Richmond vs Carlton R1 2009

[one-eyed]

Only 152 days to go lol

Here's wayne's highlights package from R1 this year to whet the appetite 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5EUN-tRZFM

[mightytiges]

I still can't believe Richo didn't get that free.

[wayne]

If I can get my hands on a HDD recorder by round 1 next year, i'll do highlights for every win we have.

[mightytiges]

If I can get my hands on a HDD recorder by round 1 next year, i'll do highlights for every win we have.

Hopefully for our sake more of Ratten looking dumbfounded 

[Chuck17]

Only 152 days to go lol

Oh One Eyed You make it sound sooooo far off

 

[Chuck17]

Warnock is a plank apparently according to this article straight from their coaches mouth

By Matt Burgan
 4:39 PM Mon 27 October, 2008

CARLTON coach Brett Ratten says boom recruit Robbie Warnock will be a key plank in lifting the club off the bottom of the hit-outs table in 2009.
http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=69303

I think he means he is either as thick as a plank or after Simmonds and Patto finish with him he will feel like he has been hit with one many times over.

[mightytiges]

The media have certainly jumped on the Blues bandwagon. Training vision on the news and a number on stories on the paper and on the web like they are the only ones who have started preseason this week  .

[Hellenic Tiger]

Same thing happened last year with all the euphoria on Judd etc.
This year Warnock and what not. Let it happen. Last year Terry had them primed and focused for round 1 with all the talk on Carlscum. The media have jumped on again this year and I can see come March 26 next year the media will be expecting Richmond once again to play the role of necessary victim to this Carlton juggernaut. How sweet it will be to ruin their start two years in a row. Bring it on.

[Chuck17]

Wouldn't worry about reading this dribble, it is going to be so sweet to knock them off their off season dreams of granduer perch in round 1


http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=663095
Carlton captain Chris Judd says the early signs are there for the Blues to make a long-awaited finals appearance next season.

[mightytiges]

Wouldn't worry about reading this dribble, it is going to be so sweet to knock them off their off season dreams of granduer perch in round 1


http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=663095
Carlton captain Chris Judd says the early signs are there for the Blues to make a long-awaited finals appearance next season.

One man band . I'd rather read how our cubs are killing it on the track  .

[mightytiges]

Generous of the Herald-Sun today to make it Carlton membership drive day  . Jon Ralph is only missing a pic of himself with blue and white pom-poms  .

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,24638933-19742,00.html

Hopefully 'we know their coming' when round 1 arrives and send them back to where they came from with their tail between their legs

[wayne]

The Blues are going to have to live up to a LOT of hype next year.

[Chuck17]

The Blues are going to have to live up to a LOT of hype next year.

Yep, it should take the pressure off us for a while, well until we lose 2 games in a row anyway and then the hounds will be out baying for blood

[Stripes]

It seems that all the hype around Carlton for next year is all positive, like it was before last season...yet all the hype around Richmond always seems to be negative - will TW keep his job?

It would be nice to have the media building us up as much as they do the Bluebaggers. We just don't seem to have the players with the positive profile or buzz around them as the likes of Judd, Fev, Kruezer, Murphy and Gibbs. You would think after finishing higher on the ladder and with a player who almost snatched the Brownlow in 2008 we would be rated higher than the Bluebaggers by the football community.

I guess we have to earn more respect after so many false dawns and near misses over the journey.

Stripes

[one-eyed]

SEN's late show 'Gladiators' got onto us and Carlton last night and how we were both up and coming sides at around the same level and both have expectations of finals next year. One of them then said the round 1 game will be a crunch game for how the rest of the season will go. The winner will gain massive momentum for the rest of the year while the loser especially if it's a poor loss could flop.