John Crow Batty

We can still make it. Recapture last seasons form and some big wins to boost percentage. The maths are still on our side. The big challenge is ahead of us. Every week now counts and we can’t afford anymore losses to lower clubs. Only armchair experts have given the thumbs down.

He must be a Messiah. Like every Messiah for the past 2000 years has proven to be a fake.

.There used to be a disabled person living in my street. Looked quite normal and liked to roam the neighbourhood. Was quite harmless but had a potty mouth and sometimes would say the most inappropriate things to strangers. Every now and then he would come home with a black eye, scratches or a bleeding nose. Obvious that he had been assaulted. His mother used to tell him off because she knew he went and said something stupid to a stranger. Wasn’t clued up enough to say exactly what happened.

Anyone that finds it necessary to engage in physical and/or verbal violence at a football game is somewhat intellectually challenged or disabled IMO. I can’t tell much difference between the two.

I remember the good old days when the law tried to make you sign blank charge sheets in triplicate and whacked you over the head with a telephone book to leave no bruises when telephone books were massive and weighed a couple of kilos. If you didn’t sign they might kindly drive you home. I hope policing has changed since then. I do remember mindless thuggery at the footy as well as the cricket in the 70’s. Footy is a regular teddy bears picnic these days.

Or smoted him with the jaw bone of a donkey.

The chance for the future is that Harmes is likely to play more cracker games than give away multiple 50 metre penalties. Yesterday he played like he did last season and I don’t recall too many 50 metre penalties then. They were errors for sure but don’t happen often. He will note that and be more alert. If anything it showed too much enthusiasm to get back to help the defence. Without his dynamic four quarter contribution we would have lost.

Omac will eat him for breakfast.

Just hope we have reached our nadir last week and we start to improve. Or else its official we are back to the Schwabovian nightmare. Time to turn our season around is still on our side but only just.

We need this more effective modification to training to rid the witchcraft that bedevils the club. A witches dunking stool would be more appropriate.

We have more to whinge about in the past month than the entire last season. When the positives reappear the whingering will go.

He has been NQR all season. It will be like for like. Ordinary player replacing ordinary player.

It’s starting to look like we replaced Chris Dawes with Chris Dawes.

Hard to see Jones still being around if playing for one of the more successful clubs. Clarkson would have tapped him on the shoulder years ago. He has been the beneficiary of the botched exit of Junior Mac who still was a relavent contributor. He won’t go until he feels like it. It is damning he can’t see his time is up. Last season we could hide him because the side played really well. This season there is no where to hide him anymore. It is cringeworthy watching him plodding along and butchering the ball on a regular basis.

Maggots umpiring both their most favoured clubs. Made them confused and making horrible decisions for both sides.

Viney, Jones and Lewis. Only one of the three should be playing. Viney and Jones are untouchables as captains. Lewis is the only one that offers a skerrick of leadership and better ball use but slow and exposed at times. Two of these have to be dropped. Viney and Jones are momentum killers and aside from burying their heads in packs offer nothing.

I can see how this season will now play out. We will be crap until mathematically out of the finals race. Then play good footy again. Everyone then will have high hopes for next season and set up for the next sucker punch. Jones will get another season.

Drop Jones. The embodiment to why we are so bad at the moment. He was well and truly finished last season. Playing favourites who can’t cut it any more.

This season looks like turning out to be a disaster of Schwabovian proportions.

What they promised was a better effing.

Like they wearing diapers on the field so that the [censored] does not trickle down their legs.

I worked with Lou at the Herald Sun when I was young. He would have been about 163 to 165cm. Solidly built though. More like a Caleb Daniel type for a modern comparison. In his days players in all roles were significantly shorter. John Nicholls the leading ruckman of the 1960’s was about 185cm and built like a brick outhouse.

Just hope we haven’t got stuck with a lemon, turkey or whatever.

The pinnacle of achievement was beating the Hawks in a final. Never mind the prelim, it was all dunking deep in the bathwater since.

I didn’t read all of it.