Any of you guys been in the outta with the old Bloods??

Most of you seem to have forgotten what Carlton supporters were like before their team fell on hard times.

The interesting sidelight to the Carlton resurgence under Pratt (and there's no doubt that it is a resurgence and that it was indeed, based in part, on ill gotten gains*) is the renewed arrogance of the Carlton supporter.

FCS, they've won two games in a row (thanks to tanking and the excellence of a player who was bought for 30 pieces of packaging material) and you'd think the bastards struck the El Dorado carboard box mine or something. On Thursday evening I went out to a function and had the misfortune of being stuck between two Blues supporters who were convinced that Pratt was the messiah and their team was on its way to at least a 3peat of the Brisbane variety of 2001, 2002 and 2003. After about 15 minutes of listening to them crapping on ad nauseum I asked whether the Blues had enough player depth to sustain a long winning run and they looked at me as if I'd just arrived on earth in an alien spacehip.

They finally came up with the name of one player from outside the current team who might add to it if he came back from injury and that was Andrew Walker. Their good young players are all in their A team which is effectively the team they're running ATM. I said that if they had at least half a dozen of their A team injured constantly for the past 2 years (which is a conservative assessment of where Melbourne has been since late 2006) the conversation would be centring on whether they should be drafting Naitanui or Rich or both at the end of the year.

The following morning the news about Pratt broke. Today, I'll be supporting the Bombers and I'm looking for a 1 point last gasp win thanks to a Scott Lucas snap that goes through with the final siren blaring.

Please make it happen!

* there is a precedent to this in the days of John Wren and Carringbush but that's another story.

totally agree re the cheaters supporters. one gushed to me "I can't believe he ($$$Judd) chose us." I replied that I think money might have had something to do w. it but apparently Carlton fans believe they had some spiritual or feng shui appeal to old $$$. also, saw a story in, I think, the age about judd's decision coming down to choosing between the cheaters & c'wood. they called it a choice between heart & head. just which part of a Melbourne supporter's heart would be at Carlton? sorry, just getting rid of more Judd bad feeling here.

tbh every club has bad fans

Most of you seem to have forgotten what Carlton supporters were like before their team fell on hard times.

I agree with your sentiments, Jack. They're sickening in their arrogance, which has developed as a result of the use of dirty money. I can't help but feel that evil will not prevail, and they'll be struck down as punishment for their sins.

Who did you barrack for last week when they played Collingwood? I found myself nearly supporting the hated enemy(can't get '58 out of my mind!).

while we're at confession: I was barracking for essendon today.