John Crow Batty

Let's see if was come from behind to win. Haven't been able to do a decent fightback for a long time.

Well that would be too big an ask but Eddie who seems to have loud opinions on everything tends to avoid this the biggest elephant in the room even in general and holistic terms.

Have a camomile tea and go to bed.

David Neitz did have some alleged rascist trouble though off field.

You are a person of ironclad principles.

I wish Eddie would talk up more some of the more insidious and destructive cancers that are damaging our game like for example drug abuse in football.

If he played for us he would be a loveable prat.

Great player. Wish we could dig up someone with his talent. He walks the walk and don't care about the talk.

I think Templeton was long gone by then. May have been on the books but not played for a long while. Most or all of the other guys you mentioned were already out and played no part of our revival. it was a blessing they were not there. I stand to be corrected. It was all basedon youth and vigour and a new order at the club. People forget Rod Grinter. He gave us the hard edge we lacked before and since he retired. We have been soft ever since. One of the most influential players since our premiership days.

I really hope there is fairytale ending for him and the club given all the misfortunes he and the club have shared.

Agree, posters are falling into the trap of his agenda by engaging him.

Has Hird been beatified as St James the Innocent?

i hope international corruption does not get at the WADA case. No doubt there will potato sacks full of dollars available to palms susceptible to greasing.

No, that was when Wallace was playing for the Bulldogs. Could have been the following season.

The only thing from those games I remember was Rod Grinter delivering a humongous coat hanger swipe on a Richmond forward that nearly took his head off. After the following melee, Richmond fell apart.

Speaking of topical, I was at the final Bulldogs game in 87 and Mick Malthouse brushed past me as he went to climb the skinny ladder up to the Bulldogs coaches box at 3/4 time. Had the look he had the game in the bag.

And Carlton have been thoroughly schwabbed.

Neville Bruns was a thug too.

All the talk about Hogan getting no rising star. This guy is slipping under the radar.

Does anyone think Bomberblitz would extend the same courtesy to any opposition supporter that tried to offer reasoned opinion in their sty?

Even side had someone or two like him. He was bad but there were many others including a few that played for us. That was the game then. Most of these guys were playing to instructions. If sides could get away with that kind of violence today they would. Ron Andrews of Essendon was a shade worse than Mathews.

Another Essendon supporter on here? Must be part of an orchestrated campaign to spread Hird Reich propaganda. Won't get too much sympathy here.

As it should be.

Ask me again when we finally don't capitulate under pressure. Haven't shaken off the front runners Vs modest opposition tag yet. Waiting to see a reprise of his Essendon game last season pre contract signing.

I hope playing the Hawks, Swans and Freo in succession was a valuable lesson.