John Crow Batty

The furious momentum driven way many teams are playing these days will cause a lot of burnout come July August. Even more intense than last season. The teams with the best resiliance will feature top four. Not necessarily the current fast burners. This was well demonstrated last season where Hawthorn and Swans had relatively poor starts. There may be a few surprises.

I might be tempted by Fyfe but only if we could secretly clone Hogan first.

I think we are seeing some of the fallout with GC's poor start to the season. I thought it was very poor form to sack him.

I love to see Viney or Vince mess with his coiffure.

Two overhyped ordinary sides.

That has a lot to do with wide lens distortion and camera angles. Those interviews always position the camera closer and to the right of the interviewer. They use a wide angle lens which makes the closer subject look far bigger than the one slightly further away. If the camera was positioned in front of Hogan's left side the percepted size diferential will be reversed making Hogan look bigger.

Interesting tactic by Richmond to play Riewoldt further up the ground and drag TMac with him outside 50. He got a lot of the ball there but had few opportunities to score which is not in the job description for a key forward. When Riewoldt was more in his usual position he got cleaned up by TMac. TMac is king from goal line to Arc.

They had 14 more inside 50's but we had more scoring shots. Great efficiency. Hogan and Garlett should take a lot of credit.

There might be more love for Jack if Cale Morton was still here. I expect 20 possessions and 4 goals from him tonight.

Need more pure bloodstock on the banner.

Reading that article it sounds like a promotion leaked by his manager to generate interest. Trying to cash in on the Frawley experience? Sums around 650K are a joke unless he plays like Buddy Franklin this season.

Get him on the banner before he gets poached.

Mostly at Punt Rd and some at Waverly for the most part I believe. An issue to address is to reverse the lop sided win loss differential. 30 more wins to them is nauseating.

In a world of our own?

I am annoyed having to attend a Friday night game. Spoils my tradtional Friday night ritual at my favourite Chinese restaurants which I have become accustomed to in the past few years.

Tony Lockett had range problems. 40 metres out was are far he could kick. Compensated by his accuracy though. Hogan should look at some old clips of Lockett.

Best served boiled or pickled.

Has been very solid. One of their best players in losing sides. Averages close to 100 DT points.

Josh Kennedy comes to mind.

Nick Reiwold, Travis Cloke and Luke Breust are current big goal kickers who had horrendous patches in their careers where they could not hit the side of a barn at any distance. FFS he's only played three games.

The flu could be a vague excuse leaked by the club to hide the nature of something more bothersome. If opponents knew he had a crook shoulder he may get the Ablett workout. He is NQR at the moment but still solid last week.

Not mentioned much and largely forgotten these days, the Irish Catholic mostly sympathised with the Entende Powers(Germany, Austria and Turkey) in WWI. In an ironic way Collingwood represent the enemy on ANZAC day. Underserving imposters.

I said in the past that ANZAC day should be a challenge cup type fixture with the winner as holder and challengers rotated year by year. Not much interest though. If we got a decent and fair draw throughout the year I wouldn't care much if we lost QB.

Freo 52 point pts ahead at QT.

Yeah it was fun but tense and high pressure. The final edition would not roll off the press until all the final scores came in. They were printed in red on the margins. We put out three editions of The Herald with running scores, commentary and photos every Saturday afternoon..