I’m the opposite. When we lose I want to get away from TC and take my mind off footy.

When we win I can’t get enough of it


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Misery loves company . When we were shit this joint was humming .................. bit sad how its fallen away .

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i think yday was Saad's best game of the year. he's been solid, but quiet by his standard since his hammy injury. He's such a key piece. the oppo cannot contain newman, saad and boyd. they have to pick one to tag, maybe two in a pinch, and whoever they can't run with with, will get loose and go off. it's a great place to be.


from here out, it's just nervous times when we play hoping no key parts get injured. weiters, cripps, walsh, charlie, tdk, saad, gov etc ... if they're healthy we are an absolute chance to win a gf. i'm not overly worried about swans on the mcg, as i am pies. so if we stay 2nd and away from swans & scg, we're in a prime spot.

Great to see such a spread of goal-kickers. Everyone who played forward go on the scoreboard.

Which he followed up with, “Richmond took the points in that duel”, even though Cripps sat the much bigger Wankervis on his backside like he was made of paper.


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And at least for a while people had Fantasia to gripe about: they don't even have him now!

Great point about the goal kicking spread.
Good win Blues.

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The dearth of posters and posting is not a function of us “now being good” - it is more to do with the PC/Woke direction taken here in the past few years.

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I think when the local Rotary Club had to put the onion underneath the sausage in the roll outside Bunnings things had gone too far.
Or was it over the sausage?
Anyway it doesn’t matter
I mean it shouldn’t matter
But it actually does matter

What about us Non Wokster's . We have stuck around .

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More due to there being multiple, easier to access options for football fans to interact than forums.
TC predates Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Tik-Tok, Discord, and possibly Facebook. The landscape has changed, and casuals wanting a Carlton fix will log on to their preferred social media giant.

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I'm happy in my woke dinosaur tar pit

I just assumed its because I rarely post poetry anymore.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Just have to listen to Voss carefully to understand Pitto's role this year. Its no secret. Pitto isn't out of the picture, nor are the2 rucks. They are options that work in this team. Just have to trust Vossy.

We just kicked our highest score from Turnover this year, with Pitto rucking. This year. What does that say about our rucks? I haven't heard boo on that front. It says both are not only AFL standard, but amongst the best in the business. We are lucky to have them.

Nankervis had 12 HO to advantage to Pitto's 6. Six of the thug's (Nankervis) hitouts to advantage were against Harry, Cripps and Kennedy. Tigers scored 3 goals when Harry went into ruck, leaving Charlie as the sole target in the forward line. Nankervis may have had more hit outs but Pitto's pushing and bullocking nullified the effectiveness of those touches (coz they werent hit outs), and our mids Crippa, Walshy, Cerra and Kennedy knew where they were going to land and took them away with ease. Our midfield GROUP, won the stoppages too. There's something in that.

Imagine if TDK had to face Nankervis last night. If TDK was sore from rucking against Blicavs last week...say no more. We are blessed to have both OUR rucks.

Cerra didn't need a rest, and Hewett didn't deserve to be sub based on his performance this year. See Vossy's presser. We ran over the Tigers, as we have against everyone since the Swans game. We have 8 players running more than 15 kms. We don't need a sub. There's a message in that. 2 rucks in Finals is something we will have to wait and see, if that's Vossy' preference...and back him.

No doubt in my mind, we would have won by more with 2 rucks last night. We have our stoppage and turnover game humming, and an amazing ruckman in TDK, who needs a chop out during the game, to avoid the alternative, and that's to miss games due to soreness, or play games sore.

Go Blues.

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Loved every bit of that Bondi .

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Great Post !!

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I think just about everyone advocating the single ruck model has said that Pitto is more than capable of being that single ruck, where TDK is unavailable. So no change on that front.

Agreed that Thug wouldn't have won them easy goals if someone better than H had opposed him at centre bounces. So that is a problem to be solved. But having TDK and Pitto does mean someone like a Hewett or a Kennedy needs to be dropped, or Fantasia without a Motlop to replace him. So that's a problem to be solved, too. We are yet to see a working solution with the two rucks, but I'm open to seeing it tried out again before finals - this time with a healthy squad supporting.

jesus ... won by more with 2 rucks? haha are you actually insane... the turnover game is humming, as to is our last qtr dominance over teams, bcos 1 ruck and more runners is the formula for both - and thus the formula for winning? we didn't run out a single game with 2 rucks, bcos players are working harder with 1 extra ruck in the 22.

we are unbeaten this year with one ruck, and we won 9 in a row last season ... two rucks should absolutely be out of the picture, and tdk is our No 1. and it's nothing personal against pittonet. he's just not as good as the king.

i think us kicking our best turnover score against 2nd bottom tigers means much less than us kicking our 2nd highest turnover score against a top 6 team, geelong last week.


it's great we have a competent back up ruck in pittonet who can be serviceable when tdk is hurt or needs a rest. incidentally, depending on how much we're paying pittonet (ie if its mroe than back up ruck rates) he'd make a grade piece of trade fodder for a 2nd banana to weiters or a small forward - two positions we really need this offseason.

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unfortunately thats all on pittonet and his tank. nankervis plays around 88% of game time. Pittonet plays around 67% game time (tdk plays 80-85%)

ideally you want your number 1 ruck to play around 85% or more of gametime. pittonet has never played high minutes, which is his achilles and why you need another ruck to play alongside him, or have someone like Jack who can play his role forward and bigger minutes in the middle and at least provide a contest and 2nd efforts after the ball hits the ground.

And welcome back!