John Crow Batty

Yes I was. Attended both finals and every Melbourne game here since moving over.

Collingwood tyres getting pumped up to nauseating levels. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/as-brutal-as-i-have-seen-why-the-magpies-can-win-this-year-s-flag-20220808-p5b84c.html

I guess Goodwin didn’t give Oliver votes because he knows a lot of his touches were wasted.

We got more support in Perth during the finals last season than I have ever witnessed in Victoria. It was what home games should be like. I understand they were different circumstances to regular games but it does frustrate me that many of our supporters are always too busy or unavailable to attend home games. Every other club appears to generate more hard core support.

Another dumb comment follows the first. The response should have been left on the field.

Imagine if Langdon got concussion. He hit his head the ground quite hard and was lucky he was not hurt. The media like to [censored] the horse from both ends. They would have screamed outrage at the targeted irresponsible tackle and the brutality of it all as well as the lax umpiring and inaction to prevent these kind of incidents from the AFL.

We are certainly in the mix but better start playing like hunters and not the hunted.

We won 13 third quarters so far which is not too bad. But the last are killers. We have scored 55 points and conceded 158 points in our six losses. Our best in those has been 15 points. What makes it worse is that everyone of those games were winnable at 3/4 time.

that’s only when we win.

Cant drop both. Chandler deserves a full game. Bedford has good cameos but goes missing for long periods during games. Doesn’t do enough to usurp one of those two ATM.

We don’t have a home ground. It may say so on paper but we are just co-tenants amongst several. We have played 11 games there this season to Collingwoods 13 plus due to the size of the stadium more popular Victorian clubs will always have more fans and more noise in our “official” home games. Still we have more than enough familiarity and is a major concern we cannot play the ground to a satisfactory level. We should do much better.

Yeah it was a sling tackle on Langdon. I could see his head bounce off the ground. Then all pile in and pummel his head. There should have been a free + 50 metre penalty. The umpires should have been aware this was likely to happen. Set a pattern for the whole game, umpire to the hype and blood thirsty mob.

Agree with your comments expect for the “easy games” coming up. Not easy but winnable assuming we are up to the challenge.

Perhaps there should be a requirement to attend a certain number of games. Use it or lose it.

Bump. Again our sub unused and an important player as well who could have made a difference in the last quarter.

The cracks look bigger this morning and some new ones too. Was there an earthquake overnight?

Dismayed again we couldn’t get our Sub on in the last quarter. Harmes could have made a difference given the several passengers we had.

Need more from CP5. Has provided nowhere near the drive of last season. Contested possessions, marks, tackles and scoring way down on last season.

Our last quarters have been a huge frustration. We surrender to pressure, concede the lead and we absolutely can’t do anything about it. No spark, we lose shape and panic, give up more easy goals and can’t push forward to give ourselves a chance.

They had all the hunger and we had the full belly after half time.

Hope pies won their GF tonight.

Collingwood always going low inside 50. Doing a good job cutting out interceptors.

When the issue first arose there was some talk that some non indigenous Adelaide players also took offence but that line was never fleshed out in the media. Perhaps players were reluctant to speak up.

Mundy is getting more of the ball than his career averages this season. Would not be surprised if Freo have made another monumental big name recruit stuff up like with Hogan and McCarthy.