Well done to CFC for taking initiative to broaden the supporter base. The bollywood & Chinese international student initiative is great! keep it up!

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"our electorate seeks less to be informed and more to be validated." Sad times.

Carlton, Bollywood bond at The Dome

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I AM DISENFRANCHISED

Great story. I can just imagine them seeing the excitement when Pfief kicked that goal. Great game for them to see

50 more converts!!

Bring it on.....and then we'll have to play all our games at the MCG

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Very good long-term strategic thinking from the club. Well done.

Now we just need to replace the Bluebirds with the Bollybirds before the game...

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NOW YOU'RE JUST SOME CLUB THAT I USED TO KNOW.

"A work colleague at Footscray told me all about Chris Judd and I’m aware also of your striker (Brendan Fevola)."

The Irish incident must have rmade the papers in India!!

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Wisdom tells me I am nothing
Love tells me I am everything
Between the two my life flows

Hahahaha, gold

The International students are here to work also. something like 80% end up getting residency. Its a good market to tap into. They can be as sports mad as the rest of us. Also they tend to stick together, so 1 Carlton fan could bring 3 or 4 with him

agree Buzzaaah. no better way for the international students to feel part of Australia than to belong to the greatest club around.

Just to give you guys an idea, I know a couple of international students who used to barrack for Melbourne and have switched to Carlton b/c of Judd. So, they in generally pick a team for no apparent reason but once you give them a reason to follow a team, they will jump on board. So the international day organized by CFC is a great way to get these guys on board b/c there is now a reason to follow Carlton!

I want JAZZY SINGH given the mantle of the Carlton Football Club's number one ticket holder immediately.

GO CARLTON. GO JAZZY SINGH.

Using the family re-union visa perhaps?

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Let slip the Blues of war (with apologies to William Shakespeare) (and Sir Francis Bacon, just in case)

I signed up 2 taxi drivers tonight - one on my way into the city, one on my way out.

Carlton supporters for life - it doesn't take much.

good work sparky blue!

great to hear...I worked at MelbUni for a few years as an international student adviser and would take groups of 20-30 students to the footy a couple of times each year (between 2005-2007) and on numerous occasions contacted Carlton via phone, letter, emails...over and over again... asking for any kind of involvment from the club...even just a couple of sausages or something!!! Never got a reply the first time, and was told flat out no on another occasion, they eventually said I could use the BBQ's at royal park if I brought the sausages... what a difference a few years make eh? But did successfully manage to indoctrinate a few of them!! =) really annoyed me at the time tho cause I thought it was a good idea but no dice, and I was really hoping to use it as an opportunity to meet a few players!!

Mmm...Bollybirds

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Mens sana in corpore sano.

Bring back the laurel wreath logo!!!

Just had a ride with a taxi driver who claimed that there will be a much larger group of students at the St Kilda game on July 11th. He also claimed that some students are now going every week now to the Carlton games.