It is with sadness that the contributors of the Blueseum recently discovered that one of our team members had passed away.

On TC, he was known as tcblue. On the Blueseum he was pblue and on The Blue View before that. He posted regularly until 2011 on TC.

Those of us who corresponded with him regularly knew him as Phil.

He passed away recently at the age of 76 and was a devoted Blues supporter. He volunteered many hours to the Blueseum on all manner of tasks, colourising old photos, producing detailed stats tables and bringing old Blues songs back to life among other activities.

Phil was a muso who at one stage was a part time Saxaphone player doing the rounds. He was also a dab hand on the computer with technical skills that went all the way back to the 1970s.

The first Carlton game he attended was the 1947 grand final with his Dad.

Phil had a personal Carlton connection as well, his uncle, Paul Cameron played a couple of games for the Blues in the 1920s.

Phil gave his memories of his Uncle in this 2012 article which featured on the Blueseum and the CFC website.

http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-read_artic ... icleId=177

Phil also had a youtube channel which features some video karaoke versions of some old Carlton songs, in particular a couple from the early part of last century which had not been put to music for decades.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ozmal10

He will be greatly missed by all of us at the Blueseum.

RIP

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Sounds like an interesting guy.

Thanks for everything tcblue.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Thank you for bringing this news to our attention. It's important that we remember and respect those who take the time to put back into their community.

Let us all raise a glass to acknowledge Phil, thank him and wish him well.

Thoughts with his family and friends.

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Hope your footy team wins.

RIP Phil

Sounds like a great Carlton life.

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Sad to hear.

RIP Phil.

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Phil.

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RIP TCBlue

Thank you for your contribution to the Carlton community.

Legend

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Respect

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"In better news for Blues fans, Jarrad Waite was not named on the club's injury list."

sad news

RIP tcblue

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Sad news......

great tales....may he rest in peace....!

thanks Phil....!

kindest regards tommi

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

RIP. Think he came to the GC a few years back for the game that ended Ratten's career?

RIP, fellow blueboy

Well said camel.

RIP tcblue

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Thanks for your Contributions Phil. May You Rest In Peace. Condolences to those that Loved You.

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RIP Phil.
I didn't know you but I noticed your contributions.
Thoughts with the family

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Condolences to tcblue's family and friends.

RIP

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RIP big fella...............condolence's to the family.................reckon its the highly interesting guys like Phil who have made TBV and TC compulsory reading...........you will be missed Phil but not forgotten.

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Hi Everyone

I would like to add my condolences to the site for the loss of pblue / tcblue; Phil Ereaut.

I never met Phil face to face but exchanged hundreds of emails and Blueseum messages with him through the years. I think I was the one who convinced him to come to the Blueseum as his primary site, for he had developed his own. He was an extremely loyal fan and committed to representing history on the Blueseum, being one of a handful of long-termers on site who continued to give until he passed.

I thought he was a bit older than me given how grumpy he was some times. On a shared input site like the Blueseum you can often have disagreements over how the site should function and what things should look like and Phil was very clear with his views. And we always sorted them out - found a way to make it all work. But 40 years older - now that surprised me.

You see, he was also very keen to share his knowledge on how to 'program'. You can see his table formats through site and the Blueseum music add-on was all his idea. So all round a much better technical user of site than I could ever hope to be, and a willing teacher.

But above all it was Phil's love of colourised images that have influenced the Blueseum. I hated them! Still do. But his passionate cleaning-up and colourisation of old photos is clear when you look through the Image Galleries. One image stands in the mind: his uncle Paul Cameron. Phil has cleaned up a very low quality image of Paul and it stands on site; it will always remind me of him.

Phil was part of the weekly update crew of Warren / Rod / me in 2014 (plus a few others) and I remember thinking later in the year that the ladder updates (in 'Ereaut format') were no longer coming through. I sent off an email asking how he was...

But didn't follow up. The only follow up came when Pete asked where he was. And now Pete has found out why - Phil had died earlier in the year, buried in December 2014.

I'll miss Phil on site. He provided a lot of value to site, and through his commitment to the Blueseum clearly added different insights to the Club and to the site itself.

Cheers Phil!

Regards

Michael

RIP Phil.

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