Carlton Supporters Club

For God's sake, if the players are that bloody precious that hearing  that we are 'rebuilding' has scarred them, and scared them into playing soft, lazy, unaccountable footy, then they are right there demonstrating the exact reason why we need a clean out of the list.

I simply cannot take you seriously if you don't rate Silvagni's game.

In the 21 games leading up to that 1995 Grand Final, Ablett kicking 122 goals 82 behinds.
He kicked 4 goals or more in 20 of those 21 games. The exception was against Sydney in R2 where he kicked 3.3.
He had on average 9.7 shots on goal over that same period.
The last time he played us, he kicked 4.5.

In the Grand Final - he kicked 0.3. Silvagni was his opponent the entire game.
IMO he was 2nd BOG behind Diesel.

Quote from: ElCapitan on September 05, 2013, 03:34:17 pm

Raven, you and me are gong to have some fun. Im a Bears man.

It will be cracking division this season, the NFC North. Even the Lions may bear some teeth.

I am frothing.

Now how's this would be a great road trip. A CSC Super Bowl Tour.

Who can hook up a leave pass?

If you are paying I can get said leave pass. 

Everyone is just copying me and saying go Packers.  I like it! haha.

This thread should be a good one through the AFL offseason.

Yet to get to the States, but if I do go, would be keen to see a Packers game and a Penguins (NHL) game. Plus some snowboarding in Canada maybe... ah to dream.

I am the designated brewer for our Monday Superbowl Party, where we usually have 10-20 guys on the beers from 8am to watch the bowl each year.

Three to Four 20L kegs get drained by 3pm usually. And I tend to book the day after off too as I am in no state to be at work.

The season opener pits the Broncos against the Superbowl winner, Baltimore Ravens.  Peyton Manning's boys are red-hot favourites. 

For me, this season will be much more enjoyable.  Last year, although some games were broadcast on OneHD (as they will be this year too), problems with reception meant I had to try various ways of putting tension on the antenna cable to get things working, and often I'd have to give up altogether when the scores were tight at the end of the game.  This year, I have Fox and I can IQ ESPN.

One tip I picked up from a US sports journo is that you have to temper your enthusiasm for sides with 2nd-year QBs such as Colin Kapernick, Andrew Luck and RG3.  He pointed out that Cam Newton had a great first year, but he didn't follow it up well.  The reasons behind this US version of 2nd-year blues are:

• Coaches tend to keep things very simple for 1st-year QBs, but then they tend to throw the whole playbook at them in the offseason and they find it difficult to cope.
• Opponents have seen much more of these rookies and know what they want to do on big plays, meaning they're much better at negating them.

He did, however, suggest that Andrew Luck is a football genius and isn't likely to be overawed. 

This guy also suggested that there's a strong trend to do away with huddles after each play and the hurry-up offence is more common, meaning more plays throughout the game.