WE have months to wait for round one. So I thought as a TC team we could create a fictional game to fill in time - much like a choose your own adventure. Each post will be a possession and will move it back or forth depending on how they're feeling.

When there have been enough posts feel free to call quarter time. Make coaching comments, be the boot studder if you want, carry oranges and then bring on the next quarter... Let the game begin!

Note- if you make a post and realise someone else beat you to that possession please edit your post to keep the game flowing.

I'll start...

Its a packed stadium as the siren sounds for the first quarter, Carl v Rich.
Ackland lines up opposite to Knoble. Both players are nervous - as are the crowd. After all, it is round one and everyone's keen for the ump to start with the first bounce of the season. Up goes the ball, down and bounce, both players run in with Ackland taking the honors (to the delight of the Carlon faithful) and palms it off too...

The 2005 No 1 draft pick, the Messiah, Marc Murphy - who shrugs the tackle of Kane Johnson and kicks the ball downfield....

P.S - Commentators can now reveal that Simmonds has been a late withdrawal for the Tigers being replaced by Knoble

... to Whitnal, who looks like he's back to where he plays his best footy, at CHF, and looks a million dollars, and even looks like he is starting to put on muscle... but as SCHULTZ approaches from behind, he fires off a quick handball to...

...Cameron Cloke


...which is weird because he's with the Tigers now

Cloke turns to his father in the front row of the Southern stand for some advice. Dad craps on long enough for Whits to make up some ground & lay a beautiful tackle on CC!

Holding the ball says the umpire - free kick Whitnall. 40m out.

Big Red spots Betts all alone in the pocket and spears a short pass to the mercurial one who ducks around Bowden and goes the checkside. GOAL to Eddie!

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2002:> "In their Masters Chambers
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!!

Terry Wallace works feverishly at the whiteboard under a storm of saliva from the Richmond crowd...

Back to the center square. The ball is bounced by the central umpire. It's a bad bounce though as it goes the way of Knobel.

But wait! Gibbs pounces on Knobel and the ball spills to Murphy. Murphy takes a run just outside center square and spots...

Setanta! Who has run off Richo and left him in his wake. This fella looks like a monster, and the crowd love him. He looks down field, and sees Fev being double-teamed by two Richmond low-lifes.. instead, Setanta fakes going to the left, and then dashes off to the right, darting down the wing with a mad glint in his eye, looking for...

Jordan Russell dashing past to receive the handball, who is then tackled but manages to get his kick away which bounces along the turf towards the boundary...

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Richard Pratt - A Carlton legend.

Kennedy who has just come on the ground takes the tap and puts it in the arms of....

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2002:> "In their Masters Chambers
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!!

ZANTUCK, who starts to run off towards the goals, but is caught by Tuck, but after wispering something to the Richmond player, they back off and let Ty casually head for thew forward line... wonder what he said??

and a spearing pass towards fev is intercepted by...

a dashing Simpson who is looking further downfield for...

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Ich bein ein Carltonian

Morrell, but realising he no longer plays for the club, instead lines it up towards Betts again, who is really getting ahead of his opponent this game, and looks set for a HUGE 07'... Betts runs so fast he over-runs the ball, and Richmond looks set to gather the crumbs...

...but Fev's mate from Ireland, Paul the barman gets in the way and gets knocked out in the forward pockets so instead...

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NOW YOU'RE JUST SOME CLUB THAT I USED TO KNOW.

*The runner brings Lance a snack*

But Lance aint interested and only reaches for the water. This new Capt has finished with his old ways and makes a quick run to Paul the barman and drags him from the field - where he's issued a $6,000 fine for being on the ground...

And while all these shanagans have been going on the Tiges have run the ball down deep into Carlton's defence where...

Matty Lappin has been knocked to the ground in a behind-the-play incident... having not seen the strike, the umpire lets play continue, but Polos quick receive and miss leave the ball in Bowers hands as he takes the kick-in...

one point to Richmond...

Look at you lot going on and on about Murphy and Gibbs. Probably the same lot that were so desperate to win a couple of extra games so we wouldn't get the dreaded wooden spoon.

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"Davies could eventually become a player of Judd's ability" - Paganite03 Click here to see for yourself!

Don't forget Morrell, he's gotten a guernsey in this game too.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

It's Carl v Rich & the scoreboard catches fire just for old times' sake.

Helen d'Amico expected soon.

Carlton 1.0.6
Rich 0.1.1