John Crow Batty

I live 10 minutes walk away and know the area well. I invite you to take a solo walk there after 11pm to prove you are blameless.

I don’t think this project will get off the ground. There will be a lot of outrage, opposition and resistance to turn over underutilised open ground near the city and MCG to a mere football club. The NIMBY jungle drums are already rattling. Other than during sporting events this land is generally deserted during the day and only suitable for late night muggings, rape and murders for anyone foolish enough to find themselves there after darkness. Many of the outrage classes of various leanings prefer to keep it this way.

The top banana is starting to look like within our reach....just!

He was quiet when Tmac was firing. But when Tmac slowed and tired after halftime Hogan took over. His kicking definitely has improved.

Best game since he got necked against WC a couple of seasons ago. Was in everything.

What disgusts me most are the efforts to paint Bomber as some sort of victim as was done with Hird. This guy is successful and wealthy. Yes he may have a personal drug problem but if he crosses that line to hanging around with hardened criminals and trafficking dangerous drugs for profit which are a cancer to society and destroys many lives he deserves to be cast away as a pariah and heaped all the scorn to go with it. I see the damage these vicious drugs cause every day when visiting nearby Victoria Street and know personally of many lives destroyed and lost. We are not talking about relatively harmless weed here.

Lucky but still sad and it appears mostly just self harm at this stage. It could have been a lot worse. If his self radicalization was more extreme he might have lived up to his nickname.

Yep, everyone shuts up and we may only hear anything different if the players when they all turn about 50 start developing some weird cancers, neurological or heart conditions. Pro wrestling rife with substance abuse for a long time has had an unusualy large incidence of premature deaths when wrestlers reach middle age. A truth that dares not speak its name perhaps.

I am of the opinion Geelong were the lucky ones to get away with whatever. Essendon and Geelong, two sides of the same coin with one side laying on a dog turd.

Look out Expert on board  You should offer you're wll knowing services to club. Uh

I would say this was Hogan’s best game so far on the back of steady improvement over the past year despite some setbacks. The things that really irked me in the past like sooky attitude, lack of pressure and wobbly skills are nearly all gone. Now an important cog in the machine and not a sideshow. Still needs work on set shots and injury concerns seem to crop up too often. But this could be his big breakout season.

As with many’s things MFC, was too good to be true.

The whiff of stinky cheese here. And rats like cheese.

I wonder what Geelong got away with?

Reported that the raid was in connection to a recent drug bust in Geelong where three people were arrested.

Club induced inertia prevented me from cancelling my auto renewal. People may bag casual not fully committed members but they are the ones that bring true riches to the club. Die hard supporters just keep the club away from oxygen support. We may lose up to ten thousand next season and perhaps another ten thousand bandwagon jumpers who would have joined if we we did make the finals.

Yep, fluke, luck and opportunity generally happen with hard work. Luck can give you a generous shortcut though. Should have bought bitcoins when they were about 2 cents each. Was given the opportunity to buy thousands of them by a geek associate who used to fix my computers.

Jack Watts has left the building and the bananapocalypse is coming. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/bananapocalypse-the-race-to-save-the-worlds-most-popular-fruit/2017/10/06/bf1635ac-7d28-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.42e9d46fbb25

Arguably one could say Lever is the best and most advanced of that lot. The true number I pick. Players like Trac and De Goey need more maturity but are on the right trajectory.

2008 was a great draft. We blew picks 1, 17,19 and 35. Only got value with Jetta at 51.

Seriously, when was the last time a player with his high stature and profile landed at the club? Must have been Jeff White two decades ago.

Given our poor strike rate with first round picks, I think the deal is good assuming Lever lives up to his expected form and influence. “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. That proverb have never been more apt for our situation.

Caro agrees with you http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/adelaides-dummy-spit-over-jake-lever-is-not-a-good-look-nor-is-his-departure-20171009-gyxg1u.html

Adelaide are not too happy. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/adelaides-jake-lever-officially-requests-trade-to-victorian-club-20171003-gytemt.html

A good friend of mine got burned financially by the "Big H" on matters unrelated to this. Good media operator and a bit of a personality but one not to get involved in business with. Problem with him was that he believed his own hype and really thought he was the "Big H" in real life also.