When did i say it wasn't good enough. Stop trying to make this something its not

I clearly said when the boys ran hard, attacked and took the game on we kicked away. They had fun out there when they took it up to the Swans

I noticed that, at halftime I saw five carlton players crying, three desperately unhappy and four writing postcards to their mums saying they wanted to go home, in fact if you record JR's running and play it backwards you get 'I am so sad, please let me run some more!'

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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!

MASSIVE Pro: I got to watch the game live on FTA

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The turning of the tide, falling in behind
Pretending not to find, the questions in my mind
The shining of the day, the old familiar way
Follow the road where it leads
And all the way we will sing...

Is it getting harder to be negative lately?

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Chris Judd: 'I've since watched some Steven Seagal movies and realise pressure points are no laughing matter.'

Pros : Well , a 10 goal win against a team we haven't beaten in almost a millenium .

Cons : We've got Johnson , they got Rhys Shaw .

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Get the facts first.
Then you can distort them at your leisure.

Pros: Rebecca was two rows in front of me

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"I had to eat"

I think Johnson has plenty to offer.

Stupid dumb insignificant old fossil Robert Walls seems to think he is rubbish. He also rubbished Kade Simpson and Brett Thornton early on in he year after the round 3 Essendon* loss

Walls needs to back up before he gets smacked up!!!

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When you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way!

PROS
She was two rows behind me!!
We had her Surrounded!!

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"I'll tell you what I didn't do;
I never injected anyone."
AD 3/3/14

PROS:-

JUDD
Give him the brownlow now. God he was good.

FEVOLA
Give him the Coleman! Thought he played a good game today and presented quite well all over the ground.

HOULA
Fevola was right, he is one of the best kicks into the forward line. Still looks low on confidence, but i thought he played a good game.

SIMPSON
If he's not the Vice Captain he bloody well should be.

BEATING SYDNEY AND 3 IN A ROW.
How good is it? FINALLY!

CHANGE OF PLAY
I'm really not sure what happened in the last QTR. We hadn't dominated all day (Sydney were well ahead on dissposals, but that's largly thanks to the shit style of football they play) but yet we just out-did them in the last. We looked faster and more effective than we have in months!

Plus, we had forwards at home.
For a good half of football, we were kicking to Eddie Betts as a CHF with Fevola the only man inside50.
And we flooded all too much, yet not once in the last did we resort to that.

A good (and very much welcomed) change in tactics from Ratts.


KREUZER
Great cameo by the kid today. He has the heart and courage to match his size. Awesome player!


NOTE:-
Whilst Russell wasn't so much a PRO today, i thought i'd give him a mention because even though he didn't do much, he at least never dropped his head. Something he quite often does. Hope his confidence remains wehere it is.


CONS:

BOORING!
Crap booring poo-poo football from both teams and coaches for a good half of the game. That kind of play is killing this game!

UMPS
God their useless. Just utter utter crap. How was that Jordan Russell decision? Where the hell did he have prior opportunity. Yarren was clearly held in front of goal and was given nothing! Bloody hell!

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
- Aristotle

A great example of why more security is so badly needed at AFL games .

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Megan Gale was two rows in front of me - PWN

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Ecclesiastes 1:4, "One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but The Blues abide forever."

Katie Holmes was sitting 1 row in front of us......and Jennifer Hawkins and.......

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No ones listening till you make a mistake.

Well unless they were kneeling their ain't much point talking about it.

Actually, I thought we ran less with the footy and kicked more to position. The players may have run more WITHOUT the footy, if that's what you meant. They certainly made position better in any regard.

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

Running with or with out the ball. We ran/worked harder

Not sure if we have a deputy vice captain as well. But if we ever revert to the traditional leadership structure, you'd have to think Judd, Simmo and Carazzo would make a pretty good leadership trio. Both for performance on the ground. But also for character and work ethic on the training track.

And then with Murphy, Gibbs and Kreuzer to come in the future. Our leadership stocks look the healthiest they have since Sticks ruled the roost. Now that's a real PRO.

Pros:

I read somewhere that Gibbs girlfriend is moving to Melbourne.

Jenna was two rows in front of me......

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Bawditawaba

Two highlights for me worth reiterating over & above the general gist of this:

1. Hampson's third quarter.
To stop opposition run-ons and to wrest games away when close you need a key ruckman, one who can win clearances for you and one who can make the decisive tap. Against very very good opposition, Hampson was a key to our turnaround. he let our mids get their hands on the ball.

2. Anderson's flexibility.
Anderson has pace but can play pretty tall. He is an interesting combination, and while you're all dropping him for this week, I thought he was very good in the second half. He allowed Ratten defensive flexibility and the reshuffle that we needed after hartlett got beaten by White.