John Crow Batty

The motoring term “going up up a gear”really irritates me. Incorrectly used when a team increases intensity and pressure. In motoring terms the raw power to build acceleration to enable “go up a gear” is applied earlier at lower gears. Dropping down a gear when just cruising should be the correct term where engine revs are increased to give more power and acceleration. Going up a gear is effectively going into cruising mode. More applicable when reaching a comfortable lead and the game already in the bag.

At about the 11 minute mark of this video.

Grinter was one of the most skilful players we had in the past 50 years. He could take a speccy, had clean ball handling skills and his kicking was Travis Johnstone standard.

The tribunal were on to Grinter after several other coat hanger type incidents in preceding games as well as an article in the papers about an unnamed “hit man” around the time.

Actually the incident was in the play. Grinter got Wallace a fraction of a second after Wallace fumbled the ball in front of his face. I suspect Wallace fumbled because he saw Grinter coming.

Opposition clubs seem share the same opinion of him as you do. Perhaps that’s why he is so effective.

I know its tough with the prospect of fans not being able to attend finals but some posters are getting ahead of themselves thinking we are are lock in for the GF. We yet have to earn that spot.

I know there has been much angst in Israel as well in heavily Jewish New York against the Ultra Orthodox Haredim for thumbing their noses at sensible COVID and other health preventative restrictions. Either they don’t believe in COVID or god will protect them for being pure. Similar issues also happened with the serious outbreak of measles in 2019. I saw an image of a Haredi poster in Tel Aviv saying that COVID was caused by Haredi Jewish women who wear wigs made from the hair of non Jewish women. How FUp is that? Some of these Ultra Orthodox have dangerous cult like beliefs.

In game time it was about a minute and half.

I always said the AA should have two sides. The blue and the red teams. Each side has alternating picks for positions. That way it would be more representative of actual talent for position.

Dr D, the proctologist who performs self manual extractions.

Junk time is now officially Fritsch time.

Sparrow has all the impact of a sparrow fart.

Gawn and Jackson. Only 1 mark between them.

Picket , Fritsch, Petracca and Brayshaw 3 touches between them….ugh!

He gets a free season as compensation for the injury mismanagement from the practice game last year.

More likely be 2 weeks for Neal and another 2 weeks for Bullen.

Heroic stuff by Hawkins. Did his best to prevent the Saints player from self concussing himself.

Gaff out this weekend with a hand injury. Will Sparrow be cited for necking his hand?

A relocated team has been reported to the best option favoured by the AFL. The only logical suspects are North and Saints. It’s a backward move to dilute the talent pool with another new club but would be a positive move to dilute the excess of Victorian suburban clubs for a more inclusive and balanced national competition. It is interesting to note that previous relocated clubs like Sydney and Brisbane still have strong support in their former homes. A relocated club also will have solid support in their new home as there are no other codes to compete against and Tasmania is a football grass roots state. Now it’s time for the AFL to twist arms and dangle dollars in the air.

Tasmanian wam jammin salmon Tasmanian pademelons Tasmanian tiger snakes Tasmanian apple eaters Tasmanian Devils Any other suggestions?

Yeah it’s a fizzer this year. What’s gone wrong?

Your statement can be applied to all media in general not just football media.

Kicket only having 2 possessions in the prelim final and 8 in the first Semi with no goals didn’t help him. He did play 23 games that season so that’s a little different to Jones who hasn’t been a regular player for a long time. Kickett was a victim of Sheedy’s ruthlessness.

Not sure I would have Jones as a SUB if we got to the GF. We need a player that could impact the game and selected to play a role. No doubt in the GF a SUB baring an early injury would be likely substituted in at some later stages of the game for tactical purposes. No use pretending otherwise.