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Its only Jim Wilson. He gets a very small section of the paper to put a story in once a week so he needs to make a headline somehow! ;)

It's a pretty sloppily written article going from a statement that Carlton are still confident of snaring Judd to a Carlton lunch at which nothing happened and then back to Greg Swann's declaration of his confidence with nothing more concrete than that. A waste of space for mine although my Carlton friends still insist they are in with a chance. Personally, I'll be glad when the thing has been resolved one way or another and we can all get back to normal.

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It's a pretty sloppily written article going from a statement that Carlton are still confident of snaring Judd to a Carlton lunch at which nothing happened and then back to Greg Swann's declaration of his confidence with nothing more concrete than that. A waste of space for mine although my Carlton friends still insist they are in with a chance. Personally, I'll be glad when the thing has been resolved one way or another and we can all get back to normal.

Isn't he a Carlton fan anyway? Just wishful thinking on his part one would think.

Mind you, we are all grasping at every positive rumour or change in betting and hoping.

I personally think Judd would be mad to go to a team that has such a losing culture that they were considered the "winners" after our round 22 game. We know they were tanking it no matter how much they denied it and I cant see how Juddy wouldnt have felt the same. I suspect he met with the Blues because they offered some pretty good draft pick options for WC but doubt he was seriously considering joining a team that threw away a win for the chance to draft Kreuzer. I could be wrong and he might see something there we dont but it will be covered in Pratt money and he seems much more intelligent than to fall for that.

Just wish it was over now tho. I have hardly worked all week and had the sites open just waiting for tidbits of news and hoping for a breakthrough.

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According to Jim Wilson in the HUN today Essendon and Melbourne are now outsiders with Carlton having declared themselves right in the mix.

Believe what you want people.

Come on Louie. You sound like some of those Carlton and Collingwood chumps over at bigfooty who are desperately clutching at straws in hope that Judd hasn't already made up his mind. Unless Chris Judd himself is really, really playing with the media and feeding everybody crap, there are simply too many people saying Judd --> Melbourne is done.

Relax. It'll come out on Monday.

Wasn't it announced at their lunch anyway? BEFORE everyone started coming out with the 'its as good as done'? Pretty crap article, as others have said. Unless Carlton supporters actually do have lunch at night.

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The Judd deal is not done until WCE accepts the trade.

You're right. But for gods sake try to be a little more positive. The deal can be AS GOOD AS DONE already. Let's consider who we're heard this from before we go listening to some idiot writing rubbish articles for the Hun.

'Whispers' on 3AW. Practically always gets it right, as I understand (I'm not a 3AW listener, but evidently some Demonland posters are, and they support this).

Hutchie at the AFL GF lunch, apparently confirmed by 2 people (one here and one at 'ology). Another who virtually always gets it right, however much of a troll he may be, suggested that it almost happened today, but then it changed at the last minute.

Brian Taylor on Fox Footy. If you've ever heard the Bristle coming out with his rumours on MMM, he has a very, very high strike rate. For him to come out and announce that it's a bees dick from being, if not already, done, is very significant. Like Hutchie, BT said it was almost announced today at 3pm, but then was changed at the last minute.

Now, the 'official word' is going to mean diddly until Judd is actually ready to announce it himself. You don't seriously believe that Steve Harris (see Age article) is going to steel Judd's thunder, not to mention make him almost front page news on GF day, by spilling the beans. Likewise, Judd is not about to cough it up when asked by Piggy Dunstall at the MVP presentation.

All we really have to the contrary is an article, written by a Carlton supporter, which appears inconsistent (lunch at night?), about the Carlton CEO telling Carlton supporters they're still in the running.

I know which way I'm going to lean in this. I know, people are trying to brace for disappointment. That's understandable, but seriously, why should we get disheartened or discouraged by rubbish such as this, when 3 of the best sources of knowledge are still in our favour.

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"Swann said the club would not be devastated if Judd chose Collingwood, with Melbourne and Essendon now considered outside chances to land the midfielder."

In other words, 'I'm talking a load of old bollocks, trying not to deflate Carlton supporters' hopes, whilst simultaneously preparing them for the worst'.

Anyway, Carlton were never in this. It's Melbourne and Collingworst with 50m to the finish line, and we're leading it by 3 strides.

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