26 minutes ago, layzie said:

Adams is a decent big bodied mid that they really could have used tonight. I'm hoping to be pretty physical at the coalface and exploit this. 

Bit of a misnomer this - they will play De Goey in the guts to compensate. He's extremely dynamic in there and has torched us before (one particular game I remember he had it on an absolute string)

30 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

I'm taking my tin  of Brasso to the game tonight with a clean rag.

Win, lose or draw I'm passing to Ed as he walks of the ground so he can go home tonight and give his Premeirship Medal a quick polish.

You mean they're not 22 Carat gold.

Go away...next you'll be telling us there's no Santa Claus !!!

1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

 

No, it's the filth sheilas !

Careful BBO there are Richmond sheilas out there as well. If ever there were a bunch of ...............................

I have been super jittery all day today. Can't wait for the game tonight. I want this win so badly! 

Dees 92 - Pies 54

I certainly hope that we have very good umpires tonight that are not overly influenced by the the feral army.

Not wanting to buy into the mental health issues discussed above (at least not in this post), I also hope the umpires don’t soften up on their interpretation of the head ducking rule because of after match comments from last week.

If you get caught high going for the ball - free kick. If you look like your objective is to get a free, rather than the footy  - play on. Pretty simple!

We’ll see what happens tonight

20 minutes ago, fr_ap said:

Bit of a misnomer this - they will play De Goey in the guts to compensate. He's extremely dynamic in there and has torched us before (one particular game I remember he had it on an absolute string)

I don't think it is apples for apples personally. De Goey doesn't have the tank of Adams, not currently anyway. 

You're right though, he's lit us up the last few times and could make up for the loss of Adams if he has one of those days again. 

2 hours ago, Mr Steve said:

Have a feeling this might get really ugly for the Ponies tonight. Hope I'm right. Dees by 60 plus. 

My god that would be sublime 🙏❤️💙

Day is going a little slower than one would like. 

Feeling very confident about the game. I really feel like we're primed to tear the pies a new one

To quote a headline from the back page of the Herald Sun (circa early 1960s) that has stuck with me over the years: "Today's Magpies are Tomorrow's Feather Dusters".

3 minutes ago, Deeoldfart said:

To quote a headline from the back page of the Herald Sun (circa early 1960s) that has stuck with me over the years: "Today's Magpies are Tomorrow's Feather Dusters".

That is magnificent! 

Can you still buy newspaper clippings for yesteryear? 

18 minutes ago, Stu said:

I have been super jittery all day today. Can't wait for the game tonight. I want this win so badly! 

Dees 92 - Pies 54

Ditto. At the risk of sounding ‘Collingwoodish’ I find it incredibly difficult to articulate how I really feel about my disdain of Collingwood and all that it stands for by not being allowed to use a full array of expletives in these posts!

‘I just want us to crush these bar:$@Ed’s’ just doesn’t cut it.

I'm tipping it'll be a slogfest 

Just now, Wodjathefirst said:

Ditto. At the risk of sounding ‘Collingwoodish’ I find it incredibly difficult to articulate how I really feel about my disdain of Collingwood and all that it stands for by not being allowed to use a full array of expletives in these posts!

‘I just want us to crush these bar:$@Ed’s’ just doesn’t cut it.

They are just the yuckiest team. 

Weather update over there?

Just started drizzling in the CBD...light rain that is 

4 minutes ago, BigFez said:

Weather update over there?

It's shizen here at The Manor!

5 minutes ago, BigFez said:

Weather update over there?

Currently at work and it's light cloud with small patches of blue skies... I am about 25km from the G. 

6 minutes ago, BigFez said:

Weather update over there?

Still no rain, just some stray drops. 

Grey skies, 

Certainly no downpours.

Hoping for the same as we head into the evening. 

I'm 6 km from the ground. Light drizzle. It's cloudy and I think may rain during the game but dossent look like it will be heavy like last week against Freo.

 

Weather looking pretty miserable for the game. Big Cox will be about as useful as one of those flapping inflatable figures at used car yards

4 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

Weather looking pretty miserable for the game. Big Cox will be about as useful as one of those flapping inflatable figures at used car yard

 

It's hammering down here on the coast to the west of Geelong. About to ease into Friday night and catch PT up to the big smoke.

Just had a walk round Abbotsford/Collingwood, kicking my can all over the place. Hope it helps 

Edited August 5, 20223 yr by layzie

As has been discussed, the pies go fast and push up hard.

They will find that method harder to implement againat us than almost any other team, particularly their and aggressive fast ball movement because we are so good at forcing and punishing turnovers.

But if they do get forward, we are also better placed than any other team to get over or through their high press and scoring on transition from our defence.

Think of our very first goal last week.

The ball was trapped almost on freo's goal line and their half forwards and mids were pressed up high, the way the pies like to do.

Once we won the ball we were able to get through ther press and out into space.

Handball from trac to viney, back to tracc and a 60 metre kick to kozzie running back towards goal, having  started up around the half back flank.

His opponent couldn't go with kozzie.

Tracc could have chosen other options as all our forwards had pushed up and were streaming forward.

Took all of 30 seconds, and only for possessions  to go from one end of the ground to the other.

Bang, bang, bang.

Edited August 5, 20223 yr by binman