Maclure's got a big heart but is as slow as an ox and will never play more than a handful of games.

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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!

St Kildas will live to rue the day they gave us ... @#$%&! what was his name?

Ummm, the guy we got for Hamill, not the pick, Sam....? Uh... blank.

this is sooo embarrassing, i wish there was a way of deleting what you have written on here...

2001 when SOS Kouta and Bradley pulled out for the first game against Essendon*: Called my mate and told him to go put $100 on the bombers to beat us by 39.5+ cause we have NO CHANCE! Vance played well as did Massie, this never happened again. (me beating on Essendon* that is)

John Hynes will be the key to backline in years to come, looks good.

Why did all those clubs let Thorpe go???? He'd just kicked 7 in a preseason game.

Sam Cranage!

I thought he would be better than hamill, actually I just hoped.....wished?

I was wrong....

On Hamill, Carlton never lose players they want to keep.

If you measured both players by $$$ paid and output for their respective clubs it is not so embarrassing after all

You forgot 'presence' though

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

Ye$ Pre$ence i$ Pricele$$.

I never forget an interview they did with Sam Cranage in "Inside Carlton" Magazine.

Probably the usual run of the mill question he was asked about what parts of his game he was working on.

"Focusing on my pace, strength and skills."


Other than that I think Sam had this football caper licked.

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

Winston Churchill

Trent Sporn will be the best of the players Carlton picked in the 2000 draft.

Andrew Merrington is a mobile tall forward after he picked himself and the ball up off the deck to kick a great goal on the run in the ressies.

I think I said that to a Bombers fan before the only game Mezza played against Essendon*.

That was the year after Sporn and Merrington tied for the 2001 Reserves Best and Fairest and were our best young players.

Prendergast has the best running style I've seen and is a better athlete than Croad after he ran away from him in his debut game to take a mark.

No football brain.

You need a stiff drink before you look at the duds who played for Carlton between 2001 and 2003.

Ditto to the Trent Sporn prediction

"James Cook will be the next Kernahan".

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"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies." - Gene Hill

Aaron Hamill will win a brownlow one day - around 1997.

Ricky Mott will be our no one ruckman by seasons end - whatever shameful year that was.

i thought fev would crack the ton last season.

thought murray vance would be a gem after his first game - 5 kicks, 5 inside 50's.

"Karl Norman will be able to sort himself out now that Angwin has been sacked."

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

Adam White will be a great senior player (1995)
Why did we get Adrian Hickmott - he's a geelong softie (1996)
We dont rebuild at Carlton, we renovate (hang on that wasnt me)
Lance Whitnall will kick more goals in his career than Sticks (1998)
We would have won the premiership if it wasnt for injuries, we'll be there next year (2001)
Brendan Fevola has really matured, I think he might have grown up (post winning Norm Smith - about a month before he decked an irish barman)

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Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do.

I don't think i questioned why we recruited him, but I certainly shared the view he was soft

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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

didn't France knockover New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup Semi that weekend as well?

I thought the NRL GF was the weekend after. I remember being happy that the storm won as a small consolation for losing to the roos the day before

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

I think mine hasn't happened yet. But unless JR comes on in a hurry my predictions of him being a star will fit into this thead nicely.

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Mjonc signing off at 8888

The duds between 2003-2006 arent any better (Kenna, Croad, Mott, Harford, Deluca, Longmuir, Chambers, Martyn, Bowyer etc...)



Yeah, Im guilty of this too... I told my mate JK will be our version of Jonathan Brown...

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James Hird and Essendon* FC - #FOREVERDRUGCHEATS

actually the sporn comments bring one back to me....... after watching him play in the reserves i told my old man that he reminded me of a young Andrew Mckay........... oh dear