1 hour ago, binman said:

Great.

Fans gets the warm and fuzzies.

Footy is about winning flags not selling badges.

Mcrae had achieved nothing. Zilch.

A bunch of home and away wins. Three finals. Two losses - including a preliminary final to a team who proceeded to get flogged by 15 goals in the gf.

Meanwhile we have a coach who has actually achieved something - he has won a flag, breaking a 57 year drought. 

He has coached 150 afl games, with a 58% win loss ratio. Won 5 of 8 finals he has coached, including 50 50 in prelims.

By way of contrast, clarkson, often hailed as the best coach of the modern era, had a win loss ratio at the hawks of 60%. 

Get back to me when mcrae can boast a record anywhere near as impressive as goodys.

Mcrae is on a hiding to nothing this year.

The pies are a fantastic team. But given the fact they have no record of success, other than some home and away wins, the expectations on them are just ridiculous.

People just seem to be accepting they will win the flag and are streets ahead of their rivals. The last time I can recall such expectation is the tigers in 2018. The big difference is the tigers wete coming off aligning a flag, not getting bundled put of the final in a prelim.

What happens if they don't win the flag? It will be viewed by most as a failure. Team and coach fail. Which is just ridiculous.

What does that do to the optimism and postive energy everyone seems to love about the pies? How does the team rebound?

Say it continues to dominate the 2024 home and away season. Two failed finals campaigns will hang over the club like a huge question mark shaped shadow.

I appreciate your patriotism, @binman, just think the wider footballing community doesn’t place as much emphasis on flags as you might.

Collingwood, as a business, do not need to do any more than they are right now. Every function sells out instantly, their merch flies off the shelf, fans fill stadiums and in turn the clubs coffers.

Furthermore, despite the fact we may be about to come good and are still very much in the hunt, a casual football fan is not going to tune into Melbourne and St Kilda tonight. I can guarantee you there were plenty of casual eyes on Collingwood and the Bulldogs last night.

 

14 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Slightly off topic perhaps but there are a couple of VFL games in progress at the moment, both involving the Queensland teams.

These are the scores as of a couple of minutes ago -

Both Brisbane and Gold Coast are supported by the Academy system and the clubs have virtually unfettered access to players who qualify for their respective academies. GCS have three members who are potential top 10 draft picks this year. It shouldn’t be too long before people are calling for an end to this advantage.

Two of them potentially top 5 as well.

Pretty sure they still get 20% discounts when matching bids in the first round.

So what margin are we tipping for Brisbane today?

51 minutes ago, BW511 said:

I appreciate your patriotism, @binman, just think the wider footballing community doesn’t place as much emphasis on flags as you might.

Collingwood, as a business, do not need to do any more than they are right now. Every function sells out instantly, their merch flies off the shelf, fans fill stadiums and in turn the clubs coffers.

Furthermore, despite the fact we may be about to come good and are still very much in the hunt, a casual football fan is not going to tune into Melbourne and St Kilda tonight. I can guarantee you there were plenty of casual eyes on Collingwood and the Bulldogs last night.

 

I dunno about this theory. Popularity as a measure of success, versus the ultimate achievement.

More people have seen Gangnam Style than Citizen Kane. More people own a One Direction album than Ok Computer, The White Album or Highway 61 Revisited.

You get where I’m going here.

5 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

So what margin are we tipping for Brisbane today?

Eagles put up a fight last week. Anything could happen at the gabba but a 30 goal massacre is wishful thinking.  Any guess is good enough..75- 100 points. Lions sitting very well already with a strong %.

Flags are all that matters. Everything else is piffle. 

1 hour ago, BW511 said:

Collingwood, as a business, do not need to do any more than they are right now. Every function sells out instantly, their merch flies off the shelf, fans fill stadiums and in turn the clubs coffers.

The same could be said of the Eagles - who have 30,000 odd people paying for the privilege of being on a waiting list to become a member.

The money is great - all power to the pies.

But at the end of the day teams are judged on winning flags and having all the resources to do so adds further pressure.

