John Crow Batty

Port Adelaide - Flat track bullies.

Not surprising [censored] England’s supporters are doing stupid things again. Some moron was shining a green laser on the Danish goal keepers face during the penalty shot by Kane as well as during the play that caused the penalty. Green laser is very powerful and can cause irreparable eye damage. That moron supporter should be locked up for 10 years after a jolly good flogging.

This will be the ‘I told you so’ game in the post game thread. Expect some humble wisdom from these types. Those who believe we are backsliding. Those who believe we are on track again. Those who believe BB should have been playing since last week. Those who believe BB should never have played. ……….and that just for starters.

I’m not as worried about our form or the Port big guns as much as I am about the umpires. They are the real threat. Our recent results over there confirm this.

I had the privilege to watching him dismantle our solid lead in the last quarter of round 9 in 2019 at Optus Oval. Even the WC supporters around me acknowledged he won the game for them.

It’s all business out there. No need for too many niceties and platitudes. Get the job done. Players have little time to take their drinks, focus and reset. The players and trainers understand it. If an awkward moment happens I’m sure it’s sorted out after the game.

Needed some soft games to get back into form and completely injury free. Throwing him in the deep end that requires 100% intensity doesn’t help. He’s still NQR.

Its bizarre Brown didn’t play after kicking 5 last week. Goodwin has a knack of being stubborn and keep doing the same things over and over again even if they are not working. Brown is definitely in his bad books for some reason but now will be forced to play him this week. Another game with the current forward line not working will see serious questions being about his judgement. Yesterday even if Brown played as statue up forward he would have improved our forward line structure considering GWS were down a key defender after a few minutes.

He was trying to do something. On another day it might have worked.

Port playing junk footy for the second half. Saving themselves for us on the short break. Freo are just like us, blowing opportunities, butcher the ball inside 50 and kick too many points.

I suspect opposition sides think so. When any side from 2nd to 18th think they have a chance against us and play accordingly they must believe it. Again today we started passively and let the opposition dictate the shape of how the game played. I detect some arrogance and hubris in the way we play expecting our defence to win games no matter what the opposition does. The big problem is our scoring has dried up significantly. Only 25 goals scored in the past 3 games. We need a huge reset in our attacking game. We are starting to look like Ross Lyons Fremantle teams.

Tend to agree about Jacko. Playing like a second string ruckman as well as second string forward. Does some nice things and works very hard but his output is rarely damaging. In particular he has to do more when going forward. Despite his height he offers little to worry defenders in marking contests.

Extremely disappointed with Petracca and Oliver. These guys are supposed to 2 of the top half dozen midfielders and in the best dozen players on the game but they can’t win a clearance if their life depended on it after the bye. They are seriously looking like frauds and pretenders.

Never mind the crowd not turning up, what about the players?

3-3 last 6 rounds. Back to the pack and the opposition smelling blood.

Midfield bath water. Add Gawn poo, Oliver [censored], Petracca bum cheese……yummy!

Whoever thinks Brown shouldn’t be playing are right. Haven’t seen him get near the ball yet.

The umpiring fraternity teaching the bomber how to show respect.

Very few popular well supported Victorian clubs play down there. Their match ups with the cats get shifted to the MCG. I can’t recall the last time Collingwood played there. It’s all about bums on seats.

That’s true. There was an interesting example in the same game. Tmac gathered the ball and was facing the goals but too close to the goal line and deliberately turned away from the goal face to give his leg clearance away from the goal line and pop the ball over his head. He knew if tried to kick it when he first gathered the ball his foot would have crossed the line with the ball.

Yes, more akin to reading tea leaves, crystal ball gazing and joining bird dropping patterns.

Ha Ha I see why you have done there. Immobile translated to English means immobile and vice versa in Italian.

The deeper England get into the Euro finals the bigger the risk of mindless thuggery from their supporters win or lose.

The bomber fans were pumped up on Saturday. The match was going to be their coming out party for entering the 8. It was to be the confirmation of their charge to the flag by destroying the pretender Demons and extinguish the affront of us topping the ladder. One can’t blame them entirely though, the media propaganda pumping up their vital juices has been relentless for the past couple of weeks. They couldn’t handle the game not going to script.

We are also 10-0 against the next 12 teams below us.