John Crow Batty

Kelly needs to go from yellow to red on your list.

That two week punishment for molesting Sam Collins did wonders. For too many seasons Viney always seemed to come back from injury early and it always impacted on his ongoing form. What many saw as an injustice turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The extra rest did him well and played arguably his best footy for several years.

The look on Petracca’s face was very telling after kicking the great dribbler in the third quarter. He had the look of someone possessed by supernatural powers. Not over celebrating but something demonic and unstoppable about his expression. Overall I believe he was shaded slightly by Oliver over the season but delivered his best on GF day. Oliver was almost as good as well. But this was Petracca’s day.

His output whilst outwardly impressive seems too scattershot, loose and individualist to gel into what would be considered focused team play and structure which is critical in finals. He just plays his own game and when the cats play bad it does little to lift their fortunes.

Just give it to any one who wants it or a new kid and move on. Throughout our history their have been many great players who could arguably had their numbers retired. Why honour one but not others?

And not that guy who kicked 6 in the GF.

Cameron complete dud in Prelim. Cameron also in prelim.

It’s Chris Pelchen who worked at the Hawks in 00’s. Says they should have started the rebuild 4 season ago.

Premium 3rd tall forwards rarely get the recognition they deserve. Luke Breust never gets the kudos for kicking 440 goals. Even Robert Flower when he played exclusively forward in a role similar to Fritsch in his final season is mostly remembered for his role as a great winger. Topping our goal kicking in the breakout 87 season is not often mentioned.

Starting to be a pattern in Mitchell’s behaviour of muscling out top dogs that might be in the way of his ambitions. First he went to West Coast and was a cause of Matt Priddus’s early retirement. Then pushing out Clarkson and now it appears he is pushing out a lot of senior players. Hard to know where this is going. He could end up another Mark Neeld or he has some grand master plan. Not making friends on his journey though.

Kick 6 in a GF gets you premium door pass.

Whatever happened to that Bulldog Gawn wannabe who was supposed to be interested in going back to WA? Is he staying at the kennel?

I hope the Hawks go the same way.

The origin of hyphenated names a long time ago was applicable to when an upper class woman married a lower class man. That way the upper class name could also be used to acknowledge the so called superior breeding of the resultant descendants. I hope that makes sense. It was all about snobbery.

Can you help me find which post or thread the Commeti link is in. There is a tsunami of posts since GF I can’t find it. Thanks.

I’ve been very kind to our current players but I did say that Sparrow had the impact of a sparrow fart in an earlier game and that Jackson was a bit vanilla. Apologies for that.

Once colloquially known as the Cattery is now the Caterachery.

Its important that nursing homes have good experienced management. The quality of care for ageing footballers is exemplary down there.

That 8 hours or more stuck on the airport tarmac in Queensland and a flight each way certainly go the players offensive juices flowing. Since then we seem to have developed a killer instinct and big scores.

I was impressed by the way we broke the Bulldogs spirit just before 3 quarter time. In the last quarter they never fired a shot. Completely neutered and broken they were and not a hint of token resistance. And this was a GF. it was a tsunami that hit them.

Nor was Marty Hore.

The world works in mysterious ways. If we took Wines we may not have ended up with Petracca or Oliver. If we kept Stefan Martin, Gawn may now be playing for some other club. If we kept Watts then no Fritsch. Reality is we were never serious contenders till now. I’m now happy with the champs we got now.

Yep projection. Seems to be a blight in modern media now as well as politics. Blame others for ones own indiscretions, untruths and outrages. [censored] the horse from both ends. Done with all seriousness without a hint of irony. A devolved creature of the media swamp he is.

Has to be Fritsch’s fourth goal. The third stemmed the bleeding but his solo fourth effort sparked the unstoppable run on. Returned the players belief they could do anything.

“This is a rivalry full of nastiness and there’s a few things that stem from it. There are senior players from both sides that don’t particularly get along”. What’s he talking about? If there is bad blood it was not translated to the game. One of the cleanest GF’s I can remember.