The Pot Calling The Kettle Black

The season proper hasn't started yet and already we've seen some biffo in Aussie Rules football. The funny part is that it was two teammates that hit the headlines. The really funny part is that they were from the Carlton Football Club. The hilarious part is that David Rhys-Jones said the guy dealing out the biffo, Setanta O'hAilpin, was a disgrace. Coming from a man who visited the tribunal on charge a record number of time, 25, and who received a suspension of two years at the age of 41 after assaulting an opponent and leaving him with multiple fractures, that's a bit rich.

I dunno what lead to the biffo and then the kick in the bum but it was only Cameron Cloke, himself a disgraced footballer delisted from Collingwood after speeding at 144 km/h in a 100 zone whilst his club was receiving sponsorship from the Transport Accident Commission and subsequently costing them a $10,000 fine, and he probably deserved it.

And it is only Carlton.

At Last The Torture Is Over

We've waited six long months since that last Saturday in September but at last the torture is over. AFL is back tonight. Ok, so it's only Carlton and Richmond but it's a start. There are some new additions to Carlton taking the field - Chris Judd (bought from West Coast), some new kid from the Under-18s competition and there should be a portaloo with Brendan Fevola's name on it close to the boundary. The man has a drinking, and weeing, problem in public. Maybe they should call it the PortaFev.

Carlton's latest addition to the squad - The PortaFev

Carlton Football Club Theme Song - Revamped by Frugal Bastard

We are the chequebook Blues
Next year we'll win more games than two
We're the team that won the wooden spoon
Buying our way back is all Carlton knows
We buy the champions for seven million
We'll take Chris Judd please

And West Coast will get bugger all
From the hard dealing chequebook Blues

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Carlton Football Club has a history of buying champions and buying premierships. And they've done it again with a "trade" which netted them Chris Judd, a former Brownlow medallist. You have to bear in mind that the AFL clubs have a salary cap of $A7 million/season to cover 38 players and Judd will be taking home 20% of that himself in 2008 at Carlton.

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The Original Carlton Football Club Theme Song

We are the Navy Blues,
We are the old dark Navy Blues,
We’re the team that never lets you down,
We’re the only team old Carlton knows,
With all the champions they like to send us,
We’ll keep our end up.

And they will know that they’ve been playing
Against the famous old dark Blues