John Crow Batty

Brian Cook. 4 games in 1977. Whatever happened to him I wonder?

Back in the 90’s I had a Scottish friend boarding at my house for about 5 years. He used to mail import numerous Rab VHS tapes and hosted raucous Rab TV nights for his Scottish friends which I also enjoyed immensely. One of the funniest TV shows I have ever watched. Comparable to Alf Garnett in Death do us Part.

Bob Gormly, The Tossel brothers, Glen Walley, Nick Pesch, Marty Hore, Graham Hunnibel, Ross Funcke, Peter Dilnot. 15 minutes of fame between them.

Graeme Watson, 18 games(15 wins) for Melbourne 1964/65. No finals. Despite playing 15 games in 1964 he was unlucky to be named as the emergency for the finals games. Known more for cricket than football. Dashing right hand batsman alrounder. Played 5 tests for Australia. First player to play Sheffield Shield cricket for 3 different states. Also played World Series Cricket in later 1970’s. Was nearly killed by a Tony Greig beamer to the face during the Rest of the World Series in 1972. One of the worst injuries ever suffered in Test Cricket and spent a month in hospital.

Might fire up the secessionist movement again. Usually raises its head when the economy is booming and they want to keep all the money for themselves then go quiet during a bust. When things go really bad they like to blame the rest of the country and feel they can do better on their own.

Basically he’s saying to the rest of Australia [censored] off, we don’t know you and don’t want you. He’s an idiot. He could have said it a 100 different ways that sounds more compassionate.

Maintaining fitness NOW equals performing at optimum levels in the aborted games. It’s all back into the minds and personal commitment of players now with no one to guide and push them.

It is reasonable to assume that clubs with the strongest sense of character, leadership, work ethic and professionalism will have an advantage over the rest when coming back. None of which are strong points for us.

Are you suggesting one can take the pharmacist out of the ........... but not the pharmacy out of the ...........?

May be a renaissance of old school power forwards coming through next season.

A League, Newcastle Jets.

Battle of defences ATM. No one can score.

I reckon Boris will appreciate the break so that he can heroically recover. He will come out of this well.

I believe in the long term there will be a return to some form of healthy competition. The virus will go but the world economy will likely be devastated. The worst horrors are yet to come. The government will provide bread and circuses like the Romans did to keep the plebs from becoming too restless.

Doctors are trialing an old tuberculosis vaccine which may help minimise the virus. Anyone that’s been around a long time likely has had one of these. https://www.theage.com.au/national/tuberculosis-vaccine-could-help-protect-health-workers-from-covid-19-20200326-p54e7h.html

I believe people are dwelling too much on worst case scenarios at this stage with too many unknowns to play out. Let’s see what happens first. If the season can get going again and completed for 2020 there is a good chance it will all be back to normal or at least a viable competition next season. GWS and GC are the clubs with the most to worry about because they are expendable and few will mourn their loss.

A sensible approach is for players to be paid on a percentage of generated club revenue, percentage to be agreed on. That would be fair assuming complete transparency is adhered to. Further I would like to see all players be paid equally until certainty to the finances of the competition is restored.

Stick fast Rab. Hope your chip fryer is still OK. As Rab would Say “No one of these bloody jobs exist do they? Christ, y'just stick them up there to take the bare look off the walls.”

Well the members will be down the very bottom of the list of creditors assuming the club has any money left. If one has lost their job and access to finances then loss of membership money is no big deal. The cost of membership won’t go very far today. For me I won’t be pursuing any restitutuion. The club needs it and I will let the monthly deductions continue.

Good chance the gym gear will never be returned and the administrators will have no assets left to liquidate.

I seriously doubt that the AFL would want to lose up to a half a million fans from establishment clubs at this early stage. Most will never come back. It would be a worst case scenario. And easier to wind up the lesser performing clubs, their assets and liabilities then start up new ones with same name from scratch with no baggage and maintain the fan base. GWS and GC are no great loss. What fans they have will mostly transfer their allegiances.

AFL has to look after its core assets and fan base as number 1 priority. Goodbye GC and GWS. A leaner stronger competition.

He played like I said I hoped he would play when he lost the co-captaincy. Very impressive and gave a 100% though still lacking in disposal skills.

At least we won the free kick count in a hostile environment.