John Crow Batty

Hogan is like a prize young heifer now. We need the stud bull midfielder to give him the service and satisfaction to stay with us. Or else he may end up useless as [censored] on a bull with us.

Some supporters have instinct, intuition, astuteness, knowing the way the wind blows, reading tea leaves, reading between the lines, filter out irrelevant information and sniff out the truth etc, etc to develop a sound educated opinion. Others like E25, Artie, Jose, Keyser, Jens etc, etc would call this dumb luck because they dont know anything else other than dumbness.

Yeah, Rhino once banned me for calling someone a juvenile. Very thin skinned for a pachyderm.

The last days of The Hird Reich?

No co-incidence the Bombers lost by 79 points to Collingwood. He has lost the players also.

Seems acceptable here that some of our under performing and dud players receive worse charater assasinations than those who well and truly have wrecked this club.

if they dont win the flag then it is a hollow and worthless penalty. 40 point deduction at least for next season.

One thing about Lyon, he won't waste tearing his remaining hair out waiting for Watts to continue his arrested development if he had him. Either he becomes the star he was touted to be quick or out the door quick smart.

Are you sure of the facts? A Schwab, Connolly initiative and rubber stamped by the Board is more likely IMO. The Board appeared too comatose to be so proactive.

An insightful thread proving that the CLUELESS'S natural progression graduates them into the ALL KNOWING.

The mind boggles if Ross Lyon had Jack Watts.

Bin night tomorrow

.......And now we are reaping the rewards of his labour whilst he enjoys a 2 year paid holiday.

The State Government is considering a name change for our great city in order to disassociate from the Melbourne Football Club. Eddie McGuire has been appointed to chair the steering commmitee for investigating naming options.

FFS a first year player thrown to the wolves. In a good side he would be still developing in the VFL. On schedule to be another ruined high draft pick. I hope the new regime wil save him from oblivion.

A few years ago all the experts and journalists were unanimous to us the being the next big thing. They were sucked in by Schwabs press releases and passing them on as their expert opinion. Frauds the lot of them.

Malthouse sold up Neeld to us. Hope we can sell him Watts.

Every embarassing game we put in, Roos's price goes up an extra 100000

the umpires are keeping us in it.

My belief as stated previously is that negotiations are at an advanced stage. The outstanding issues are whether the right people can be placed upstairs and in the FD. He knows the job needs the right support. He ain't no mug.

This an opportunity to pinch Skoda from GWS.

.....ensure that every Skoda in this city is at risk of imminent vandalism.

I think Essendon believe they have nothing left to lose by changing strategy. They perhaps already know the penalty and it may be too much to bear by meekly accepting it. They have to weigh up what the legacy will be after the outcome. By going on the offensive, they put the whole game and AFL under pressure with the prospect they can gain some leverage and better to be seen fighting it out than surrender. It will appease the rabid supporters who will never accept the stab in the back that they are now conditioned to believing. This is like the bunker mentality of the last days of The Third Reich.

Perhaps a bit premature talking of succession. But worth discussing as having the right assistants in the job may influence someone like Roos that the top job is worthwhile. Was it by design or just dumb luck that the Swans ended up with Roos, Longmire and Lyon all at the same time? And how much of the credit goes to Roos for their ongoing success. Lyon's game seems to be an extension of Roos. Whilst Longmire's style is somewhat different. if Roos does come to us it would be a long shot that he would have such capable assistants as he had at the Swans. Hiring the head coach is perhaps the easy part, Getting the right assistants may be a lot harder. I think Roos understands this and will not seriously entertain a return to the top job without the right people in place. It is obvious Collingwood, Brisbane, Bombers are paying a price for promoting inexperienced golden boys based on their past reputations to the top job. Buckley is having difficulties living up to the promised hype. If Hird was already an experienced coach he would likely have not bought into the doping plan. These guys were hired on the presumption that success was a sure thing.

Mr Liitle has slammed The Weapon in the Hun. The Weapon was full of distortions and mistruths he says. I dont think he is suggesting that The Weapon should have said the whole truth and nothing but the truth though.