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    News Welcome Shaun Hampson - Video Interview on the RFC Website 30/10/2013

    Hi guys, not a troll but a Blues fan sorry to see Hammo go. Potentially he is a good first ruckman. He is really a ruckman and nothing else. Very athletic but hands like cement and not a great judge of a mark. He has never really had a good go as the number one ruckman and at the Tiges he will...
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    Will Ratten last the season?

    So long as the president and the dolts that selected him as coach go too.
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    Went to watch Carlton tonight

    I must say, I am impressed so many oppo supporters are so interested in the Blues and that most of you are so bitter. I couldn't sum up the motivation to come on and attack another club in a non Carlton Thread. So it's good you are all so engaged with us. For the record we are really ordinary...
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    Does Carlton need to rebuild?

    Some pretty sensible stuff on here. The coach can't play for you but he needs to make sure that the team performance is greater than the sum of the parts. That's not happening and Ratts looks like a man out of his depth. We should never have employed such an inexperienced coach and it is...
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    Is Carltons 2012 Season Over?

    Agreed. And Clay Davis seems to have a good handle on us. Also JMac2225 if you reckon Warnock's a beauty.....you can have him. Hoepfully we trade him to GWS for something good and give Hampson a decent run as a ruckman (which he is) and not a forward (which he isn't). But seeing Ratts is living...
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    Bryce Gibbs - Underwhelming

    Much as it pains me, most of the comment on here is close to the mark (except the guy that didn't rate Gibbs in last years final ag WCE). Gibbs is coasting, has excellent skills, lateral movement, ball handling. Hard to know if he is suffering from poor coaching. Plays as loose man in defence...
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    Carlton's winless preseason

    The Carlton sides of old that lost all pre season were seasoned campaigners often coming off a flag year. This side is much different. The pre-season is for practice so results don't matter that much and won't matter at all once the real stuff starts, but we are a side that has won one final in...
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    Expansion ?Should the AFL formally consign the VFL references to the history books.

    AFL is just a new name for the main Australian football league. New sides have come in, as they have over the years since 1896. The VFL certainly wasn't a state league, it was the league where everyone wanted to play. It was in effect the national comp but just played in Victoria. Very few great...
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    Your most dispiriting loss

    Last game of 2003 when North pummelled us by 20 goals and Simon Beaumont spent the day telling his North opponents how much the players hated Pagan. Some North dobber ran and told Pagan who sacked Beaumont. Never has a side been more utterly disinterested
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    Players that changed the Game

    Carey, Blighty, Huddo, Lockett make that team? Just quietly I reckon he might go okay on a wing against Keith Grieg - who won Brownlows in years when North didn't rate him their best player - not that Keith wasn't a great player, but there has been a few over the years.
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    Players that changed the Game

    Feel the hate. He may not make the pantheon of North Melb superstars but he is an okay player in Carlton terms and we have had a few stars in our time. If he is not a superstar they probably need to rewrite the definition. Ablett snr - possibly the most talented player ever, but he played four...
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    Players that changed the Game

    Bosustow and Johnston invented serious forward pressure in 1981, before that forwards stood with their hands on their hips while defenders hacked the ball to the boundary. Was Neville Fields the first designated kicker? The Dons gave it to him a lot and he pinpointed long kicks like no other...
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    Players that changed the Game

    Two obvious ones are Bartlett - the rules on bouncing/dropping the ball were changed due to him; and Hudson - the 50m centre square was brought in to counter Kennedy's tactics of isolating him in the forward line and having every other Hawk on the ball. Silvagni and other full backs helped...
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    Was Fitzroy actually that bad??

    I think the Lions were worse in their last year than Port, but any bottom side looks bad, because they are bad. You only achieve the glory of a spoon if you lose most weeks. In 2003 we (BLues) were absolutely robbed of a much deserved wooden spoon by the Dogs. We were shocking with most of the...
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    Players under the pump

    For the Blues, if the 3 rucks are fit then one of Warnock or Hammo will be rucking for the Ants and will be very attractive trade prospects for a side with weak rucks. Thornton is most likely in his last year and will struggle for games without injuries. Armfield and Joseph are great battlers...
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