John Crow Batty

Since we have come off a finals campaign for the first time in over a decade, apologists have to find some new ludicrous excuse to gild bad losses from the well worn ones when we were perennially bad.

Sadly your prediction is only half right.

Two Wagners does not make a win.

Most sides are now playing two ruckman except for us. What gives?

Kicking a torpedo is like callow youth trying too hard to score with the opposite sex. Nearly always a big embarrassing fail. Torps work better when a kicker is under no real pressure and does not try to kick the ball over the moon. Let it come natural. Same for drop kicks. In the modern pressure cooker game not a high percentage tactic unfortunately. When I was young I could kick a 60 metre drop kick casually with little effort during practice. During a game the man on the mark would more likely swallow the ball if I tried it.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/let-s-stop-the-excuses-goodwin-rejects-talk-dees-list-compromised-20190404-p51arl.html "As a coach and a club there are no more excuses for us as a club," Goodwin said before Friday night's crunch match against Essendon. "Start judging us on our performances and not on our pre-season. We’re ready to go. We’re fit, we’ve got a good 22 that’s going to go out there and play, so let’s judge us on our performances and let’s stop the excuses." The old “no excuses” excuse. Well the season is already two rounds gone and we weren’t ready to go.

Jones is starting to look like the elephant in the room. Problem is we have to demolish half the room to move him out.

Essendon playing like [censored]. What could go wrong?

Yes Hogan was impressive but like so may times when he was absent for us the team played far better. Freo were mightily impressive in round 1 sans Hogan. Arguably their best performance in many seasons. But they were the same old stodgy self in round 2 with Hogan. One of life’s great mysteries.

I have been noticing a pattern to some of our recent diabolical losses. Not all but some conform to a pattern where we start very fast and dominant. We then appear to a hint of lairarising and fall to pieces. Happened last season against Hawks and Saints and late previous season against GWS. This season against Tigers in JLT and also Port.

He must be short sighted. Back to topic his long bombs are quite penetraring and work well in fast transition with 1 to 1 targets ahead but like the rest of the team he bombs to a crowded forward line with few leads on offer.

Just encouraging us to keep on going to the bathtub.

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.

Paddy McCartin retires?

The huge news is that they are 2-0 and we are 0-2.

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

We have plenty to look up to.

Good to see Cunnington given a 50 metre penalty for a gut punch in a marking contest. Lions might be the team to replace us in the 8.

We played some diabolical shockers last season at various stages. Now all I can hope for is that we got them out of the way early this season.

Petracca - Impacted bowel syndrome.

Better tank early than later. What a brilliant strategy.

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

Pauline Hanson complains about being stitched up by the media. We have been drowned by media bathwater.

According to BOM, weather should ease a little this evening in Geelong. Lighter milder winds and hopefully no rain.

Eddie should keep the pub and urinal talk to where it belongs.