John Crow Batty

Whilst I will continue to be a member any other future contributions will be performance based.

If a jury had to weigh in to whether we have improved this season the unanimous verdict would be NO!

The club declares bankruptcy. Assets and players transferred to a new club called Melbourne Devils sans Goodwin.

Geelong masterfully implemented the “rope a dope” strategy.

WTF just run the ball out!!!!!

Where your plan B Goodwin, or any effing plan?

Average rugby score at halftime.

Why wasn’t Ablett given a 50 metre penalty for preventing the Melbourne player to pick up the ball after giving away the free?

Sorry, a cheap shot causing a serious injury should be punished severely. He didn’t have to do it and Silvagni is going miss a lot of games. An eye for an eye is entirely appropriate.

As long as we are there in spirit is important.

We will lose if we score the first 8 goals of the game.

Free speech is like oxygen, it sustains life but too much starts uncontrollable fires. Looking at you Twitter and Facebook.

A colossus of the game. I am surprised he was still alive. Looked old when he won his first flag and seems to have been around forever. I thought he was much older than 91, more like 120.

TMac to me looks like the type of player that takes a while to get to form after an injury setback. We have seen it before. I’ll be patient with him.

His beef is with Collingwood and nothing to do with us so I hope he continues to give them grief. BTW I used to be also nicknamed “chimp” but not for racial reason but because I could climb anything and do fancy acrobatics. If I were dark skinned however I would find the term very offensive.

The season has been bastardised, manipulated and truncated so much that it could never be considered a legitimate premiership in the eyes of most fans at least until it’s forgotten in a few decades. Will be known as the COVID Cup. Won’t be worth much bragging rights unless backed up with a real premiership when things get back to normal.

McKenna is to be investigated by the AFL according to The Age to see whether he breached COVID protocols. He is suspected of having breached them. If so Essendon should default the game. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-s-mckenna-tests-positive-for-covid-19-20200620-p554jg.html

Just checked the AFL app and our game has been postponed to the 1st of January 1970. That’s at least another 50 years without a flag....Damn!

I guess there is a risk McKenna might bite one of our players.

We effectively played with 17 men in the last quarters and most half’s with Jones playing since the beginning of the 2019 season. His last quarter statistics are terrible. Last week he had zero possessions. Read today that Heppel is out for Essendon . Broken ankle at training yesterday.

Was happy with the four points in these hard times but never the less confidence sapping. The same ugly scenarios that ruined last season were evident. Blowing away strong starts and then fading badly accounted for a large percentage of our losses. The few wins we had were also eked out in a similar fashion with a lot of luck involved. This will not be a typical season and anything can happen but my expectations have fallen considerably after two rounds. I only see some promising new faces but no tangible team improvement so far. Jones with nil possessions in the last quarter was also like last season where he faded badly in most last quarters. Should not be playing.

In these dark days, members that ask for a refund of already paid dues are equivalent to fair weather supporters and rats leaving a sinking ship. As I said before the money won’t got far and relief will be fleeting and minuscule. From buying a few rolls of toilet paper to a small fraction of ones monthly house mortgage then it will all be gone. The clubs futures are at stake and extinction looms on the horizon. Once gone they may never come back.

Whilst it understandable that fans might forgo memberships due to imminent financial hardship it is pointless asking for a refund from clubs that likely have no money left and can’t pay the bills for starters. The money is gone and best forget it.

Everyone loses something in this pandemic. There is no escape for the economic consequences. In the big picture cost of membership is no big deal. A refund won’t go very far. I’ll still pay mine, games or no games. I see it as an investment for the future return of the game.