Opinion The 'Carlton related stuff that doesn't need it's own thread' thread

[TeeJay Blue]

Don't understand why players would want to leave for success anyway.

If they just want to play finals footy, then it's bizarre. If it's for the chance at a flag, then it's stupid. One is never guaranteed success no matter where they go. Players just have to accept that so many will never get to taste that sort of glory.

Thousands of footballers have come and gone without it. It's the harsh reality.

 

[Bluechip66]

Chelsea

 

[Metalcrusher]

Chelsea

Actually … looking at smurphs frame and his aerobic ability …. I reckon he would have excelled at soccer in another life … not a bad call!

#AllChampionsBelongInBlue

 

[Brighton_Diggins]

He can be our Crawf. 34yrs , 305 games. One club. One flag.

 

[ESKIE]

He’s a blue for life

 

[mediumsizered]

Watching NT Thunder v GWS Giants in the NEAFL on NITV & running around with the Thunder is our very own Joe Anderson. Still looks to be in good shape, unlike his teammate Richard Tambling, who has been in a good paddock.

 

[Aphrodite]

He’s a blue for life

You tell them Esky.

 

[Gethelred]

Carlton.

 

[Foxy1302]

I'm rather curious as to how you've come to that conclusion, given that I've literally spelt out what criteria I expect to use when judging whether a source is worthwhile or not.

Statistics, not rhetoric. If someone builds a case using evidence interpreted from statistics across the year for us being shit, I'm all for it; if someone discusses how shit we are because we lost to Melbourne by 109 points, I'm going to nod and ignore.

The trick is to read everything, but not take the subjective stuff personally. Media exists not for the readers, but for those looking to sell stuff to the readers; ergo, they write things that make us read, rather than the things we ought to know.

Just a joke, wasn't have a go at anyone. For all the negative stuff in the media there are both extremes of the spectrum available on BF. Some of the comments on the postmortem threads make the media commentators look soft. If the negative commentary is upsetting people, there is plenty of positive stuff to be found that is just as subjective as anything you will find in the media and much better for the Blood Pressure.

 

[Gethelred]

I don't know with this one. I got jack of reading the HUN after pre season and haven't found things so bad since. Like with film and television you get to choose what to watch, there is no expectations on choice. Whateley, Robbo, Cornes - do we comment on the imbalance or just let it slide?

It really could be that the way I see it is that these people rely on my outrage - my pride - to be employed. By giving them the response they crave - by calling up to Cornes show, by complaining online, tweeting them, even by discussing them on here (if you think the media companies aren't assessing their impact from search algorithms online, you've another thing coming) - you are facilitating them doing it further. And I'll go one further.

Is it disingenuous for them to do what they're doing? Absolutely. Is it wrong? What have you done for a wage? Done anything you dislike? Hated your job, while needing it? Can, or should you hate someone for doing what they're told, provided they are not literal nazis?

Is there any real world impact to any of these inadequate scribes idle musings?

I reiterate: if you feed a troll, it knows that you will keep coming back. Responding the way we have, even if only in here, leads to them continuing to be employed. And I dare anyone to try to make the argument that we've been better than most of the media commentary, without resorting to mentioning injuries. It is okay to admit to being poor; it means that the only way to go is up.

If their argument is fact - statistic - based, acknowledge it. If their argument is rhetoric based, give them the good old Richmond answer: "Yeah-nah."

 

[thylacine60]

Be nice for Carlton to keep Bridget & Alex's memory alive somehow. They were die-hard Blues supporters on the way to a game when this happened.

Grocon responsible for safety, coroner rules over fatal wall collapse

 

[Jabba73]

Be nice for Carlton to keep Bridget & Alex's memory alive somehow. They were die-hard Blues supporters on the way to a game when this happened.

Grocon responsible for safety, coroner rules over fatal wall collapse

Read that a few minutes ago and was thinking the same thing, good call.

 

[SurreyBlue]

It’s been tough to keep the kids supporting but thankfully I’m so devoted to bloody us, they have stuck fat.........but I lament the lost generation. We have lost 2 generations now! Not good.

 

[ShanDog]

It’s been tough to keep the kids supporting but thankfully I’m so devoted to bloody us, they have stuck fat.........but I lament the lost generation. We have lost 2 generations now! Not good.

I started having kids when the writing was on the wall for Malthouse and we got SOS in as list manager. It's all about timing.

 

[thylacine60]

It’s been tough to keep the kids supporting but thankfully I’m so devoted to bloody us, they have stuck fat.........but I lament the lost generation. We have lost 2 generations now! Not good.

we've revitalised that old term, the generation gap......

 

[RudyBlue]

It’s been tough to keep the kids supporting but thankfully I’m so devoted to bloody us, they have stuck fat.........but I lament the lost generation. We have lost 2 generations now! Not good.

How long is a generation?

We probably haven't been a feared side since 2000-2001.

We had a brief period of pretending (2008-2013) where we averaged 12 wins a season. There was enough then to keep people interested.

We haven't lost two generations. We've hardly lost one, I'd say.

 

[thylacine60]

12 wins? oh mumma!

 

[Bluella]

When people talk about a generation as a time period, isn't it about 15-20 years?

 

[thylacine60]

I think a generation is the period a person takes to grow up and procreate as an adult - very variable of course - maybe 25 years?

 

[RudyBlue]

I think a generation is the period a person takes to grow up and procreate as an adult - very variable of course - maybe 25 years?

Thus is it not more than a tad hyperbolic to suggest we have lost multiple generations of fans?

 

[thylacine60]

don't think that follows at all - we have been shit for 15 years - flagless for 23 - says 1 to me

 

[SurreyBlue]

How long is a generation?

We probably haven't been a feared side since 2000-2001.

We had a brief period of pretending (2008-2013) where we averaged 12 wins a season. There was enough then to keep people interested.

We haven't lost two generations. We've hardly lost one, I'd say.

We have lost 2. Our current children, who are now 20 or so and there’s now.

 

[RudyBlue]

We have lost 2. Our current children, who are now 20 or so and there’s now.

I think you're overplaying it a bit. We'll be right.

How did Richmond get all their lost generations back?

 

[I bleed Blue]

I started having kids when the writing was on the wall for Malthouse and we got SOS in as list manager. It's all about timing.

That's it all about the timing.

My daughter is two, and my son just two months.

By the time the youngest starts school we will be gunning for back to back flags, and they will walk the school yard kings and queens.

 

[Bluella]

That's it all about the timing.

My daughter is two, and my son just two months.

By the time the youngest starts school we will be gunning for back to back flags, and they will walk the school yard kings and queens.

That's just it. The youngest kids aren't lost - by the time they are at school we'll be doing well and they won't be as vulnerable to bastard Richmond supporting classmates. At least, that's what I am telling myself as my 3 year old nephew has discovered Dusty and now loves all things Tigers.