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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: How does Crippa rank among the panoply of Carlton greats?
Last post by LP -No fanfare, no histrionics, just go out do the job and then get ready for next week.
The media would rave about Southby, similar mould, so reliable, no waste, played on the glamours and usually beat them, terrific player, but 7 out of 10 times the pill never got that far forward because Doull had already killed it.
We've been lucky over the years, we had a swagger back then but it wasn't hubris, it was a confidence, we copped a lot in the media because the media was dominated by Filth and Feral loud mouths. But we never really boasted, we just got on with the job, for example Walls was the antithesis of Sheedy.
To me a lot of this started when Barassi arrived, he set a culture that lasted decades, admirably extended by Parkin.
...all had some pretty good team-mates.