Lil' Miss Wojee II turns 15 this year, and for almost all that time Carlton has been varying degrees of shit.
She'd turn up in her Carlton gear at school footy day and hear things like "Why do you barrack for them, they're bad?"
When we'd talk about making the trip to see a game live she'd always ask "Can we go to a game we'll win for once?"

It was hard to convince her that when I was her age Carlton had won 1/3 of the flags played during my lifetime, and that we wouldn't be garbage forever.

This year it finally appears that a corner has been turned and that being a Carlton supporter isn't something that gets you sympathy or pity. The other kids don't laugh now when she says she's a Blues fan. She's able to give it back and it's not hollow, there's a real sense of "screw you, my team can beat yours and you know it".


She loves Charlie.
She loves Dow.
She loves messaging her Collingwood supporter friends after we win.

She loves Carlton.

My son was 7 in 2000 , he smiled on sunday and said, "first time we've won 7 since 2000"- he remembers that year the way I remember the first time I read The Faraway Tree... no the way way I remember the 68 GF, standing there next to my Dad feeling bigger than life itself...then came the summer of that year...the disaster since...He texts me now after every game (it began when Voss was appointed but got a bit wobbly for a few rounds this year).

This weekend we are all going away to celebrate his 30th - when I let him know he said - but that means we'll miss the Melbourne game - he has waited many many years to be this excited...and I have felt guilty many many times that because of me he follows the bluebaggers...

Now we talk football and there is no despair in our voices...Only pride and hope.

Agro Jr also 7 in 2000 - your boy and my boy the same.

Agro Jr wore out the 1995 VHS video - he can recite Robbo’s commentary for the passage of play where Greg Williams outmarks Stephen Handley and kicks a goal in the last quarter.

Agro Jr sometimes curses me for the legacy of crap I’ve given him as a Carlton member this century.






We’re not swaggering yet.

It’s like the final scene in “The Sting” where Paul Newman asks Robert Redford if he it’s worth it - and Redford says “it’s not enough - but it’s close”.

The swagger is not quite there - but it’s close.

My girls are now rusted on Wojee and its wonderful, they even read the forum (without posting - they do laugh at you all though).

Good on your youngun for sticking with us!

My eldest (7) has sports colours day coming up soon, I'd best get shopping! Neither he nor his younger brother (4) give a Ratts... 7 says "why are you watching this?" then repeats "whyyyy" half a dozen times, and 4 asks me to put on The Wiggles, but I will get them, oh yes, if it's the last thing I do!

It was a very very hard sell for me over the shit years, but my advice to any parent is bribe them with sugar. Sit down & watch a game & the one rule is every time we get a goal, they get chocolate.

That'll make 'em barrack

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It was a very very hard sell for me over the shit years, but my advice to any parent is bribe them with sugar. Sit down & watch a game & the one rule is every time we get a goal, they get chocolate.

That'll make 'em barrack

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I really believe we will beat the Dees too.

There was that game at Whitten Oval many years ago - which would have only cost you one chocolate