John Crow Batty

Uncontracted and 0-3 = work butt off.

Gawn can easily be worked off the ball rucking around the ground. Hawkins last week shoved him out of a ruck duel in their forwardline and kicked a goal. Also did exactly the same last season against him. Physical brutes can defeat him. Clubs have worked this out.

Pity he cut his flowing dreadlocks. He could have been the new NikNat.

Again the AFL depends on us to prop up the rest of the league. Don’t worry, this all part of the master plan and we will eventually win a game.

That Martin fellow would make an ideal back up for Gawn.

We have plenty to look up to.

I would play him in the backline. If it doesn’t work out then trade for a set of steak knives.

We must have a good gypsy horse trader now working at the club.

The Paris Hogan soap opera is going to get worse with him playing and living in Perth. The airbrush treatment does not work so well over there. Hogan’s current demons are blasted all over the front page of The West Australian this morning. Has bumped off all the usual suspects and outrages like bimbos and terrorism etc to lesser pages and columns.

All lacking “the right stuff”. Stillborn champions. Hogan has a chance to turn things around but I doubt it.

I don’t think he needs those books. Looks like the kind of guy that would be philosophical about his situation.

Brian Lake now receiving treatment for mental health issues linked to being recently charged with aggravated burglary, unlawful assault, trespassing, criminal damage and stalking. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/brian-lake-receiving-treatment-for-ongoing-mental-health-challenges-20190228-p510x0.html

That’s what happens when players can’t have a fagg and a beer.

Back in the news again. Joel Mac and Gutnick are both very creative. https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/getswift-shares-crunched-after-asic-launches-legal-action-20190225-p51021.html

I have discussed this with some long time Jewish friends who love the show. There are mixed reactions and many older generation ones love the show. Younger ones who have some knowledge of the show think it is abhorrent. This kind of humour does not play well in modern times.

I believe the guy who played the Gestapo Major Hochstetter was also Jewish as well as numerous other minor characters in the show. It is strange to think now that all those actors who were directly impacted by the holocaust could in a relatively short time afterwards be willing to be involved in a comedy about Nazis. Could never happen these days.

Problem is too many posters believe all the crap we hear. No one should ever take seriously any comments coming from club officials on delicate topics. They are protecting the club but is not ours to blindly accept untruths. The media won’t ask leading and probing questions if they don’t smell a rat. Merry Christmas.

Constable Thomas Lonigan murdered by Ned Kelly at Stringybark Creek. Max Gawn in a past life.

Get her to sign up for The AFLW. For the Dees of course.

If he was a candidate for one of these elite professions I mentioned he would be weeded out because he would let personal issues and personality affect his work. We are talking about him being an elite footballer at the pointiest end and not a Bunnings greeter here. All too often, character and external issues appear to affect his game. He does remind me of Fevola or Matthew Richardson in that regard.

Hey, lost my father due to cancer when I was only a few years older than Jesse, My brother also lost his wife to cancer leaving him to look after two young children alone. My uncle who was a well known artist lost his only child due to Leukemia.

Every one handles difficult situations differently. There is no doubt about his enormous talent. If he had potential to be an elite commando, jet pilot, astronaut or any other elite skill, extreme high performance job he will never make make it. He would not be made of the right stuff as they would say. If he can’t externalise outside issues from his game he’s never going to be the elite footballer he has promised to be. Elite footballers at the top of their game can externalise private issues and consistently perform at the highest level.

I suspect the sentiment was mutual. His antics were ugly that game.

That’s caused by Bali jet lag and irritant volcano fumes.

I thought something sus after the last games against the Swans. Some bad body language and attitude issues there in that game. Someone must have said enough is enough.