I've only got one word for now.........

TANK!!!

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Walk on, Walk on,
With hope, in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone,
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

08/02/1981 - GATE 7...Our brothers will never be forgotten!!!

Tank is weapon of choice in basement battle - Grant Thomas

With every ounce of my being I still refuse to believe any team/coach would lose on purpose.

Carl v Melb:
Houla won't be tanking because he wants to win his 150th.
Betts won't be tanking because he wants to wn his 50th.
Grigg won't be tanking because he wants to win his first and cement his place
Bower won't be tanking because he wants to cement his place.
Hartlett ditto.
Wiggo ditto.
Kennedy ditto.
Bentick ditto.
Kouts wn't be tanking because he's Kouta.
Simpson wont be tanking because he wants to win his first and maybe only game as captain.
Carazzo won't be tanking because he can't help himself racking up possies.
Setanta won't be tanking because he doesn't know how to give less than 100%
I wont keep going but I hope the message is clear. The players won't be tanking. No more wins will mean picks 1 and 2 or 3 so some of their positions will be in danger straight away for starters.

Oh and Denis wont be tanking because he is fighting for his career.
I will be sooo pleased when we win another game and this thread can be closed down.

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

Hah!!! Have you forgotten the Noth Melbourne game at the end of 2003 where Kouta effectively was on strike?!!

I must have. I was probably planning a big wedding at the time and didn't take much notice from over here.
Just the same, I don't think the players will be tanking.

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

Blue Sombrero players never tank, unless they are part of a senior group that is in on a future plan if you know what i mean.

It's the club that implements tanking through the coach.

You can have a very winnable game that can be lost when players are apposed to players that don't suit their strengths and weaknesses.

That's tanking.

Not so sure that Pagan would do this unless he has been garaunteed his position for next year, and is in on it........

Today will tell us plenty.

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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Lets hope, for the good of the club, that we lose today.

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Walk on, Walk on,
With hope, in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone,
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

08/02/1981 - GATE 7...Our brothers will never be forgotten!!!

we are fuck-ed

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dane's trolling again

Up until the freo game at round 12 i was not an advocate for us to Tank this season as we were playing some really good footy.

However it makes sense now at round 13. With only 10 games left i reckon it makes a lot of sense, especially with the priority pick available.

I also reckon that Denis Pagan has always had Carlton's best interests at heart and would tank now despite it costing him his career. Surely he knows his time at the club is already over and the club is only keeping him there coz its too expesnive to get rid of him right now.

Well we're tanking now thanks to Swan and Pagan. We would have won with Fevola.

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"We used to sit around and talk about how bad the game plan was." Anthony Koutoufides

Our run home:

Sydney away
Brisbane away
Collingwood
Essendon*
Port away
St Kilda

Cant see us winning any of these

Round 22 - Melbourne - Battle for priority pick

TANK TANK TANK OLE OLE OLE!!!!!!!!!

DO IT!!!!

This is a great day for the Carlton football club.

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Walk on, Walk on,
With hope, in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone,
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

08/02/1981 - GATE 7...Our brothers will never be forgotten!!!

GAVROMAN wrote:

This is a great day for the Carlton football club.

Been folowing this thread for a while now, my thoughts are we dont need to tank, we are probably going to get your precious pp anyway. My question to you, what the flower is an extra kid going to do as far as us being more competitive goes? We are shyte and there is no 18 yo kid in the country that is going to fix it!!!!!

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We would have lost more by picking Fevola and telling the young players it's OK to act like a tool.


You should be happy, Pagan is one loss closer to getting the bullet.

I think we need to continue playing our youth and we need the PP....we lack A grade talent and cant compete with the list we have....
Kruezer is a player who could give us a real lift and take some heat of some of our other young talls who need more time...
I wouldnt be unhappy to see the back of Pagan and the likes of Kruezer on the list now that we have almost bottomed out again...

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- Conor Gillen

Hear hear! The damage done to these kids by being demoralised each week cannot be undone by yet another 18 year old coming into the mix.

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These losses will long be forgotten in 2 years time but the 2 young guns we pick up in the draft will be remembered for 10 years to come.

Ask anyCollingwood supporter if they regret TANKING against the Kangaroos 2 years ago (when they conceded 3 goals in the last 2 minutes). That defeat is long gone yet Dale Thomas will be around for quite some time.

WAKE UP AND REALISE HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS!!!

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Walk on, Walk on,
With hope, in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone,
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

08/02/1981 - GATE 7...Our brothers will never be forgotten!!!

GAVROMAN wrote:

These losses will long be forgotten in 2 years time but the 2 young guns we pick up in the draft will be remembered for 10 years to come.

Ask anyCollingwood supporter if they regret TANKING against the Kangaroos 2 years ago (when they conceded 3 goals in the last 2 minutes). That defeat is long gone yet Dale Thomas will be around for quite some time.

WAKE UP AND REALISE HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS!!!

Havent we been working the system for the last 2 years? I doubt very much whether we will get kids any better than Murph and Gibbs. You are a fool if you think that getting the pp this year will have any sort of impact, expecially if you are talking immediate impact. Our issues go way beyond that!!!

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