oh you are so right, next time the kid wants to get excited I'll just say... no no son, we at Carlton do not do that.
Hmm maybe I'll tell him to barrack for the dees - no need for passion there.
The fact remains sailorman all your grand theories count for nought in the light of day.
We won. Regardless of whether we should not or should, we did. Enjoy it
Leave your robust need for my way or the highway for another day. Simple really.
We won.
At the start of the game - na didn't care (and isn't that sad)
Today - do not care (well maybe I do a little bit)
But as it happened, as the young kids dominated their young kids it was good to see them get a win
it was good to see Denis get a win (yeah I know we all want him sacked, still he's just a man - to the tune of
I don't know how to love him ' he's just a coach, and we've had so many coaches before, in oh so many ways, he's just one more....' - because despite all his weaknesses he is trying hard to turn this club around. I was happy for me, it is a lot of money for a teacher and sometimes it helps to enjoy the game rather than just sitting there pretending its fine to cop a belting. Most especially though, I was happy for the Carlton people. Seeing them happy. Football is not just about premeirships - Carlton forgot that and it almost killed this club - its about people and some people invest a lot of their time and happiness in this club - rightly or wrongly is irrelevant. They do.
On the train was an old couple smiling as proud as grandparents after a birth, a group of girls singing the song, my son chatting to another lad, both wearing their jumpers with pride, a few blokes going on about the kids that player, about Walker and Bentick and so on (and those kids deserve to be talked about - yes I know later, later) a Japanese couple asking what the fuss was about and so on. People.
Yes we need to build the list.
Yes we need to regain our competitive edge.
Yes yes yes yes.
And as a club we must take care of the people that love this jumper - that we are still not doing in many ways, so the people take what they can.
We won. Many were happy. I joined in with their happiness because in the end sport's ability to connect people is far more important than a couple of picks. - its why most go; even those 'scrays that are still denigrated, or the old Saints fans we seem to still feel superior towards, they go for the humanity of it.
Last night coming home we were part of the humanity of that bluebaggerness. Now I could have withdrawn and moped about being so close to losing a kid. Hell I could have yelled at them to keep it down, that we bluebagger people do not look upon a win the way lesser beings do, that we cheat and buy and plot and do everything far better than anyone else (if only the damn AFL would let us).
I chose not to. I chose to enjoy the win with my smiling, happy son.
The only mistake I made was logging on to this site.....
And that is the real sad thing about the win. We are not allowed to enjoy it. The Draft pick police see to that.
Last night I copped a warning for calling someone a moron.
I think those needing to bag the win should all have copped warnings for trolling. Just keep them away for a day or two, let the others enjoy their win, then come in in the cold hard light of Football Rationalism and Football Correctness, and explain to us how our reckless, fickle, stupid, sad, pathetic, supporting of wins is destroying this club.
Hell who knows, some of us may have even listened.
Geez, after Elliotts reign you would have thought the penny would have dropped about just how precious these draft picks are, but no. The same people who would have been abusing the hell out of Elliott and Parkin for not planning for the future at every moment during 2002,03,04 are the same ones now ooooh’ing and aaaaah’ing over a meaningless win late in the season. The same people who are oooooh’ing and aaaaah’ing about Marc Murphy this year would have been there round 22 last year screaming their guts out desperate for some immediate thrills.
Dannyboy, perhaps we should look at offloading our first pick this year, we could get Mal Michael and Akermanis with pick 2 in the draft, just imagine how much happier you and your son would be then. This fantastic trade would probably amount to an extra couple of wins for the year, to hell with the future, it’s about right now. Imagine how good it would feel coming home on the train singing the song 8 times for the year instead of 6 times in 2007. When you are 80 you can sit down with your son and talk about the good old days, 15 year careers of Gibbs or Hansen playing for Carlton will pale in significance to that extra couple of wins Michael and Akermanis gave us in 2007 and the joy of the train ride home that night.
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