What They Are Saying at Victoria Park: QF 1

[Lucifers Hero 37,009]

OK, here is the thread many have been waiting for.

It seems that neither sub during my absence has taken up the mantle again😢.  I greatly thank  @Bitter but optimistic  and @DeelightfulPlay for entertaining you.  They both did a far better job than I do.  Their efforts and the posters in those threads really made me laugh.  I quite liked how the North thread was side tracked by street art and whisky!! 

 

It is with great trepidation that I have waded into the Pies bigfooty but shortly I will post their waffle!!

Edited September 1, 2023 by Lucifers Hero

[ElDiablo14 3,056]

I had a look myself yesterday, they are very confident and cocky.

Can't wait to smash them next Thursday!

[Jaded No More 57,827]

Let me guess. 

We are the best in it. We’ve been faking this poor form. We wanted other clubs to think we are not good. Fly will have us playing a totally different game plan. They only beat us because we were sick and missing key players. We will win the flag. Melbourne are no good. 
I got my day released approved. I sold my last tooth for a ticket. 

[Lucifers Hero 37,009]

A random selection of their thoughts:

• I feel like people are putting way too much stock in that King's Birthday game and completely ignoring/forgetting that Melbourne have only beaten us like, twice in 7 or 8 years
• Melbourne are a good team with a strong midfield which if allowed to dominate the clearances will tear apart our zone defence.  It's probably the team I'd least like to meet in a final.
• In the last 3 games since Petty went down Melbourne have scored 56, 87 & 77 points. Melksham kicked 5 goals in the last two rounds. The absence of these two will be a big advantage for us.
•  But they have a readymade goalkicking KPF just waiting to show off his natural flair in the role he was born to play.
• Craig McRae likes playing both rucks Darcy Cameron and Mason Cox, but it’s hard to see both playing alongside Dan McStay and Brody Mihocek. The sticking point will be whether the Pies think they have enough aerial power against Demon intercept aces Steven May and Jake Lever.
• Bottom line for me is that we can shift magnets to match them at contest, but they can’t match our speed.
• I couldn’t believe they played him after he was limping so badly, when the game was a dead rubber for them.  But this is the same team that had Petracca play with a broken shin bone last year.
• I am saying we can beat them.  But their record against us has been solid over two seasons under fly.  My point is that so far we haven't demonstrated that we can beat them on system alone
• They seem to have only about 5 posters?  Tumbleweeds are blowing through their board.
  • Last week of the snow season so not entirely unexpected.
  • They have w***ers that post s**t on main board game day thread...mostly non Melbourne Demons games.
• Pretty sure they lost against Carlton too a couple weeks ago
  • Did they though? Was a goal to Petracca. Carlton are so lucky
• Yeah I think Melbourne are being really overestimated and Port really underestimated. Melbourne have some great components but big holes and play stodgy footy.
• They have no forward line and their only means of winning is keeping good opposition to under 70 points.
• They dominated the game for 3 quarters and because they're conservative and have ordinary forwards - that dominance was nearly all undone on the scoreboard in a 5 minute patch. They'll have to control so much of the match to win. I like our chances of having enough bursts to topple them
•  How much weight do you put in a performance v VFL standard opposition against the totality of a season 🤔  (Ref to Ess game for Ginnivan)
• Melbourne Controlled the game last time and took our run away whether it was illness through the club or having a bad day this week we need to bring Game A for 4 qtrs. do this and we win.

On the ruckman:

• A few concerns playing Cameron - he isn't a first ruck, Gawn will maul him if he tries to out body him, his form of late has been a shadow of who he was however in saying this seems the coach has a preference of going in with two rucks.
• Just cannot face Melbourne with Darcy Cameron on his own. That's a truly terrifying thought. If he starts dominating Cameron the way Hickey did in the prelim final without the option of Cox going into the centre bounces (which changed the momentum of that final) then we are making it an even harder task than it already is.
•  The reality is that Coxy should be the centre square ruckman v Gawn. … Unfortunately DC can't get off the ground, probably due to his injury and he'd be better off rucking against Van Rooyen or whoever Melbourne decide is their back up ruckman.
• There is absolutely no chance that Collingwood goes into a final against Melbourne with one ruckman; Gawn would tear us apart. Cox is safe.

