John Crow Batty

I always wondered why Harmes left.

I have no doubt Oliver will be a good player at GWS. But he checked out in 2023 and Petracca checked out in 2024. Two 14th finishes since indicates they are no great losses for our future.

Too much opinion these days. Not much real news. Newspapers once relied on advertising, direct sales and subscriptions and were mostly neutral and balanced in reporting with stables of experienced journalists doing honest reporting. Now they just employ stenographers. Advertising and direct sales have dried up and subscriptions are relatively modest compared to the past. To keep subscriptions MSM has to pander to certain classes, demographics and their biases and eschew any semblance of neutrality. Most newspaper readers live within the information bubbles imposed on them that confirm their biases. MSM also now relies heavily on financial support from vested interests like government agencies, cashed up activist organisations, big business and billionaires who push their own agendas through MSM.

When I worked at The Herald as a copy boy in the 1970’s we used to put out 3 updated newspaper editions in one Saturday afternoon including progressive footy commentary and in game photos of matches that had not finished yet. The final edition would start rolling of the press about 2 minutes after the last footy final score came in. That was all done with no modern technology. We worked wonders within very tight time constraints

Bruise free for rest of game now.

I was at the game and we certainly had home ground advantage after acclimatising for several weeks in Perth and playing the prelim there. The crowd I estimate was 65-70% supporting us. This was the only big game in my life with a packed house that I remember crowd support was clearly in our favour. Never experienced that the MCG. I love Optus Stadium.

Must be remembered when a new coach is installed after the previous coach has been sacked after a decline in the clubs fortunes its not business as usual anymore. A new coach will identify toxic influences and remove them no matter how high in the club pecking order. Oliver has been identified as a toxic influence so be it.

Interesting that there continues to be a lot of posts over Oliver’s exit but Petracca has mostly been forgotten on Demonland recently.

He is quality spare parts with a lot of fringe benefits. Won’t get many games but if some key big men go down I like to see him get games.

Not the right effect without capitals.

I was puzzled why it has the large bird of prey prominently displayed? Looks like an eagle or could be a hawk. Why add a bird that is strongly associated with one of our rivals?

Unfortunately too much like a vintage ski jumper. Kind of has Freudian vibes.

We lost all our 9 games in 2023 by a combined 67 points which is just an average blowout for at least one game a round. Many of those losses in particular late in the season and finals were low scoring games. We then prided ourselves to keeping the opposition to under 60 points. Perhaps this made us too conservative to generate an offensive mindset. A game plan too concerned with not conceding goals and blunting us when needing an urgent response. Kind of been a feature of our game since 2021 which finally crumbled last season but left us in a shambles.

His final words on the matter from December 2nd. “This wil be the LAST thing I will say on this thread.I have spoken to three ex Demon players all of whom were shocked that he was given away for next to nothing, paying a huge chunk of his wage.”

No way. Oliver is grist for the Demonland mill user traffic. Let others indulge if they wish.