It may be an omen, in fact I think it is, but I am not too sure what it all means.
I have had a Carlton cup, just a coffee cup that is, for many, many years. Not sure when it first arrived here but I know that when it first arrived it had a bright, dark blue Carlton badge.
Over time it faded. So did the fortunes of the team and the entire club for that matter. Chairman John Elliot was finally shifted along with others on the board, we lost draft picks for two years and dropped from a regular finals contender to the bottom feeders.
I have been supporting Carlton since the early 60's when I had a compelling reason to pick a team to support (having just moved to Canberra, knowing nothing about the game but thrown into a school yard where everyone had a team). Alex Jezualenko played for Eastlake and he was getting married to a girl from the suburb I lived in and he went to play for Carlton so Carlton it was.
I didn't actually join the club in the good days - they didn't need me -but, when they slipped down to the bottom, I joined up and hand over my money every year.
Anyway, back to the cup. It faded until TWOMD believed it was actually just a white cup - a bit like Carlton's away jersey but without the touch of blue. That was OK. Sort of symbolic. But now it has cracked, right through, completely buggered.
What does this mean? Is it all over for the team? Will they never win again? Or does it, could it possibly mean, that they have broken their run of bad times and are about to start to climb the ladder again?
I believe that it is the latter - of course. The cup deserves respect. It will receive an appropriate fate. The club should never forget the bad times but let this be the end of it. For 2008 let us see a finals campaign with the Blues battling to win.
For this to happen I suspect that it might be a good strategy to sell Fev - unless he performs a miracle and grows up in the next few weeks - and use the money to get a couple of good un's.
But with or without Fev just remember that Carlton will be there in September in 2008!
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Happily, I can just follow the genes and support your team, so the AFL is covered. Carlton aren't actually embarrassing this year (we just don't mention the Lions game:). League, though I don't watch a lot, is the same - born in Canberra. A-league is good too - going to the opening Roar game - should be good. I do have a dilemma with the English Premier League, though. You had previously suggested Chelsea, but they bought their way to the top. Alex Ferguson was a pinko socialist - but Man U is just too popular. I'm leaning toward Sunderland - but only because in the English Civil War the city of Sunderland supported Cromwell - about as loose as the reason you supported Carlton, I reckn. Where were our ancestors from, again? Bolton or something?
Bolton, Preston, Congleton, Macclesfield, Wellingborough, Long Marston, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Carrickfergus, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Wingrave, Eydon, Mountmellick, Liverpool - probably a couple of others I've forgotten. But I don't think Sunderland has come up at all. So maybe that's a reason to choose them??
Perhaps you should look for the lucky genes? Most of the Coles and Simpson lines were not terribly lucky, with most coming out here in chains. The Kirkham, Hedges, Tennant, Bailey lines might provide some more heart but there is just that touch of the strange about a couple of them.
Maybe you look for a team in Osaka?
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