The decade 2001-2010.

budzy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:17 am **Posts:** 8128

The decade 2001-2010.

Come the end of this decade weâ€™ll be looking at two very contrasting halves.

2001-2005 = SHIT. The worst performance on & off the field in Carltons history. Embarrassing a lot of the time and gutwrenchingly painfull to watch at other times.

The end of 2006 will be seen as the completion of the turnaround in culture that affects the playing group and off-field management with ridiculous pre-existing contracts ending and the remaining duds left over from the cellar dweller years shown the door.

Seasons 2007-08 will see the youth that was brought onto the playing list in the previous 1-3 seasons emerge as classy and professional AFL footballers. During this time the new faces brought onto the board of management in 2006 will have sown the seeds in the promotion & marketing areas and interest in the â€œnew bluesâ€

Humpers · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:28 pm **Posts:** 4960

I agree with you Budzy.

The jigsaw puzzle is slowly starting to take shape.

2006 will be our last "bad" year for a long time.

Fabulous · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:19 pm

[quote="budzy"]The decade 2001-2010.

Seasons 2007-08 will see the youth that was brought onto the playing list in the previous 1-3 seasons emerge as classy and professional AFL footballers. During this time the new faces brought onto the board of management in 2006 will have sown the seeds in the promotion & marketing areas and interest in the â€œnew bluesâ€

Blues2005 · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:50 pm **Posts:** 2123

As long as we don't fare as badly over the decade as St Kilda's grand total of 49 wins over the whole 1980s decade...

TheBluesMuse · **Joined:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:27 pm **Posts:** 5270

You ARE in a good mood :-D

I'm not quite that optimistic just yet.....but I do acknowledge that we are finally turning the old boat around...

C'mon Blues!!!

camel · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:26 pm

We went from 1947 to 1968 without a flag â€¦ we're only just half way through our worst period ever! :shock:

Jarusa · **Joined:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:00 am **Posts:** 23123

camelboy wrote:

We went from 1947 to 1968 without a flag â€¦ we're only just half way through our worst period ever! :shock:

1915 to 1938 was pretty bad too. :wink:

camel · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:33 pm

Ouch!

budzy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:17 am **Posts:** 8128

Jarusa wrote:

camelboy wrote:

We went from 1947 to 1968 without a flag â€¦ we're only just half way through our worst period ever! :shock:

1915 to 1938 was pretty bad too. :wink:

This was supposed to be a positive thread you guys :garthp:

SHHH! · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:44 pm **Posts:** 890

Humpers wrote:

I agree with you Budzy.

The jigsaw puzzle is slowly starting to take shape.

2006 will be our last "bad" year for a long time.

As Dennis states
This year is the third yr of a 5 yr sentence.
Things begin to look better from here on!

camel · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:47 pm

budzy wrote:

Jarusa wrote:

camelboy wrote:

We went from 1947 to 1968 without a flag â€¦ we're only just half way through our worst period ever! :shock:

1915 to 1938 was pretty bad too. :wink:

This was supposed to be a positive thread you guys :garthp:

Well, the law of averages states that we should win a flag soon then. On average we win a flag at least once in a 7 year period. We're overdue â€¦ any day now.

:mrgreen:

Rod Waddell · **Joined:** Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:49 am **Posts:** 1651

Agree 1915-1938 and 1947-1968 were bad years but they were not littered with wooden spoons or regular thrashings. In fact we played finals fairly consistently and even reached a couple of GF's during those periods.

Synbad · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:33 pm

Yeah but Rod, that was a different era when the clubs fortunes wernt really fiddled with my the governing body of the game.

Now for us??
I think its the decade we had to have....

Hopefully it serves its purpose as a wake up call and make us smarter and is the kick in the arse the club needs to become what it always was again... a great club!!!

The club was in decline from the late 90s....

molsey · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:24 pm

Synbad wrote:

Yeah but Rod, that was a different era when the clubs fortunes wernt really fiddled with my the governing body of the game.

Now for us??
I think its the decade we had to have....

Hopefully it serves its purpose as a wake up call and make us smarter and is the kick in the arse the club needs to become what it always was again... a great club!!!

The club was in decline from the late 90s....

Agree entirely Synbad, but what do you think of the forecasts 2009-2010? You and I have disagreed before as to our many good players short the blues are - do you think a 5 year timeframe for success is reasonable or optimistic given how far back we're coming from?

Synbad · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:52 pm

molsey wrote:

Synbad wrote:

Yeah but Rod, that was a different era when the clubs fortunes wernt really fiddled with my the governing body of the game.

Now for us??
I think its the decade we had to have....

Hopefully it serves its purpose as a wake up call and make us smarter and is the kick in the arse the club needs to become what it always was again... a great club!!!

The club was in decline from the late 90s....

Agree entirely Synbad, but what do you think of the forecasts 2009-2010? You and I have disagreed before as to our many good players short the blues are - do you think a 5 year timeframe for success is reasonable or optimistic given how far back we're coming from?

molesy, i dont think we can say 5 years is enough for sure or not.
What we do know is you need time and in our situation we need plenty of it.
In my opinion it will be 2008 before we really step out of the darkness.How quick we really get going beyond that and become a bone fide chance of being anything depends on alot of factors.
I think by 2009/2010 we should be up there contesting .

Our problem is we have nothing 'up top'.
We dont have senior players that can make a difference to the psyche of this football club/ team.
Its a missing ingredient that may threaten to hold us back for longer than we would like.

That is why i would like to see the leadership structure change FROM NOW!
Stevens captain.. and a strong group of young core players being entrusted with extra responsibility from now.

With leadership within leadership within structures within the team and club.

The quicker we do this and spread the responsibility over tomorrows group the better the club will coope when its time.

What we need is the type of thing Mal Michael did to Riewoldt.
We need some ruthlesness.

At the moment the tone at the club is to go through the motions....

The bar is not very high and its only about playing.. there is no psychology/ mindset .. we must wait for the kids to grow and hopefully bring it in.
Wont happen with Lance Fev and Kouta...

Theyre just players.. nothing extra.

Fev is a FF so i wouldnt even concern myself with him as a leader.. as long as he does what he should be doing best....

SurreyBlue · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:32 am **Posts:** 10640

2015 is the best we can hope for.
No leaders, No class. Them the facts and that is only if we can delist/trade/retire our champs. :roll:

Chitty's Finger · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:47 pm

Them's not facts at all, thems just a pessimistic throwaway. To suggest that we have no leaders and no class on the list is just pure Essendon* fan speak. 2015 infers that, what, no one on the list, is any good?

Rubbish

Synbad · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:11 pm

SurreyBlue wrote:

2015 is the best we can hope for.
No leaders, No class. Them the facts and that is only if we can delist/trade/retire our champs. :roll:

We dont have any champs.. thats what were trying to grow.

If you think LAnce Campo and Kouta are currently champs.... :lol:

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