Just a reminder of where we've come from ......

Go Blues !!! Lets skin a lion on the weekend

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

Eccles

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The cornerstone of our defence.................Mick Martyn

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I'm shocked to be sitting here

Or what about the flower that started it all ... O'Reilly.

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Matthew Allan
Callan Beasy
Simon Beaumont
Luke Blackwell
Glen Bowyer
Chris Bryan
Blake Campbell
Callum Chambers
David Clark
Sam Cranage
Justin Davies
Adrian De Luca
Jordan Doering
Andrew Eccles
Simon Fletcher
Anthony Franchina
Scott Freeborn
Barnaby French
David Gallagher
Daniel Harford
Adrian Hickmott
Trent Hotton
Darren Hulme
Ryan Jackson
Brett Johnson
Stephen Kenna
Josh Kennedy
Matthew Lappin
Luke Livingston
Troy Longmuir
Mick Martyn
Michael Mansfield
Jonathon McCormick
Cory McGrath
Corey McKernan
Dylan McLaren
Andrew Merrington
Digby Morrell
Ricky Mott
Justin Murphy
Karl Norman
Sean O'Keeffe
Adam Pickering
Jim Plunkett
Ian Prendergast
Jason Saddington
Jesse Smith
Lindsay Smith
Trent Sporn
David Teague
Lance Whitnall
Ross Young

R.I.P. Players of the Wooden Era 2002-2008 all of whom are no longer at the club.

(deleted: C. Bradley, S. Camporeale, A. Christou, A. Koutoufides, G. Manton, A. McKay, B. Ratten -- all played in the era but won the 1995 Premiership)

Ricky Mott

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

who can forget the great Mansfield trade

What? No Lawrence Angwin?


Also a bit rough on Hickmott, Allan, Murphy, Beaumont, Franchina, Lappin, Whitnall, Hulme and Fletcher who all played in good Carlton sides (all exept Hulme and Frankie played in the 99 Prelim - the greatest non GF win in our History)

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

I was sure that I had added him. I guess I wiped him from my memory!

That list is frightening.

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"I had to eat"

Maybe it was just my naivety but I remember being seriously disappointed when we traded Massie for Eccles.

I would have been about 12 or so at the time, but I couldn't then, and still can't, get my head around that trade.

As said, was I mistaken in thinking Massie could have been a good player for us? I remember being saddened when he broke his leg, and not remembering a whole lot of him in navy blue after that.

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"In fairness it did seem in the early days of the draft teams would just pick a name totally at random out of a hat. I'm pretty sure we picked James Cook at #2 one year. The mediocre forward, not the explorer" - Me, 12/9/2011

Carlton 2012: Lets remind them why they once feared the Dark.

But I thought we were tanking all those years?

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#GUILTY

* = denotes 'servicable player'



Makes you wonder why we've been where we have, doesn't it?!

I mean - the draft penalties are undoubtedly to blame, but if you then look at the above recruiting...

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I reckon Harford and his mates have played more games than most TCers..

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There's so much I could say...

not many more good ones, budzy.

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"In fairness it did seem in the early days of the draft teams would just pick a name totally at random out of a hat. I'm pretty sure we picked James Cook at #2 one year. The mediocre forward, not the explorer" - Me, 12/9/2011

Carlton 2012: Lets remind them why they once feared the Dark.

Not all TCers.

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There's so much I could say...

I reckon Kenna may have gone all right...


if given the chance...


and was a bit taller.

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Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

I liked Kenna, saw him do some really good things in his short time at the club - had a teriffic burst of speed.

Then I realised that he was only a prototype of Eddie Betts. And really you can only have one of those players
in the team at any given time.

That's my take.

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Very unlucky with injuries. Cracked his eye socket in 2000 and then broke his leg in 2001 and was traded. They weren't exactly injury prone type injuries though, it wasn't that his body was unsound, they were just terrible collisions. That's what made the trade so puzzling, a pick 7 overall that had spent 3-4 years in the system traded for an average player at best? I was just as bemused with the Nelson/Gallagher trade that went along for the ride. Nelson wasn't a bad player, Gallagher was simply terrible.

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