footy season is finally here...

it seems every year i get to about mid feb and start longing for the afl season to start, and i'm not sure why really coz in recent years being a carlton fan hasn't been much fun at times...

so imagine my delight when i'm all geared up (emotionally and actually - new blues tshirt!) and sitting down to watch, and giving myself the pep talk that without fev (he went to the lions...hiss) and without judd (he got himself suspended!), we might not stand a chance...and we win!

so imagine my surprise when half way through the first quarter we are 18 points up and looking HOT! the boys played great, Tigers came back at them only once and we ended up winning by 56 points - not as good as last years 83 points (who will ever forget that?) but bloody good...

the young boys played well, the old boys did their job, the forward line looks good, the defence was good - really i can't fault a single player - they backed each other up, they fought hard, they played with their heads up and with some fight - this is what i want to see week in week out - even if they lose, i don't mind if they have given it their all...

only one criticism i have is this: in typical (of recent times) fashion with 5 minutes to go in the 1st qtr they start giving each other than 'hold the ball up' signal - i am over that crap and am inclined to email/write to brett ratten to tell him it's not good - not only did the momentum change at this point and the tigers pulled back a big lead with a few back to back goals, but it gives the opposition a mental advantage - knowing that the blues are afraid of giving up the lead! why they don't just try and extend the lead, rather than protect it, i will never know - perhaps it's a bloke thing, perhaps it's a footy thing - either way, i've been watching footy a long time, and obviously, i'm not a bloke, but seriously...

so anyway, i'm getting off the soapbox and congratulating the boys on a great win...

so i spoke to my neice before the game (she's 3) - turns out when she found out judd wasn't playing she cried (gotta love that) and then i told her that if the boys won, i'd call her today to sing the song and she says to me 'i don't want to aunty, i'll sing by my very own self' - ok then! of course i did ring my nephew tonight (he's 8) and in traditional fashion, him and i did sing the song...it's one of my favourite aspects of the carlton win really - singing the song with either him or my dad...

so imagine how chuffed i am to hear that when my neice gets up this morning she asks her Mum (my sister) if the blues won, when she finds out they do she says 'oh well we have to sing the song with aunty'...don't you just love the fickleness of a 3 yr old!

go blue baggers...