John Crow Batty

Given the unlikely(impossible) scenario that Tom signs with us at the end of the season it will demonstrate that he is is the most selfish footballer that ever was for dragging this issue out to everyones despair. He is not selfish but a complete professional footballer. He will play out the season with us to the best of his ability. He should play for us as long as we have a sniff at the finals and beyond if we get there. If we fade then he should be dropped to give someone else a chance. I am sure Tom will deliver his best for the rest of the season. It is also a discredit to this forum of the behaviour of the moderators. For the most part they have fuelled this controversy here by siding with the Scully fanboys instead of being even handed and impartial. A shameful example is allowing the recent hatchet job on David Schwartz to continue for daring to opine that Tom is already gone as the rest of the world apparently already knows.

rpfc getting the final word in

The only fact that I'm concerned about is our crappiness. We've been and still are crap and inept and none of your excuses and dyke finger plugging changes this fact.

Could it be a co-incidence that all these injuries have happened after the Adeliade game? For a long time it appears we have been in cruise control with low intensity performances. Only from the Adelaide game on we actually tried playing as we should. Our preseason and early games have not been to AFL intensity as required. Same as for most of last year and the previous couple of years. For too long we've been mollycoddled with this "Development" phase. Looks like we've been playing in the VFL seconds rather than in an elite comp. And now we are falling over like nine pins.

Too right.

Rodney gave a way a desperation professional free kick 1 or 2 seconds before the siren. There was no way he could have stopped Buckenara marking it. He did enough to shove him as far away as possible to take the kick on goal.

Davey gets the gravy, the Demons get the beans! Beans, Beans, Beans, Bean, Beans!

Would he submit to the ultimate punishment and play for us if I blew smoke from my big fat Cohiba into his face?

Somehow I'm not surprised he's now 6 to 8 or even if we've seen the last of him. Too many strange things for my liking happening and now also two big betting plunges against us in two weeks plus the mother of them all last week. Some sort of internal meltdown going on. I've had enough.

Some time when the father/son rule comes into play?

What the hell is going on here? Another player with a big question mark over his head develops knee soreness and can't play. I lived with chronic knee soreness for over 15 years and it never got in the way of playing football, soccer, boxing, skiing, surfing and just about everything else. Only when I gave these sports up and did only bike riding that it did go away.

Oh dear! I read too Davey has knee soreness. Won't be able to see the specialist till Friday. Knee soreness must be in plague proportions if he has to wait till then for an examination. What are the chances he will miss the rest of the season I wonder?

Must be a warm fuzzy feeling keeping your head snuggly buried in the sand.

Absolute garbage. There is something seriously wrong at the club. Smells like festering discontent from a carcass full of maggots.

They tanked better than us.

Don't know what ticks in Pettard's brain. If he doesn't get a good early touch of the ball he gone for the whole game.

Good call, I 'd go with that.

Then why are they not leading the club then? Is there anything in the rules that says tired near has beens that perform every once in a while must be the leaders? Maybe we need some kind of leadership revolution at the club.

Do you want to discuss football or fact sheets and statistics?

How come every one keeps on daring me? Did I slander them? Looking forward to see Brad keep it up for the year and not just when he gets the red hot poker up the proverbial. Seen too much talent gone to waste over several generations and are our youngest finest learning from the best?.

Whatever happens, Davey has to go in spite of all the injuries. We are damned if we do and damned if we don't but we have to draw the line in the sand now. We need a statement from the club stating we won't tolerate anymore habitual softness from senior leadership players.

I worry that most of our young players will be infected and wilt on the vine if this culture of softness persists.

MacDonald gave away a free kick to Rewolting on 50m. Davey picked up the ball and threw it to MacDonald who was standing on the mark instead of back to Rewolting. Obvious free kick no ambiguity there and he gave away the most moronic 50m penalty I've seen in a long time. It was at start of last quarter. Us 11 points behind. Gifted them a crucial goal and that was the end of us.

Martin still needs a lot of work. He didn't play against a genuine ruckman yesterday. Goldstein cleaned him up last week. Still he shows potential to develop into a one. Needs time.

Would being annoying be considered a positive trait to have? I don't think I'd mind having one of these types playing for us.