John Crow Batty

I guess that negates his four premierships and Norm Smith medal in 2015.

Last quarter of round 1 and last quarter of round 23 sums up his value for me.

Ex Melbourne footballers who want a viable successful career in football after they retire go elsewhere like to Hawthorn. Ex other club footballers who want a viable career in football also go elsewhere. Unless there is an overs pot of gold on offer to offset what would likely be a truncated career.

Yeah, Jones must have thought it was a contested marking situation. This season he has taken 0. Career 27 at 0.09% per game. Not his strength.

The rule of thumb for the past decade is that most negative rumours about MFC turn out to be true.

The highlight is that all our achievements for this season can be written on a grain of rice.

Tex is another selfish pseudo leader. Always demanding the ball, loathe to share it when he has it and his first instinct no matter where he is in the forward line is to take a pot shot for goal.

Its a strange hold he has over the club. Talisman for some and becoming a curse for others. It’s starting to feel like he’s a 103 year old demented uncle in a nursing home who has been burning up the inheritance.

If we are doing not so good by round six and his form is not so hot it would be an interesting “what next?” moment for Jones and the coaches.

We are the only amateur club in a league of professionals.

We have too many players that take it like a wet sponge already.

We did our best to claim the soulless rabble title but the Suns thwarted us at every turn.

Jones also missed the tackle on Higgins when he kicked the winner with a limp one arm effort.

Was also in Jurien for a few days this week to see the wildflowers. Perhaps a week or two early to see them at their best. Managed to get a tick though when hiking through the bush. Glad to see the eagles lose. I got taunted mercilessly by the in-laws after the prelim.

I now believe Gawn is the ideal candidate but conditional we play two ruckman. Today he was far more effective with Preuss to share the ruck burden with him WC and Brisbane have shown that the modern game can have two big fellas every game.

Please walk Jones. Take the money and sunshine.

The elephant in the room looms in the last minute.

Good development coach and failed senior coach. Have we been there before? Good luck to him and us.

It a scary thought that we might improve to 13th in 2022.

Might be a refreshing change having a captain with some rascal in him. The saintly clean skins on the job for the past decade have all been useless and the culture they helped nurture has been crap. We can’t do any worse.

Kind of adds confirmation that the players have playing with blinkers on. Like how many times have we seen a player take a set or running opportunity for goal from long distance or take a measured chance from an angle this season? Natural instincts have been snuffed out and players are crapping themselves when taking a set shot at middling distances. Seems to be a team rule that shots on goal should only be taken from 30 metres out or from over the top moves. Perhaps rigid team rules have snuffed out instincts, creativity and by extension confidence.

If MFC membership were a long term investment it would be like putting money in a new apartment with combustible cladding and budding concrete cancer, a house in coal mining town or a timeshare resort after knowing all the faults and facts.

Well on Demonland we have mostly die hard, rusted on, desensitised and completely deluded supporters here. So it is to be expected that most Demondlanders who are members will go around for another round of flagellation. It is the 20-30 odd thousand ones who are not on Demonland who will be more likely to bail out.

That’s the wall paper excuse we have had to put with for a decade now. When things started getting really bad mid season the usual apologists revived it.

Brown and Larkey 15 goals between them. I hope the airports are fogbound for the entire next week and we forfeit or our flight gets highjacked to North Korea.