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Aussie TV star Dave Hughes makes sad admission about his beloved Carlton

The superfan says he feels for his son and two legends whose reputations have been ‘torched’ by the club.

Aussie TV star Dave Hughes makes sad admission about his beloved Carlton

The superfan says he feels for his son and two legends whose reputations have been ‘torched’ by the club.

Carlton superfan and TV funnyman Dave Hughes has again addressed the raging crisis engulfing his embattled club.

The Blues’ season has imploded, fans are fuming, and past coaches and players are crawling out of the woodwork to have their say about the club they once represented.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Dave Hughes goes off in epic Carlton rant.

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Carlton was belted by Port Adelaide on Thursday night and are now facing brutal clashes against flag contenders Collingwood and Brisbane.

The day before the loss to Port, Hughes went viral with an epic rant about following Carlton on Channel 7’s hit show The Front Bar.

“We were premiership favourites playing against an under-12 team, we were 40 points up and lost, and our team left at halftime!” he said about the loss to Richmond in Round 1.

Dave Hughes says it’s hard work being a Carlton fan. Credit: Seven

“I walked home the MCG to St Kilda in the dark on my own, true story. I was looking for guys with machetes and could not find them, where are they when you need them?”

“This was our year? 30 years! This was it.

“Guys, it’s sad. I cannot do it anymore, it’s not good for my health. Every weekend from now on I will go to the Wonthaggi area and forage for mushrooms. Cook them up and have a good time. What could go wrong?”

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That outburst was in the aftermath to Carlton’s shock loss to North Melbourne in Round 15. Fans were hoping the Blues would respond against Port, but that ended in a 50-point smashing.

On Friday the Hughes tone was more sombre as he admitted it was hard work being a supporter, and his son doesn’t go to games anymore.

“I still go to Carlton games because unlike my teenage son I still remember the feeling of winning. Hopefully it happens in my lifetime. I’m trying to keep fit so that I can live another 50 years and see that it does happen. Because the reward if they do get it done will be immense,” he wrote in a News Corp column.

“I’m not blaming individuals. I can’t blame individuals. The club has just … it’s just … it is just the club. It’s the whole club. And it’s been going on for 25 years.

“We have torched so many reputations. Talk to Denis Pagan, talk to Mick Malthouse. Two legends of coaching turned up to Carlton and left shattered men.

“I feel sorry for everyone who turns up at the club these days. It’s just … it’s just so hard. Carlton being bad is actually good for comedy to be honest but I’d still rather not have it happen ... being a Blues fan right now is just hard. It’s hard.”

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Carlton have spent years building the list to a point that was meant to contend in 2025.

But there is little hope they will play finals this year and on Friday football boss Brad Lloyd could not confirm if coach Michael Voss would be at the club next year.

“I’m unsure of that,” he said

Club great Brendan Fevola says “something is wrong”.

“Something is going on. The board needs to go, I’ve been saying that for ages. The board is just there for themselves,” he said on his radio program, The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick.

“Get new people in. Get old Carlton people in. Blokes like (former star player) Fraser Brown who would be amazing on the board.

“Everyone is saying, ‘Sack Vossy, Vossy needs to go’, and I’m like, ‘No, I don’t think that’s the go’.

“It gets to a point where you go, ‘I don’t think the players are playing for you, mate’. If you’re playing for a coach, you don’t put up what you put up in that first half.

“They’re putting up nothing, they didn’t kick a goal for the whole first half.

“They don’t look like they’ve got a system but they do have a system; they train and they train hard. They’re just not performing.”

Mick Malthouse told 7NEWS it was too easy to “pot” the coach

“He is a gutsy person who I have the greatest admiration for and I hope he hangs in there,” Malthouse told 7NEWS.

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