It is impossible not to feel for him – yet another Blues coach pumped up, chewed up, and spat out
Two years ago, at a long lunch at Docklands Stadium, nearly a thousand supporters and former players celebrated the 40th anniversary of Carlton’s 1979 premiership. What an era it was for the Blues. They always stood up when it mattered. They had Alex Jesaulenko, who was born in a displaced person’s camp in Salzburg. They had Wayne Johnston, the consummate big-occasion player, who was at a nightclub on the night before the grand final. They had Bruce Doull, who looked like a beekeeper, spoke only in emergencies and whose game, a former teammate once wrote, “had a moral purity about it”. They won three premierships in four years. They drank industrial quantities of booze. They all had that Carlton swagger. On and off the field, they were the most ruthless and dominant football club in Australia. A Rhodes scholar would lead them out. The prime minister would welcome them back in.
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