Yep, shame on us.....shame on Ratts....performances like that just aren't good enough!!

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Definetely the last time i click on this thread!!!!!!

Shit win- NO

Shit attitude- most certainly.

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BBB, I think CK and buzz are taking the pi55 out of some other posters. They don't actually mean what they have typed.

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BBB, I think CK and buzz are taking the pi55 out of some other posters. They don't actually mean what they have typed.[/quote]

Well thats alright then.

Kind of difficult to read sarcasm on a chat forum.

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You mean they're being Sar-car-stic?

That's one of my least favourite things, sar-car-sm!

I was walking down the street the other day when I saw a man walking his dog. "Hello, nice day, isn't it?" he said. Except it wasn't. It was a little bit cloudy. He was being sar-car-stic.

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Good game on the weekend.

It dosen't mean all is ok, more coaching experience from successful teams / coaches should be brought in over the off season if we are to get improve further.

Actually, we should be looking at getting some exprienced help for the finals campaign in a consultant like capacity, given the inexperience in the coaches box. I reckon we are the big wild card in September, and if a few things fall our way then 17 might be a lot closer than we think.

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Scott, things aren't as happy as they used to be down here at the unemployment office. Joblessness is no longer just for Philosophy majors - useful people are starting to feel the pinch.

Of course they do... they like it when we underperform....

They enjoy insipid football.
They like it when we go round in circles...

they especially like it when our players are playing a brand of footy that makes them look crap... and they look too young... like theyre 17 years old...

When we come out all lame ... and the siren sounds.. and were in the dressing rooms...

Theyre genuinely spewing..

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Bluemark... im not too sure what you can do about it.. seeing i dont suffer from it...but i did see something on late night telly one night... ill try and pay more attention next time for you.... but just goes to show eh???.... a cold sore that ended up as herpies ???

nasty.....

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Please please please do not let this degenerate into personal abuse or circular arguments again.

If anyone has something new to the argument then fine....otherwise just back off for a week.

Why would you say, that. You'd have no idea why? Read the thread and then get a dictionary and look up the word "context".

So embarrassed for you that you're not clever enough to think beyond "simple reasoning" before posting. Think before you type.

Really really pathetic atempt a deflection pfffft

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Unless some of you are selective in your reading, please note what Mrs C said.

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What's too hard to understand?

deflect from what baz baz?

from the fact we didnt play like the last 6 weeks???

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Hey Sinners re gamotto, are you going to answer my question re the Saints game from the other thread now that you're back?

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You were only unhappy with the last six weeks?...you have been venting all season win or lose

I think some people forget about some of our great sides...

So thinking back to the last six weeks, we've seen grinding wins over North and Freo, a last quarter surge against Sydney, a routine win against Richmond, a belting by Collingwood, and a great win over Geelong.

Now why do I talk about some of our great sides? Because they weren't 'up' for the game every single week. They'd play sides they knew they would dispatch like the Doggies and St Kilda and they would lift for 10-15 mins, bury the opposition, and then just switch off. It wasn't like we dominated every single week. We focused on different opponents, and just routinely put away those we knew we should.

OK... before everyone tells me this isn't a great Carlton side - well, I fully agree. But I would like to point out that anyone who thinks of Carlton and premierships is having selective memory if they think we just blitzed every week. We'd wait until we were playing the Hawthorns, Essendons, and Collingwoods and we'd switch on, but in between there would be some very routine victories where the side looked half asleep.

It seems to me like we are developing a side that can at least go and get the routine victories. Sure the wins against Freo and North weren't pretty, but they were effective. The side is obviously still learning how to cope with the pressure that comes from being favourites - and I think that is fair enough.

The other thing is, which premiership sides in history can we say have looked switched on for pretty much every game of a season? Geelong two years ago, Essendon* in 2000, and Carlton in 1995 are the only ones which come to mind. St Kilda will fall into the same boat if they win this year. Geelong fell over at the final hurdle last year.

So look... it is a developing side, and yeah it is one which hasn't switched on for all of their matches. Wins against Essendon* and Collingwood would have made the season feel so much better too. But anyone who wants to get stuck into us because we have won 5 games out of 6, but haven't looked switched on in those games is ignoring:

Carlton's own premiership history
The premiership history of the rest of the competition

I do think Ratts needs to get better at getting the players more focused for 'routine' games. But at the end of it all, we've got four routine wins in our last 6. And from memory we have a 5-3 record against the rest of the top 8. Ratts must be doing some things right to achieve that.

But anyway, go back to grinding the axe people.