I remember the great teams of the past Some with Ball players and others who could take blokes out ( play the man )... Good to see we have a healthy balance eh Mrs Caz ???

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I know a little secret. And i'm not sharing.

Now that the club has ill-advisedly re-contracted Kouta for next year, here's how they should play him:

Give him four spells a year, 3-4 weeks on and 2 weeks off. So when he does play, at least his body won't hold him back so much.

Play him off the bench through the middle, for no more than 60 minutes a match.

No point playing him up forward or down back - he can't mind a man, and he's not mobile enough to play forward.

Hope for a wet autumn and winter to negate his lack of pace.

Give him a VERY SPECIFIC TASK - Kouta, your job is to protect Mark Murphy and (possibly) Bryce Gibbs in the centre square. Put your body in, take the hits for them, clear a path, assert yourself.

Is he up to this? If not, you'd really wonder why we'd re-sign him for another year.

A chance too move on, pretty silly to not retire him. An extra spot we good have used too promote a flint or draft another kid.

His mobility and impact is not that of a Buckley or Hird from what I can see.

Glad for what he has done, but time just too let natural courses take over and retire.

Having said that I hope he is able too have an impact.

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Supporting the Blues No Matter What

How is Anthony Koutoufidies mediocre?..

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Corinthians 9:6- 8

Hasn't happened since 1996

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

Roll out a tape of last weeks inspid performance by him

Haven't heard from the snivelling drongo in David Allison after the announcment.

Were you told to shut the @#$%&! up David??

10% of this contract wont have you in the style of living that you have grown accustomed to, and 10% of the next one should hopefully see you on the bones of your arse under a bridge you turd.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Hey Agro, don't know about that mate. 30K from Kouta and 50K from Hamill just in 2007 isn't bad for doing nothing.

PJ yet his game against the Dons was great.

Who says they won't be pushing the kids from a marketing POV? People are not going to look at Kouta and think - ah the future of the club rests in the hands of a 34yr with dodgy knees.

He is not the future and unless the club has shown you the blueprint for next year's marketing plans PJ, you may find that you are wrong on the subject.

Nobody really knows what he has been paid except from what they have read and heard.

I just hope he proves a few people wrong with the time he has left in the game.

Depending on how DP uses him next year in terms of game time, instead of every minute of every game, then we will get good value out of him.

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

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Love Cricket? Love me

As against absorbing the information through one's morning muesli?

Of course people have heard.

Football clubs leak like sieves and ours more than most.

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

These are guys who put their bodies on the line for the club, that love the club (despite what some may think) and i see no difference in our support to the carlton boys than to that of a richmond supporter at times...

Kouta along with Braddles and other greats of our club who have copped abuse by some of you for no good reason..

Braddles copped it because he wanted to play an extra year and because he had a different training regimen to other players... And this is a guy who was able to play on until 38, still reaching great heights and 16 years of service to our club...

I could go on and on...

Of course we support the team, but shouldnt we support the players who have been a vital cog in our team, especially at a time when were desperate for experience out on the park... If Kouta is such a bad role model do you think Denis Pagan would have been as glowing in his appraisals of Kouta as he has been...

Kouta has just played the 1 bad game against the hawks... I admit he wasnt great... But in previous weeks he has been more than handy out on the park..


And you're telling me just because im a fan of Kouta and im pleased he's playing on, i have a simplistic view of footy...

Thats bullshit!..

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Corinthians 9:6- 8

That's right...........

lucky we're not a bakery hey Gee Dubya........?


kindest regards tommi

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that'siti'mnotchangingthistagain......!

doesn't work that way No1. These guys get paid, some very handsomely to be putting those bodies on the line.... if we don't want to love them, we don't have to... they're not doing us a favour

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Love Cricket? Love me

okay a few thoughts.

To those who worry without Kouta we'll get slaughtered - we are on the bottom.

To those who say, one more year...In my head I've been saying that re Kouta since 2002. He is not the player he was. I accept we are shite and wish to rebuild players/image/everything. He is the past.


The main this though is the board and coach. Why do they want Kouta?

As a player? Why? He is too slow. Does not man up (he cannot run fast enough). Cannot play forward or back and for mine (and this is not his fault) does not offer leadership.

Yes he wants to play on - good on him but the club and coach should just have said - no mate.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Yeh thats what i thought brainiac!.. With people like David Teague, Luke Livingston, Trent Sporn, Callum Chambers, Ian Prendergast in our squad!... Not to mention Davies among other rejects...

Yeh, Kouta should join that list eh...

Get A Clue!

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Corinthians 9:6- 8

Calm jdown No.1! You are putting a dent in my birthday.

And so a player is measured by his output in 1 AFL match??...

Simplistic bullshit!...

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Corinthians 9:6- 8

Oh sorry Caz lol.. Happy Birthday!

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Corinthians 9:6- 8

Roll out a tape of all of his games this year then.
Oh he did a couple of nice things against the bombers!! Big bloody deal