I just wish we could do for him what he did for our footy club.

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

This great club will forever be in your debt, Richard Pratt.

And we will dedicate Premiership number 17 to you.

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Princes Park - always was, always will be.

So sad to hear this news....Mr Pratt was one who really deserved to see our club rise to greatness again.

I know the end comes for all of us, but it never makes it any easier to deal with. Such a shame his last years were hard on him. I hope that the world remembers him for all the good he has done.

He has his own family to grieve for him, but I know that we all think of him as part of our family as well.

Anyone hear anything?

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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

Not yet...this in the H/S at 1pm

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 61,00.html

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

I know there are sponsor issues involved, but the club should either name PP (/ Visy Park) - "Richard Pratt Park" or at least call the new training facilities "The Richard Pratt Centre" and announce this while Pratt is still alive - we owe him this. I would also suggest a statue of RP at the entrance when its finished. I do not dare to think where we would be today without him.

I will email the club this arvo about it and I think you guys should too.

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TC suffers from the social media illness - the death of respect and constructive discourse by keyboard.

I guess my small contribution to make to this thread is that I held serious doubts over the viability of the Carlton Football Club until Richard Pratt arrived. He will be sorely, sorely missed in and around the Club, and deserves major credit for what he has done with it in his twilight years. I guess that if I am allowed to copy Martin Luther King, then I would say that I hope Richard has been to the mountain top, and has seen the promised land for the football club. All the best to Richard and his family.

A great person, humanitarian and philanthropist.

Thank you Richard Pratt, your conscience should be clear, and your place in heaven and history is assured.

Best wishes to Richard Pratt and his family.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Thank you Mr Pratt...
My lingering memory will be of you at the family day after you took over...."casual shirt"ed and generally enthusing everybody! ..and as if that wasn't enough ...leading a chorus of "We are the Navy Blues"...and finally presented the Number 1 Jumper with "President" embalzoned across the shoulders...

You are and always will be No 1!!!

(There's a photo on the albums here somewhere...just can't find it!)

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“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

Thank You Mr Pratt....
You will live on in every Carlton Supporter's Heart as the Man who saved this once mighty club and turned around the Carlton Titanic...
Your enormous amount of community work, recycling and philanthropy will be remembered as well by everyone.

nicely said KK

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Between our dreams and actions lies this world

Just to think that a man of such wealth and power and seemingly able to achieve the virtual impossible in life; can be cut down by this insidious disease.....the same disease that claimed Ted Whitten.

I am really saddened by the news; and hope somehow he can be spared long enough to see his beloved players win again.

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No ones listening till you make a mistake.

Shattered, simply shattered.

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" -Winston Churchill

L.M 35-06

Dick Pratt - thank you. You are a true Carlton champion and a legend of the club.

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I need some new conspiracy theories; all my others have come true.

Deeply saddened by the news. I haven't had anything to do with him personally but I could never thank him enough for saving our football club.

Best wishes to Richard and his family.

Terrible news .

Thank you for restoring pride to this great club and giving me the chance to spend many years ahead cheering on our beloved club with my children. Before you arrived I was beginning to believe it wouldn't be possible. I'll have a drink in your honour tonight

Best wishes to Dick and family.

Oh no......

This is sad, without this man the club would have been finished.

If the players dont fire up this weekend then somehting is seriously amiss.

Thank you to Richard for lifting our club from the doldrums and for all the wonderful things he has done for the community. They will not be forgotten, and my prayers go out to him and his family.