[quote="Jarusa"]• Peter Bosustow’s mark of the year in 1981
• Craig Bradley’s banana goal against West Coast in 1994
• John Nicholls v Polly Farmer – their first contest at Princes Park
• Stephen Kernahan’s winning goal against Hawthorn in 1993
• John Nicholls v Ken Boyd resulting in Ken Boyd being suspended for 12 matches
• The 1945 Bloodbath Grand Final won by Carlton in front of nearly 63,000
• Carlton’s record score against Hawthorn in 1969 – 30-30-210
• John Nicholls clash with Len Thompson in the late 1960s.
• Malcolm Blight’s match winning goal after the siren in 1976
• Anthony Koutoufides domination of the West Coast Eagles in 1996
• Mike Fitzpatrick’s time wasting against Essendon* in 1981
• Mark Maclure, head down chasing and running into Mick Nolan without seeing him
• Stephen Silvagni-Darren Milburn incident and the crowd reaction
• Bruce Doull’s 300th game
• Andrew Walker’s outstanding debut in 2004
• Harry “Soapyâ€

Firstly let me state that I know you write for the official site and I can see on this board that you have a great knowledge of footy. But...

I find it hard to believe that someone can hate our hallowed Prinny Park/Optus, and simultaneously love the Carlton footy club. The two are inseperable in history and culture. The fact that we were INVINCIBLE on the hallowed turf of PP, combined with the amazing memories that any true Carlton supporter must have from attending the ground for many years, give a feeling that is incompatible with hate.

Please don't reply giving me the rationale for leaving. I KNOW WE HAD TO LEAVE, don't rant on about why. Yes, it went sour and it breaks my heart and I know we have to go.

BUT YOU CAN'T HATE THE PLACE - how can you hate a place where if we were 20 points down at half time you wouldn't even worry about losing.

Loving Carlton is not compatible with hating PP/OO. You can't be a good family man and hate the home that has given you so many memories- (even if the recent history of the place has caused the club some problems).

btw - how is Minton-Connel against West Coast in 1991 not on that list of moments!!!!!!!!!!!! And someone in the crowd punched KArl LAngdon after the game. We were crap that year and WC had won 14 in a row and we [REDACTED] em with Sumcih about to mark as the siren went. COME ON!! still gives me shivers.

Molsey, put aside for a moment your feelings about the relatively recent downfall of OO and its effect on the club.

If you have any true blue blood inside you, and provided you've been there for those great moments, at the bottom of your heart, you've gotta love the place.

IT WILL ALWAYS BE OUR SPIRITUAL HOME. Vale the prinny - footy will never be that good again, ever.

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I was actually trying to be funny simon, pity, i thought after the few drinks i had to down at our 'Budget Dinner' it would come across that way.

Thanks for the compliment!

Oh well, no worries then MOlsey. At least I got to say how much i'm gonna miss our holy temple.

Still, they've gotta put the Minton-Connel goal in that list FFS!!!!!! Anyone remember Darren Tarczon's shephard in the same game on the far wing (i sit, sat , in the Hawthorn stand)

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ps it really is a sh*thole!!

Cant look back now.. to me its a shit hole and something that belongs to the pàst.
In 1000 years what small part did it play in our history anyway?

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AGreed Synners. If simonverbeek could a) choose that name and b) suggest that I have a great knowledge of anything, then clearly he is wrong. OO is a rotting vestibule of pig chuck and Round 9 can't come soon enough.

Begone cesspool!

9%

we will have 180 premierships by then, so its all good.

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Hopefully in 1000 years time - we will be speaking of the great TelstraDome Roof collapse of 2027 - when after the last game was played where the AFL took ownership of the Stadium and in a special commemorative presentation - Ron Evans, Wayne Jackson and Demetrispew were wheeled out into the middle of the ground and a few supporting pylons dropped straight on their heads.


Well I thought it was funny.


OK, cue the tumbleweed.

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I can definitely hear the wind, Agro

As I have said - your view is simply not compatible with loving Carlton.

In 1000 years it will STILL BE OUR SPIRITUAL HOME and if you don't feel that way you've either never been there or just dont enjoy the best memories our club has to offer.

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I bow to the new God of cutting edge humour.

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Simon, you're clearly a romantic with OO but where we used to play home games means nothing to me. I was brought up in Tassie where the Blues took me as a fan by winning in 1981 and 1982, by clearly being the best, by beating the teams of my brothers, by having the best colours, by having the best players. When I finally moved to Melbourne with the family my disappointment at how crap our ground was knew no end, OO is nothing but a base for a period of time. Carlton fans love the jumper, love the players, the ground itself is just a setting.

Witnessed 6 of those memories

My faves:

- Bradleys goal against West Coast, the loudest roar that I can remember at OO

- Thrashing Bulldogs in ? 99 or 2000, Lance kicked a bag

- my mate & I pinching 2 carlton floggers from the cheersquad in the early 80's (does anyone remember the cheersquad leader back then, I think his name was Shane, he use to clap his hands like a poof when we kicked a goal), unfortunately they stayed in our garage from that day on as our parents wouldn't let us bring them to the footy as ? Shane would catch us out

- my parents taking us to the Carl v Collingwood game when Magro decked Jezza. We couldn't see thegame so left at half-time but watched some of the game from the Channel 7 truck

- taking my little boy there over the last couple of years, he might not remember it, but I'll have the memory of him sitting on my knee on the #19 tram heading to the ground last with me forever

- the filthy bouncers kicking us out of the social club about 10 years ago 'cos they reckoned we drank too much of the Social Club beer. They were telling us to "piss off you skips" as we were being bundled out the door.


Many, many more but that's enough for now. Sad that the end has come, but TD & MCG are our future.

In a 1000 year it will be a dump for uranium extract that runs the city and youll be going to visit your spiritual home in a suit from your home in Mars flying Virgin first class.

sorry mate.. great memories but one of the reasons why were [REDACTED] to day is because of that place...

and ive probably spent more time there than you have..

Its like my first car... a shit heap Cortina where i did get a few roots but today its been melted down and recycled into a fridge which as since broken down and is in pieces at the back yard of some poor soul who has a fetish for rust

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Synbad, leave that stuff to yourself please. Having met you I can think of nothing worse than you, some partner, and a Cortina on some chilly Friday night where the only way to get warm was... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Look, the fact that you didnt grow up attending the ground as i did must explain your hatred for the ground.

ANd SYnbad, well, he just hates everything.

But if you're old enough and have you've grown up with it and you arent Synbad, you've gotta love the place.

By the way, the history of the club is important and you two dismiss it unwisely.
Shit like St. Kilda and Footsray have a shit past and will never be great clubs even though they may find the odd good team.

We are a brilliant club because of our brilliant past and PP/OO is that past.

Molsey, like the colours?? gimme a break

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Gimme a break on what? Navy blue and white? Whats your point?

We are a brilliant club because of our success. If we hadn't had played many finals over the past 25 years we'd all be ferals like Richmond fans, who by the way disgusted me on the weekend. Success breeds success, and thats us. PP/OO is a game we played at - how many GF wins did we have there?

How many of our 60,000 unique carltonfc.com.au readers are there because of an affinity for OO?

Well one actually. 1945 bloodbath grand final.

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