John Crow Batty

Oliver Le Peu sprays Fritsch the Fox

What a contrast to all the positive reviews and praise of our list, talent and sparkling game earlier this year. Lot of egg on face on the football media and they will not be kind as we have been exposed as a fraud.

Fritsch showed Oliver exactly how to play in that situation. Showed him up. Used his talent and skills creatively, not mindlessly.

Aside from culture, character and coaching issues we don’t do cold, wet, windy and general miserable weather. That’s the likely game day scenario. I expect another response like Roo’s last game as coach against Geelong. A 100 point thrashing is not out of the question.

We would have to change our name from The Demons to The Evangelicals and the theme song to the tune of ‘Praise the lord and pass the ammunition’ and tithe him 10% of all club revenue plus match payments and expenses before he would consider us.

Damning for the onfield leadership. Jones should have stepped and laid down the law. Instead he walks away as if he don’t care. Nothing will change until he retires or forced out.

He did play well despite his inaccuracy and it was a bad loss amongst many this season. To feel like that there must be something more bothering him.

They have a higher threshold for taking the khyber kebab.

Happy clappers MIA tonight like the club.

Is Pert the new Schwabovian nightmare and Goodwin the ghost of Neeld?

Missed the game. Just checked the final scores. This is my guess how we played. Had more inside 50’s. Gave away easy gimmie goals. Gawn dominated but midfield pantsed. Missed easy set shots. Captains played like spuds. Consistently turned the ball over. mindless bombing into forward line. Am I wrong with my guesses?

So many weekends ruined this season. I now look forward to next season when most of our games are back to late Sunday afternoon. Relief it will be all over next week. Tonight dinner at a cheap Chinese restaurant. Might check the scores in between the spring rolls and the stir fry.

Like his co-captain buddy his major weakness is momentum killing ball use. More often than not when he or Jones are in contested situations and get their hands on the ball, it becomes another stoppage or it gets turned over. Sharing and quick ball movement are not in their DNA. I would be shocked if I ever will see a clever tap to advantage from these blokes.

No more ‘old boys’ please.

Aside from 6 bankruptcies including his casinos, Trump through bad judgement helped cause the USFL and his gridiron team the New Jersey Generals to fold in the 1980’s due to the ludicrous idea that they schedule their matches at the same time as the NFL. We are a bad football club but with someone like Trump at the helm will see us plumb bottomless depths never reached before and oblivion.

When all combinations of shuffling deck chairs are exhausted, its time to throw a few overboard.

Are you suggesting Mark Jackson then?

Lever, even though he is still not fully match fit.

Hmm.... Jones is mostly vocal when he want teammates to pass the ball to him. And what’s happened to all the tackles he used to apply? Hodge reads the game like a chess master. No wonder the Lions now look so well drilled and organised.

Viney tries hard but overwhelmed by injuries and lack of skills. Jones 3 tackles in his past 5 games says it all.

Good to see Brisbane challenge for top spot. Sadly they are where I expected us to be at this stage of the season. Hopefully it a blip for us but just as likely a firmly shut window. Only took them one year to launch out from the depths whilst we have been yo - yoing for years. Like how many years ago did Roos start the rebuild?

Best junk time footy I have seen from us all season.

And only 2 tackles from the last five games.

4 easy set shots directly in front missed say it all.

Collingwood would be highly motivated this week. They should win easily. For us the only question is to how many quarters we will turn to play? Perhaps one I guess.