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If you're a current subscriber to The Age, please phone 03 9604 1025 to take this offer up.

To be honest I have enough rubbish in my house to invite more in. I'll read what I need on the net and save some trees.

Its funny how the letter from CFC is sent to my 1yo..

So I just signed her up, so she better start reading the paper next year..

Great offer...

What makes me think that no-matter who is selected, the glass will still be 'half-full' for the majority on TC.

Just call me plain old cynical

Regards Cazzesman

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Ricky Gervais - “Everyone has the right to hold whatever beliefs they want. And everyone else has the right to find those beliefs f***ing ridiculous.”

I got this at the start of the season, they were at the front of MC labour at the start of a practice match from memory.

Yep, at the Port practice match

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

Nice call.

I wonder if this is open to interstate members?

I'm picking you as a caramel mocha mud caffe latte type rather than just "plain old".

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

Winston Churchill

Good deal for readers, especially if it is linked to more positive coverage of CFC stories
Just have to hope there is no backlash from the Collingwood Chronicle.


Link to related Media Watch story follows:
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transc ... 628045.htm

Signed up.

Only until about round 3 the following year - then the glass will be completely empty, our recruits hacks and our recruiters worse than war criminals...

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

Just remember that Caroline Wilson writes for the age..........

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Confucius say "Virginity like bubble, one prick all gone"

signed up!! Wonder if I'll get the time to read it, especially the voluminous saturday one. There's a fair chance most of the papers will go straight from the front lawn to the recycling bin, but if it helps the club!!!!

I did wonder if I wouldnt have been better off putting 3 $5 notes into an envelope and sending it to the CFC!!!

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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

I wondered the same thing really, but signed up as I figure at 14c per paper I'm not really throwing much away and when I do Carlton get 7c of it anyway

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"The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent." Qui-Gon Jinn 15-05-2005

"there’s more chance of me becoming the full forward for the [Western Bulldogs] than there is of any change in the Labor Party." Julia Gillard 18-05-2010

According to the rumour file, one of the reasons that Collo left was because of this very deal with the age, that some board members had an issue with.

Suddenly the board doesn't have an issue with the same deal - sounds a little odd to me.

At $7.50 going to the club and then working on the scenario that 10% of members take up the deal, we are looking at about $22K raised for the club.

Would that even pay for a year's supply of crepe paper for our Cheer Squad banner?

I know I sound negative but I HATE THE AGE or should that read CAROLINE WILSON?

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

I like Caro...never understood why people hate her so much

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#DonTheStash

at risk of getting yelled at, I agree, she can piss me off sometimes but I really like the fact that she is not 'one of the boys' and doesn't care whose toes she steps on to try and get a true story out there.

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Between our dreams and actions lies this world

So Collo leaves a club he's played for, worked for and donated a HUGE amount of his time to as President FOR NOTHING and leaves the club because some of the board members had an issue with a deal with a newspaper?

"Sounds a little odd?"

Maybe because it's crap?

Yet another post that provides one piece of rumour/opinion and arrives at an outcome without taking into account any of the other various complexities.

Have you met Surrey Blue yet DUC?


Oh and CK - re Caro - I think I understand it. Caro tells people things about their football clubs that they don't want to hear. When she's proven right (most of the time) they slag her off as being somehow responsible for it. She tells Carlton supporters they're about to get reamed so they shoot the messenger. If she was a bloke she be "insightful, wise and analytical". She's not so she's a Richmond supporting whinging bitch...

Still pretty much the only journalist in football capable of actually breaking a story rather than simply reading out a press release.

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

at risk of getting yelled at, I agree, she can piss me off sometimes but I really like the fact that she is not 'one of the boys' and doesn't care whose toes she steps on to try and get a true story out there.

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Between our dreams and actions lies this world

Hey GWS - your horse Betsy is waiting for you outside.

The complexity of the matter was that the Board did not roll over and say whoopee on Collo's proposed deal [and now signed deal] with The Age.

As head of Telstra Dome he had just signed an exclusive newspaper sales deal for distribution rights at the Dome.

The Age then wanted to extend to the members of the football club that he was also President of.

The simple fact was that Collo did not have the full support of the Board, which he unfortunately, for him, he needs to have.

And please don't make me puke about how much time and money and effort he put into the club - when it was he that signed half the dodgy player deals when he was the club CEO.

Collo gets Carlton to move home games to the Dome and didn't get paid a cent for it?

Shocking! He should speak to Kerry Stokes about the $7m he spent on the VC medal and see what money he can get from that.

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.