A Bond Carlton mashup thrown to the howling maw of the free market. As told to WG. Hopefully passed in. 
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Another disappointing season for Carlton in 1985 finishing 4th after the Home & Away season, although there was definite improvement in the consistency of the team over 1984, with the Blues only losing two games in a row once (as opposed to 4 times in 1984). While the club’s 15 win, 7 loss record was 2 wins better than the previous year, the competition was also more even at the top, with Footscray also improving. This led to Carlton missing out on third place on the ladder by 2 points and second place by only 4 points. Our fourth place finish cost us a double chance in the finals, which would be significant.
A bright spot to the season was the debut of the son of former Blues champion Sergio Silvagni. Stephen Silvagni played his first game in Round 7 against the Swans in Sydney. Lining up in the Back pocket, symbollically alongside Bruce Doull as he would take over his mantle as the elite defender in the traditionally strong Carlton backline.
An early season highlight included a 140 point belting of St Kilda at Moorabbin, with the Blues kicking 25 goals and holding the Saints to just 2. Through the first 12 rounds Carlton wasn’t in particularly impressive form, winning only 6 of their 12 games, holding onto fifth place on the ladder by percentage only.
Carlton’s improvement in 1985 came in the second half of the season, winning eight games in a row and nine of their last ten. This form saw them through to their fourth place finish and an Elimination Final against North Melbourne. The Blues late season form included a 76 point thumping of North in Round 14 and saw the club going into the finals as clear favourites. We led at every change, and but for inaccurate kicking in the first half the game would have been won (Carlton led 10.10 70 to 6.3 39 at half-time). The Blues failure to ice the game would prove costly, the Kangaroos kicking 8.1 to 2.1 in the last quarter to win the game by 19 points.
After failing in the finals for a third successive year, the end of season would see many changes at Carlton. Another former legend of the club, Robert Walls, would replace David Parkin as senior coach. Ironically Parkin would be Walls replacement at Fitzroy. Mark Maclure was rewarded for years of tremendous service by taking over the captaincy from Wayne Johnson, a move which would see The Dominator relish being freed of the captaincy and share the Best & Fairest award in 1986.
The most significant moment of the 1985 off-season occurred when Glenelg finally triumphed in the SANFL league, allowing Stephen Kernahan to fulfill his vow to see the Tigers win a flag before travelling over the border to join the Blues. He was joined by fellow South Australians Craig Bradley and Peter Motley and Jon Dorotich from Western Australia.
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Can Frank please respond to this?
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How the mighty have fallen. At least Carlton aren’t dead, just hopeless. Both shared a very loose interpretation of playing by the rules and got run over by the khama bus.
Would be a nice little pickup for the Bond Corp liquidators or lawyers to go with the tens of millions of dollars in fees or maybe for the wall in the Eagle Bay pool room.
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I also can put my finger in my bum
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‘Passed in’? No, in the spirit of the ’80s it should sell for an astronomical sum and then be discovered to be worthless.
PS, can we have your take on the nice range of fonts therein?
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No bid from the SGIO? Or the State government with plans to build a petrochemical plant around it? Where have all the four on the floor entrepreneurs gone? Let’s hope Sneakers takes us back to that golden age.
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It’s in my possession now. You only get one Americas Cup auction in your lifetime and I’ve had mine.
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Bidding brisk?
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Wasn’t actually there but sounded interesting. Collections of Bondy and Ben Lexcen combined. Bloke I know got a box of trophies plaques etc and this was in it. Gave me this as I have been outed as a blues supporter (he is Collingwood supporter so obviously couldn’t keep it)
I didn’t live in perth back then but have heard Carlton were strongly supported in WA pre Eagles.
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Had hoped you were the mysterious phone bidder.
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When the world was still in black and white, everyone thought Claremont and Carlton were the same team.
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Yes Snuff I can see that. Should have been enough to get me to pick the tigers as my wafl team when I first arrived. Instead I chose the demons. Needless to say my Septembers have been pretty free ever since…
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I doubt this acknowledgement back in the day extended to the Blues actually drinking the piss that Bondy brewed, Swan Lager, even when it relaunched in the black can around then in the lead to the America’s Cup.
They may have been a team patronised by corporate crooks, but I doubt that they’d stoop so low as to abandon the Victorian brews, especially before beer swillers started getting wanky with locally-brewed foreign beers and all this scene-y craft beer nonsense (a good drop is a good drop, but has become a little too much of a circle jerk, plus the use of the term “craft”/”crafted” is well and truly, um, played).
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Swan Premium ads can still be found online.
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I had a mate who took the same carton of Swan Premium to every party during the 1980’s. Genius. It is probably still in a bathtub in Victoria Park somewhere.
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But hey, Blues won AFLW last night. Bit fumbly, but all in all…
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