Schadenfreuding (For West Lakes with Love) [Banter]

Half of the fun from being a Port's barracker comes from the Crows. That's why I love them. I haven't written anything for our friends from West Lakes so far, but this post amends that. This is for them.

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"#WeWantAnswersAFC" is trending on Twitter, while the entire Adelaide Crows is using the bye week for a kind of spiritual retreat away from everything — as if their last isolated camp had done them any good.

 Meanwhile our rival is in crisis, the #HasWinesSignedYet clock was reset to zero! Ollie is staying and ready to face the Demons on Friday, but that is a subject for another post.

 Today, I just want to relax and savour all this Schadenfreude brought by all the mismanagement happening at West Lakes. For that, I have found the perfect soundtrack, which I offer to all the Crows out there as a token of good-will.

 Enjoy the bye, folks! Let's put our "Collective Minds" to work and just imagine a better world:
IMAGINE 
John Lennon and Counting Crows
"Imagine there's no Melbourne
It's easy if you try
No Port below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all our players
Staying in Adelaide" 
"Imagine there is no Rucci
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to news or lie for
No Kane Cornes too
Imagine South Australians
Following the Crows in peace" 
"You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you may join us
And the world will fly as one"

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