John Crow Batty

Callum Ah Chee now being targeted by racists. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/it-hurts-brisbane-s-callum-ah-chee-hits-out-after-racist-online-abuse-20220812-p5b9cc.html

“The finding was unreasonable and did not comply with the requirements of procedural fairness,” said the appeals board chairman Murray Kellman. What the hell does that mean?

My wife was walking around Richmond minding new own business after the 2018 GF and she was verbally abused by an angry Collingwood supporter. Called her a [censored] [censored] and worse. She is tiny, wouldn’t hurt a fly and did absolutely nothing to provoke a reaction.

Maybe we let VDB go too early?

Putting on a chastity belt and throwing away the key for them.

Sparrow repeated it as well for a Brown goal at start of 4th GF quarter. I cant recall similar much if at all since then. I recall that Goodwin's instructions for the GF last quarter was to take territory quickly at all cost to snuff out a possible dogs comeback. That’s something we don’t seem to do anymore. A few hack kicks forward or off the ground and less handballs adding a little chaos would have upset the pies structure against us.

It was great but a shame for the stay at home fans in Victoria who couldn’t experience our premiership in person. Most have waited a lifetime for that opportunity.

If you like beaches and better weather then for sure. The GF support from the locals was truly bizarre and unexpected and likely will never happen again.

approx 70% of the support was ours and the noise was incredible. At the MCG the noise is loud but a lot gets sucked up into the sky. At Optus it just swirls around the stadium like a Mexican wave,

The GF was easily the loudest game I have ever attended. I have to say the atmosphere at Optus is somewhat better than the MCG with a full house and a big game and the crowd was mostly ours.

let’s see if Carlton appeal.

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.