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Whoever put that together would be a riot at parties! Talk about a misery guts!
There aren't any of the founding clubs who haven't had a handsome chunk of their history mired in failure. Even our poor 20 years had a few years of finals appearances. Yes, we sunk low, very low.
And as consistently as we justifiably shook our heads in dismay over recent years, we ponied up our memberships, year in, year out - even grew our membership. Says a lot about the loyalty of our supporters. How many other clubs had a shizen period of years and membership dropped way off? Many. Not us.
As we look at our Board and Football Dept. now, there are many changes -- which we screamed for -- giving us real reason to see the club differently and to put a twinkle in the eye of optimism for our future. The real test will be on grass, on paddocks with a bag of air from the 2022 season onward. Bring it on.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17
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(10-20-2021, 10:14 PM)Baggers link Wrote:Whoever put that together would be a riot at parties! Talk about a misery guts!
There aren't any of the founding clubs who haven't had a handsome chunk of their history mired in failure. Even our poor 20 years had a few years of finals appearances. Yes, we sunk low, very low.
And as consistently as we justifiably shook our heads in dismay over recent years, we ponied up our memberships, year in, year out - even grew our membership. Says a lot about the loyalty of our supporters. How many other clubs had a shizen period of years and membership dropped way off? Many. Not us.
As we look at our Board and Football Dept. now, there are many changes -- which we screamed for -- giving us real reason to see the club differently and to put a twinkle in the eye of optimism for our future. The real test will be on grass, on paddocks with a bag of air from the 2022 season onward. Bring it on.
Unfortunately, that is our lot at the moment and been that way for 20 years. No hiding from it. It has been that bad and an eye opener when you see it. It hits home. No use criticising anyone for telling the hard truth. Every year this part is optimism time of the year until the reality round 2 check. It's a rotten culture and what has brought down how many coaches now? One of the reasons I wanted to persist with the coach as the issues were elsewhere. Instead we went the easy way that hasn't worked before.
One year it has to change. It did with Richmond after 30 odd similarly rotten years so hopefully it is our turn.
Hope there is one on Essendon just to liven our spirits.....lol.
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(10-20-2021, 10:14 PM)Baggers link Wrote:And as consistently as we justifiably shook our heads in dismay over recent years, we ponied up our memberships, year in, year out - even grew our membership. Says a lot about the loyalty of our supporters. How many other clubs had a shizen period of years and membership dropped way off? Many. Not us.
As we look at our Board and Football Dept. now, there are many changes -- which we screamed for -- giving us real reason to see the club differently and to put a twinkle in the eye of optimism for our future. The real test will be on grass, on paddocks with a bag of air from the 2022 season onward. Bring it on.
I can hardly wait for the time when the MCG and Marvel grandstands get ultra-loud with the sound of Blue voices that have been largely silenced for 20 years. It will be deafening.
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?
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(10-20-2021, 10:14 PM)Baggers link Wrote:Whoever put that together would be a riot at parties! Talk about a misery guts!
There aren't any of the founding clubs who haven't had a handsome chunk of their history mired in failure. Even our poor 20 years had a few years of finals appearances. Yes, we sunk low, very low.
And as consistently as we justifiably shook our heads in dismay over recent years, we ponied up our memberships, year in, year out - even grew our membership. Says a lot about the loyalty of our supporters. How many other clubs had a shizen period of years and membership dropped way off? Many. Not us.
As we look at our Board and Football Dept. now, there are many changes -- which we screamed for -- giving us real reason to see the club differently and to put a twinkle in the eye of optimism for our future. The real test will be on grass, on paddocks with a bag of air from the 2022 season onward. Bring it on.
Following Carlton as a child and then teenager led to lots of teasing and fights at primary and secondary school. We were mostly rubbish until George Harris revitalised the club and lured Barassi across. I only endured about a dozen years of mediocrity back then and, for most of my life, my club was the greatest club of all.
Perhaps that great period of success made us slow to accept the changing footy landscape. In fact, we probably resisted change and that has had disastrous consequences. Anyway, that's all behind us now and it's time for the resurgent Bluebaggers to become mighty and stay that way.
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball
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(10-20-2021, 01:18 AM)laj link Wrote:A damning look at out last 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=deskto...NBVdb68PQg
Lost me when he started to heavily blame the letting go of senior players, as a major reason for struggling - then mentioned Hendo, and showed Jeffy and Bryce.....
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(10-21-2021, 02:02 AM)Milhanna13 date Wrote:Lost me when he started to heavily blame the letting go of senior players, as a major reason for struggling - then mentioned Hendo, and showed Jeffy and Bryce..... The most likely problem is that they didn't cut Henderson soon enough, for me he and Tuohy are persona non grata, I don't really care how well they play football!
For me losing Betts and Robinson were the only obvious big mistakes, most of the other guys that left other than Tuohy haven't really done much.
Gibbs was a very good footballer, but he was pretty much on the slide when he left.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"
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