Apparently Craig Bradley has rejoined the Blues!

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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Smacks of desperation to me, but I guess welcome back Braddles

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Congratulations CK95

God I loved Bradley, Williams, Ratten and Brown.

LOVED.

Not as much as I loved Peter Dean. But close.

I suppose it remains to be seen how successful braddles is going to be as an AC. He's shied away from coaching a couple of times now, so let's hope he can take our emerging midfield to a happy place.

Welcome back braddles.

Just found this link:

http://www.footygoss.com/modules.php?op ... =0&thold=0

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They Gathered for their Feast
They Stabbed us with their Steely Knives
But They Just Can't Kill The Beast!" <2016

THE BLUEBAGGER BEAST IS BAACKK!!

thanks bb

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I'm actually quite pleased that two champion AFL players in Ratten & Bradley have put their hands up to try and instill some confidence and playmaking ability back into our playing list.

PLENTY more changes are needed at Carlton IMO with hopefully a new senior coach, President and a revamped administration & footy department to come.

You gotta start somewhere I suppose.

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There's so much I could say...

Well if thats the case we have the last Grand Final Captain and the first Wooden Spoon Captain back at the club.

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Winston Churchill

Sporn to adelaide? ... good luck to them.

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Very dissapointed. The price must've been right!

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Patrick Smith - Just another reason to HATE Essendon*!

Mad Dog will be having a wank now, surely?

Has he coached in any capacity at all (apart from the well publicised aborted stints)?
If not was he at least proactive in passing on his knowledge to the youngsters in his playing days?

oh well, welcome back Braddles hopefully he is good for us...

I can imagine some conflict in the future, between them and Pagan.

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I'm confused Ockham. You, and others, have indicated that moves are afoot to put a new ticket together to topple the current board. You've said that Fraser Brown has taken a step back because he has been overtaken by larger players/forces, but that he's still involved. The first act of a new board will, presumably, be to get rid of Pagan and replace him with a new coach as per Fraser's earlier attempt.

So what happens to Ratts and now Braddles then? Surely the new coach, whoever that may be, will want to select his own assistants, and they may not be two former Carlton greats with limited coaching experience between them. What happens then?

Im happy there is a touch of the Old Carlton back.. its what we were crying out for. Gives the kids a reason to play for the jumper again.

If I was Denis, I'd be worried.

No "yes" men except for Crosisca and maybe Libba.

Sounds like we might be white-anting his position. I think Denis has to go, but not undermining him like this. We should have just come out and sacked him, negotiated a settlement with him and be done with it, gone through a proper process of finding a coach (in the manner that St Kilda did) and probably gained either Bond or Longmire.

This club is becoming even more unprofessional...but as if we didn't know that already - though obviously some think we still are...

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"A good composer does not initiate. He steals."

- Igor Stravinsky

Kernahan, Bradley both SA's

Add Andrew McKay to help out Bower, Flint.... and an inspiring Peter Motley around the club would also lift the spirit of the place...and perhaps it's enough to cement a conversion of Gibbs into a truly committed SA Carltonian forever (if we choose him).

I hope...I'm sure Bradley will help....in some way. I know nothing of his tactical prowess, but I'm sure he has naturally gifted qualities in that dept.

Ratten and Bradley will also be great for our up and coming midfield too.

It's coming together...all we need now is a Bond as coach and Sandilands and Leuenberger in the ruck, alittle bit more development of our young players and we're on the way to a better future.

Surely we're in a better position post 2006 than any of the previos 5 years.

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Not sure I get you, Carlton Clem.

Who could have been hired as an assistant coach that wouldn't make you think Pagan's position is under pressure?

It seems on the one hand you want us to go through a thorough process to hire an assistant but, when one is hired that doesn't have a history of being a 'yes man', then we must be undermining Pagan's position?

Not having a crack at you - just not sure how you interpret that Bradley's hiring is danger for Pagan. I mean, by that logic ANY hiring would be danger for Pagan

Or is that what you mean?

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

It's official

Bradley returns to Carlton

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With 12 seconds to go in the 1947 Grand Final Fred Stafford snaps a left footed goal. Carlton beat Essendon* by one point..

Number 17 in Carlton's 25 Greatest Moments.

Wheee

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20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Freddy, you're always first with the official news. Well done!!

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