Still haven’t learnt to just get the right people for the right jobs, and I fear SOS will escape this current mess squeaky clean while Bolts is thrown under the bus.