That was exactly the narrative my kid's tennis coach went with this morning, & he's normally a pretty good sport.

Had the best time out & about at the shops with the scarf on today, so many Go Blues, just scenes a plenty. Even a bloke operating a digger at the rail yards gave us a thumbs up, kids loved it

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I'm happy for them to use every excuse in the book. It's the kind of weak mentality that produces 27 grand final losses.

Pros:

Pressure and contest.
Controlled the opposition architects (Nick Daicos and Pendlebury).
Opposition inaccuracy.
Charlie, Weiters, Newman, Cerra, Martin, Cripps, Acres.
Loved Fogarty's pressure.
Impressive first up showing from Marchbank.
Thought Hollands did well against Sidebottom, even though he didn't kick so well this week.

Cons:

Another midfielder injured.
Brian Taylor didn't seem to get as excited as he usually does.
Few players without much impact: TDK, Pittonet, Cuningham, Cottrell.

Agree. Quiet but came into the game late due to his superior engine.

How good is to wake up today, sun is shining, birds are chirping...

And

WE WON

The 'green shoots' are finally bearing fruit!
Go Blues!

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Our tradition demands success!
Mens sana in corpore sano

We've been wearing ours too. Another dad at swimming literally ran up to my husband and told him he's got all his Collingwood mates coming over tonight for poker and he's never been so excited to see them, haha.

Haha great story, I don’t think your wife needs to know.

Up the Blues, great win.

Couldn't even find my Carlton cap this morning, and too lazy to rummage through the high shelf boxes to look for the scarf. Days like these I wish I still lived in Melbourne. Have done some online needling at least.

Pretty funny the Pies supporters complaining about Curnow getting a couple of frees in the last after that first half.

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Has anyone heard if Victoria’s crime rate soared last night

Divisional vans were ramped up at the Remand Centre.

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100%. the Ms Pies supporter, 18 yo daughter in-law who worked at the G last night is claiming it was an just an off-game, they never got going. gezz i wonder if that had anything to do with their usually wide open corridor getting overrun with hard tackling Blues playing like it’s 1995?!! i haven’t spoken to her about the game yet, got that via her mother. i bet the umpires would rate a mention if i sent her a crowing-blue-bagger message (defo not worth it!).

happy for Mathew (not a hope) Lloyd, Cornes and the rest of the Carlton-skeptic media who didn’t rate us a chance to win without Walsh to make excuses too. and as even the (unusually miserable) BT couldn’t help thought bubbling during the last quarter, Collingwood used the Howe to FF move and would have rather kept that up their sleeve for finals. Howe got real lucky with a couple of random long kicks, one of the ground iirc, but good players make the best of their good luck so i don’t resent him his 3 goals in one quarter of play. shows they didn’t have an off game, they just didn’t play well enough.

DV probably did, unfortunately.

I have to say, I'm a dad of 2 boys who play footy and I do. In fact I cheer louder for my boys, and I'm loud as it is.

Peter Daicos' celebration of his boys, is a million times better than Steve Silvagni's celebration, where he looks as happy as a funeral.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Happens to the best.

We just forgot we were the best for a 9 weeks period

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Shit I forgot about the suspended and those whose season has ended.

Amazing win.
Great depth from players with great heart.

Something special brewing like ....I recon it feels like Hawks in 2008, came home with a.... flag in the very end.

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It must be a great feeling for the players as they go about their job knowing that all their team mates are as well

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"can't kick ... don't pick"

Media blah blah. Even the Carlton ones are knobs: Maher, Sam McClure, etc

Sam Pang is ok.

Having said that the Pies are not easy beats. 5.5 games ahead of us they’ve been extremely consistent (and lucky…..you make your own luck as the saying goes). Opposing teams have not been able to execute a game plan to counter them.

Geez WTF was that 8 out of 9 run of losses anyways. Surely we could have scrapped 2-3 wins in that run. We would’ve been entrenched in the top 4

We must not let up in the intensity and conviction in the remaining 4 games.