John Crow Batty

Umpires need to have low fibre diets before matches and wear adult diapers so they don’t [censored] their pants in tight games.

I thought he must have been a mature age recruit picked up in the mid season draft.

Big blowouts used to be more common in the old free scoring days. Most great sides put in a stinker or two in a season. These days of high professionalism they shouldn’t happen to accomplished sides unless something NQR.

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In less than a month we get smashed by the former worst team in the comp, get smashed by the most fickle side in the comp, get smashed by the most undermanned side in the comp and next game against another former worst team in the comp. I think we will win that one.

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Only James Jordon’s second ever career contested mark over Stewart for that goal

Worst game for 8 years and Goodwin does a frank in depth interview. 1+1=????

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Reminded me of his camel.

I was at the WC game and we were seriously bad. I said here after the game that I found it very disturbing the way we played. It was as bad as we could be against a consistently very poor side. ATM we are in Limbo, neither here or there yet. I still hope we can get back on the right track.

Thats right but it is a worry when we have had three of them already half way through the season.

He was OK in the last quarter when moved to defence. He is an opportunist forward and needs consistent good ball supply to shine. Still our best forward and irreplaceable on our list.

No need for unnecessary noise. Besides no one on the board can play a key forward role.

“That was an un-Melbourne like performance. I was ok with the losses to Brisbane and West Coast, because the competition is so even and we were just beaten by a team that played significantly better on the day, and we at least managed to win back some momentum at times.“ The WC game was disturbing to watch live. We were basically witches hats the entire game. Gifted them a 4 points training drill. WC are still a mediocre team and we made them look like premiership material. A precursor of things to come. Freo game result looks worse because they are a better team than WC.

Goodwin kept mentioning “inconsistency” but leaves out the elephant in the room. It hasn’t been just playing bad games, more like being completely uncompetitive in every department. We have been dishing up wooden spoon stuff in between solid performances. Something wrong upstairs, too much self satisfaction, arrogance and lack of respect for lesser clubs. D

Biggest loss since round 23 in 2016. 111 points against Geelong.

I was hoping the game against WC was an aberration. It was not. Last weeks win was against a disinterested SK which papered over cracks. We haven’t been anywhere this bad since the early Roos days.

Worst first half since 2018 prelim. 3rd grossly uncompetitive display this season. WTF is going on?

Can Demonland make Darcy’s humping of Maynard video of the week please.

But we still see too many fumbled pickups, smothered and errant handballs all under pressure when players could easily have knocked the ball out earlier to a teammate before the opposition can apply maximum pressure.

One thing that has puzzled me is why too many players try to take possession of the ball in heavy traffic when the first smart option whilst they still have time is to tap, knock or soccer the ball to a team mate in an advantageous position to clear congestion. Too many players seem conditioned to make a play with their own possession rather than move the ball on expediently for their sides advantage. Every one praises a player when he makes a clever tap on to advantage but it does not happen often enough. Perhaps if stats were credited for these acts they might be encouraged to do them more often. The holding/dropping the ball problem would significantly reduce and the play flow better with this mindset.

So true, I can’t remember the last time a key power forward who was dominant in his first couple of seasons. Maybe Jack Darling. JVR is on the right track nicely.

This feels like kind of a watershed game for us. Win and we maintain our top four contention. Lose and we are looking at deep poo.

Seeing him at Collingwood is bloody tough but it is best to take a coaching apprenticeship at another club in which he has a role in its success. Hopefully one day he comes back to us with an impressive resume but no more filth premierships please.