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My name is Brendan.
I really like to smile a lot because I love what I do.
I have some very simple rules that you are expected to follow at all times.
Anyone who constantly makes me frown by doing the wrong things will be dropped, then if no improvement, you will be cut.
Any questions?
Good, lets go enjoy our footy.
 
My name is Brendan.
I really like to smile a lot because I love what I do.
I have some very simple rules that you are expected to follow at all times.
Anyone who constantly makes me frown by doing the wrong things will be dropped, then if no improvement, you will be cut.
Any questions?
Good, lets go enjoy our footy.

"I'm not mad...just disappointed."
 

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http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/...coach-job-20150810-giw1y1.html?skin=text-only

...and so it begins :D:D:D

Hawthorn's Brendon Bolton will meet Carlton for an extensive interview later this week with the Hawks having told their senior assistant that they wanted him to remain at the club through the finals should he win the Blues' coaching job.

Carlton chief executive Steven Trigg said four candidates remained in contention for the job, with in-depth interviews to be carried out from later this week and into next week. John Barker will also be interviewed, with Trigg telling Fairfax Media he was confident the club would reach a decision by the end of this month
 
"I'm not mad...just disappointed."

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a rebuild. Everybody's out of form or scared of losing their position. The game has changed; we have no outside run; we’ve lost our best forwards; sides are smashing us, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know our gameplan is not fit for today’s game and our players are unfit to run out matches. And we sit watching our TVs while some local commentator tells us that today we had just fifteen inside 50s and thirty-three tackles, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything on the field is going crazy, so we don't push ourselves any more. We sit on the bench, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our changerooms. Let me have my ciccone hairstyle and my twitter account, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your manager, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the MRP and the sling tackle and the congestion and the BT commentating.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a Calrton player, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go up the race, step on to the field, lift up your head out and yell

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
 
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a rebuild. Everybody's out of form or scared of losing their position. The game has changed; we have no outside run; we’ve lost our best forwards; sides are smashing us, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know our gameplan is not fit for today’s game and our players are unfit to run out matches. And we sit watching our TVs while some local commentator tells us that today we had just fifteen inside 50s and thirty-three tackles, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything on the field is going crazy, so we don't push ourselves any more. We sit on the bench, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our changerooms. Let me have my ciccone hairstyle and my twitter account, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your manager, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the MRP and the sling tackle and the congestion and the BT commentating.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a Calrton player, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go up the race, step on to the field, lift up your head out and yell

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
Is this aimed at players or supporters?
 
We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones
 

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Dear thylacine60,

I must stand and applaud. You have constructed a jovial, light-hearted and frivolous thread for all the battle-weary, jaded and loyal Carlton fans to collectively vent our tensions and frustrations in a constructive and non-judgemental manner. Just as new green shoots of grass battle to push through the smothering and suffocating blanket of manure deposited by uncaring cattle, so to do I see glimpses of that very unique esprit de corps that manifested within the Carlton BF board slowly returning after our anus horribilis*.

It has been truly cathartic and brings a tear to this poster's eye. Bravo!





* see what I did there?
 

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