Re: "The Greatest Club of All": Video
Reply #13 –
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.