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14 minutes ago, Jaded said:

We are surely the only supporter base in the country who on game day discuss what we are eating and drinking and it’s not VB and a servo pie, but smoked meat and aged whiskey and salad and cheese ?

Fish fingers in the George Foreman.
Salad .... Pffft. 

 

Being a traditionalist, I'll be inhaling a couple of meat pies from the local bakery but the real key to a good day 's barracking will be sloshing them down with a decent shiraz.

Timing is key off course so the first one will hit the cakehole at about 2.30.

I'm oddly nervous about this game. I don't know whether it's the Buckley departure or the fact the we have an inability to blow games out. Or if its Jamie Elliott's recently found form. arggh

 
3 hours ago, Engorged Onion said:

Im having a debate with a Collingwood supporter friend. How long has the QB match (Melb vs Collingwood) been going for. ie: how long is the tradition?

The tradition has been at least since the Norm Smith 1950s. Enough said!

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55 minutes ago, Jaded said:

We are surely the only supporter base in the country who on game day discuss what we are eating and drinking and it’s not VB and a servo pie, but smoked meat and aged whiskey and salad and cheese ?

It's VB for me up here in Qld. Keep the Vic in me going.


On the way to the SCG with a quick stop for some KFC. Winning 

1 minute ago, The Reverend said:

I have absolutely no idea how to respond to to this...

We are amused!

 

Made it ok,parked on grass across the street. Plenty of red and blue around, go Demons

 

 


1 hour ago, Neil Crompton said:

Anybody else just having a pie and sauce and a few ales? Or am I the only black sheep on here?

(I mean, quiche and tea cake! Really? )

Hot dogs, party pies and sausage rolls at our place. 

A few clouds, but looking not too bad at the SCG…

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On any measurement we should win this game by a solid amount, but I doubt it will be a smashing: Collingwood's biggest losing margin this year is 30 (vs GWS and Sydney).

They can defend reasonably well but they really struggle to score. Even last week when they won, they only scored 78, and they were super accurate with 12.6 to Adelaide's 10.13.

They've only scored above 80 three times all year, against weak defensive sides (Carlton, Essendon and North). Against stronger defensive sides they've struggled to score (53 vs the Dogs, 42 vs Sydney, 51 vs Geelong).

Elliott and De Goey are dangerous in the forward line but they have to get it there. We know that when we're at least breaking even in the middle, and when our forward half game is on, even the best forward lines struggle to score: the Dogs and Brisbane over the last fortnight are the perfect examples. 

If we do what we know we can do, there is a comfortable win here for the taking.

But the Adelaide game reminds us that if we're off, any side can beat us.


6 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

On any measurement we should win this game by a solid amount, but I doubt it will be a smashing: Collingwood's biggest losing margin this year is 30 (vs GWS and Sydney).

They can defend reasonably well but they really struggle to score. Even last week when they won, they only scored 78, and they were super accurate with 12.6 to Adelaide's 10.13.

They've only scored above 80 three times all year, against weak defensive sides (Carlton, Essendon and North). Against stronger defensive sides they've struggled to score (53 vs the Dogs, 42 vs Sydney, 51 vs Geelong).

Elliott and De Goey are dangerous in the forward line but they have to get it there. We know that when we're at least breaking even in the middle, and when our forward half game is on, even the best forward lines struggle to score: the Dogs and Brisbane over the last fortnight are the perfect examples. 

If we do what we know we can do, there is a comfortable win here for the taking.

But the Adelaide game reminds us that if we're off, any side can beat us.

Good points titan but if we win in the middle it can be in the goal square in one kick. I reckon Weid will get opportunities today - he'll need to capitalize .

I want Jeff Farmer’s cape!!!!


4 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I want Jeff Farmer’s cape!!!!

Kossie to kick nine after half time wearing the cape!

Just now, D4Life said:

Kossie to kick nine after half time wearing the cape!

Yes!!!!!!

1 minute ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Yeah fair enough - good each way bet.

I may well find myself in the stocks for sedition 

 

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