John Crow Batty

In the words of a broken heart It's just emotion that's taken me over Tied up in sorrow, lost in my soul But if you don't come back Come home to me, darling You know that there'll be nobody left in this world to hold me tight Nobody left in this world to kiss goodnight Goodnight Goodnight

Without a doubt our best game since the Hawthorn game of the 2018 finals series. Couldn’t find a weak link in any of the players yesterday. OMac, May, Petracca and Gawn were particularly impressive. Since 2018 we have been in limbo with our few wins painfully eked out. Why does it take an eye watering media roasting to wake the club up? The club never listens to fans.

The learning experience from quite a few of our ‘line in the sand games’ does not seem to last long. We have done this ad nauseum after previous media roastings then reverting to same old bad habits. I hope we don’t get dorked again. Hawthorn is the type of club that will put us back in our place if we aren’t fair dinkum.

Progress report; Weightman X, Pickett 0.

Continuing to play Jones is choosing old boy sentimentality over the future. His is not up to playing another 12 games for us over this and next season based on form, leadership and lack of defined role. He can’t play out a full game and we effectively play with 17 men in the last quarters with him on the field. He may get a farewell game if we fall out of the finals running and that should be it.

Seems to be a pattern in the past couple of seasons where teams get bully like kick sand in face fast starts and then drop off allowing the opposition to get back in the game. A trait we have been particularly good at in recent seasons and then fading.

Bad habits are hard to change when almost all of the leadership group are the main offenders. For years I have been bemoaning main culprit Nathan Jones momentum choking style of play and Jack Viney as a consequence was badly schooled as are the rest of the midfield. The infection is ingrained in now and difficult to change over one week.

It only shows there are many deluded Melbourne supporters willing to punt.

A telling very poignant game to our future for me was round 23, 2016 when on Roos farewell game against the cats we lost by 111 points. Our performance was even worse than 111 points suggest. It was like 186 lite revisited for me and an incredibly disrespectful WTF performance that gave me the impression Roos tenure might be a failure, something was still NQR at the club and questioned the character of the playing group and leadership. Further extremely nightmarish performances to end our 2017 and 2018 season and capitulation of 2019 season is confirming to me we may be a basket case with little hope for the the future. This season is now looking like a right off but if 2021 is just as bad I am prepared to move away from this club and footy in general permanently. Maybe we are a soulless football club that treats supporters like dupes and if we fold I might not care anymore.

I would say roos’s tenure was underwhelming and his le I would say Roos’s tenure was underwhelming in many respects and sick of all the unwarranted platitudes he receives here. He won only 21 out of 66 games. Sure he turned us from a basket case to just mere mediocre but any other coach once Schwab and Neeld were gone would have done the same given the resources given to us by the AFL. His game plan was unimaginative and stifled creative play. Recruiting has been horrendous. He had minimal commitment for the long haul, only the money. He left us with Goodwin at the helm who appears more and more a horrible dud every game. The way the players gifted him a 111 points loss for a farewell was telling. Hiring Roos set us up for another lost decade.

Warren Tredrea from Port couldn’t hit a barn from 30 metres out in his first couple of seasons. When he retired he could kick long bomb goals from 60 metres.

Needs Clarkson or Fagan to sort him out.

8 top possession winners all Melbourne. WTF are doing with the ball?

The Dumbourne Footaball Club

From a kid with precocious talent who ends up a lolly pop man at road works. Will be out of the game by end of 21.

It is obvious watching Charlie Cameron at work that he has licence to do what he does best. Rayner, McCarthy and Hipwood the same. Even Stefan Martin despite being one of the oldest players in the game has changed for the better. He is now a tackling beast and his tap work is amongst best in the game and better than Gawn. Very creative, dominant and never does the predictable things like Gawn does that opposition midfielders have long memorised and don’t need to read anymore. I am fuming that Fagan was never considered for us despite the good work he done for us as an assistant. Its like the club want the groomed airbrushed type coach with little substance that look good on camera.

The only meaningful contest today will be doomsayers versus turd polishers in the post game thread.

Number 1 golden rule of coach speak. Always over rate your opponents.

Here you go https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Melbourne-Football-Club-The-Demons-Badge-Old-I-Hate-Melbourne-/143139883804

The Herald also had VFL football badges but at around 1960. And then there are these of more recent and unknown provenance though the middle one I suspect was made for filth supporters. The badge shown by Demonland has unusual atypical colours and old style design to what we expect and could date from the 1920’s or even earlier IMO. Celluloid pin badges were first made in the 1890’s.

If some teams can’t play all their 17 games regular season games due to disruptions then the AFL can reduce the number of games that count for regular points. If some teams only manage to play 15 games then all other clubs have only their best 15 results counted for points and percentage and their worst 2 results not counted. That could work to even things out and might let us and Essendon wriggle out of the outstanding game to be played.

His season so far has been bog ordinary. I live in Perth now and that is the consensus from the Freo people I speak to. Supporters feel they have been duped again after McCarthy and brought home another lemon. So far this season he has been very ordinary and I am sure they would be happy to pass the problem child back to us.

Chris Scott embarrassed at the way they played to win. But they did what they had to do to beat us. Geelong are crap too but they know there is no nuance in our strategy and all that is required to beat us is a blunt instrument.

My eyes show we are currently 15th. GC and Brisbane 2nd and 3rd. Like WOW! Some smoke too much funny stuff.

Geelong owned us for most of the game though a man short. They relaxed in the last ten minutes with their 16 point lead which is huge in such a low scoring game. They controlled the tempo like a well tuned Swiss chronograph whilst we flopped about like a broken clock that’s right only twice a day. We were lucky to get so close.