View Full Version : Has any club ever celebrated a 9 point practice match win so much?
westdog54
9 Mar 2008, 12:46
Only the joke that is the Carlton faithful would get so excited over a stumble-over-the-line victory against a half-strength opponent.
Lets just examine some of the quotes from yesterday's Herald-Sun, shall we?
"Blues fan are desperate to be pleased. So much so that they cheered Judd when he came out on to the ground for the warm-up. They cheered again when he led the team out 20 minutes later".
This is all before the game, mind you.
"Still, it was nothing compared to his first goal, at the fifth minute of the third quarter, when he waltzed in for an easy goal to the Legends Stand end. Try orgasmic for that response".
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,23339482-19742,00.html
This just about confirms it, Carlton supporters truly believe this man is the second coming of Christ.
And then, this:
"CARLTON fans managed a roar of home-and-away proportions on the siren.
A few supporters in navy blue even found the passion to boo the umpires off the ground.
Then, to cap off a bizarre March afternoon, the faithful near the race belted out a stirring rendition of the theme song. It was only a practice match, but who could blame them?"
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,23338606-19742,00.html
Who indeed? So sensetised have these ferals become to failure, even to the extent that they supported throwing a match against Melbourne last year, that any victory, even "a meaningless 9 point victory", as Mark Stevens put it, was cause for a party.
In a way I'm glad Carlton celebrated, because the sad fact is they will have little else to celebrate through the remainder of this decade.
Let the mindless rabble live in the belief that the arrival of one man makes them a flag contender. We all know the truth.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/wombat01/captain_obvious.jpg
Only the joke that is the Carlton faithful would get so excited over a stumble-over-the-line victory against a half-strength opponent.
Lets just examine some of the quotes from yesterday's Herald-Sun, shall we?
"Blues fan are desperate to be pleased. So much so that they cheered Judd when he came out on to the ground for the warm-up. They cheered again when he led the team out 20 minutes later".
This is all before the game, mind you.
"Still, it was nothing compared to his first goal, at the fifth minute of the third quarter, when he waltzed in for an easy goal to the Legends Stand end. Try orgasmic for that response".
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,23339482-19742,00.html
This just about confirms it, Carlton supporters truly believe this man is the second coming of Christ.
And then, this:
"CARLTON fans managed a roar of home-and-away proportions on the siren.
A few supporters in navy blue even found the passion to boo the umpires off the ground.
Then, to cap off a bizarre March afternoon, the faithful near the race belted out a stirring rendition of the theme song. It was only a practice match, but who could blame them?"
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,23338606-19742,00.html
Who indeed? So sensetised have these ferals become to failure, even to the extent that they supported throwing a match against Melbourne last year, that any victory, even "a meaningless 9 point victory", as Mark Stevens put it, was cause for a party.
In a way I'm glad Carlton celebrated, because the sad fact is they will have little else to celebrate through the remainder of this decade.
Let the mindless rabble live in the belief that the arrival of one man makes them a flag contender. We all know the truth.
That is classic :D
I bet they were popping the champagne corks long into the night...
And the week before "who cares its a practice match"
they win "oh a wins a win, how good were we?"...
PoidaCat
9 Mar 2008, 14:28
You'd have to suck to lose to the Tankers though...
celtic_pride
9 Mar 2008, 14:37
BTW we are celebrating the triumphant debut of Chris Judd.
Beating a sub-standard team like the Bulldogs is now expected, we should have won by more, but them's the breaks ...
westdog54
9 Mar 2008, 14:50
BTW we are celebrating the triumphant debut of Chris Judd.
Beating a sub-standard team like the Bulldogs is now expected, we should have won by more, but them's the breaks ...
Triumphant?
Hardly.
He barely broke even with his various opponents, who were treating this game like the practice it was.
Note another quote from the article:
When Griffen kicked a goal in the second quarter, with his opponent Judd nowhere to be seen, the Bulldogs led by eight points.
It seems going to Carlton has taught him nothing except that you don't need to follow your opponent.
What inspirational work from your courageous captain:rolleyes:.
tambling_tiger
9 Mar 2008, 15:54
Only the joke that is the Carlton faithful
Let the mindless rabble live in the belief that the arrival of one man makes them a flag contender. We all know the truth.
