John Crow Batty

These kind of smothers happen dozens of time a game. If Maynard gets off it sets a precedent for cleaning up an opponent front on.

Lost 8 games by a combined total of 77 points this season. Rated number 1 for inside 50 entries yet most wasteful. Very frustrating we still can’t decent connection with mids and forwards.

He used up all his energy fighting with Maynard after Brayshaw went down. I thought it would fire him up but it had the opposite effect

We have lost our 8 games this season by a combined total of 77 points. Our forward wastefulness has cost us plenty.

Oliver’s stats on paper look pretty impressive. 31 touches, 742 metres gained and 10 tackles for negligible influence on the game. Still gets the ball but looks slow and not as decisive as he was before injured.

With so many inside 50’s, Spargo could have been a difference with his smart forward play. He should replace Chandler next week.

Some talk in the WA press that Jack Darling might be a good trade for Melbourne since we are in the premiership window. Good for another season mor two perhaps.

Tough one. I agree he is very valuable as the sub but he was very strong in the last quarter against the swans.

Reported in The Age that McRae said he will likely play both Cox and Cameron in the QF even if it rains. If only one is sellected in the 22 then Cox will be sub.

Something tells me we are going to see some eye opening twists to this whole saga later this week and/or beyond to the end of the season.

Poor man’s Viney.

He will have a more enjoyable season next year. No way WC could be as bad as they were.

They continue to pay us and we forward it to his new club is an option.

No Gawn

I worked as a copy boy in the sporting department at the Herald in the 1970’s. One of the perks was that immediately after the GF, the boys working in the sporting department could grab some winner GF posters and rush off to the MCG to sell them. One season I made around $60. Both sets were stacked near the loading bay ready for distribution with the final daily edition of the Saturday Herald. Unfortunately Melbourne never featured in the GF then but if they did even if we lost I would have grabbed some for sure. In hindsight I should have grabbed some of the other loser posters. I imagine they are collectors items these days.

Kids went crazy to get one or more. Was good fun manipulating the ladder every week.

Great numbers but now we need most of them to turn up to games or else we still get to play in flyover country.

He didn’t have much success as a coach but he put a hardness back into the team which was pussycat soft before he came over.

I don’t either though I believe I attended at least one of them.

Will be a repeat of the Grundy situation. Been there done that. We have to draft from the crop of new up and coming ruck potentials and also pick up a seasoned second stringer fro other AFL clubs or competitions.

Bayley Fritsch last seen moonwalking in moon boots on the moon.

At this time of the season fog of war optics are everywhere. I’ll only believe what’s happening when the ball is bounced.

Lactose intolerant like James Sicily.

After his third quarter painful tippy toe through the tulips jaunt he moved freely all over the ground. Kicked a 50 metre goal and two sublime snaps. I’ll wait for the bad news from the club if any before I panic. If the news is bad I have bottle of Rivers Royale Kill Devil to end the misery.