Synbad wrote



Well put.

That's a strong argument for a focus on OUR HEARTLAND!

Why not formalise it as ours? I've always considered everything north of Parkville Carlton's heartland...Brunswick- Reservoir.

Easy start would be to call it as such in some sort of propaganda campaign! Using the Bullants in the interim as our gateway into the fold. Its got legs. First in best dressed.

...and all this time Synbad, I thought you were a Prahran boy from the Northern Suburbs...I'm guilty of presumption sir...not that there's anything wrong with Prahran or Northern Suburbs.

Apart from The Dominator, I'll never forget that player Pepe who played FF at Prahran...some great games, some tough games...a good competitor and equaliser in the tough days of the VFA.

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Bondi - you may have spent too long away from Melbourne.

Prahran is South of the Yarra. (not that their is anything wrong with that )

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Pepe was a ruckman who was also a copper at the Prahran Police station.
I played some games way back when for Prahran from juniors all the way to some games in the under 19s..along with such legends and 'Stiffy Anderson'... hes probably doing 20 in the can today....

I wasnt good enough so i kind of let go..(Slow and a shocking kick)


And i heard some of those Prahran cops were investigated for some corrupt stuff..

Prahran were coppers...and Port were the garbos.

Fred Cook was a junkie..
Frosty Miller would always cop it at Toorak Park..
Wayne Johnston was a Prahran boy

and a very good mate of mine won VFA goal of the year playing for Preston.. after being delisted from Collingwood...

We went out one NYs eve and he was pashing some chick and winking at me..... turned out he got glandular fever... wrecked his career that kiss did....

They were the days eh??

Football VFL and VFA was so much different then...

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AGRO wrote



I was referring to the fact that Synbad played at Prahran in his younger years, and how I assumed he was from the northern suburbs, given his eager support for Bullants association with Carlton...but now I understand his 'heartland' proposition; it's a good idea...the path of least resistence.

Get with the program


Synbad wrote



Yeah I remember him as the copper from Prahran. I remember him going forward and playing in the FF line; he kicked a few bags with his strong marking; also missed a couple of sitters, but kicked the difficult ones.

I thought he was tough and could mix it with the baddest. In fact, he didn't 'cop' very much either coz he was a copper or because he was intimidating.

There were plenty of warfies playing at Port; I always hated playing against those feral thugs.

Now who was that ex Colloingwood player for Preston? There were a few...one got banned for life, there was an ex pies captain...it's rude to 'kiss and tell'. It'll slip out in another way moving forward.

I remember a tall 6' 4'' ish lumbering ruckman in the Prahran under 19's around 1980, European background with classic Greek god like features, and an average kick...always struggled (as everyone did) when he played against the mighty Zebra under 19's...I let it go too...and I could kick and run...sex, drugs and rock n roll was my distraction.

Anyway, despite living in Bondi, I'm still a Melbourne boy, and know its spatial geography very very well...but if you asked me what lies past Sunshine, Deer Park, St Albans, Broadmeadows, Cranbourne and Chirnside Park, even the outskirts of Geelong...well there's some suburbs I have never heard of. It grows by the day.

Melbourne's a BIG city by world standards, it makes sense to have a heartland somewhere in it, and Royal Parade/ Lygon st is the logical place to start from for carlton, moving north where the city grew and continues to grow.

It's there for the taking. We must move first.

The next obvious choice is Sydney.

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