John Crow Batty

Now that is something that one would never hear from the lips of Fyfe, Dusty, Gaff, Selwood, Danger, Buddy, Zorko, Bont, Hurn, Burgoyne etc and just about any other high profile or senior player. If true he said that, it will confirm my suspicions.

He also schooled Jack Viney into his head banging game style. Seriously has anyone ever seen Jones or Viney tap a ball to advantage to a team mate when under pressure. I haven’t, they seem to want to eat it all for themselves. These two have been momentum killers for years. Jones would have been delisted several years ago at most other clubs and Viney has too many bad habits.

If he did know his time was up he would have retired after 2018.

We had to bring in another failed coach to replace another failed coach.

Still suffering from quad injury he had a coupe of weeks ago. Is Goodwin playing an out of form, obviously past it and injured Jones to get him his milestone at the expense of the team?

Today is a one step forward or two steps backwards game. I hope the players eschewed bathing this week.

My cousin was a mechanic for Jaguar. His advice was don’t ever buy a Jaguar. Many of the V12 engines were removed and a Ford or GM V8 installed in their place. Conversion kits were an aftermarket money spinner. They tended to overheat badly and burn valves. The straight line 6 triple carb E Type was a beauty and far better car if one could afford the service and general repairs.

If only one more season. Some genuine real superstars here. nny Hayes 297 SK:1999-2014 (GM:297 GL:95) 93 Wayne Campbell 297 RI:1991-2005 (GM:297 GL:172) 94 Jack Titus 294 RI:1926-1943 (GM:294 GL:970) 95 Keith Greig 294 NM:1971-1985 (GM:294 GL:48) 96 Rod Carter 293 FI:1974-1979 (GM:76 GL:0), SY:1980-1990 (GM:217 GL:1) 97 Steve Johnson 293 GE:2002-2015 (GM:253 GL:452), GW:2016-2017 (GM:40 GL:64) 98 Nathan Jones 292 ME:2006-2020 (GM:292 GL:139) 99 Matthew Boyd 292 WB:2003-2017 (GM:292 GL:86) 100 Anthony Stevens 292 KA:1989-2004 (GM:292 GL:127) 101 Darren Milburn 292 GE:1997-2011 (GM:292 GL:94) 102 Peter Everitt 291 SK:1993-2002 (GM:180 GL:300), HW:2003-2006 (GM:72 GL:67), SY:2007-2008 (GM:39 GL:17) 103 Bill Hutchison 290 ES:1942-1957 (GM:290 GL:496) 104 Dean Cox 290 WC:2001-2014 (GM:290 GL:169) 105 Barry Davis 289 ES:1961-1972 (GM:218 GL:65), NM:1973-1975 (GM:71 GL:54) 106 Barry Hall 289 SK:1996-2001 (GM:88 GL:144), SY:2002-2009 (GM:162 GL:467), WB:2010-2011 (GM:39 GL:135) 107 Stuart Maxfield 289 RI:1990-1995 (GM:89 GL:65), SY:1996-2005 (GM:200 GL:87) 108 Michael Voss 289 BB:1992-1996 (GM:79 GL:72), BL:1997-2006 (GM:210 GL:173) 109 Peter Riccardi 288 GE:1992-2006 (GM:288 GL:286) 110 Leigh Montagna 287 SK:2002-2017 (GM:287 GL:155) 111 Ryan OKeefe 286 SY:2000-2014 (GM:286 GL:261) 112 Peter Bell 286 FR:1995 (GM:2 GL:2), NM:1996-2000 (GM:123 GL:120), FR:2001-2008 (GM:161 GL:128) 113 Carl Ditterich 285 SK:1963-1972 (GM:153 GL:123), ME:1973-1975 (GM:53 GL:35), SK:1976-1978 (GM:50 GL:33), ME:1979-1980 (GM:29 GL:8) 114 Matthew Scarlett 284 GE:1998-2012 (GM:284 GL:17) 115 Jarryd Roughead 283 HW:2005-2019 (GM:283 GL:578) 116 Tony Liberatore 283 WB:1986-2002 (GM:283 GL:95) 117 Richard Osborne 283 FI:1982-1992 (GM:187 GL:411), SY:1993 (GM:16 GL:39), WB:1994-1996 (GM:51 GL:98), CW:1997-1998 (GM:29 GL:26) 118 Matthew Richardson 282 RI:1993-2009 (GM:282 GL:800) 119 Wayne Schwass 282 KA:1988-1997 (GM:184 GL:97), SY:1998-2002 (GM:98 GL:57) 120 Andrew Bews 282 GE:1982-1993 (GM:207 GL:132), BB:1994-1996 (GM:56 GL:2), BL:1997-1998 (GM:19 GL:0) 121 Shannon Hurn 281 WC:2006-2020 (GM:281 GL:50) 122 Tony Lockett 281 SK:1983-1994 (GM:183 GL:898), SY:1995-2002 (GM:98 GL:462) 123 Marc Murphy 280 CA:2006-2020 (GM:280 GL:187) 124 Andrew Mackie 280 GE:2004-2017 (GM:280 GL:100) 125 Paul Chapman 280 GE:2000-2013 (GM:251 GL:336), ES:2014-2015 (GM:29 GL:30) 126 Nathan Buckley 280 BB:1993 (GM:20 GL:21), CW:1994-2007 (GM:260 GL:263) 127 Justin Westhoff 279 PA:2007-2020 (GM:279 GL:312) 128 Alex Jesaulenko 279 CA:1967-1979 (GM:256 GL:424), SK:1980-1981 (GM:23 GL:20) 129 Chris Judd 279 WC:2002-2007 (GM:134 GL:138), CA:2008-2015 (GM:145 GL:90) 130 Matthew Knights 279 RI:1988-2002 (GM:279 GL:141) 131 Nigel Lappin 279 BB:1994-1996 (GM:61 GL:40), BL:1997-2008 (GM:218 GL:134) 132 Anthony Koutoufides 278 CA:1992-2007 (GM:278 GL:226) 133 Nigel Smart

