John Crow Batty

Not sure how fair dinkum our players are. All week it was mentioned we were premiership favourites and we oblige with another stinker

reported for being a shortist.

As I have said in the past. We were very close to landing Fyfe, we go his childhood next door neighbour Cale Morton.

It was a tough choice. Who was most likely?

I believe he’s finished already. Pounded himself to into the ground, can’t play in the midfield anymore and barely rates as a 5th forward. I hope Oliver doesn’t end up like him.

For health and safety reason the more substitutes the better. The game is more faster and brutal and every player is expected to give a 100%. Too many players return to the play after suffering injuries which on the surface may be minor but they won’t get any better by continuing to play.

Thinking back to last season when we played Freo in Perth. Despite Freo losing, Mundy had 35 touches and 15 contested possessions against us in tough conditions. He was their best player by miles. And then they tell him to [censored] off despite an excellent season. Can a club be run by headless chooks?

Bizarre game to watch live. Very stop start and scrappy. Clearly WC were trying to drag us down to their own level and make it a low scoring game. I thought we handled the situation very well with a balanced disciplined team performance and still managed to pile on goals. Very few passengers to be seen.

Taking my wife who doesn’t care about football for the first time to today’s game. She asked me if they will play Country Road on the PA system.

Which side are the blues?

Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano. Unpronounceable title, make up your gibberish lyrics and arguably a pre curser of rap music would be a great football song

Also a notorious ear worm. Who remembers the other songs played when other Brisbane players kick goals? I would say Charlie Cameron chose well. Uplifts up the local fans and irritates the opposition fans.

Country Road defeats Collingwood.

Collingwood missing Grundy real bad.

If Collingwood want it, it will happen. Imagine if we asked for it? The response will be go to far Kew.

Just a little more decoration on the cake after we win to see these knobs having to eat some humble pie.

Collingwood ruck crisis and are desperate for a ruckman. Wants rules changed to benefit them. Too bad. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/mcrae-wants-mid-season-trades-as-pies-search-for-answers-to-ruck-crisis-20230403-p5cxos.html

Harry Edwards WC’s 200cm defender slated to be Jeremy McGoverns replacement is in doubt due to injuring his ankle at training. Ruckman Brad Williams and Liam Ryan also in doubt. Injuries over there are in plague proportions.

We were certainly blessed in 2021. We got the long the awaited premiership and JVR with our first round draft pick.

Petty could make a great swingman like Tmac. Looking forward to see more of him up forward.

In the 2021 draft Fremantle recruit key forward Jye Amiss with pick 8. Both local WA boys. We recruit JVR with pick 18. Who would you rather have?

If we didn’t have Petracca or Gawn he would have won a quinella by now and going for the trifecta. Being absolute king of your own dung heap like Cripps, Wines and Neale helps.

Yesterday was the perfect response to our poor effort against Brisbane. Swans fought hard in many parts of the game until they broke even in the third quarter which would have seen us capitulate last season. Great to see exciting new talent like McVee, JVR and Chandler stepping up and older hands who were a little fragile back to good form. Recruiting Grundy is looking like a master stroke. JVR made an impressive debut. Impressively tough, competitive, composed kicking and marking presence for a first game player.

Shuey and McGovern done bad hammies. Will miss next week against us.