Should never have been a doubt KK

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What I said before about self belief-- probably the most vital thing a footy club can have.
hat.

GWS, please go back and reread my post before calling me stupid.

I will put it simply for you. Pure talent does not auotmatically equal success (Angwin is a recent example), proper development and the installation of belief is critical to gaining success.

As Synbad himself has higlighted there are few standouts in TAC this year and as we know football is a team game. You can have the best player in the league in your team but if you do not have the support around him the team is going nowhere. The trick in gaining success is to get the 'not so goods' better so they complement the 'really goods'

If we sit around and wait for the 'talent' we are and will go nowhere. However if we instill an ethos of hard work, disicpline and belief, then when we get the talent, then that will be the icing on the cake so to speak.

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" -Winston Churchill

L.M 35-06

it was the egg, the egg came first

no no the chicken, the chicken had to lay the egg


ahh grasshopper, maybe it was the nest......

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Oh so you dont think were shithouse eh???
Look we can be shithouse and come out of this with ythe best 2 young kids and the best player througth the psd or we can be shithouse and come out of it with a goodish kid.. and a goodish player.
Never again?????

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?????????


Ok 99 we thought we could win a premiership.
First round second round and third round for OReilly and Mansfield.
2000.. Livo Wiggo and Sporn .
2001. Waite Davies Thornton.
2002.Simmo.. Fisher and Norman.(French)
2003.Walker.
(2002 and 2003 we lost SIX EARLY PICKS!!)
2004. Russell Hartlett,Blackwell,Bryan,Raso ,Betts(Chambers and Longmuir)

Ok we have a wee bit there but we have lost players like Ratten. Bradley,SoS, Brown,McKay,Christou,Hickmont,.. a host of others who dissented... Kouta on the wrong side of the hill...and Campo and Lance havent stepped up...

I think looking at the ledger were going backwards and the cupboard is pretty bare and were waiting for players like Davies, Carrazzo, Bentick,Setanta,Livo etc to fill the void and become champions.

Youre dreaming!!!!

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any early views on the quality of the 2006 draft?

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"Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I,
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference."

Robert Frost

Carlton will not lay down and play to finish last and receive PPs.

I dare anyone to suggest that to Denis.

BUT, we are rapidly falling behind the pack. Our skills have disappeared, our confidence has disappeared, and subsequently we are likely to lose more games than we win this year.

The main point is that if we finish without more than 5.5 wins, we have a chance to pick up a few extra exciting young un's in the draft, or trade for some others. Once the season is done and dusted, draft time is exciting. "Who will we pick? Who will become a champion for us?"

The fans love it, the sponsors love it. Excitement will once again be generated around the club.

Finishing 10th or so doesn't help us at that time. But the club will still try to finish 9th,10, 11th, whatever. The club will deal with whatever picks we end up with. But we will be better off if we have a priority pick.

Doesn't mean we are structuring ourselves to get one.

You guys are all getting your knickers in a twist for nothing.

My knickers are always in a knot......

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This draft does not run deep.. according to the experts.

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Maybe that's your problem...

at least i dont have some life threatening disease i suppose....

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You're DELIBERATELY misreading us, Syn. If we are genuinely shithouse, then SO BE IT. If that's the case, then we will end up with PPs. But PLAYING for the PPs is the coward's way out, and I WON'T HAVE MY TEAM DO IT.

NOT NOW

NOT EVER.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

You can keep the team ill have some of the team and the club .

Deal???

You get Diggers and Clarke for starters...

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KK...the team will not do it!

Denis will not let them do it!

End of story.

Careful K.K he will twist your knickers into a knot

And I tell you if we a PP (given the way we are playing it is pretty much a monty )and he is a dud I am gonna hold Synbad personally resposible

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" -Winston Churchill

L.M 35-06

Okay so we only need to panic if synbad becomes coach or President or captain

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

The problem with the club is the success of the club itself.
We never rebuild at Carlton...cos were Carlton...
We wont go to the MCG were redeveloping Optus... cos were Carlton..
Noone ever leaves Carlton... cos were Carlton..
We dont need PPs .. cos were Carlton....

yes we are Carlton ... but the world is changing daily....

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Or if synbad gets on the board using a groundswell of support from Carlton members on the internet forums. Running of course on the 'tank for picks' platform, instead of Carlton One, it will be called Carlton Want Pick One.

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Why would i want to join the board and become anonymous????

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One could argue that we have neither the best player in the competition, nor the "support" around him, and possibly too many "not so goods" - so what is the priority? Recruiting the "best" or building and recruiting the "support"???

You can have all the support players in the world, but just what exactly will they be supporting if you don't have the "best"???? We'll be staring at the same 16 premiership cups for along time if we don't get talent into this club.