John Crow Batty

If we all pray together in unison, the good lord will deliver the A grade midfielder for sure.

I thought the only kosher religion allowed to be discussed here is football.

No doubt Danks will turn up for the hearing of his appeal unless he suddenly gets ill the day before and asks for deferment.

I just hope there is still a sniff to get Dangermoose.

Losing any game is far more ugly than the ugliest win. I take an ugly win everytime and the more the better. That is our lot at the moment.

Yeah, the difference between Jonathan Brown and Matthew Richardson. Who would you choose? I want to see him educated right. He is our biggest player hopeful for decades.

Just relieved we got the four points. Looking forward to a revenge match next week against the saints. Despite last week we have been reasonable in the past month or so and hopefully finishing the season off on a high.

Yes, Hird is a good blackmailer and despite his worries still has a lot of influence and power. Just like current realpolitik. Make war against the weak but avoid all all cost warring against real adversaries especially the ones with nuclear weapons. Whatever Hird has got against the AFL is, it scares the daylights out of them for sure.

Shrinks make their money treating sick people. So I guess he is earning his money right now. Not making much progress on eradicting "old mentalities" though.

Jokes or no jokes, there was dodgy stuff going on here. All was settled inhouse. Is it necessary to bring up it up again?

The lions have been playing reasonable footy recently without cashing in. Due for a win and we are the kind of team that might give them one due to our lack of resistance to a challenge.

But we let them shagg us in the third quarter. That's where fairdinkum footy is won.

That is a good trade.

As in "snow job" ?

Or else supporters will be very cross again.

It's been a bloody week

Rioli also has the luxury of elite midfield delivery and mates delivering forward line pressure. If he played for us he might end up like Howe with only an occasional highlight reel cameo every other game.

We moved to Collingwood when I was about five and knew nothing of footy at that stage. The local toughs in my street and school all followed Collingwood of course. I hated them and deliberately chose Melbourne who were the arch enemy to follow. Collingwood was a vicious and brutal place at the time. Weekly fights was normal behaviour for kids. Barassi was my favourite player. This was reinforced later when we moved to East Melbourne and lived opposite the MCG. After the 64 GF I was standing on our fence waving a flogger and watching all the fans go past after the game. A jubilant drunk Melbourne supporter gave me and my brother 2 pound notes each as he staggered past. That was a fortune at the time for any kid. In hindsight I should have given him the money back. My brother had more sense and followed Geelong. His patience was rewarded eventually.

The real essence of the game is man on man, contested footy and the will to win as far as I am concerned.

This is a team game and Garlett is finisher at the pointy end that takes advantage of good play upfield. If we were a better side he would be doubling his productivity. Our gelling as a team still sucks at the moment and has for years. We got to get that right first. We had a hint of how it should be against Geelong.

Jesse Hogan

I am starting to think he's worth a try up forward. What have we to lose? Playing up forward might give him some incentive to sharpen up his kicking. Chuck Dawes down back and let's see how he goes there. Has he ever played there? Can't be worse than what he is now.

Saw the Fyfe incident on TV. Penalty about right. Mitchell is more interesting. Deserves 3.

I reckon we have a good argument for our membership to be tax deductable. We are a basket case in need of charity.

Our wins this year. GC. The worst team in the competition earlier in the year. Should be a top 8 side but internal issues and a shock coach replacement have ruined their season. Have improved in recent weeks and no longer easy beats. Richmond. Played them at ther lowest point of the season during a period where their form was bad and experiencing a crisis in confidence. Got their game back on track and a chance for top 4. Bulldogs. Came to play us with no respect. If they were a top side they could have bluffed a win like Hawthorn and WC do who never show us respect. Where we both started the season about equals they have now surged miles ahead of us and are genuine finals contenders. Geelong. Not as good a as they used to be but the arrogance is still there. They showed us no respect and were distracted by the Enright cellebrations. On previous form an average performance with minimal effort would have blown us away. Likely to miss the finals for the first time since 2007. Still, this game was our best for a long time but we only win games when the opposition let us. If my membership was not on automatic roll over, joining up again would be the easiest thing for me to forget.