What was Lance doing end of season 2005 - he was hawking himself to any club that would have him - even had an interview with St. Kilda.


In the old days at Carlton if you ever showed any hint of disloyalty you were never considered for captain. Ask Geoff Southby and Rod Ashman who both wanted clearances from the club at some stage during the mid/late 70s. At any other club they would have been automatic Captains,. and possibly Ashman should have been appointed Captain after Jezza left the club at end of 79 - but was overlooked for Fitzpatrick.

Lance should never have been appointed Captain notwithstanding the fact that he is unfit, he is too slow and the game has passed him by.

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

Winston Churchill

2007

Too late for much analysis. Stevens should be captain, he looks from afar to be the natural leader of the group. He and Fev are out 2 best players at the moment and Fev is a walking headline. If anybody is going to lead the likes of Gibbs and Murphy its going to be Stevens. Plus Stevens doesnt have relo's from the trailer park chasing him through the courts over text messages and maccas birthday parties.

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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

You mean KFC parties?

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Mjonc signing off at 8888

Whatever happened to this denis?



http://au.sports.yahoo.com/070131/2/12sli.html

maybe he should have stuck to his word and we would have chosen the right man to lead our club.

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there it is!



Nic

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Cuck Follingwood

Doing a helluva lot more than the current captain

Funny, though, if you go through the threads from early last year, we were happy for him to be booted ...

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[Sam Jacobs] looks like a 7' Lance Whitnall, and [Mitch Robinson] looks like a 4' Lance Whitnall
(The SEN team during the Carlton v Cats 2009 pre-season match)

we?

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

and give 6 weeks and you'll see dozens of members saying 'i always said that Lance Whitnall is one of our best players'....


Nic

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Cuck Follingwood

Yes - us: the TC'ers .. can't talk for the club though .. don't know how that went while the club was deciding who to keep and who to delist ... but I'll admit to be one of the TC'ers who sided with the "boot" camp ..

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[Sam Jacobs] looks like a 7' Lance Whitnall, and [Mitch Robinson] looks like a 4' Lance Whitnall
(The SEN team during the Carlton v Cats 2009 pre-season match)

No, sorry but a few misguided posters dont make a quorum.

Stevo has had his ups and downs with injury but he works harder than 90% of our list. I've supported him from day one.
I dont mind if players have form slumps or struggle at times, as long as they work hard to improve themselves.
Nick does that as much as anyone.

I liked this quote from Bryce Gibbs in Mike and Dan's article



"Definitely a great example."

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

If that's our captain, we may as well fold and die.

Still would have traded him, the superdraft is looking supersuper so far!!

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a tad harsh there verbs,

the inevitable re our rucks happened 2 nite, bitch slapped big time, bentick, Stevo, Simmo and Murph to a certain extent live by the service dished up by Cain and Cloke. Cain was piss weak, Ottens and co got them going early doors, the tsunami came a bit quicker than expected. We need a bona fide ruck big time (please Hampo)