Blues, All Class!

[tha Freak]

Hi, sorry to post on your board but during the 'off season' not much goes on, hope you forgive me. But just want to let you know how well your club was received in the country town of Benalla today. The whole playing group bar few were here running training drills with the young ones in town and later onto outer town such as 'Goorambat' and 'Tatong'. Then a Dinner night at the Benalla F.C. Just wanted to pass on my appreciation for the way the club handled themselves, just brilliant! A good mate of mine took his 5 year old boy who all ready is a die hard 'blues' supporter down to Benalla. The manager of the group (sorry, i don't know his name) took him into the playing group inside the room and he froze. My mate took him outside and told him it was O.K., the manager came out and my mate told him he only wanted to see 'Juddy'. Juddy came out and spoke with the boy for 5 minutes, the photo of him and the kid is 'priceless' - he's grinning from ear to ear and Juddy is right next to him. I've all ready seen countless photo's of local with all the boys who all were just great in giving their time to all. J.Waite is a local who started here but it is still very primitive conditions. Great to see the blokes in these sort of settings. To see stars in these settings reminds us where all footballers start. GIBBS and JUDD were especially approachable and no one knocked back a photo or autograph. Hard to quantify the impact of such an event on young minds, but for the people in quiet country towns like ours, your club has only reinforced its brand and gained new support. As a die hard 'Bomber', we may be from different tribes but the quality of people in clubs is not too distanced. Very impressed with Carlton today and they have made many new friends.

 

[inyourcool]

Thanks Freak, quality post!

Great to hear the lads were so accomodating

 

[audas]

Good one mate. How's Harro ?

 

[Blueboys7]

Thanks for the post mate, no intrusion there.

Good to hear as our track record at running events such as these hasn't been the greatest.

 

[mickelboy182]

Pleasing to hear, thanks for sharing mate.

 

[Dramoth]

Cheers for the feedback... always good to hear the good oil about events like this.

The Carlton team has always been very supportive of community events and fund raiding events (the bike ride that Waite and Kreuzer went on) and it is good that the team is always approachable.

I know that a lot of footballers when they start playing at the highest level start thinking of themselves as celebrities and hold themselves aloof from the general public.

 

[Blue_Boy43]

Thank you & well said.
When we were kids we all loved meeting footy players, so it's good to see it's still filtering through.
Well done CFC.

 

[thylacine60]

Wow, how fantastic is that? Hats off all round, including the OP for bothering to tell. Things might just be achanging at Visy. Wonderful news this.

 

[zeeCFC]

nice read, thanks freak

 

[BlueTouchPaper]

Wow, how fantastic is that? Hats off all round, including the OP for bothering to tell. Things might just be achanging at Visy. Wonderful news this.

Good counter to the last thread!!

 

[KennyHunter9]

Cheers Freak - thanks for taking the time and trouble to post. Made my evening!

 

[AlecDuncan]

Nice work Freak. Good luck up there in the home of The Mudd.

 

[Aphrodite]

Thanks for posting Freak

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Great feedback. God knows we cop enough static for every other little thing that occurs, it is so good to know that we have a responsible, community minded club at the moment.

Thanks very much for sharing.

 

[Poseidon]

O snap, how hot are we right now? Expecting a surge in membership numbers as the season draws nearer.

 

[Sin City]

Cheers Freak, thanks for sharing

Good effort Blue boys

 

[jimsta10]

Appreciate the post, lets hope that the next time you post something here it would be as informative as this

thanks

 

[T2B_]

Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing

Really good to hear, especially after the other thread.

 

[Sin City]

Carlton's community camp video

 

[Salaryman]

Well said Merv

 

[Sin City]

2011 Carlton Community Camp photos

 

[jimsta10]

Carlton's community camp video

Nice to see young Robbo teaching the youngsters how to kick a footy..

 

[Aphrodite]

2011 Carlton Community Camp photos

 

[gbatman]

It was good having them come out, great to have a chat with a few of them, mostly a really good bunch of blokes. Can put away food!

 

[Salaryman]

What was Daniel Rich doing there???