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It was a great result in the end. Pies win which keeps our top 2 chances alive, and two contenders just batter into each other for 120 minutes. I felt this way about Sydney last year, and I feel much the same about Collingwood this year - you've got to reserve some of the teams emotional energy for September. If you have to dig into the emotional reserves to get you over the line too many times in the regular season, you'll be burnt out by the last Saturday in September. 

I can't help but feel the more neutral crowd and long season will come back to haunt the Pies on that day, if they make it.

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1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Collingwood have one hand on the cup.

It would have to be a giant [censored] up for them to lose it from here.

I can see them running out of puff, but you can see that they’ll throw everything at it. 

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20 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Bont & Trac, easily ahead of Nick Daicos.

He is 19. 
 

just unbelievable [censored] what he is doing  

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Apart from a quick sugar hit I don't see what a Collingwood loss would have done for us. The media would just build up the gallant loss they needed to have narrative.

I listen to WIIFM FM (What's in it for me FM). It's a good station and Port winning wouldn't have done much for us.

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3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Collingwood have one hand on the cup.

It would have to be a giant [censored] up for them to lose it from here.

They're literally a kick away from losing it most weeks.

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23 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

Sickening seeing the Pies come back like this. It’s become a self fulfilling prophecy that they can overrun teams in the final quarter. They’re a bog average team for 3 quarters every week.

Didn't quite overrun us though

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Collingwood have one hand on the cup.

It would have to be a giant [censored] up for them to lose it from here.

They have just squeezed past 2nd, and lost to 3rd and 4th - so it is still a contest between top 4.

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1 minute ago, Chook said:

They're literally a kick away from losing it most weeks.

Yet they find ways to win.

Their mental strength in games is incredibly impressive 

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Port play an attacking style. If they’d steadied more often they would have won comfortably. They got sucked in to Collingwood’s mania. We don’t do that. I’m confident we can beat both these teams when it matters.

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They have a great team spirit…gosh, I’d like to smack them in finals.

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I don't think any self-respecting football watcher can say any team has much of a head-start on the flag honestly.

Pretty much every top four side has lost to every other combination of top four side, not to mention the 5-8 sides.
It's going to be a bloody even last month of football to decide things, and that's great.

Go Dees!

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4 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Yet they find ways to win.

Their mental strength in games is incredibly impressive 

Yep that is basically all they have. They have a very ordinary forwardline, an ok midfield and an average defense. 
Where they excel is their resilience. They don’t ever think they can lose. They also have some great ball users. But you know who else has come back from big deficits and won? Melbourne. 
 

Port have a very poor defense. Just look at their percentage. They couldn’t shut the game down. 

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I’m beginning to find Collingwood’s coach very annoying 

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When the big goals need to be kicked the Pies have the skills and confidence to kick 'em.
Sidebottom, Daicos, Daicos, and Elliot.
Never looked like missing.

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Ladder predictor has us playing Pies week 1 in the 1st v 4th encounter at the G. Seems the most likely scenario. Wouldnt that be great.

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Top 4 are all split 2-2 now.  Collingwood has beaten Port twice and lost to Lions and Melbourne; Port lost to Collingwood x 2, beats Melbourne and Lions; Melbourne beats Collingwood and Lions loses to Port and Brisbane; Brisbane loses to Melbourne and Port and beats Collingwood and Melbourne.  Pretty close between them all too.  Most of the games have been within a kick or two.

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Port should have put it out of reach in the third quarter. Seventeen points did not do justice to their dominance in that term.

Their pressure was great but sadly all they achieved was another boost to the Pies' sense of invincibility.

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Just now, layzie said:

I think when whips are cracking and players are back from injury, we could be there 

I've got abit of confidence our ugly scrappy best can strangle 'em.
If we bring it.

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1 minute ago, Jaded No More said:

Yep that is basically all they have. They have a very ordinary forwardline, an ok midfield and an average defense. 
Where they excel is their resilience. They don’t ever think they can lose. But you know who else has come back from big deficits and won? Melbourne. 

Average defence?

Mate do you watch any of their games? Darcy Moore will most likely be All Australian as will Isaac Quaynor who's one of the best small defenders in the game.

Their midfield with now DeGoey and Siebottom back takes them up a level. They have one of the best midfield talent this generation has ever seen and will most likely win a Brownlow.

You seriously underestimate them as club, it's actually laughable. 

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