Prediction: The Loss of the Year Coming

[Thryleon]

That is 100% sooking it up defeatist crap mate.

The sad part is, this is what the club has conditioned us to over the years.

Wouldnt surprise me if it was an unwritten part of the Eddie Betts deal where we gift Adelaide a win.

[Spanner_smf2_import2]

Fan boi? I'm anything but. I kick the crap out of the club all the time.

You've had a gut full of losing? I don't care. Stop whining like a 2 year old and man up.

We are the new St Kilda. I've come to terms with it and aren't surprised by any of the myriad of ways we find to lose a game of football. We are classic St Kilda of the 70s and 80s.

The game can be totally on our terms and within 10 minutes manage to sh!t the bed and let the opposition do as they please. You would think the likes of Cripps, Murphy, Simpson and Docherty would have had a gutful of losing but the same things happen week after week, month after month, year after year. Hell, we now have the proud distinction of having the most losingest (is that a word) player in the history of the game, let that sink in...

We're the club that never learns. That's why the Adelaide game is as near certainty as you can get. It'll be a Carlton being Carlton game.

[capcom]

Papers have been long stamped for both sides in regard to players short to be discarded and careers over, will not be wearing the club colours ever again.

Both teams will just want to go home.  The result is largely irrelevant more for ADL than it is for us.  They're a beaten rabble, we aren't ... not by a long shot.

We won't lose this one.   

[Gointocarlton]

We are the new St Kilda. I've come to terms with it and aren't surprised by any of the myriad of ways we find to lose a game of football. We are classic St Kilda of the 70s and 80s.

The game can be totally on our terms and within 10 minutes manage to crap the bed and let the opposition do as they please. You would think the likes of Cripps, Murphy, Simpson and Docherty would have had a gutful of losing but the same things happen week after week, month after month, year after year. Hell, we now have the proud distinction of having the most losingest (is that a word) player in the history of the game, let that sink in...

We're the club that never learns. That's why the Adelaide game is as near certainty as you can get. It'll be a Carlton being Carlton game.

I'll hand you this much, you've changed your MO at least and posted before a game. Tell me, why don't you post after a win?

[Spanner_smf2_import2]

Tell me, why don't you post after a win?

You say that like it happens frequently. I think it's more so the sheer shock of actually achieving a win that it takes me a few days to digest and believe that it actually happened.

The wins we have had over the past few years are more fluke than by design so therefore you end up having a sense of relief rather than jubilation. Outside of the Bulldogs game, in what others has the team looked really proficient at what they do and truly believe they can win?

The fact the we've lost 22 out of a possible 25 against the Hawks highlights that this team never learns. Even after so much upheaval in the playing list and coaching staff we're still their bunnies. It's fucking embarrassing to be honest. I can't remember such a lopsided win\loss ratio in the history of the game outside of us against St Kilda. But Carlton being Carlton, they're are trying to level out the win loss between us and St Kilda as well.

Well done Carlton, well done! You make me so proud...

[Gointocarlton]

You say that like it happens frequently. I think it's more so the sheer shock of actually achieving a win that it takes me a few days to digest and believe that it actually happened.

The wins we have had over the past few years are more fluke than by design so therefore you end up having a sense of relief rather than jubilation. Outside of the Bulldogs game, in what others has the team looked really proficient at what they do and truly believe they can win?

The fact the we've lost 22 out of a possible 25 against the Hawks highlights that this team never learns. Even after so much upheaval in the playing list and coaching staff we're still their bunnies. It's screwing embarrassing to be honest. I can't remember such a lopsided win\loss ratio in the history of the game outside of us against St Kilda. But Carlton being Carlton, they're are trying to level out the win loss between us and St Kilda as well.

Well done Carlton, well done! You make me so proud...

I mentioned nothing about win frequency, just asked why you dont post after a win which you didn't answer, but thanks  for the reply anyway.

[Spanner_smf2_import2]

I mentioned nothing about win frequency, just asked why you dont post after a win which you didn't answer, but thanks  for the reply anyway.

Oh, I wasn't aware that I needed to balance out my posting on wins and losses threads. I'll keep that in mind for future reference. Although to be fair, it'll be pretty hard to keep the ratio consistent because of the sheer number of losses compared to wins.

How do you propose I do that. Any tips?

[LP]

Come on guys, we are all Carlton people and hurting over this Mickey Mouse season is pretty pointless.

On this issue of playing the Crows, in my opinion they are not as bad as people make out, they are just not interested in the Mickey Mouse season so they are using it for longer term gains.

But do not be surprised that someone like McGovern moving to us, Gibbs playing his last AFL game, our rumoured interest in Crouch, offers the Crow's players just enough motivation to play four quarters.

Will their coach scupper those efforts though by doing a Bolton and loading up with kids he wants a look at?

[ElwoodBlues1]

Hawks aside it hasnt been a major disaster season like we saw during the BB era, we are a couple of decent A grade players short of being able to do some consistent damage to the better teams but there is light at the end of the tunnel and as I have said many times before you only need that one trade period where you pick up the missing pieces ie like Richmond did and you are a contender.

[bratblue]

Sometimes I wonder if Spanner is the devils advocate, the devil himself or just taking the piss. But for that kick after the siren against Port?