John Crow Batty

Impressive show of unity by the whole list sans one at home expecting a baby and another one gone missing somewhere after the game.

Ten goals shared almost equally between 3 key forwards. How often has that happened since 2021?

I hope Mr Reluctance reads his teammates statement closely.

Could not have been any worse than Tmac, six touches and none in the last plus no scores for the game.

2023 average losing margin was 9 points. This season it’s been 29 points.

Ben Hobbs from the Dons. 21 years old midfielder, reported on the outer over there. Any interest here?

In the current environment Melksham might get another season.

I assumed the Brisbane loss was an aberration but I saw the West Coast loss live and it was ugly and disturbing. Harked back to the Neeld days.

Round arm swings or clothe line whacks were rarely if ever reported. Only became a reportable offence after Rod Grinter flattened Terry Wallace.

That was a brutal game. A high hip and shoulder in the play wasn’t a reportable offence then no matter the hurt I believe.

Maybe because no deal has been finalised, so he plays. If no deal I reckon he stays and makes other arrangements for his family. The money is too good to forgo especially with a new baby.

Been a perfect storm of everything that could go wrong has. Despite several bad games and enduring controversies we have been up for the fight even up to last round.

With all the [censored] going on will Houston now want to come to us?

yeah, exactly the kind of player we need to keep during hard times.

Adelaide is a limited market for value.

“an extra goal per game could have seen the club still vying for a qualifying final appearance”. Misuse of our only viable key forward likely cost us a finals spot. JVR’s forward time was interrupted far too much playing second fiddle in the ruck. Gave us many stillborn goals IMO. No other club as I am aware uses their best big forward to be the regular ruck relief.

Game lost by dog**** disposal in the last quarter.

All the ugliness of this season reprised in this game.

I believe the goal face and inside 50 should be modified to something like this

If a player deliberately tried to hit a goal post they will sure miss every time.

Goodwin seems to be obsessed that the 2nd ruckman has to able to play forward as well. We had Jackson who could play the role but he was a unicorn. Tried and failed with Grundy. We recruit Schache and Fullerton who are just jack of all trade hacks. Max is a big fail tried in both roles. Even Majak Daw was recruited because he could ruck and play forward/defence but we never used him. The last decent 2nd ruck we had was Preuss. Even in the Jamar days we had a young Gawn, Fitzpatrick, Pederson and Spencer who could be reliably called up to ruck compete out a game. Now we mostly rely on VDR which I believe almost certainly costs us several goals a game from his absence from the forward line every game.

Going back to his roots.

Our defence in the Balme days was terrible The archetypical Swiss Cheese defence.

He kicked 8.7 before 3/4 time then went quiet. Game was already done and dusted by then. He gave Danny Frawley a bath and upstaged Tony Lockett. Saints fans were shocked because it was an early game for Jako and still a relatively unknown. If only he was as disciplined and committed like his brother. He could have been an all time great. Burned too many bridges with his chaotic nomad lifestyle.