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That's how my hair would grow I reckon .
Plenty on the sides , the air strip down the middle and the fluffy bit at the front.
That's why I have #3 haircuts done by yours truly..
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Plenty on the sides , the air strip down the middle and the fluffy bit at the front.
That's why I have #3 haircuts done by yours truly..
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Blueseum does have what looks like a cigarette card image of Joe taken when he was at South. I don't know why Carlton did not have that one.
See his bio page on Blueseum. www.blueseum.org/Joe+Prince
Thanks bluey ! That card was part of Damien’s card collection.... I’m sure that’s been shared with the Club before. Perhaps they meant genuine pics and not card representations?
Anyway , a great find....
On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app
Anyway , a great find....
On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app
Just expressing shock that we won 4 games in a row in 2016. Seems sooooooo long ago.
That was part of a period when we won 6/7 games including a win we thought would not happen for a long time; comfortably beating the Cats at Etihad.
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Have any of you guys read this?
As someone who likes to know if players are related to each other, this was a fun article to read by Tony De Bolfo.
http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2019-01-22/crane-finds-carlton-connection.
As someone who likes to know if players are related to each other, this was a fun article to read by Tony De Bolfo.
http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2019-01-22/crane-finds-carlton-connection.
Amazing link.... abit obvious in hindsight but prettty cool stuff!
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Also, regarding your player relation pages, there are some names I'd like for you to consider.
Do not have much time to look at this myself but I think on Fox Footy channel is Carlton v Eagles epic game from Perth in 1995 season, This is the one Earl Spalding sends poor Guy McKenna into orbit. Wonder what quarter that was.
Another past game on Foxfooty channel tonight at 9pm. Probably last chance to see such games with AFL JLT starting up soon most of spare time in their time slot to replay such games will be gone until next off season.
This last round game of 1987 back on again. Carlton and North.
9pm to 11-30 pm tonight.
This last round game of 1987 back on again. Carlton and North.
9pm to 11-30 pm tonight.
We're in front!!! Wazza McKenzie killing them!!
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the day I forgot to pick up my dad on the way to the game...........endless shame...........
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John Boyd, aka 'the Peanut Man'. Carlton legend.....
There seemed to be one Johnny Boyd at every ground....but his true love was the Navy Blue.
Great article about him from Tony de Bolfo on the Carlton FC website a few years back.
https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2012-07-20/the-peanut-man-carlton-and-me
There seemed to be one Johnny Boyd at every ground....but his true love was the Navy Blue.
Great article about him from Tony de Bolfo on the Carlton FC website a few years back.
https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2012-07-20/the-peanut-man-carlton-and-me
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Who forgets to pick up their dear old Dad on way to the game?
Worst son.. EVER!!!!
Worst son.. EVER!!!!
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never in doubt - did take him to that ground for buzza's goty a few seasons earlier though - right in front of us!
It’s the thought that counts.
Exactly!!!!!
Remember when you would play games in this type of weather...
in woolen jumpers!
in woolen jumpers!
Not sure if this is the right thread to post this, but how good is this article after the 1979 premiership????
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ns-up-in-a-carlton-garden-20110906-1jw0v.html
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...ns-up-in-a-carlton-garden-20110906-1jw0v.html
I remember being at Carlton after the 72 win. People have to be reminded that 72 was a win that nobody expected us to have. It was all Richmond this, Richmond that during GF week. Anyway here we are lording our premiership heroes in the Social Club. Percy Jones has the Cup and decides the supporters should be able to touch the holy grail. So into the crowd it goes. A crowd surfing premiership cup.
I took a stroll down memory lane before the AFLW final today. I went for a stroll around the ikonic (get it?) McAlister Oval on a beautiful autumnal day.
This is Robbo’s field of dreams. Where I played my junior footy proudly wearing the Carlton jumper with thirty four on the back. I’d dream of playing for Carlton, winning Brownlows and premierships.
Saturday mornings kicking the dew off the ground. It was fun, fun, fun.
The zoo end goals.
The Park Street end.
If you look through the trees you’ll see the tenements which have a story to tell.
