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Carlton to get on the 'selfless' bandwagon

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Silvagnj is a flaw! Bloke is a self serving numpty!

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    3 minutes ago, Thehardtackler said:

    Silvagnj is a flaaawwgg Bloke is a self serving numpty!

    Fixed

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    4 minutes ago, Thehardtackler said:

    Silvagnj is a flaw! Bloke is a self serving numpty!

    And totally unoriginal, using exactly the same language that Goody and the players used

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    Soulless, feckless, gormless, absolutely. Selfless? Give me a break!

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    And there is the first club to start mimicking everything we do.

    Weird feeling this.

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    Easier said than done. If it were easy everyone would have done it by now.

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    And so it begins.

    Our players will be lauded as Superstars. We will become the hunted. Everyone will want what we have and try to replicate our game plan.

    A simple one two hand pass between Petracca and Oliver will be called incredible by commentators.

    Salem will be lauded as the best kick in the league every time he gets the ball. Even when he missed one it will be a rare miss.

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    3 minutes ago, BAMF said:

    And so it begins.

    Our players will be lauded as Superstars. We will become the hunted. Everyone will want what we have and try to replicate our game plan.

    A simple one two hand pass between Petracca and Oliver will be called incredible by commentators.

    Salem will be lauded as the best kick in the league every time he gets the ball. Even when he missed one it will be a rare miss.

    Are you saying there is a problem with this? The boys should start bottling their urine, they can sell it as champagne 😁

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    It is possible with Cook as CEO but they are kidding themselves if they think it’ll happen over a preseason.

    They have a much better list than we did in 2014 when Roosy took over. We however started an organizational facelift from that year onwards. We brought in Roosy’s Sydney assistants. We rejigged our football department. We started learning a new game plan and defensive fundamentals. Us becoming ‘selfless’ was merely the final cherry on top after we had spent the last 7 years making the sundae. Richmond and Geelong’s breakthrough teams were no different.

    If they think they’ll just snap their fingers and become a premiership team, they will be demonstrating exactly why they have failed from 2014 onwards.

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    1 hour ago, Thehardtackler said:

    Silvagnj is a flaw! Bloke is a self serving numpty!

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    SOS is a complete [censored].  The nuffy uses a fake name on big footy to spread rumours.

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    1 hour ago, faultydet said:

    And there is the first club to start mimicking everything we do.

    Weird feeling this.

    Certainly is!

    Wait till they do the player profiles for this year's draft prospects. We'll probably start seeing the "plays like.... " line, and it'll be one of our guys!

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    11 hours ago, BAMF said:

    And so it begins.

    Our players will be lauded as Superstars. We will become the hunted. Everyone will want what we have and try to replicate our game plan.

    A simple one two hand pass between Petracca and Oliver will be called incredible by commentators.

    Salem will be lauded as the best kick in the league every time he gets the ball. Even when he missed one it will be a rare miss.

    But its true anyway.  - Just now will be rcognised. 

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    "Carlton" and "selfless" don't belong in the same sentence.

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    12 hours ago, adonski said:

    Cripps to defensive wing 

    I think Cripps should be a top five player in the AFL, however he as optimised “trying to do it all himself” for too long now.

    If Carlton get things right they could jump up the ladder pretty quickly with their list.

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    Can't wait to see guys like Williams, Martin & McGovern talking about selflessness and team first cultures as they pocket half of Carlton's salary cap between them.

    That said, there is enough talent on Carlton's list that they should be playing finals next year.

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    12 hours ago, Demons11 said:

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    SOS is a complete [censored].  The nuffy uses a fake name on big footy to spread rumours.

    Haha do go on?

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    Carlscum “Selfless” Pull the other one

    1965-95 Cheated every year

    Never Forget 

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    13 hours ago, faultydet said:

    And there is the first club to start mimicking everything we do.

    Weird feeling this.

    And soon enough they will all start to hate us, can't wait.

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    2 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    I think Cripps should be a top five player in the AFL, however he as optimised “trying to do it all himself” for too long now.

    If Carlton get things right they could jump up the ladder pretty quickly with their list.

    A lot depends on Cripps. Shades of Trengove - lost mobility. Against MFC this year, couldn't or wouldn't kick. Other than Walsh, nothing else in the mids.

    They have a good spine, but Jones is overrated as a defender (interceptor only).

    In passing, Coniglio seems to have the Trengove effect as well.

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    I'll probably be corrected but regardless of the list, I don't think many coaches have taken over and got to a flag straight away - it usually takes years for players to learn a new gamestyle and for the coach to tweak the list to implement it.

    Scott is an exception but they had already won a few flags.  Bevo maybe the other exception - except McCartney had laid the ground work with a number of their young players.  Could we say Teague has done the same?  

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