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Collingwood - One trick pony

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4 minutes ago, 1964_2 said:

Too late to get this on our banner? 

What about "...Duck L'orange is Ed's favourite meal..."

or Ed's favourite movie?   ".. Duck Soup..."  by the Marx bros.

Ginnivan's favourite move on the field?  "...Ducking, of course..."

 

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    6 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

    What about "...Duck L'orange is Ed's favourite meal..."

    or Ed's favourite movie?   ".. Duck Soup..."  by the Marx bros.

    Ginnivan's favourite move on the field?  "...Ducking, of course..."

     

    Love it! 

    Some Peking duck and a cheeky tenner on the ponies is in order. 

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    1 hour ago, Mel Bourne said:

    Read my previous post, and the reactions of Collingwood fans. They don’t give a toss, and some are even all for it. 

    Honestly the pearl-clutching going on from some here is a bit much. What’s even more bizarre is the suggestion it will have any impact on the match whatsoever. 

    The idea that this will “fire up” the opposition? I mean, it might fire up the Campbell’s Creek Magpies but in a league as drilled, honed and already-fired-up as the AFL, such a polite bit of banter won’t touch the sides. 

    Don't come across many expressions I haven't heard before. That one is a cracker Mel.

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    Lets see how this pony goes on a wet track.

    I know they've won several in the wet this year, just let me have this line. 

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    Geez Ed Langdon is a weird bloke

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    Call me stupid but I knew that Langdons comments were an omen, and a negative one at that. 

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    So the Pies coach and players have all said in interviews they talked about it and used it as motivation. Why did Ed give them ammo?!

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    14 hours ago, Tony Tea said:

    Collingwood do what Clarko did to us last year in the draw - push up each line to pressure the Melbourne ball carriers. And since we are prone to fumble and miss targets under pressure, I hope we are across our tactics and can deal with the heat, as well as maintain intensity for the whole game. We couldn't on the QB. But at least May is playing this time.

    Unfortunately we couldn't deal with the heat. Yet again. 

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    32 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

    Ed is right but what a fuc//////king stupid and unecessary thing to say 

     

    clown shoes stuff you numpty 

    With the amount of pressure they brought, id say it motivated them quote alot. 

    Utterly stupid thing to say. 

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    This is classic Melbourne that’s been going on forever - doing-saying/dumb [censored] that’s has no purpose and inevitably backfires on us - culturally we need to change it, Langdon is great, but should be dropped for discpline - we need to send a message to the team that ‘everything’ counts, nothing is excusable - just like Frisch should have been dropped weeks ago when he burnt players on the ground - that is being ‘ruthless’ not just one off performances

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    Goody was asked about this before the game and joked about being surprised by it.

    He was joking, but IMO that shows he cared. If he didn't care about it he'd have given some sort of deadpan "who cares" response.

    I hate pre-match trash talk. Hate it. Did it fire us up to insult them? No. Did it fire them up? Possibly - they certainly have said so.

    Why give them something to motivate them? It makes us come across as arrogant AF, and then backfires like this.

    I'm fully aware I'm saying all this after the loss with the benefit of hindsight, but trust me, if I'd had the time to log on here pre-match I'd have said the same thing.

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    “Everyone heard it yesterday. Bruzzy put it in our team WhatsApp group, they always have a few jokes in there. Fly (McRae) had it up pre-game on the board as well,” Crisp said.

    “There’s a lot of different aspects to our game, I don’t know what the one trick is, but we just keep finding ways to win in different ways. It’s great to see everyone on the same page.”

    Asked whether it fired him up, Crisp replied: “A little bit. Everyone’s a little bit different. Everyone saw it yesterday and was like oh well, eff you, we’ll show you.

     

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    Just hope Ed is prepared to cop what's coming back the other way especially when you fire the first shot.

    I still loved it though lol

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    He's not a polished media performer.  Not sure why the club let him speak, but I doubt it cost Melbourne the game.  I think it was more to do with our inability to absorb Collingwood's second half pressure. 13.11 should get the job done almost every week.  We leaked too many goals again.  Just like against the Bulldogs.

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    15 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

     

    I hate pre-match trash talk. Hate it. Did it fire us up to insult them? No. Did it fire them up? Possibly - they certainly have said so.

    Why give them something to motivate them? It makes us come across as arrogant AF, and then backfires like this.

    I'm fully aware I'm saying all this after the loss with the benefit of hindsight, but trust me, if I'd had the time to log on here pre-match I'd have said the same thing.

    The answer was given early, when Maynard drove Langdon's head into the ground the first time he touched it and then 5 more Pies jumped on Ed and roughed him up.

    Why on earth would you give an opponent an edge?

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    4 minutes ago, Swooper1987 said:

    He's not a polished media performer.  Not sure why the club let him speak, but I doubt it cost Melbourne the game.  I think it was more to do with our inability to absorb Collingwood's second half pressure. 13.11 should get the job done almost every week.  We leaked too many goals again.  Just like against the Bulldogs.

    If we had kicked some of our gimme goals we would have won easily and that has happened a few times this year.

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    Just now, Redleg said:

    If we had kicked some of our gimme goals we would have won easily and that has happened a few times this year.

    True, but our defensive lines were poorer in my opinion. 13.11 should be a winning score.  We average 60 points against when Lever, May and Petty are all in the same side.  Not tonight though.  The defenders lost far too many one on ones.

     

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    So Fly had nothing to put up om tje board before Ed did that? OK. 

    Could have done without the comments but it just almost seems like a movie.

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