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Replay was a great watch.

Actually felt like a completely different game the second time around once the stress of all the missed opportunities and final outcome was removed.

Take out the first 15 mins and we absolutely dominated.

 
5 minutes ago, DemonWA said:

In fairness Joey has been big on us all year. 

Also, do you think David King or any other fox pundit actually comes up with their own analysis? I just assume their producers and stats team just feed them lines to read. I think less than half of what comes out of kings mouth is his opinion, with the balance being lines from a teleprompt written by their production team

all daniel hoyne and jerome gazzo etc.

4 hours ago, Redleg said:

David King before the game said Dees no chance and Pies will win, now after the game said he said all along Pies were ripe for the picking.

Does he listen to what he says?

  1. I make sure I listen to King before the game - really critical info for me.
  2. Put on my multi, spotting up everything that is the opposite to what he says.
  3. Collect.
 
4 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

Well, Goodwin definitely out-couched McCrae both tactically and with the emotional momentum.

(ducks for cover)

This is brilliant. What does it mean?

4 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

We dragged an undermined Collingwood in to a dour defensive battle. 

Undermining Collingwood is my favourite thing. 😄

Gee, it must be hard for you to accept that perfection is unachievable. Listen to Justin Longmuir on AFL360 tonight, when he says that players will always make mistakes, and that it's how they handle them and recover from them that is the true measure of a player and a team.


50 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Well to be fair, they did end up winning the last quarter...

David King's pathetic. Speaks definitively about everything as if his laptop makes him an oracle, but flip flops every week. One week we're dominant, the next week we're hopeless. We beat Carlton ugly, it's a terrible game. St Kilda beats Sydney ugly and it's an important win and teams always get positives out of ugly wins.

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Like Dory, Kingy can’t remember the last thing he said.

4 hours ago, spalding said:

We weren’t great. They were worse (flat?).

if anyone doesnt think we are in this up to our our eyeballs you are never going to let your mfcss look at football objectively. 
 

thanks binman 

What? We've just had, easily IMHO, our best win since 2021.

Outstanding performance.

Hit the post 4 times but our kicking for goal was [censored]

Viney immense but the biggest surprise for me was Thommo. Fantastic game

Fritsch's awareness of his teammate around him is terrible.

 
4 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

Salem, Hibberd, May, Rivers, McVee were amazing and Tomlinson played as well as he could.

Lever was incredibly ordinary and the Pies caught him in no man’s land and danced all around him pretty much every time they went forward quickly. Had he put an intercepting clinic like he did v Collingwood I’d play him in this role each week but Salem, Rivers and May had as many intercepts and McVee just the one less.

Hibberd played full back on Ash Johnson as the third tall.

We didn’t need a 4th tall and we certainly didn’t need Brayshaw’s turnover ability in the middle, though he did get his hands on some clearances. He could’ve done Lever’s role, Lever could’ve played Tomlinson’s role and assuming he was not terrible in the few big aerial contests Tomlinson had the game would’ve been the same.

We dragged an undermined Collingwood in to a dour defensive battle. 

If the aim is the lose in a prelim at best we’ll keep this set up.

Barring Tomlinson making big strides in his defensive reliability whilst somehow still lacing targets on his left, Lever improving his mobility to levels that allow him to chase smaller forwards and not look completely inept and Hibberd keeping the fountain of youth we’ll be too slow, too defensive and lack the kicking skills to bounce the ball out effectively.

If we want to go further we need a backline with more run, skill and speed for when we play the real Collingwood.

I'm going to re-post this at 7pm on Sept. 30.

It may have already been said but what a bunch of morons are Pies supporters. The bun gets forced out by Collingwood when he did not want to leave and they boo him. More words fail me.


2 hours ago, Earl Hood said:

He did some smart work near me on the Members wing. I still wonder why we haven’t played him as a wing/half forward more. OK not that he has been fit for too many games. However when fit & available he can cover ground, has great hands and according to Alan Richardson, a few years ago, he has an elite endurance engine. He should be able to run quickly all day but guess we will never know. But I hope he gets a good, injury free run as an athletic, defensive forward who takes the odd spekie! 

Because to play wing and even half forward, you've got to have a really good understanding of the game, and I wouldn't say that's Smith's strength.

Whereas, as a FF or second tall, he basically just has to create a contest and provide frontal pressure.

4 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

Salem, Hibberd, May, Rivers, McVee were amazing and Tomlinson played as well as he could.

Lever was incredibly ordinary and the Pies caught him in no man’s land and danced all around him pretty much every time they went forward quickly. Had he put an intercepting clinic like he did v Collingwood I’d play him in this role each week but Salem, Rivers and May had as many intercepts and McVee just the one less.

Hibberd played full back on Ash Johnson as the third tall.

We didn’t need a 4th tall and we certainly didn’t need Brayshaw’s turnover ability in the middle, though he did get his hands on some clearances. He could’ve done Lever’s role, Lever could’ve played Tomlinson’s role and assuming he was not terrible in the few big aerial contests Tomlinson had the game would’ve been the same.

We dragged an undermined Collingwood in to a dour defensive battle. 

If the aim is the lose in a prelim at best we’ll keep this set up.

Barring Tomlinson making big strides in his defensive reliability whilst somehow still lacing targets on his left, Lever improving his mobility to levels that allow him to chase smaller forwards and not look completely inept and Hibberd keeping the fountain of youth we’ll be too slow, too defensive and lack the kicking skills to bounce the ball out effectively.

If we want to go further we need a backline with more run, skill and speed for when we play the real Collingwood.

For a moment I thought you were serious 😂😂😂

4 hours ago, binman said:

Has been a real issue for us for as long as I can remember.

I'm trying to think when it wasn't.

Even one more truly elite kick would make a huge difference.

I reckon we only have four elite kicks - in order, hunter, bowey, salo and mcvee.

In that context, it's worth noting bowey's absence. Missed him today.

Fritta, Choo Choo, JVR, Viney, Kosi.

Apart from being a big one, what did Cox do at the end of the game that Petracca was [censored] about? 

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I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but Smith may get a week off for his tackle on Murphy (?).

14 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Fritta, Choo Choo, JVR, Viney, Kosi.

Jack Viney an elite kick and Choo Choo that's Oliver yeah? Literally the second worst kick in the comp of the early rounds this year. If Oliver could even get himself to an average kick he'd be the undisputed best player in the comp, that's how far off it he is.

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3 minutes ago, A F said:

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but Smith may get a week off for his tackle on Murphy (?).

No chance, he placed him on the ground with his arms free


Petracca called Cox 4 eyes.

3 minutes ago, A F said:

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but Smith may get a week off for his tackle on Murphy (?).

Goodwin and Longmuir were asked a lot of questions on 360 about dangerous tackles.

Both suggested players should be careful not to milk free kicks.

I had the distinct feeling Longmuir was indirectly referencing Sprago.

I had the distinct feeling Goodwin was doing the same with Murphy. He felt the spin and face planted.

1 minute ago, DeeSpencer said:

Jack Viney an elite kick and Choo Choo that's Oliver yeah? Literally the second worst kick in the comp of the early rounds this year. If Oliver could even get himself to an average kick he'd be the undisputed best player in the comp, that's how far off it he is.

Just be quiet, your constant dribbling is ruining my good vibes 😎 

 
2 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

Just be quiet, your constant dribbling is ruining my good vibes 😎 

He has a point.
Clarrie's kicking is atrocious for the most part.

 

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2 hours ago, demon3165 said:

My wife saw him coming out of Cabrini hospital Sunday afternoon.

Ch 7 showed him sitting in the box today


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