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Apparently, you can't be a successful football club without having a winning culture. You can't win games of football unless you have the right sort of culture off the field. The time has come for the Carlton Football Club to seriously review and overhaul its culture. Of course, when looking for ''competition's best practice'', one need look no further than the reigning premiers for inspiration.

It is of course the leader of a football team that sets the tone for his team mates. When Chris Judd said that AFL players were not role models he wasn't kidding, because the West Coast Eagles have consistently been the worst behaved team in the competition in the 21st century. Cousins, Kerr, Embley, Lynch, Fletcher et al have all brought shame upon their football club in various off-field indiscretions.

From forging friendships with underworld figures, to reckless drink driving, to drunken assaults(sometimes on their own team mates), to bizzare attempts to procure drugs with shonky prescriptions, the West Coast Eagles have frequently behaved in an appalling, shameful, irresponsible and anti-social manner.

So what has been the result of this sustained culture of disgraceful behaviour ? A premiership, that's what ! Maybe they're on to something.

It's all very well talking the talk about not being a role model, it's about time Chris Judd embraced the culture of his football club and started walking the walk by disgracing himself off the field. This is why Ben Cousins was acknowledged as the ''spiritual leader'' of the West Coast Eagles as he personifies the culture of his football club - top player on the field, total disgrace off the field.

I therefore fully support Fevola's drunken headlock. It might just be the first step towards building the shameful culture needed to win premierships.

Author:	Hackenschmidt [ Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:30 pm ]
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Apparently, you can't be a successful football club without having a winning culture. You can't win games of football unless you have the right sort of culture off the field. The time has come for the Carlton Football Club to seriously review and overhaul its culture. Of course, when looking for ''competition's best practice'', one need look no further than the reigning premiers for inspiration. It is of course the leader of a football team that sets the tone for his team mates. When Chris Judd said that AFL players were not role models he wasn't kidding, because the West Coast Eagles have consistently been the worst behaved team in the competition in the 21st century. Cousins, Kerr, Embley, Lynch, Fletcher et al have all brought shame upon their football club in various off-field indiscretions. From forging friendships with underworld figures, to reckless drink driving, to drunken assaults(sometimes on their own team mates), to bizzare attempts to procure drugs with shonky prescriptions, the West Coast Eagles have frequently behaved in an appalling, shameful, irresponsible and anti-social manner. So what has been the result of this sustained culture of disgraceful behaviour ? A premiership, that's what ! Maybe they're on to something. It's all very well talking the talk about not being a role model, it's about time Chris Judd embraced the culture of his football club and started walking the walk by disgracing himself off the field. This is why Ben Cousins was acknowledged as the ''spiritual leader'' of the West Coast Eagles as he personifies the culture of his football club - top player on the field, total disgrace off the field. I therefore fully support Fevola's drunken headlock. It might just be the first step towards building the shameful culture needed to win premierships.

Author:	Mordan [ Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:34 am ]
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Hackenschmidt wrote: Apparently, you can't be a successful football club without having a winning culture. You can't win games of football unless you have the right sort of culture off the field. The time has come for the Carlton Football Club to seriously review and overhaul its culture. Of course, when looking for ''competition's best practice'', one need look no further than the reigning premiers for inspiration. It is of course the leader of a football team that sets the tone for his team mates. When Chris Judd said that AFL players were not role models he wasn't kidding, because the West Coast Eagles have consistently been the worst behaved team in the competition in the 21st century. Cousins, Kerr, Embley, Lynch, Fletcher et al have all brought shame upon their football club in various off-field indiscretions. From forging friendships with underworld figures, to reckless drink driving, to drunken assaults(sometimes on their own team mates), to bizzare attempts to procure drugs with shonky prescriptions, the West Coast Eagles have frequently behaved in an appalling, shameful, irresponsible and anti-social manner. So what has been the result of this sustained culture of disgraceful behaviour ? A premiership, that's what ! Maybe they're on to something. It's all very well talking the talk about not being a role model, it's about time Chris Judd embraced the culture of his football club and started walking the walk by disgracing himself off the field. This is why Ben Cousins was acknowledged as the ''spiritual leader'' of the West Coast Eagles as he personifies the culture of his football club - top player on the field, total disgrace off the field. I therefore fully support Fevola's drunken headlock. It might just be the first step towards building the shameful culture needed to win premierships. Don't confuse off-field behaviour with the team culture. West Coast may have a bunch of shady characters off-field. But within the team it's pretty hard to deny they have a strong culture. Their self-belief was pretty evident in the string of come back victories they had during the year. The culture of giving everything on-field for each other, and the self belief (and the confidence that comes with that) is something that CFC needs to develop. I don't think the off-field rubbish has to come with it, and I hope we can steer clear of that.

Author:	verbs [ Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:42 am ]
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Nice work Hack!

Author:	bondiblue [ Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:16 pm ]
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Funny post Hacken!! Role models...what crap...less than 5% of the stuff they get up to doesn't even get to the papers...They're only human....I'm interested in the footy.... but if that is what it takes to win a flag, then run amok blue boys....because that's what I'm after. Not really.

Author:	molsey [ Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:48 pm ]
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Seriously, a first up win against the Bombers in the 'Insert Sponsor Name Here' Cup would be very useful to us in terms of winning culture. Just to feel as though improvement is tangible... Many of you would say 'It didnt help in 2005' but the Carlton team of 2005 is extremely different to that of 2007 in terms of youth, skill and upside.

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Author:	mjonc [ Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:39 pm ]
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molsey wrote: Seriously, a first up win against the Bombers in the 'Insert Sponsor Name Here' Cup would be very useful to us in terms of winning culture. Just to feel as though improvement is tangible... Many of you would say 'It didnt help in 2005' but the Carlton team of 2005 is extremely different to that of 2007 in terms of youth, skill and upside. Kreuzer Cup?

Author:	bluehotel [ Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:48 pm ]
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The Crap cup?

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