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PREGAME: QF vs Collingwood

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18 minutes ago, picket fence said:

THE FUTURE NEVER WAITS??

BRILLIANT ALBUM😁

I'm starting to understand why you are so prone to SHOUTING!

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    1 minute ago, Purple77 said:

    I can't stop looking at the hurt someone went through to merge those excel columns together in those very specific, ugly ways.

    I'm sure I'll acknowledge the content soon.

    The wonky column widths are really something

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    What I wouldn’t give for a repeat of our form line in the 2021 finals series.

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    6 minutes ago, IRW said:

    Who will you blame if they lose then?

    Probably the goal umpire and the Arc and I'm only a little joking.

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    Good selections exactly how I would have gone, think pies are panicked about Gawn and have no real answer.

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    5 minutes ago, IRW said:

    The Pies were loading 

    For the past 6 weeks, Melbourne is 3 for scoring and 3 for points against. We’re in the top right hand corner of the Premiership window metrics.

    Collingwood is 5th for points for and 14th for points against.

    Just for reference, Geelong was 1 and 1 the last 6 weeks in 2022 before finals.

    We might not win tomorrow night, but the Pies aren’t winning the flag.

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    6 minutes ago, Purple77 said:

    I can't stop looking at the hurt someone went through to merge those excel columns together in those very specific, ugly ways.

    I'm sure I'll acknowledge the content soon.

    It’s the same person who films the goal line vision then rewinds and zooms it in on their VCR. 

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    40 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

    That’s what my head is saying but the Pies won’t go away

    You should see a doctor for that. Few days of antibiotics will clear it right up.

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    43 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Hope Collingwood miss a lot of shots early 

    Especially Elliott!

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    32 minutes ago, picket fence said:

    THE FUTURE NEVER WAITS??

    BRILLIANT ALBUM😁

    Yes! So good! Dave Brock is in his 80s!

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    15 minutes ago, Purple77 said:

    I can't stop looking at the hurt someone went through to merge those excel columns together in those very specific, ugly ways.

    I'm sure I'll acknowledge the content soon.

    At least they're consistent I suppose.  Looks like that every week!  🤮

    👉 https://aflua.com.au/umpire-appointments/

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    14 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    For the past 6 weeks, Melbourne is 3 for scoring and 3 for points against. We’re in the top right hand corner of the Premiership window metrics.

    Collingwood is 5th for points for and 14th for points against.

    Just for reference, Geelong was 1 and 1 the last 6 weeks in 2022 before finals.

    We might not win tomorrow night, but the Pies aren’t winning the flag.

    Well I hope not myself,but you have no idea ..you're looking backwards 

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    17 minutes ago, dworship said:

    Probably the goal umpire and the Arc and I'm only a little joking.

    I guess it's good to see you're flexible .

     

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    2 hours ago, binman said:

    Unless it becomes clear we need a third tall at some point in the match, Smith wont play back (IMO).

    Why would he?

    Hibbo comes in for turner as a defender so they don't need anyone else to go back.  

    I'm tipping Smith plays on murphy and looks to negate his intercept marking 

    Yeah, I don’t see why he starts back. He can move there if things aren’t working and allow us to go smaller and quicker up forward with Laurie. But I don’t see Fritsch, McDonald, and Smith too tall…

    Like far from it…

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    29 minutes ago, Purple77 said:

    I can't stop looking at the hurt someone went through to merge those excel columns together in those very specific, ugly ways.

    I'm sure I'll acknowledge the content soon.

    The "v" not "vs." for the St Kilda Adelaide game is what's making me twitchy.

    Clearly we're focused on the important things.

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    54 minutes ago, Purple77 said:

    I can't stop looking at the hurt someone went through to merge those excel columns together in those very specific, ugly ways.

    I'm sure I'll acknowledge the content soon.

    Yeah it's pathetic 

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    I don’t think we can underestimate the importance or significance of this game 

    The Demons are back. Not for 60 long long years have we been this good. We are playing our foe from the 50/60’s on the main stage in September. 

    Embrace it. 

    Enjoy it. 

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    I thought I was going to be OK. We’re travelling really well and all the metrics and form line point to us banking a good, but likely tight win…

    … but ah man, here come the nerves! 😬

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    10 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    I don’t think we can underestimate the importance or significance of this game 

    The Demons are back. Not for 60 long long years have we been this good. We are playing our foe from the 50/60’s on the main stage in September. 

    Embrace it. 

    Enjoy it. 

    And I'm not ready for the tradition of beating those scumbags to end.

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    3 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Reverting back to Lever and May being our only 2 talls against a forward line that has 3 talls.

    This defensive structure has not worked this year.

    It's ironic that we've gone back to this after Goody said they liked the three talls and wouldn't be reverting from this again.

    FWIW, I actually think it's the right call on this particular occasion. 

    May and Lever rarely do well intercepting in the wet, just like Max, so having to worry about another tall around them potentially fumbling, is not something we need. Instead, we have smalls and mediums to mop up at ground level and hopefully keep their smalls at bay.

    I think this is a complete horses for courses move. If we were playing Brisbane this week, I suspect we'd have three defensive talls.

    What's unusual is we didn't try two talls on KB, we went with three. And it worked very well, but they were minus McStay.

    I presume we're banking on winning CP and territory, and on slow plays defending inside 50s, we'll drop Max behind the ball.  While on fast plays, we'll be better with quicker smalls, rather than cumbersome talls, and the Collingwood talls are unlikely to clunk a lot in the rain/greasy conditions. 

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    Watching 360 they were all asking how can the Pies win? The demons have the best defence in the comp etc

    i honestly think we’ll smack them tomorrow. unless we kick 7.18 or disaster strikes. we are the better skilled, finals hardened team

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    Up and about for tomorrow night! Nice to have a home prelim coming up too!randy savage GIF

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    55 minutes ago, rpfc said:

    Yeah, I don’t see why he starts back. He can move there if things aren’t working and allow us to go smaller and quicker up forward with Laurie. But I don’t see Fritsch, McDonald, and Smith too tall…

    Like far from it…

    JVR?

    We've selected 6 marking "talls" if you count Fritsch and I do. We can play 3 forward and 3 back if necessary.

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    1 hour ago, IRW said:

    Who will you blame if they lose then?

    It's "we"

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    We’ll know the answer in 24 hours

    Sleep tight my friends

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