John Crow Batty

Viney, Jones and Lewis. Only one of the three should be playing. Viney and Jones are untouchables as captains. Lewis is the only one that offers a skerrick of leadership and better ball use but slow and exposed at times. Two of these have to be dropped. Viney and Jones are momentum killers and aside from burying their heads in packs offer nothing.

I can see how this season will now play out. We will be crap until mathematically out of the finals race. Then play good footy again. Everyone then will have high hopes for next season and set up for the next sucker punch. Jones will get another season.

Drop Jones. The embodiment to why we are so bad at the moment. He was well and truly finished last season. Playing favourites who can’t cut it any more.

This season looks like turning out to be a disaster of Schwabovian proportions.

What they promised was a better effing.

Like they wearing diapers on the field so that the [censored] does not trickle down their legs.

I worked with Lou at the Herald Sun when I was young. He would have been about 163 to 165cm. Solidly built though. More like a Caleb Daniel type for a modern comparison. In his days players in all roles were significantly shorter. John Nicholls the leading ruckman of the 1960’s was about 185cm and built like a brick outhouse.

Just hope we haven’t got stuck with a lemon, turkey or whatever.

The pinnacle of achievement was beating the Hawks in a final. Never mind the prelim, it was all dunking deep in the bathwater since.

I didn’t read all of it.

I got the email. All it said was blah, blah, blah.

I predict we will get going next game and surge home almost undefeated for the remainder of the season and wipe out all the opposition in the finals. Now time to sober up.

Agree, Viney is a huge momentum killer when has the ball. Same as for Jones when in the guts. Being tough inside players means getting it out quick but they never do. Only Oliver is a good fast distributor but he was the third worst disposal efficiency on the field yesterday despite his high numbers.

???

Jones out. Time for an effing huge statement.

Very disappointed in our leaders again today. Viney tried hard but spends most of the time hatching the ball on the ground. Never does anything useful with it. Zero impact. Jones back to his pre cameo playing. Slow, fumbly and error prone. He is a huge liability and generally a non entity on the ground. Needs to be retired or needs to get a blighty to get him off the park for a long time. Lewis MIA, slow and creaky. Gawn, best useless tap out ruckman in the game. The others, who the farrrk are they?

Jones Viney, Lewis neck and neck for the fastest snails.

Preuss the Prooster.

McDonald back to defence. Cant get a kick up forward.

A regular media rocket up the khyber is de rigueur to ensure we don’t go the bathtub too often. She’s just reminding us and I hope the players take note. Far more appropriate than the treacle the media has been smothering us pre season.

Can’t bear to see the pies win tonight.

Quote of the year if not the decade. Donald Trump would be proud. From The Age today. Prominent Collingwood cheer squad member Joffa Corfe said on Thursday that the grand final incident was “news to me”. “In all my time in the Collingwood cheer squad, which is getting on to a long while, I’ve never heard any racism, nothing at all,” he said. “I’d be the first one to stand up and do something about it, and to hear that a cheer squad member was racist is really disappointing.”. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/collingwood-fan-banned-after-racial-slur-during-grand-final-20190418-p51ffv.html

666 has not given a great advantage to sides that win the centre clearance. Rather it has hindered sides counter attacking from defence that lose the clearance. Many goals last season were scored this way. No spare man or overlap opportunities to rebound. Game gets bottled up between half back and the middle.

It always looks like a player is playing for the free when the ball is kicked to the top of their heads. Teammates don’t kick to advantage. That’s happened a lot with Melksham. He has to stand there and grapple with opponents that apply octopus interference. His threat makes him an obvious target for very close checking. He is never allowed space. Melksham has been unlucky to not get some very obvious frees. He could try to lead up and lose his marker a little more though.

Never had much reason to call the club. My membership is on auto renewal and card and stuff always arrive in a timely manner before the season start. Recently I called the club to change my details and adjust my membership as I am moving permanently to Perth next week. As the person who handles these things was out to lunch I was told she will call back. She did within about half an hour and everything was sorted out. She was personable and engaging to deal with. Moving interstate is quite a pain and I have spend many hours on the phone changing this and that. This was one of the easier tasks I had to do.