Everything posted by John Crow Batty
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Making the finals
We can vent, vituperative or make apologies and excuses for our current situation but is bad form to start waving the white flag. Football can be so unpredictable and the fat lady hasn’t cleared her throat yet.
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POSTGAME: Rd 08 vs Gold Coast
Good to see Tmac starting to creep back into form. Still not near his best of last season but better at the contests and closer to start clunking marks like he used to.
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POSTGAME: Rd 08 vs Gold Coast
These days I would screw an ugly 4 points anytime.
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POSTGAME: Rd 08 vs Gold Coast
Jones best game of the season. Brayshaw waffled around and failed to get involved in the GC’s second and third last goals. He could have made an impact. Not good.
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Making the finals
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.
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Steven May - drinking session
He must be a Messiah. Like every Messiah for the past 2000 years has proven to be a fake.
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Crowd incident - Hawks Dees
.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.
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Crowd incident - Hawks Dees
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.
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Crowd incident - Hawks Dees
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.
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Round 7 Non MFC matches
Or smoted him with the jaw bone of a donkey.
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POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
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.
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Round 7 Non MFC matches
Omac will eat him for breakfast.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
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.
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Petracca training incident
We need this more effective modification to training to rid the witchcraft that bedevils the club. A witches dunking stool would be more appropriate.
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Month without whingeing on DL
We have more to whinge about in the past month than the entire last season. When the positives reappear the whingering will go.
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Viney to miss a couple of weeks.
He has been NQR all season. It will be like for like. Ordinary player replacing ordinary player.
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Sam Weideman + contract
It’s starting to look like we replaced Chris Dawes with Chris Dawes.
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What to do with Nathan Jones
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.
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Round 6 Non MFC games
Maggots umpiring both their most favoured clubs. Made them confused and making horrible decisions for both sides.
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POST GAME: Rd 06 vs Richmond
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.
- Goody Presser, nearest the pin
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CHANGES: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
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.
- POST GAME: Rd 06 vs Richmond
- POST GAME: Rd 06 vs Richmond
- POST GAME: Rd 06 vs Richmond