It's true. Carlton suck so bad. On SEN they were tipped to come 15th again this year. Cotchin will be better than JUDD once he gets back from injury!
JeffDunne
9 Mar 2008, 15:57
They define what it means to be 'March Champions'.
You can't blame the poor souls though, what else do they have to cheer for between March and & the draft?
I actually laughed out loud when I read this thread.:D
Maybe The Shermans should bring back The Bluebirds, at least they would make an attractive distraction from the unattractive crap being played out on the ground. Might even wake the opposition supporters from their bored slumber during the qtr time breaks as well.;)
Barry Zuckercorn QC
9 Mar 2008, 16:35
Why you ingrateful, little bastard. Friday's crowd was the biggest crowd Footscray's been involved in since the 54 premierships. And this is how you show your appreciation?? Poor form buddy! :thumbsd:
Barry Zuckercorn QC
9 Mar 2008, 17:06
Triumphant?
Hardly.
He barely broke even with his various opponents, who were treating this game like the practice it was.
Note another quote from the article:
When Griffen kicked a goal in the second quarter, with his opponent Judd nowhere to be seen, the Bulldogs led by eight points.
It seems going to Carlton has taught him nothing except that you don't need to follow your opponent.
What inspirational work from your courageous captain:rolleyes:.
It's Chris Judd. (Peter? Chris? Stuart?) Griffen's hardly an "opponent".
celtic_pride
9 Mar 2008, 19:04
Why you ingrateful, little bastard. Friday's crowd was the biggest crowd Footscray's been involved in since the 54 premierships. And this is how you show your appreciation?? Poor form buddy! :thumbsd:
Typical western suburb ingrate freeloaders ..
The soon Foot-A-Scray is killed off the better ..
We don't need junkies and blue collar criminals at the football ..
Typical Carlton overblown egotist..
The sooner Carl-A-Ton is exposed as cheating, salary cap rorting scum the better. Oops..Too late.
Yeah better to have wannabe gangsters and white colar crims at the football..
Put Judd in a Bulldog's jumper and have them play at Whitten Oval, the amount of support, the cheering and after-effect would've been the same.
Braun_2_B_Wild
9 Mar 2008, 19:36
Put Judd in a Bulldog's jumper and have them play at Whitten Oval, the amount of support, the cheering and after-effect would've been the same.
Yeah everyone excited that Judd is going to turn Carlton from a 16th ranked side into a 11/12th ranked side :D :D No more high draft picks for you :D :D
westdog54
10 Mar 2008, 00:42
Why you ingrateful, little bastard. Friday's crowd was the biggest crowd Footscray's been involved in since the 54 premierships. And this is how you show your appreciation?? Poor form buddy! :thumbsd:
And here I was thinking we'd only won 1 premiership. Sure beats your 16, that's for sure!
It's Chris Judd. (Peter? Chris? Stuart?) Griffen's hardly an "opponent".
Only a self-obsessed, brain dead Carlton fan would not know of Ryan Griffen.
If he's hardly an opponent, surely its even worse that Captain Courageous couldn't keep up with him.
But then again, shows once and for all that this whole Carlton experiment is one big photo-op for Juddy and Twigley.
sunnyTEE
10 Mar 2008, 01:02
You should have heard them when Juddy tied his shoelance's into a double knot. Even the men got moist.
Stronzo
10 Mar 2008, 14:25
The Carlton crowd cheered when they saw Judd pick his nose on the half back line, when speaking to one of the Carlton supporters as to why, she replied: "when we saw him pick his nose, we knew that he was one of us. It was just one of those special moments, go Juddy and go Carlton Wooooowoo!"
The SEN boys were almost as bad
The umpire bounces the ball and we're underway. Judd is outside the pack, he's going to get the first posession! No Acker gets the clearance.........
Judd in the back packet gets the ball hand balls it to his teammate, who handballs it back to Judd! Listen to the crown roar (that bit happened)
Judds up to 6 posessions so far a really good start. oh by the way the bulldogs have 2 goals (Didn't even mention the goals happening just gave Judds stats)
It was a big sad Carlton orgy:thumbsd: