John Crow Batty

I believe the mental demons that have plagued this club for the last decade won’t go away until he goes.

Port Adelaide and West Coast team songs would have to be the most inane earworms ever composed.

It’s obvious by that graph that we were shafted big time.

Viney is no leadership material either and neither was Jones.

If he cares anything about his legacy he would decline even before we asked him.

Unimpeachable truth.

Another rare prime time game butchered.

Seriously JKH showed more.

Clarkson will come only for the bucks or if his ego makes him think he’s god and can work miracles.

What memories?

The big kick up the [censored] lasted three weeks. Bad habits storm back with a vengeance.

Dumb, dumb stoooopid quarter.

Gaunt was our best player. Kicked a couple of goals and had a lot of the ball. Flower didn’t play. If Warrick Irwin kicked straighter they might have got 40 goals.

Those were the days of junk scoring. We averaged 95 points a game and 125 against for the season and finished 2nd last. The previous match earlier in the season Fitzroy kicked 26 goals to our 21. Tackles inside 50 were not invented yet. We did beat them twice the following season though.

What’s left of them beat us last Sunday.

I used to work with a company who’s owner was a mad Richmond supporter in the early 80’s. A well known Richmond player recruited from interstate was an employee. His job description was a bit vague and he wasn’t around much. These kind of rorts were widespread. Let he who is innocent cast the first stone.

It’s a damning statistic on the state of the game. Negativity has taken over. Might as well give every team 95 points and only play out the last 5 minutes. At least it will guarantee a high scoring game.

Playing Jones has put us behind the 8 ball already.

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.