Vintage Bay Mofra's Bottom 50 for 2019 - Now featuring the bottom 5 Arnott's biscuits

[Chism]

Gee there are some worthy decent/big name options this season!

Sauce Jacobs / Dalhouse / Paddy Ryder / Gibbs / Brayshaw / Brandon Ellis / Darcy Lang / Fasolo / etc etc.

 

[Mofra]

Player #48 - Eddie Betts


Pictured: Stewie Dew looks on jealously as he remembers a time when it was humanly possible to lift him

Ok, consider Bambi's mother well and truly shot. He is one of the most popular figures in the AFL but 2019 just wasn't Eddie's year.

We know the story. An inspired selection by Carlton as a PSD pick, Betts grew up rough before entering an academy in Melbourne run by Phil Krakour which got his life back on track. In a move that makes no sense to this day, Carlton let Eddie go to "save money" which they wisely spent on such luminaries as Kristian Jacksh, Josh Bootsma and Billie Smedts. Eddie became a Crow.

Over the years 'Eddie's pocket' came to mean something different to just 'under the table payments to settle gambling debts'.
It became a staple in any 3 minute video to highlight the best parts of the game. Eddie would go on to make the AA side three years in a row as the best small forward in the game this century who understands what consent means.

However, just as 2017 finished with Tex Walker sitting on an airplane next to an empty seat, so would Eddie's mercurial rise to the upper echelons of the AFL also cease. An interrupted 2018 led to a 2019 where Adelaide ran a pre-season camp that best could be described as more concentration than inspiration. Rumours of player unrest (including Betts) over the events at that camp manifested itself in the Crows having another poor year, and one of the players most impacted was Eddie.

Eddie still managed 37 goals this season, however 12 of those were against a depleted Suns outfit twice. Sensationally, he was dropped ahead of Round 19 which is never good news for a 32 year old who doesn't mind the occasional cheeky pint (not sure what the Adelaide term for a pint is - a transfusion?)
His tackle numbers are also down this year a little and his just seems a tiny bit slower than last year.
It appears that Father Time has finally caught up with him, and from what I understand father-time means something else in some South Australian families.

Anyway there were rumours that Gold Coast were interested in him but Eddie is contracted for next year and everyone wants to see Eddie give it one last shot as a Crow. Fare thee well Mr Betts and welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2019.

 

[Laphroaig]

Cancer? His team mates seemed pretty happy with him over the last month or 2. Probably covers the time he wasnt injured.

I take it by "happy", you mean he wasn't bad enough to require a public shaming.

That's very glass half full of you.

 

[HairyO]

I take it by "happy", you mean he wasn't bad enough to require a public shaming.

That's very glass half full of you.

Did you not follow our season ???

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Stratton
Jones/Viney
Wines
Ziebell

It's close, but Ollie Wines might not have even been the worst captain of Port Adelaide in 2019

 

[GuzzLG]

Stephenson unbackable for a bottom 5 finish.

 

[iBeng]

Stephenson unbackable for a bottom 5 finish.

Id like to see some odds on that please.

For a friend.

 

[hawkman]

It's close, but Ollie Wines might not have even been the worst captain of Port Adelaide in 2019

But the other one didn't get injured water skiing

 

[Laphroaig]

Did you not follow our season ???

Through a different set of glasses to the ones you wear.

I'm really happy for you that you think paying a first, a second and Burton for Chad was a good thing.

 

[Ant_]

It appears that Father Time has finally caught up with him, and from what I understand father-time means something else in some South Australian families.

Lolz

 

[2121]

Over the years 'Eddie's pocket' came to mean something different to just 'under the table payments to settle gambling debts'.

Quality

 

[TedDougChris]

Player #48 - Eddie Betts

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Pictured: Stewie Dew looks on jealously as he remembers a time when it was humanly possible to lift him

Eddie would go on to make the AA side three years in a row as the best small forward in the game this century who understands what consent means.

Ouch...

And double ouch !!

 

[AuntyBlindEye]

I can feel my life force draining from me. Quick. Give me #47 and I might just survive.

 

[juice t]

Rumours flying that the Crows clearly haven't reacted well to Eddie's inclusion at #48

 

[GuzzLG]

I can feel my life force draining from me. Quick. Give me #47 and I might just survive.

#47 Alex Rance

 

[AuntyBlindEye]

#47 Alex Rance

Yeah fair enough.

 

[leobarryustar]

He is still playing this game in your head, 3 years after it happened.

#rentfree

Na, Buudaaay "mystery injuries" Franklin has stood in for him all season, will be the first time Buudaaay has managed 2 nominations for the bottom 50.

You guys just can’t help yourselves

 

[BEEG]

Haha **** did this man just do what I think he did? Talk about shooting Bambi.

 

[Ronnie Baby]

I heard Mofra was so excited about getting to put Lewis Taylor into the top 5 this year that he could hardly contain himself!

Who?

 

[Andrew Birch]

Player #48 - Eddie Betts

View attachment 735953
Pictured: Stewie Dew looks on jealously as he remembers a time when it was humanly possible to lift him

Ok, consider Bambi's mother well and truly shot. He is one of the most popular figures in the AFL but 2019 just wasn't Eddie's year.

We know the story. An inspired selection by Carlton as a PSD pick, Betts grew up rough before entering an academy in Melbourne run by Phil Krakour which got his life back on track. In a move that makes no sense to this day, Carlton let Eddie go to "save money" which they wisely spent on such luminaries as Kristian Jacksh, Josh Bootsma and Billie Smedts. Eddie became a Crow.

Over the years 'Eddie's pocket' came to mean something different to just 'under the table payments to settle gambling debts'.
It became a staple in any 3 minute video to highlight the best parts of the game. Eddie would go on to make the AA side three years in a row as the best small forward in the game this century who understands what consent means.

However, just as 2017 finished with Tex Walker sitting on an airplane next to an empty seat, so would Eddie's mercurial rise to the upper echelons of the AFL also cease. An interrupted 2018 led to a 2019 where Adelaide ran a pre-season camp that best could be described as more concentration than inspiration. Rumours of player unrest (including Betts) over the events at that camp manifested itself in the Crows having another poor year, and one of the players most impacted was Eddie.

Eddie still managed 37 goals this season, however 12 of those were against a depleted Suns outfit twice. Sensationally, he was dropped ahead of Round 19 which is never good news for a 32 year old who doesn't mind the occasional cheeky pint (not sure what the Adelaide term for a pint is - a transfusion?)
His tackle numbers are also down this year a little and his just seems a tiny bit slower than last year.
It appears that Father Time has finally caught up with him, and from what I understand father-time means something else in some South Australian families.

Anyway there were rumours that Gold Coast were interested in him but Eddie is contracted for next year and everyone wants to see Eddie give it one last shot as a Crow. Fare thee well Mr Betts and welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2019.

I don't want to point fingers, Mofra, but...

 

[TedDougChris]

I don't want to point fingers, Mofra, but...

He has had that impact in the past too !! Very powerful figure in footy circles is Mofra !!

 

[MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE]

18 games dumb s**t

18 games of footy and 1 game of basketball.
Close enough.

 

[BEEG]

18 games of footy and 1 game of basketball.
Close enough.

Well played.

 

[halalsnackpack]

Hogan will have to get a jumper you'd have thought

 

[TedDougChris]

Hogan will have to get a jumper you'd have thought

Only if he can stop partying long enough to collect it....