Was that Jayden Hunt’s first goal as a Budgie?

I will be really annoyed if the giants lose to hawthorn today. It would make last week's loss even worse 

28 scoring shots to 7. If only Brisbane could kick straighter the margin would be better for them

Jayden Hunt currently on 25 disposals with 100% efficiency. The cleanest player on the ground and continues to give his all. Well done Jayden. Wish you were still in red and blue!

2 hours ago, Clintosaurus said:

Flags are all that matters. Everything else is piffle. 

Funny thing is half the people whinging that we don't play an arousing enough game style, would be saying the complete opposite if our team was Collingwood. They'd be saying all that matters is premierships, playing an exciting brand during the H&A season that falls over during big finals means nothing without flags!

Daniher with 2 behinds. 

nice work champ 

Shows how terrible the Saints were last week almost losing to WC

44 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

I will be really annoyed if the giants lose to hawthorn today. It would make last week's loss even worse 

I mentioned this in another thread about the Giants.

Their 7-8 record flatters them.

Sydney, Geelong and us all kicked themselves out of the contest against them and they were supremely accurate in all those games. Not sure if that’s sustainable.

Not good enough 

Nick Haynes as the sub?

Wish they did that last week.

4 hours ago, BW511 said:

I appreciate your patriotism, @binman, just think the wider footballing community doesn’t place as much emphasis on flags as you might.

Collingwood, as a business, do not need to do any more than they are right now. Every function sells out instantly, their merch flies off the shelf, fans fill stadiums and in turn the clubs coffers.

Furthermore, despite the fact we may be about to come good and are still very much in the hunt, a casual football fan is not going to tune into Melbourne and St Kilda tonight. I can guarantee you there were plenty of casual eyes on Collingwood and the Bulldogs last night.

 

.. and there would have been a hell of a lot more but for the awful 1950 start time.

Surely the Dill can overturn the Gill absurd Friday night start times.   1900, or 1910 at the latest.

jeez, toby bedford butchered that opportunity badly.

1 minute ago, BDA said:

jeez, toby bedford butchered that opportunity badly.

He just butchered two kicks, it’s like he’s still at Melbourne. 

bit of trivia:

Crows have a higher % than Port. Port are 13-2 and have 5 more wins than the crows. 

3 minutes ago, DubDee said:

bit of trivia:

Crows have a higher % than Port. Port are 13-2 and have 5 more wins than the crows. 

☝🏼 Son of Swamp??

5 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Slightly off topic perhaps but there are a couple of VFL games in progress at the moment, both involving the Queensland teams.

These are the scores as of a couple of minutes ago -

Both Brisbane and Gold Coast are supported by the Academy system and the clubs have virtually unfettered access to players who qualify for their respective academies. GCS have three members who are potential top 10 draft picks this year. It shouldn’t be too long before people are calling for an end to this advantage.

Three points;

Sydney currently and Gold Coast for the foreseeable future are only kept relevant by the massive draft concessions they've received for exactly that purpose. I'm stating the obvious but just putting it out there so none of us are left thinking we're alone in our anger.

Don't worry there will be a total overhaul of all this stuff just as soon as the Demons have a prospective top-10 father-son pick.

Genis Steel Oval must be the most vandalised playing field in the country.

5 hours ago, BW511 said:

I appreciate your patriotism, @binman, just think the wider footballing community doesn’t place as much emphasis on flags as you might.

Collingwood, as a business, do not need to do any more than they are right now. Every function sells out instantly, their merch flies off the shelf, fans fill stadiums and in turn the clubs coffers.

Furthermore, despite the fact we may be about to come good and are still very much in the hunt, a casual football fan is not going to tune into Melbourne and St Kilda tonight. I can guarantee you there were plenty of casual eyes on Collingwood and the Bulldogs last night.

 

Who cares about functions selling out. There’s only one metric in sport and that’s winning. Let’s see how their smiling goes when we roll them in the first week of the finals.

Surely the Giants are not going to throw this game.