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Banter Who will be Better in 2025, Collingwood or Carlton? Part 4
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Yeah, nah the mosquito fleet were on ballers not forwards
Never ever have I heard or read that Bosustow was part of the mosquito fleet.
Good attempt although.
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On ballers played forward when not on ball back then mate. Resting on the interchange bench was not a thing back then.
Just threw Bosustow in there. He was a good small forward from back in the day wasn't he?
I don't need a history lesson on the mosquito feet - I watched them every week throughout the 70's and 80's
Wouldn't call Buzz a small forward.
The Buzz back in those days was more tallish 3rd tall
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Really?
I remember him as a little chonky guy who loved taking speccies. Always thought he was a small forward. U learn something every day.
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3cm shorter than McClure who was only 188
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Yeah, Bosustow was a short FF like Craig Davis. Flanker sized but a leading player. Maybe Membry is like him a bit?
The Mosquito Fleet was the bunch of mids wings and flankers: Alex Marcou, Wayne Johnson, Jimmy Buckley, Rod Austin, Ken Sheldon and more you could throw in Klomp and Harmes because they might rotate in from defence.
Not sure who invented it but Carlton was one of the first to run the "dosey doe" where the flanks, wings and mids would switch around every centre bounce or so, confused the opposition and threw off the "taggers" (they weren't called that back then but direct opponents). Harmes is in the square? Well where is Buckley then? Austin went to half back, then man up...wait who is on him?
79-82 they had the rest of the league worried, and struggling to respond. Richmond and Essendon went tall and Hawthorn went for a skilled possession game, both styles intended to keep the ball out if their hands because once Carlton got it they'd run it 60 -100 metres and there wasnt a goddam thing you could do.
Current Carlton seems more like late 80s, direct play through tall forwards.
The Mosquito Fleet was the bunch of mids wings and flankers: Alex Marcou, Wayne Johnson, Jimmy Buckley, Rod Austin, Ken Sheldon and more you could throw in Klomp and Harmes because they might rotate in from defence.
Not sure who invented it but Carlton was one of the first to run the "dosey doe" where the flanks, wings and mids would switch around every centre bounce or so, confused the opposition and threw off the "taggers" (they weren't called that back then but direct opponents). Harmes is in the square? Well where is Buckley then? Austin went to half back, then man up...wait who is on him?
79-82 they had the rest of the league worried, and struggling to respond. Richmond and Essendon went tall and Hawthorn went for a skilled possession game, both styles intended to keep the ball out if their hands because once Carlton got it they'd run it 60 -100 metres and there wasnt a goddam thing you could do.
Current Carlton seems more like late 80s, direct play through tall forwards.
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Hey pies fans didn't you play a finals game against Geelong back in 2020?
How many scores had you on the board by the end of the third quarter?
It says on Wikipedia you scored a grand total of one goal and one behind at that stage.
Surely that can't be right can it or did it actually happen?
How many scores had you on the board by the end of the third quarter?
It says on Wikipedia you scored a grand total of one goal and one behind at that stage.
Surely that can't be right can it or did it actually happen?
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We were at peak strength both on and off the field back then. Sure three flags in sixty five years ain't that great a record, but to go from such a position of strength to only winning two flags in the next forty two years.
Yeah that is disappointing alright i have to say. Technically i suppose in terms of stats the three peat team of 1906 1907 and 1908 is the greatest Carlton team of all time.
Political squabbling and infighting conspired to squander our chance of a four peat. The same thing happened in 1980 as well!
It did indeed happen - WE (do you like that, Chief?) were 7 and 62 at the time.Hey pies fans didn't you play a finals game against Geelong back in 2020?
How many scores had you on the board by the end of the third quarter?
It says on Wikipedia you scored a grand total of one goal and one behind at that stage.
Surely that can't be right can it or did it actually happen?
But it doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Owen 60, does it?
Nor had Collingwood been building and rebuilding for more than two decades without contending for a premiership to reach those lofty heights.
Rod Austin was full back.
Hey pies fans didn't you play a finals game against Geelong back in 2020?
How many scores had you on the board by the end of the third quarter?
It says on Wikipedia you scored a grand total of one goal and one behind at that stage.
Surely that can't be right can it or did it actually happen?
here is the worm
Didn't kick a goal for over a half of footy, deadset spankingHey pies fans didn't you play a finals game against Geelong back in 2020?
How many scores had you on the board by the end of the third quarter?
It says on Wikipedia you scored a grand total of one goal and one behind at that stage.
Surely that can't be right can it or did it actually happen?
What's the saying " people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones " ?
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Really? I thought he was a hbf, and occasionally slid into the square.
Thanks for the correction.
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Surely it was a dead rubber
Robertio
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Yep, Collingwood have had some bad games, but as always, Carlton's mediocrity stands alone.
I mean, even it they scored a single point early in the game, it would be a different story.
But Owen 60?
I also recall a time I was watching Carlton v. Collingwood in a corporate box at the 'G... Collingwood had reached triple figures whilst Carlton were still in single figures.
Round 18, 2002 to be precise. That was a magnificent night.
I see Vinnie quite regularly down greensborough way. Vinnie is still painting houses for a living.
Those 2 scoring shots the accumulated up to mid way through the last quarter saved them from embarrassment. ( not )
Robertio
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You think you're landing a punch with that mate, none of us care it's done and dusted, history shows we lost by 28 points and Pies stayed in Mexico where they were nearly all season.
Robertio
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So was Wayne Harmes goal assist of the century.
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