John Crow Batty

A Port supporter asked where Mark Williams was and suggested he should be hired to replace Hinkley. No other Port supporters who replied knew where he was.

BB is only averaging .75 free kicks a game. Career average is 1.39. Totally unacceptable and he needs to sort this out.

When Brown had touches, presence or impacted the play most of it was positive although adding little to real time scoring. However this added to perceived pressure on the Port defenders structure and forcing them to lock down on him harder thus allowing relief for the other forwards.

Port fans look like a brutish lot but their bark is usually worse than their bite. In general they are better behaved than many clubs. Still every club has moronic fans.

Still looks rusty but most of his touches were good and clever. Played like a player with two interrupted seasons under his belt. He is a target that key defenders will have to give a lot of respect to. Once he starts to clunk marks again I expect to see a lot of goals.

I thought Viney played quite well this week. Skill still so so but had 10 tackles, heaps of pressure acts and was an excellent nuisance foil tripping up ports inside ball movement.

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.