John Crow Batty

This thread is getting tiresome. Most of the arguments have been fully fleshed out and now mostly waffling into other areas. If we are talking about mental health issues and cyber bullying then this discussion is getting out of control. Only serves to encourage more mental demons if there are any to begin with. The club will make the next move on what’s right. Disappointment is is something every delisted, injured, NQR or aspiring un-drafted player has to live with. He gets one more chance or he goes back to Casey to work on his game. I’m sure he will be well supported. That’s all that can happen for now. Too early to talk about career ending moves or leaving the club.

Yep DVD’s Thats the slimmed down collection, used to be nearly double the size before I moved to Perth.

You are an old movie fan BBO? Me too, I have a collection of about 2000 old films.

Tim O’Brien from Hawthorn is a comparable example to Weid. Played 88 games since 2014. Stats almost the same. 9.8 kicks, I contested mark and 1 goal a game. Only played one decent season and that was in 2017. Would we have him playing for us? I doubt it. Only getting a game because veteran Gunston is injured and hawks are clapped out. New boy Koschitzke in his first season has already over taken him.

I did mention him but he’s a midfielder and he can be inaccurate with set shots. We need a key forward to step up. No use leading and marking at 50 out and not being able to make the distance.

Not just goal kicking accuracy. We really don’t have anyone who can reliably kick a set shot from distance 50 metres and beyond. This weekend we saw some monster goals from the likes of Green, Hipwood and others. Petracca can hit from long range but his accuracy is all over the place. Our mids have to constantly search wide and deeper into the forward for a set shot target. We don’t have a player who can mark on 50 and confidently go for a set shot. Both Browns can hit from long range but they are currently are not playing. We need some players that can take that option when our forward line is choked up. That’s one of my big gripes with Weid. He can win the ball whe moves up into space from goal but we have seen many of his set shots not even make the distance.

Weid should learn how to attack the ball in the air like that skinny tomato stake.

If he clunked marks we could excuse his poor goal kicking. If he kicked goals we could excuse his poor marking.

Attrition starting to hit some of our rivals big names. Robbie Gray and Mitch Duncan look like they will be out for a while with knee injuries. Hope our boys stay safe.

Port Adelaide true to form smashing up on a weak side. Flat track bullies. And Suns are playing badly enough to be a danger game for us when we meet.

All too often losing when hugely favoured to win not an embarrassing record but a monkey on our backs that needs eradication.

Next weeks cats away to the lions and bulldogs away to the eagles. They could both lose. Just super critical we beat the Dons.

And how many of these ‘tough guy’ types end up as commentators. Lynch, Hall, Brereton, Mooney, Hunt, Dyer, Whitten, Taylor, Dipper, Campbell Brown to name a few. There’s media currency in thug behaviour.

Bulldogs have to prove they can take on powerful clubs in hostile environments. Big game for them tonight.

Interesting comparing Weid with Josh Schache and Tom Boyd at the Bulldogs. All high draft picks. All average around 9 touches, 1 goal and one contested mark. Boyd played 5 seasons and now gone. Schache into his 6th season as with Weid. Boyd and Weid both played their best game in a final but could never build on it. Schache has played only one game this season and destined for the chop.

I recall seeing one reversed a long time ago but can’t remember the exact incident or date. Shame we didn’t scream and yell to get that Adelaide non DOOB reversed. But we ain’t AFL royalty like the filth.

Yep if Tmac, Kozzie and Weid kicked a modest 1 goal each we might have won. We were way below our points average.

Because we are seriously in the hunt for flag this season we need to put the best available 22 on the park. BB and MB have not been given enough opportunity to make their case that they belong at the pointy end for the remainder of the season. Weid had had his chance and come up short by a long margin and now back to development. Whether he remains on our list to be decided at end of season.

If Petty wasn’t required to defend he would I believe make a decent forward.

I believe Petty might be an experimental option up forward in the right circumstances. He’s done well on the few occasions playing in attack.

It’s been our best start that I can remember. Still we have to exorcise a lot of demons. We are entering the real business end of the season. We were bad yesterday and now again we have to reset the “proof” meter. The Weid experiment is over. BB coming back and we need new tricks to refresh the forward line and shape our entries around him. Clearances need improving . Yesterday only 1 goal from our 3 leading goal kickers suggest some staleness there.

At Casey.

Weid has played 5 in row plus the bye. Brown’s ready if that is the case.

For sure he is being carried because of our good form. We could afford to let him play himself into form. Same as Jones fast tracked to his 300 and then dropped. On form he was barely adequate. If we were 3-3 he would have taken the rest of the season to reach the milestone.

Scully, Watts, Grimes and Trengove were disappointments as well for different reasons. It took nine seasons to work out Watts was never going to be the real deal. But we were crap then and clinging to delusions. Now 6 seasons of patience is enough to say let’s move on.