I knew you were waiting!!!

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Reading the posts it sounded like we had won the 1970 flag again.Its only a praccie in Central Aussie with every big gun midfielder missing from the best midfield in the business.give me a flower break and whilst I am at it 13 goals with Fev and the Waite meister booting 8 of them is a big worry.We need more goals from our midfielders.

True but so was last week & many were writing off the entire season on that.

My greatest negative on TC is, other posters telling other posters how or 'where' they should react.

I believe this is a symptom in contemporary society - where thought, discussion and disagreement are spurned and generic responses/resolutions are propogated for communal inertia.

I ask, is this messageboard 'TalkingCarlton' or 'Talking What The Majority Want Said About Carlton'

We are living in dangerous times....

Om

Couldn't agree more 79V -disagreement and dicussion is healthy. They are the foundations of democracy! Of course there is room for a reality check now and again but the glass should always half full. I look forward to more constructive observations of where we are as the season unfolds
Go Blues!

SPOT ON!!!!

I would have said the same thing.

(If I knew any of the words)

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Whilst my post was mostly tongue in cheek, it is in essence the opposite of what you thought.

I agree that healthy debate is what is needed.

The balance has been out of whack lately, negative posts from prolific posters permeate even the most positive cracks in our little termites nest of discussion. This has been driving away many excellent posters. For example, it would be a tragedy if someone like Frank Dardew were discouraged from starting his excellent positive threads.

It is of course done by their own free will, but if it continues all you end up with is a sea of negativity where as you say 'thought, discussion and disagreement are spurned and generic responses/resolutions are propogated for communal inertia.' Not that this thread would make any difference anyway, because it was just a piss-take, but feel free to take it seriously if you wish.

Dangerous times indeed.

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Oh beauty, So he might get another run next week?

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Sorry J.
79's post had far more impressive words than yours.
A nice 2nd place though and I'll give you a B+ for encouragement.

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Careful that sounds like dissent! The thought police are listening......

I wouldnt read to much into this game!

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Jarusa,

I do agree with there has been borish posting of late. The inital issues raised in these 'negative posts by prolific posters' are valuable to healthy debate, but the debate gets lost, when opposing opinions aren't accepted as just that - opposing opinions - and the interaction from both sides of the issues becomes personal. This is a real negativity. And also, negativity comes up, if our team plays shit, and people are negative because they didn't see proof of a lot to be positive about. And to corrall negativity is a compounding negativity for me, because it discourages valueable issues being raised by an array of opinions, that's what leads to a generation of generic responses and resolutions, because people don't learn to experience the benefit of mature discussion over the alternative - negative bickering. It's the choice Kim Beazley made this weekend, when agreeing that responses to factional issues needed to be discussed within the ALP front bench, the Liberal Party will say it's because of the insecure tenure of his leadership, but for Beazley saw that the only alternative was public bickering which would be destructive for the ALP and instead chose mature discussion. It's about taming the animal by figuring a way with intellectual rigour. Like time, developed opinion evolves in a sequence, by nature in peaks and troughs and this development must be allowed to occur. Affronting disdain highlights a problem but an underlying consequential purpose of doing this is to permanently isolate opposing opinion. That creates a bland, borish culture where opinion is sectionlised, ultimately silenced and a general inertia is created within a community.

It would be fantastic if everyone had as balanced a forward outlook as Frank, but we're dealing with humanity here and for the good of talking about carlton, together we have to bare through all levels of performance and political jousting.

I used Sherlock 3 times for that first post

i think I understand what you mean 79.....but I got lost in that veeerrry long paragraph!

My response to people who say "the negativity is getting to me" is ....POST POSITIVELY!


And if you get negative posts in response to your positive posts....post positively again! And again! And again!

If you can see positives...and others only see negatives...and you let them have the last word...

then you ony have yourselves to blame.


I can see we still have problems to overcome at the club, but I can also see the good things...

Now, THAT would make a great signature.....

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

I'm reminded of an episode of 'Pebbles & Bam Bam', when Pebbles wanted to play in the baseball team, but couldn't because girls weren't allowed; she was good enough to make the team, it was just because girls weren't allowed, so she sat in the grandstand and watched Bam Bam play, lifting her pom poms and cheering, "Yeah team.", without any great vigour, but she still remained positive. I allude, that Mr. Ed also always remained positive at heart, amidst his trials and tribulations of only ever openly speaking to Wilbur...

Is Pebbles cryptic for Houla???

I must add im really a Houla fan....(Hes not 25 yet is he??... i get critical when theyre 25....)

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bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

So when does self-assessment start? Stop casting aspertions and be more direct

i have seven more years before i can get critical with myself...

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