As I have been saying for a long time, Jones cant play out a full game anymore. We are effectively a player short in final quarters. Nil possessions in the last quarter yesterday night reinforces a regular pattern of mediocre last quarters since the end of 2018 season. That is aside from his all too regular turnovers, lack of pace or defined role. If we make finals he will be a huge liability.

A bigger concern for Jones than his turnovers is that he can’t play out a full game. Again he failed to get a possession in the last quarter and spent the last 10 minutes on the bench. Been happening all season as well as most of last season. We can get away with it during the regular season but will kill us if we get into the finals.

Sad

Give Jones another season so that he can get to 300 games.

There is no excuse but a fine and 200 pushups would have been sufficient punishment for the trifling.

I guess he did worse than just sleep in and turn up late for training. No team drops their most effective forward in a crucial game for such a trifling.

I will be interested to see how much the crowd up there supports us tonight. Though we have played numerous home games up there it always seemed like we were the away team with spectators. I can’t remember if we played the Saints up there but it will be a kick in the guts if we don’t get a clear majority of the support.

How can we possibly win this game? For starters it’s prime time. We don’t do prime time. Always an opportunity to showcase our ineptitude to the rest of the country.

Are we the only club that won’t defend its players?

Freo seem to be happier and improving since they cast aside McCarthy and sidelined Hogan. Frankly we don’t need the drama and negativity he will bring back to the club even for a throw away pick.

Collingwood bathwater must taste real good.

Shame TMac who is having some issues with form and injury doesn’t receive the same love as Hogan.

Like Michigan J Frog, Hogan is destined to become someone else’s problem.

WTF is Jones playing? Zero possessions and zero imput.

Bad weather in Perth but not as bad as the umpiring.

The fairy tale goes like this; Jack gets recalled to the seniors during Ports finals campaign because of injuries to key forwards. Jack plays in GF and kicks 5 goals including the winning goal after the final siren 55 metres out on the boundary line............against us!

Fyfe was universally ranked as a low second rounder or high third round pick. He was a stroke of dumb luck being picked at 20 for Fremantle or they knew something no one else did about him. We got karma big time though for having top two picks and 4 first round picks. All duds for different reasons. As the Chinese say, 4 is the unluckiest number.