John Crow Batty

I guess we started it when we poached Jeff White from them. It’s just normal every day football shenanigans and the exploitation and uncertainties of the go home factor.

At this stage the game for various reasons full time umpiring for all umpires is not a viable option IMO. I still like to see the master umpire model which entails a full time professional umpire who oversees the other part time umpires. The master umpire directs and advises his/her underlings on application and interpreting of laws before and during games, watches from a distance but will not be burdened to make routine decisions in a game unless a bad umpiring clanger occurs and then he/she can intervene. The master umpire can spend the rest of the week being part of the senior off field umpiring panel, review games, study better ways to interpret decisions and scrutinise developing playing trends, liaise with other masters and help in training junior umpires. They could even become the AFL tribunal to adjudicate reported offences. They would be much better than the current shady lot.

Never looked like winning at the death, just a comedy of errors and no finesse.

Neil Compton BOG in dying stages of the match. Kicks match winning goal, big contested interception mark in final minute to push Demons forward and strong tackle in dying seconds to thwart desperate final charge by Collingwood. Stuff of heroics. A couple of irrelevant observations of the game were ticker tape to celebrate goals, smoking on the coaches bench.

I haven’t been there but it appears that every game I have watched played in Alice on TV has the crowd effects mike pointed at oppo supporters.

Goes back further like when Lou Richards and Jack Hamiltion who later became VFL chief lived there.

Toorak has been taken over by new money cashed up bogans who barrack for Collingwood.

Despite the club existing mostly on poverty row it is still perceived by the mainstream football community as a toffs and elitist club with the Mayfair touch hence lack of populist support. Mostly hardscrabble Alice residents would rather support any other club against us.

In Max’s first 61 games till the end of 2016 his goal kicking was positive at 34 goals to 24 behinds which was very good. In the following 176 games it’s 77-88. Career wise he is now around 50% goal accuracy. Seems like his bad goal kicking habits have developed since becoming a star and now ingrained. As much his fault as the clubs. Most supporters would note his kicking style hasn’t changed much at all for many years. Most can remember his close in miss at the death that cost us round 1 against Geelong in 2018. It’s exactly the same kicking action as his miss this week against the saints.

Collingwood are primed for a record number of out the back and Joe the goose goals.

Despite our strong effort last week it was concerning the number of cheap easy goals we conceded out the back to the swans. Against the saints it was much the same.

The 2009 AFL draft for us was considered a disaster after our 4 first round picks were duds but then turned out we got a GOAT and currently our most effective forward as well.

Not sure how the flat punt can be replicated with slim and light weight modern boots and I suspect the shape of the football is also different these days.

Those fat arsed full forwards never ventured far from the goal square, never chased and suffered from claustrophobia. It would be an affront to them to actually have a teammate within 10 metres of the goal square where they lurked.

I take all this “Mental Health issues” labelling with a pinch of salt. Just a shopping cart of footballers with a variety of uncomfortable truths that mess with form and private lives. None of our business to know or speculate anyway. Of course we all wish for Oliver to recapture his past glories but if he was just a spud no one would give a rats [censored] about any mental health issues.