The GREAT Carlton moments in history

There's been plenty of them

Well where the @#$%&! were you when they happened?

Maybe you were right there, near the action.
Maybe you were at home watching the game on teli and picking your nose.
Maybe you were at home watching NOT the game on teli and picking your nose (shame shame!).
Maybe you weren't born yet.

Tell us.
Prove to us how dedicated you are to the Baggers !!

I will start.
Buzz's ripping mark in the goal square against the Cats at Princes Park, I was right there, behind the goals, got an immediate erection. Many a time I have analysed the black and white photo to see if I can spot myself in the crowd, but sadly I cannot. But I was there, I remember, because I got hard.

Looking straight down on Andrew Walker (without a hat but with a head bandage) taking mark of the year ( ) standing on Jakey Boi Carlisle's head - an absolute golden moment

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This is generational trauma, Dad.

Braddles' AMAZEBALLS goal against West Toast at Princes Park, where he got it on the wing, took several bounces, handballed, got it back, then kicked it from 50m check-side, and some West Toast sucker dived to no avail in the goal square, I was there too.
That gave me a stiffy also.

You mean Mark of the Year, right?

We found him !!

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

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Early 70s, blues v Dons at home, transfixed by 600 seconds of wizardry.

Dons full back was also the Victorian full back, Barry Davis.
Jezza played him like a cat toying with a mouse to kick 6 goals in 10 mesmerising minutes.
It was an unforgettable sheer genius display.

hahahahaha - very well played Grro

(yes, mark not goal!)

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This is generational trauma, Dad.

I was about a dozen rows back behind the goal when Eddie kicked his 5th of 8 that night. Went with a Scum mate… had to make my own way home.

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill.

Buzz’s mark I was in the forward pocket - and looked at it like he was riding up an escalator- I’m in the crowd photo which is why I use the photo as my avatar.

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

Winston Churchill

Well….

one of our greatest moments as a club…the 99
Prelim…!

what a day…we stopped those D.F.C.B.&R.C’s. from
having an extra Cup in their cabinet…!

tough day…one of my best friends was getting
married…it was at the Melbourne Zoo…with dinner
by Peter Rowland…had to be there…!

spent the first 1/4 in the car….by the second i was waiting
for the wedding to take place…I’d rigged up the pocket
radio…with ear plugs up the back…and being 99…my
hair was long enough to cover the evidence…!

when friends questioned me about the game…and why
wasn’t i there…i let them in on my little secret…!

the wedding started proper during half time…and went
into the third…by this stage i had people looking in
my direction wanting to know if Carlton were still
ahead…they could see my pain as they came back…!

we assembled at the reception…by the duck pond…and
i was still listening…!

well i couldn’t deal with the people hassling me
for the score…i snuck out to the car…the Bride and Groom
were having photos taken…i had time…!

i sat in the seat…ten minutes into the last…
door open for some fresh air…because i
was smoking like a TURK…or a Greek…both have
issues…!

I was on Triple M…better reception…and that wild
call from Eddie…!

anyway…what i haven’t mentioned….my Mother
had left the Chief for another man a couple of months
prior…she’d runaway to Adelaide and i hadn’t seen her…
actually not knowing exactly where she was at the
time…so i was rather fragile…!

well…when i heard Eddie scream….”CARLTON ARE GOING
TO WIN…THEY’RE GOING TO WIN…THEY’RE IN THE
GRAAND FINAL”…or something like that…?

wow maaaan….i just grabbed the steering wheel at
Ten to Two…then placed my forehead on the top of it
at twelve o’clock…and BALLED my eyes out…i was a mess…!

walking back into the reception I was buzzing…and took
great pleasure informing the Doomed supporters they wouldn’t
be at the Gee next week…!

so there ya go…one of my greatest Carlton moments…
and i wasn’t even there…!


kindest regards tommi

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

A wedding on election day?

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Teehee….

that bit i left out Jezz…almost everyone at this
wedding voted for him…!

it was very much like that….!

i remember a Doomed supporter shaking her head saying…
“ wow… * and Jeff in one DAY”…HA…!


kindest regards tommi

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Well….

the Bride was Canadian…she didn’t care what
else was happening…!


kindest regards tommi

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Getting literally sunburned on the wing in the AFL members in the 1987 GF while Rhys tore Dermie a new one.

Sunburnt at the footy? Who knew?

But my fave is Radissons President Hotel after 1995 GF:

John Elliot standing on the chair going: "We must be humble!"



Sitting on the very next table to where the Premiership Cup sat all night drinking more champagne out of that beauty than a man has the right to.
Whenever I walk past it since I think: "my lips were all over That sucker!"

OMG

12 goals 5 against the Swans in the first quarter back in 82 at Princes Park. Just an utter blitz. Dominator kicked five that day, Buzz kicked six, Ashman four.

1974 at Waverley. My neighbours take me to my first ever game as a four year old. They give me a jumper with 25 on the back and a plastic insignia on the front. Jezza takes a screamer on someone’s head right in front of us on the half forward flank. They pat me on the back and say “That’s you!”. My Melbourne supporting dad never had a chance.

Andrew Walker’s mark I’m in the cheats section with a cheats mate. He rises up right in front of us. My mate turns to me says “@#$%&!! We were here!” and then hugs me.

Kouta’s game against West Coast at PP. Might have been 96. 18 touches in the last from memory where he was kicking it in, cleaning up the spilled ball, handing it off and getting it back to kick a goal before anyone realised what was happening.

Which was almost as good as Diesel’s 44 disposal game against the Dees in 93 at the G when he was cheated out of a third Brownlow. The greatest game by an individual I’ve ever seen. I was with a Collingwood mate who just kept saying “@#$%&! me!”.

Every game I ever went to with Moshe (and there were a few). Best games I ever saw.

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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

My first game of VFL was the 1968 GF.

I went with an Effendope supporter, who was a border at our place, who tried to convert me.

I lived next door to Tedy Whitten senior and liked the Bulldogs, especially Georgie Bissett, but played soccer.

Well, I can't remember what happened, but I wasnt happy with Sam, the border, for some reason, and quietly hoped Carlton would win.

I got louder as the game progressed and as I acclimatised to the ways of the football tribesmen and women and found voice by the last quarter.

I was sure John "Big Nick" Nichols was 6 foot 8. A scary monster of a man, but on my side, and fellow wog Sergio Silvagni, and the first aboriginal I laid eyes on, Syd Jackson.

Blue forever after that game.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

Ah, spite, the best reason to choose a team . I started supporting Carlton in 1983, from an immigrant family so no prior connections, but my best mate was an Essendon* supporter and I think I chose Carlton after hearing a news bulletin on the radio saying Essendon* had beaten them in the elimination final. At least that's how I remember it. Mum reckons I chose Carlton because of the 1981 and 1982 flags but I honestly have no recollection of those, I think it was spite.

3 memories

the day we kicked 30:30 - that was an insane game of football - should have kicked 50 goals that day such was the domination. I remember just laughing and screaming and laughing...it was a feeling I'll not forget.

Being with my dad at the 68 GF, scared shitless we were going to lose and dad smiling and saying 'not going to happen,' and it didn't.

But the moment, the single moment - Kouta grabbing the ball in one hand on the wing at Princes Park - 94? not sure.. Keith my mate and I just looking at each other and laughing...We knew then...what a @#$%&! ripper player he was going to be!

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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!