The Briedis Brothers, Ollie and Arnold played for the same team. Ollie was the older brother. He could find the ball, had an awkward left foot kick and talent. He loved golf more than footy and won the Victorian Amateur Championship. There was nothing awkward about Arnold. From an early age the talent was obvious. His only problem was he could be lazy. A whack would liven him up and it was often delivered by a team mate following an instruction from the coach.
The Briedis family rented a tenement behind those goals. The footy zone that determined recruiting was the Upfield line. Arnie’s residence was in North’s zone. The people who ran the club were a cabal of Carlton supporters. They got into the ears of the recruiters and told them that this kid would play VFL. If Carlton wanted to recruit him then he had to be shifted to the other side of the railway line.
Alas it didn’t happen and the rest is history.
At least I played a number of games with a premiership hero. Too bad it wasn’t for Carlton.
This is Robbo’s field of dreams. Where I played my junior footy proudly wearing the Carlton jumper with thirty four on the back. I’d dream of playing for Carlton, winning Brownlows and premierships.
Saturday mornings kicking the dew off the ground. It was fun, fun, fun.
The zoo end goals.
The Park Street end.
If you look through the trees you’ll see the tenements which have a story to tell.
The Briedis Brothers, Ollie and Arnold played for the same team. Ollie was the older brother. He could find the ball, had an awkward left foot kick and talent. He loved golf more than footy and won the Victorian Amateur Championship. There was nothing awkward about Arnold. From an early age the talent was obvious. His only problem was he could be lazy. A whack would liven him up and it was often delivered by a team mate following an instruction from the coach.
The Briedis family rented a tenement behind those goals. The footy zone that determined recruiting was the Upfield line. Arnie’s residence was in North’s zone. The people who ran the club were a cabal of Carlton supporters. They got into the ears of the recruiters and told them that this kid would play VFL. If Carlton wanted to recruit him then he had to be shifted to the other side of the railway line.
Alas it didn’t happen and the rest is history.
At least I played a number of games with a premiership hero. Too bad it wasn’t for Carlton.
My friendly discussion with happydude prompted me to take a walk down memory lane. It’s fair to say that we are in a different age demographic and that is the main source of our different views.
The game of Australian Rules was largely untouched for a century and it’s only with the greater emphases on tactics that third parties have felt compelled to make more rule changes in the past decade than they did in previous ten.
Plenty of people reading this post (Am I overrating my readership?) have been to the MCG. I normally sit in the Ponsford Stand but on occasion, such as last Thursday, I’ll reserve a seat in the Olympic Stand. As you ascend the levels I love the mural which depicts the original rules of the game. There were only 10! I chuckle at the rule referring to the handball and what is required for it to be legal. The reference to bouncing the ball when in possession if you want to go on a run makes this game unique. What is a mark is codified? Handballing, bouncing the ball and marking skills and others make Australian Rules the indigenous game. We didn’t want to play the game that they played ‘on the green fields of England.
This is why the modern game can irk me. The dumbing down of the skills has seen us slide ever closer to the game we didn’t want to play when we weren’t playing cricket.
I think rule changes can have a positive effect and I’ll offer a couple of examples.
The wind is howling outside my house at the moment and it reminds me of winter, Ted Whitten and the Western Oval. In the 60s it was legal to kick the ball over the boundary line on the full. The deliberate out of bounds rule was there but it wasn’t used. I have vivid memories of Ted wasting time by lobbing the ball deep into the standing room crowd with impunity. It was a time wasting tactic and awfully boring to watch. So in the 60s (someone find the answer) the VFL changed the rule to what we see today. It took an eyesore out of the game. The supporters were happy. We got to see more footy as a result. No more time wasting.
In the latish 60s Peter Hudson crossed Bass Strait and joined the Hawks. These were the good old days when the Hawks were a very ordinary team with little success. Hudson’s ability to read the play, mark or take possession and then wobble a punt through the big sticks is legendary. He’s one of the greatest players of all time.
Despite his ability to kick goals ad nauseum it didn’t result in a change of fortune until John Kennedy Sr devised a tactic to exploit the way the game was played and take advantage of Hudson’s goalkicking prowess. Positional play, particularly in Hawthorn’s half, was thrown out the window. Everybody was crowded around the ball (sound familiar?) leaving Hudson and his opponent deep in the forward line waiting for a clearance. The outcome was a Hawks premiership in 1971. Hudson kicked 150 goals and equaled Bob Pratt’s record for goals kicked in a VFL season. Hudson, poor bugger, didn’t break the record because the Saints came up with its own tactic for reducing his output.
