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THAT EMPTY FEELING
 
Or to put it another way...........
 
TIME FOR THE JACC POT
 
If knowledge is power then Port clearly don't know much!
 
The AFL, giddy from years on the Collingwood gravy train, surely must make a stand.
The Pies should not have to play before sub 30,000 strong (or should that be weak?) crowds.
Friday night was simply a disgrace!
Even Guy Sebastian pulls bigger crowds to a gig.
 
The Power supporters have disappeared quicker than Jo Hall's chair on a Sunday night news bulletin!
 
I know some of the big names were missing since our last visit to Teal Town - Buckley, Clement, Rocca, Presti, Big Guy Richards, Licka, Holland, Rhycey, Presti, Rusling, Johnson and, of course, Heater and Dids - but surely that can't be used as an excuse,
 
I would have thought even habitual inbreeders like the Power mob would want to come and witness, first hand, the all encompassing greatness of the bloke with the stroke, the stellar forward fella, the Big A - Jack Anthony!
 
Who else can smother a ball with his head while dislocating a shoulder before marking a ball inside 50 & having a shot for goal as he's leaving the ground for a quick sip of alka selzer?
Only one man of course.
The man with two names.
 
I don't care how cold, wet and windy it was.
There just can't be anything more exciting to do in that Bucks forsaken shanty town on a Friday night!
 
And frankly, John Anthony is that good he shouldn't have to play to such small crowds.
 
It's like asking Pavarotti (yes, I know he's as dead as the kicking in danger rule) to do a gig in a Brunswick Street beer garden on a Tuesday afternoon.
 
And speaking of fat men, how good was it to see Dane Swan getting his mojo back?
I don't know what I enjoyed more, watching him kick goals or watching him stick it to Cornes.
 
But, as the great Black 'n' White Revival keeps on trucking on that footballing highway to happiness and we creep closer and closer to those few one days in September before THE one day in September, this column believes the AFL should do the right thing - declare the Three Tenors (Cloke, Anthony & Dawes) national treasures and, after publicly apologising to the trio of forward fifty fantastics, declare that Collingwood will automatically be given the four points for any away game where the crowd doesn't reach 30,000.
 
It makes good sense to me.
 
They can call it the JACC.
The John Anthony Crowd Clause.
Which makes Port JACC offs.

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