John Crow Batty

Speculation in the West is that Adam Simpson is moving back to Victoria after selling his holiday home and his current home is for sale. Could he be looking for a new coaching gig? Goodwin, Voss and Lyon should be looking over their shoulders. The West AustralianAdam Simpson ‘selling $6.5m home’ amid Melbourne speculationFormer West Coast Eagles coach Adam Simpson is reportedly selling his $6.5 million City Beach home as speculation about a move back to Melbourne intensifies.

We are going the way of West Coast after their flag. Now arguably they are in a better position than us and have the resources and money to mount a successful rebuild. Not much light at the end of the tunnel for us. We have too many players on long highly paid contracts who are past their best and a coach who is just shuffling the deck chairs around.

Average MRO charges is 18 per club this season so far. Collingwood have only 6. 👁️🦆🚶🏼🦆🗣️🦆=🦆

2025 MRO results so far for 2025. 325 charges, 27 suspensions, 282 fines. 7 Charges dismissed. Collingwood have had 6 charges. 1 suspension, 4 fines and one charge dismissed. Less than 2% of all charges laid. You can do your own research here; Zero Hanger2025 AFL suspensions, MRO and Tribunal trackerEvery suspension, fine and dismissed charge of the 2025 AFL season.

2025 MRO results so far for 2025. 325 charges, 27 suspensions, 282 fines. 7 Charges dismissed. Collingwood have had 6 charges. 1 suspension, 4 fines and one charge dismissed.

IMO it was a cynical move by Moore to provoke an over reaction from Freo players to have the mark annulled and a get Collingwood a free. Good to see Corey Wagner was aware of the danger and got in there to calm his teammates down.

Jefferson kind of fits in somewhere between Lucas Cook and Weid.

Despite Max getting infringed in just about every marking contest he still is second for highest contested mark averages per game for players with 500 or more contested marks. Truly a superstar.

I recall Kolts first possession in his first game against Brisbane. Too slow to react under pressure and caught holding the ball. Seen the same just about every other game including the last one. He has very slow reaction time, lacks instinctive play and fumbles under pressure more than most. Don’t know how that can be fixed. If no improvement by mid season next year he is a bust.

His stats look excellent for a 5 game player. What is remarkable for such an average height player is his 7 contested marks in his first 3 games. That is elite level. Must have some off field issues that are holding him back. For context Nathan Jones only took 28 contested marks in his 300 game career.

Looking at the Sparrow incident it was clear Xerri was administering a cheap shot and not going for the ball. Sparrow was holding the ball below his waist when he got hit.

Failed to chase 3 times in the second quarter that I can see. Looks really lazy and slow.

Looking further, it looks like Greg Stafford was made a scapegoat. He was our premiership forward coach after all as well as ruck coach and since his departure our forward line woes are a lot worse than they have ever been. I also agree hiring Jones with no experience was a mistake. Jobs for mates.

As predicted Ed Richards not cited for his elbow fend off that concussed Norths LDV on Thursday night and now free to play. Not even a fine. The advantages of being in the mix for the Brownlow and a “good bloke”. Imagine if Kozzie Pickett did this. 4 weeks easily.

Lots of season over punishment still to come

The psychologist has left the building a long time ago. Was going to see his own psychologist.

Jayden Hunt has lost his most formidable weapon which was his explosive run. Been slowing down for a couple of seasons. Now just an average plodder.

Been a lot of junk time football this year. I can’t be bothered watching most games to the end including some of ours. Even in most of the really tight games, sides leading now appear to bottle up the last few minutes with negative play quite easily. So far a very boring season for exciting games.

What was interesting was the commentators tried to avoid discussing the incident. No “he could be in trouble” or “the hit will be looked at” comments as we usually hear. They were trying to paint the hit as nothing to worry about. Will be interesting to see if this becomes another Cripps or Maynard ending.

LDU concussed by an Ed Richards elbow fend off. Commentators see nothing. Machinations to get Ed off in full swing already.

Melksham goes around another year. There is no one to keep him out of the side whether performance or leadership wise. Ironic for a player who was washed up in our premiership years now holding up what’s left of our forward line albeit he’s only a bandaid solution.

Captain Hindsignt always makes a decision when it too late but then again Captain Obvious hasn’t stepped up with the goods.

I could be wrong but I believe Grundy asked not to be not selected. Checked out already with all his baggage.

I don’t recall Ben Brown ever missing a clutch goal in his career at Melbourne and TMac not many.

Telling snapshots though there are many other bad games that caused our downfall. We lost those 12 games by an average of just under 8 points and we kicked more behinds than the opposition in 11 of those games. 110-152 versus 136-86. 262 scoring shots to 222. As we have starkly seen this season it’s the serial ball butchers that led to our demise. No more arguments about that.