This tactic was great for the Hawks but terrible for the look of the game. The VFL were proactive and introduced a change to the rules in 1973 when it introduced a centre diamond (later changed to a centre square) and restricted the access of players. It was about bringing the game back to a place that he had been and make it better viewing for the supporters.
As for poor Huddo, he seriously injured his knee before half time in the opening round of 1972. He’d already kicked 8 goals. While taking a mark which would have led to his 9th he was pulled over by Melbourne’s Ray Biffen (great name for a footballer) and twisted his knee. The Hawks chances of back to back sunk and Carlton took out the flag in 1972.
My point is that sometimes rule changes are necessary for the look and integrity of the game. You can’t leave it up to the coaches as they have never taken their custodial role seriously. The rules we have seen introduced this season will require further tweaking to restore the originality of Australian Rules footy.
The game of Australian Rules was largely untouched for a century and it’s only with the greater emphases on tactics that third parties have felt compelled to make more rule changes in the past decade than they did in previous ten.
Plenty of people reading this post (Am I overrating my readership?) have been to the MCG. I normally sit in the Ponsford Stand but on occasion, such as last Thursday, I’ll reserve a seat in the Olympic Stand. As you ascend the levels I love the mural which depicts the original rules of the game. There were only 10! I chuckle at the rule referring to the handball and what is required for it to be legal. The reference to bouncing the ball when in possession if you want to go on a run makes this game unique. What is a mark is codified? Handballing, bouncing the ball and marking skills and others make Australian Rules the indigenous game. We didn’t want to play the game that they played ‘on the green fields of England.
This is why the modern game can irk me. The dumbing down of the skills has seen us slide ever closer to the game we didn’t want to play when we weren’t playing cricket.
I think rule changes can have a positive effect and I’ll offer a couple of examples.
The wind is howling outside my house at the moment and it reminds me of winter, Ted Whitten and the Western Oval. In the 60s it was legal to kick the ball over the boundary line on the full. The deliberate out of bounds rule was there but it wasn’t used. I have vivid memories of Ted wasting time by lobbing the ball deep into the standing room crowd with impunity. It was a time wasting tactic and awfully boring to watch. So in the 60s (someone find the answer) the VFL changed the rule to what we see today. It took an eyesore out of the game. The supporters were happy. We got to see more footy as a result. No more time wasting.
In the latish 60s Peter Hudson crossed Bass Strait and joined the Hawks. These were the good old days when the Hawks were a very ordinary team with little success. Hudson’s ability to read the play, mark or take possession and then wobble a punt through the big sticks is legendary. He’s one of the greatest players of all time.
Despite his ability to kick goals ad nauseum it didn’t result in a change of fortune until John Kennedy Sr devised a tactic to exploit the way the game was played and take advantage of Hudson’s goalkicking prowess. Positional play, particularly in Hawthorn’s half, was thrown out the window. Everybody was crowded around the ball (sound familiar?) leaving Hudson and his opponent deep in the forward line waiting for a clearance. The outcome was a Hawks premiership in 1971. Hudson kicked 150 goals and equaled Bob Pratt’s record for goals kicked in a VFL season. Hudson, poor bugger, didn’t break the record because the Saints came up with its own tactic for reducing his output.
This tactic was great for the Hawks but terrible for the look of the game. The VFL were proactive and introduced a change to the rules in 1973 when it introduced a centre diamond (later changed to a centre square) and restricted the access of players. It was about bringing the game back to a place that he had been and make it better viewing for the supporters.
As for poor Huddo, he seriously injured his knee before half time in the opening round of 1972. He’d already kicked 8 goals. While taking a mark which would have led to his 9th he was pulled over by Melbourne’s Ray Biffen (great name for a footballer) and twisted his knee. The Hawks chances of back to back sunk and Carlton took out the flag in 1972.
My point is that sometimes rule changes are necessary for the look and integrity of the game. You can’t leave it up to the coaches as they have never taken their custodial role seriously. The rules we have seen introduced this season will require further tweaking to restore the originality of Australian Rules footy.
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