The undefeated Blues have a new coach, a watchable brand of football, a captain in fine fettle and a pretty soft draw ahead
360 like a man contesting a parking ticket in the Magistrates Court. He would bemoan “20 years of rubbish”. What do they stand for, he would ask? What is in their DNA? After one game, the Herald Sun’s Mark Robinson questioned whether the Bluebirds, Carlton’s former dance troupe, would have tackled harder. After one of their players had transgressed, the entire playing group visited Ravenhall Prison.
On Sunday, as has been the case all season, Patrick Cripps was the dominant figure. In the last few years, it seemed as if the game may have passed him by. He was beaten up. He had been asked to do too much. He usually had two or three opponents hanging off him. He had a broken back, for heaven’s sake. “I can’t believe how badly he’s aged,” Leigh Matthews said.
Geelong’s comeback, and the game itself, was just as remarkable. Last year, the two sides played what may have been the dullest league game this century. Indeed, the Buckley-Scott era saw some truly ghastly affairs. But this was a cracker, with the Pies slamming on nine third term goals, prompting the infernal
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