The Dominator: What Gives?

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How sad it is to see that one of our all time greats, Wayne 'the Dominator' Johnston is going to be a runner at Richmond this season. Why is our club not welcoming people like this back into the fold? The club should be moving mountains to make sure people like Johnno are around the club as often as possible. If we are to reach the top again, we need Carlton people around the club.
 

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Do you know why this is medium ? Is true ? Is he abgling for a coaching position ? Sounds really pox and I totally agree with you....start the campaign, the poll, ill do the website.
 

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Wayne Johnston was a thief and a rogue. Fantastic player, don't get me wrong.... but was as shifty as they come. Better off without him now.... would be a bad influence on our very impressionable and naive playing list.
 

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It's SOS that we should be ********ed off about he gave us up to the AFL and now helps every other club but ours. If he would have kept his mouth shut like Fraser Brown and told the AFL to go and jump there is nothing that they could have done about it, he should be working at the club helping our defenders for free not helping other clubs to whip our asses. I agree it is a joke not having the old players around the club helping out, if Parkin was in charge you can bet your ass they would be there by the car load, i guess you find out who your friends are when things go bad. Shame Shame Shame:mad:
 

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murphster said:
It's SOS that we should be ********ed off about he gave us up to the AFL and now helps every other club but ours. If he would have kept his mouth shut like Fraser Brown and told the AFL to go and jump there is nothing that they could have done about it, he should be working at the club helping our defenders for free not helping other clubs to whip our asses. I agree it is a joke not having the old players around the club helping out, if Parkin was in charge you can bet your ass they would be there by the car load, i guess you find out who your friends are when things go bad. Shame Shame Shame:mad:
perfectly said
 

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From memory, I believe things didn't go so well with Johnston after he retired, to the point that he was considered a bad influence and asked to leave. Things were only patched up in recent years when he moved back from Qld.
While it hurts to see one of my childhood favourites at a club other than Carlton, it's just not possible to have loads of former players as well as fresh/outside influences as asst coaches at the same time. At the moment ex-players are a little scarce, but that makes sense to me given all of the dramas in recent years.

Good luck to him - will always remember the Dominator fondly, particularly the 87 GF.
 

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I'd have to agree with murphster about SOS.

It's heartwrenching to be truthful not having the full back of the century help out our defence.
 

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mediumsizered said:
How sad it is to see that one of our all time greats, Wayne 'the Dominator' Johnston is going to be a runner at Richmond this season. Why is our club not welcoming people like this back into the fold? The club should be moving mountains to make sure people like Johnno are around the club as often as possible. If we are to reach the top again, we need Carlton people around the club.
I wonder what Kate Kendall thinks about this.
 
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