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GAME DAY – R14 Tiges v Blues

Silivagni for a dud has alot to say.
If his name was Jim Bob he would playing for Coburg
 
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It worries me when we let ourselves be drawn into hating a player (no matter how annoying), because it seems acceptable to everyone else. It happened with Goodes, it’s happening with Ginnivan, too - a widespread acceptance that he’s someone we can all get stuck into.

We might only intend for it to impact his play. But these are young men, and as we know bullying can cause massive impacts on mental health.
Yeah, it can get a bit over the top. I feel the same way about everyone adopting the "Mince" nickname for Gerard Whateley. What year are we in again?
 
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Doesn’t get much better than beating than blues especially when they were expecting to win.
 
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I hate his team, he seems like an ok bloke.
I have to admit I have a quite a few friends who are bloos fans and I like all of them

My dislike for the club doesn't stem from the fans as to me they are no more or less objectionable than any other group of supporters ( including our own I suspect). It comes from the rivalry in the late 60s through to the early 80s, John Nicholls and Neville Crowe, the sense of entitlement and brown paper bags etc etc.
 
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Like my new avatar?

Yes i do, Dwayne Russell opened his program today with "Let Shai Be Shai" i tend to agree.

Maybe a quite word to Shai in order but didn't really like Dimma publicly berating him.
 
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2 Carlton players stood out last night for me - for being tossers

Silvagni - plastic tough guy. nice when Marlion got into him ...

Peacock Patrick Cripps -

boring when a good footballer starts to believe his own blag. sure Dion gave him a little shove but it was minor.
Cripps just had to keep it going after the siren with the pointed finger and start wrestle-mania
 
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Maybe a quite word to Shai in order but didn't really like Dimma publicly berating him.
Bit hard if he's asked a direct question, can hardly say "No comment"... think the message was to everyone really. .. Let's be humble.
Love Shai and all he brings, but I reckon the coach is no different to us when he gets frustrated by someone with immense talent imo.
 
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Your kidding me, she found fault with that?? Curnow was still asking the umpire who to give the ball to when it was only Grimes there. If thats not the most obvious timewasting tactic I don't know what is. Did she bring up that the 50 was short, it could only have been about 30m.
Grimes won’t care, anyway - got all that child support coming in from Elon Musk.
 
Still early days but these sort of wins have the exact same pattern as our premiership years. Throughout our dominant years we hardly ever put teams away. We always though found a way to keep the lead even when teams came at us.
Still think we need to replace Ralphsmith and Shedda but the hunger definitely looks like its returning. It is whether the ageing legs can stand up for an entire season
 
I haven't met one Blues supporter who expected to win last night.
At the game they expected to win Even more so when they thought they were within 3 points. Half of them didn’t know the rules. Still relying on the rules from 1995. Thought Couta was still playing.
 
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There were moments in Q2 when we looked like a premiership team.

30 points up and Carlton couldn’t get past the wing.

And then someone will give away a *smile* stupid free and the momentum will shift.

Dimma needs to work out a way to stop teams from tripping our press so easily and then slamming on goals.

Our best currently looks good enough to jag another flag.

Our worst puts us in the crosshairs of the better teams.
 
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There were moments in Q2 when we looked like a premiership team.

30 points up and Carlton couldn’t get past the wing.

And then someone will give away a *smile* stupid free and the momentum will shift.

Dimma needs to work out a way to stop teams from tripping our press so easily and then slamming on goals.

Our best currently looks good enough to jag another flag.

Our worst puts us in the crosshairs of the better teams.
In our premiership years our layers of defence were impenetrable. However this when we lock the opposition in our forward half and they happen to break the first line, they then seem to penetrate through the rest and we cop these easy goals.
 
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It worries me when we let ourselves be drawn into hating a player (no matter how annoying), because it seems acceptable to everyone else. It happened with Goodes, it’s happening with Ginnivan, too - a widespread acceptance that he’s someone we can all get stuck into.

We might only intend for it to impact his play. But these are young men, and as we know bullying can cause massive impacts on mental health.
I keep my hatred to my lounge room HaS.

Agree re. letting it extend to social media or the outer!
 
Have reserved undercover seats and annoys the hell out of me when opposition supporters sneak into our area and then carry on like peanuts. Did enjoy asking them after the game if they enjoyed the result.
 
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I haven’t read this whole thread but can I just say that Marlion Pickett’s tackle on Cripps was a thing of beauty. The fact that it wasn’t penalised restored a little faith in me that the game I love still exists.

I suspect that underneath it all the Carlton coach would agree as he played the game the way many of us love to see it played.

It was like Cotchin’s 2017 qualifying final , his 2019 grand final tackle on Mumford and Stack’s 2019 bonecruncher on Nathan Jones all rolled into one.

Loved it.
 
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I have to admit I have a quite a few friends who are bloos fans and I like all of them

My dislike for the club doesn't stem from the fans as to me they are no more or less objectionable than any other group of supporters ( including our own I suspect). It comes from the rivalry in the late 60s through to the early 80s, John Nicholls and Neville Crowe, the sense of entitlement and brown paper bags etc etc.

Love beating Carlton more than any other team.

My earliest memories of footy was being told that there are 2 non-negotiables.
1. We support Richmond
2. We hate Carlton

It's in the blood.
 
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