Carlton Supporters Club

Quote from: kruddler – on April 24, 2025, 08:54:53 pm

Take off the navy glasses DJC. Half of those players won't be on the list in a year or 2, their form is far from AFL level form.

Let's revisit that in two years.

I'd say Evans will be gone and Binns will have to find some form to stay but the rest will be fixtures.

Quote from: DJC – on April 24, 2025, 08:07:20 pm

Subject to getting through our main training session, we have eight players named on an extended bench.  At the risk of offending sentimentalists, the only one of that eight whose form doesn’t really warrant selection is Doc … but he may have trained the house down this week.

The bottom line is that it’s likely that there will be three players who are stiff not to make the final 23.  Then there’s the likes of Pitto, Lemmey, Boyd, Charleson, Binns and Evans, whose VFL form must have pleased the MC, and the Camporeale twins, Moir, O’Farrell and Wilson aren’t far off.

I suspect that a few other clubs would love to have our depth.

Take off the navy glasses DJC. Half of those players won't be on the list in a year or 2, their form is far from AFL level form.

I've been a teacher for more than 40 years. I can't say that teaching today is any better than it was when I started, for all the changes there have been. There is more support for teachers now, but student quality has not improved, nor had student behaviour. I've taught some shockers over the years, but the lack of respect now is at an all time high.

That said, our tertiary education is still more than decent, even if students spend nowhere near as much time on campus. In my 3rd year, I was rarely out of the lab and only to go to lectures. Now lab time is much less. Much less.

I just noticed that number plates identify Victoria as the "Education State".

What a joke.  More accurate options would include "Bankrupt State", "Lawless State" and "Socialist State".

Any other suggestions?

Subject to getting through our main training session, we have eight players named on an extended bench.  At the risk of offending sentimentalists, the only one of that eight whose form doesn’t really warrant selection is Doc … but he may have trained the house down this week.

The bottom line is that it’s likely that there will be three players who are stiff not to make the final 23.  Then there’s the likes of Pitto, Lemmey, Boyd, Charleson, Binns and Evans, whose VFL form must have pleased the MC, and the Camporeale twins, Moir, O’Farrell and Wilson aren’t far off.

I suspect that a few other clubs would love to have our depth.

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on April 24, 2025, 02:57:39 pm

A bit harsh EB, do you think he was corrupt or just liked to dictate and rule his way? From a leadership perspective I see similarities between him and Kennett.

GTC I see him as corrupt, doesnt have any memory on missing money or who signed for what, happy to throw his own ministers under the bus to save his own hide and you have respected identities like ex Police chief Kel Glare calling the Andrews Govt the most corrupt he has seen in his lifetime. How many investigations did the Anti-corruption Commission have into the Andrews government four or five?
He was a great Dictator/Politician for sure and wrote the playbook for how to survive as a corrupt leader mainly thanks to such an inept Opposition but he has totally fecked Victoria and got away with it and to see him feted as some CoVid hero makes me want to vomit...