Welcome to CSC: 2017

[malo]

PS I also started on the other site and migrated to this one. I started in the days of Synbad, Massive, Navy Andrew (or was he this site?) and another maniac starting with J who's handle escapes me. Very colorful days they were.

Ha..yeah....big fan of Denis Pagan was Massive......

[Navy Maven]

Welcome to CSC Jonesy (new member today) hope you enjoy our little community 

[RiverRat]

Great idea.

Started barracking for the mighty bluebaggers when my dad dragged me along to games in the sixties.

Early favourite players: Gary Crane, Ian Robertson (great exponent of the drop kick), Ian Collins (I had #19 on my jumper and tried to wipe out opposition players - like Collo did - when I used to play the game).

Best football memory: getting a stiff neck from sitting in one of the front rows (between the goal posts) at the Ponsford end during the 1972 GF and repeatedly watching the ball sail over my head as the Tiggers copped their just deserts.

Best player and inspirational coach: John Nicholls.

Best memory: Dragging my two sons along to games to keep the history repeating.

[Navy Maven]

Great to read so many posters stories. A lot of deep rooted Carlton passion here.

Also a welcome to Ryanscott who joined us yesterday. Happy posting mate 

[PaulP]

Great to read so many posters stories. A lot of deep rooted Carlton passion here.

Also a welcome to Ryanscott who joined us yesterday. Happy posting mate 

I thought Ryanscott was some sort of spambot, judging by his 2 posts yesterday, both of which have disappeared.

Apologies if he's real.

[Thryleon]

I'm Thryleon (real name Theo)

Carlton follower since 1982 when I was born.
Member of this site since I can't remember but Judd hadn't joined us at that stage.

Ive been a Carlton supporter since I can remember.

Favouite player: Diesel Williams/SOS/Sticks/Kouta/Fev/Judd
Favourite current player: Patrick Cripps
Favourite coach: Parkin
Favourite game: 1995 Grand final
Favourite H&A game : Ill go with the 94 point belting of Essendon.

Favourite other sport:Soccer

bonus stuff: 

I fondly remember meeting at Cafe "notties" Notturno for lunch before a game at Princes Park.
99 Preliminary final
2013 final against Richmond

I have been a paying member for 10 straight seasons now.  Time flies even when you arent winning flags.

[crashlander]

G'day, I am crashlander, sometimes known as Stephen.
I've been on this site (and a few others) for some years now. I joined because I was desperate to talk about Carlton's recruiting and my wife wouldn't know Alex Jesaulenko from Alexander III of Macedon.

I found out recently that my great great uncle played for Carlton back in about 1868, a young bloke named Azzopardi with Maltese roots who had a strong Scottish accent. I was impressed. We've been Carlton supporters ever since.

I'm a moderator around here now. I've been a member of Carlton since 1974. I was 3 (1964) when Carlton had their worst season to that point. It was then that I decided to follow the family tradition. My father, a Hawthorn supporter, was horrified. By the time I was actively going to games, we were damn good. In fact, the first game I saw live was at the MCG when Jezza kicked his 100th goal for the season against Melbourne.

Collingwood and Essendon head my faecal pantheon. Richmond tried hard for supremacy: I will never forgive them for the 1973 GF, the first  saw live. However, the Cheats and the Meat Pies still managed to drag their way to their present place.

I don't think I have a single favourite player. I grew up in a great time and saw many of the true superstars play. I also used to watch the U19s when I could, as I was fascinated by our recruiting even then. One of my former work mates, Scott Langan, found it amazing that I could remember seeing him waltz around in our U19s as a 16 year old. I also recall Ange Christou walking around Arden St after we had just lost in the U19s, wearing a Collingwood Guernsey. Yes, he was an ignorant kid back then, unaware that his future was in Blue.

I like David Parkin as a coach. I heard him speak any number of times live. He could motivate me to walk through walls. I heard Tom Hafey speak also: he couldn't have made me get out of bed even if I wanted to wake up. (He was a great coach: the number demonstrate it, but he never got on with intellectuals, and I am probably an intellectual. I am a Maths/Chemistry/Physics teacher.)

My favourite games are many: the 1970 GF was amazing. The 1999 PF also holds pride of place. However, the H&A game I remember best was at Windy Hill. We kicked 14 goals in the 2nd quarter, which lasted about 40 minutes with all of the goals and brawls. Swan McKay got reported after some Essendon thuggery. It stimulated him into kicking 8 goals that day.

I am about as Aussie as you can get. My last foreign born ancestor landed here in the 1880's work in the Beaconsfield Gold Mine from Cornwall. I have Scottish, English, Irish, Maltese, German and Shetland Islander heritage, with the earliest arriving in 1802, to be sent to Tasmania.

I have seen some firsts, but one of my favourites is the AFLW initial game between Carlton and Collingwood. A great occasion.

[Navy Maven]

Loved every bit of that Crash 

[crashlander]

Loved every bit of that Crash 

No worries.

[Pominoz]

Hi Guys & Girls

Im 32 and been living in Australia 5 years (feel in love with footy 3 years ago)

Been posting on here 24hours

Best memory was my first win vs st kilda in 2015, Patrick Cripps made me fall in love with the game, the atmosphere the hits the marks after seeing soccer for 30 plus years it was so much of an eye opener

Favourite Current player, Kreuzer or Cripps

Past Player (not many to choose from as so recent) but Juddy was a class apart

Visit about 7 matches per year, and growing yearly so if you ever in need of someone to tag along hit me up

hopefully i can enjoy the last few weeks of the season with the blues in the finals where they belong