Favourites:

• Look its great to have a lots of guns if you are a tank, but we are a lamborghini built for speed…
• Certainly weakened by the loss of the Steakhouse Puncheur. He was doing plenty for them in the last half of this year.
• 7 days til game time. Going to be a long week.
  • I reckon it might be 8 days
  • He'll be right in a few hours. A man ahead of his time.
• Yeah I wouldn't drop our Ruckman unless we were trying to lose.
• Massive week coming up and i am already on edge Let the bourbon run free :)
• So, what are we going to do for the next 2 weeks. I'm tipping a BF pillow fight at some stage
  • About two weeks of reading posters tell other posters that they are idiots and wrong when it comes to team selection ideas is infinitely more likely.

 

We will win by about 3 goals but always nervous when Elliot plays.  Hoping there are no magpies feasting in my garden next week!!
 

Edited September 1, 2023 by Lucifers Hero

[ElDiablo14 3,056]

3 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

A random selection of their thoughts:

• I feel like people are putting way too much stock in that King's Birthday game and completely ignoring/forgetting that Melbourne have only beaten us like, twice in 7 or 8 years
• Melbourne are a good team with a strong midfield which if allowed to dominate the clearances will tear apart our zone defence.  It's probably the team I'd least like to meet in a final.
• In the last 3 games since Petty went down Melbourne have scored 56, 87 & 77 points. Melksham kicked 5 goals in the last two rounds. The absence of these two will be a big advantage for us.
•  But they have a readymade goalkicking KPF just waiting to show off his natural flair in the role he was born to play.
• Craig McRae likes playing both rucks Darcy Cameron and Mason Cox, but it’s hard to see both playing alongside Dan McStay and Brody Mihocek. The sticking point will be whether the Pies think they have enough aerial power against Demon intercept aces Steven May and Jake Lever.
• Bottom line for me is that we can shift magnets to match them at contest, but they can’t match our speed.
• I couldn’t believe they played him after he was limping so badly, when the game was a dead rubber for them.  But this is the same team that had Petracca play with a broken shin bone last year.
• I am saying we can beat them.  But their record against us has been solid over two seasons under fly.  My point is that so far we haven't demonstrated that we can beat them on system alone
• They seem to have only about 5 posters?  Tumbleweeds are blowing through their board.
  • Last week of the snow season so not entirely unexpected.
  • They have w***ers that post s**t on main board game day thread...mostly non Melbourne Demons games.
• Pretty sure they lost against Carlton too a couple weeks ago
  • Did they though? Was a goal to Petracca. Carlton are so lucky
• Yeah I think Melbourne are being really overestimated and Port really underestimated. Melbourne have some great components but big holes and play stodgy footy.
• They have no forward line and their only means of winning is keeping good opposition to under 70 points.
• They dominated the game for 3 quarters and because they're conservative and have ordinary forwards - that dominance was nearly all undone on the scoreboard in a 5 minute patch. They'll have to control so much of the match to win. I like our chances of having enough bursts to topple them
•  How much weight do you put in a performance v VFL standard opposition against the totality of a season 🤔  (Ref to Ess game for Ginnivan)
• Melbourne Controlled the game last time and took our run away whether it was illness through the club or having a bad day this week we need to bring Game A for 4 qtrs. do this and we win.

On the ruckman:

• A few concerns playing Cameron - he isn't a first ruck, Gawn will maul him if he tries to out body him, his form of late has been a shadow of who he was however in saying this seems the coach has a preference of going in with two rucks.
• Just cannot face Melbourne with Darcy Cameron on his own. That's a truly terrifying thought. If he starts dominating Cameron the way Hickey did in the prelim final without the option of Cox going into the centre bounces (which changed the momentum of that final) then we are making it an even harder task than it already is.
•  The reality is that Coxy should be the centre square ruckman v Gawn. … Unfortunately DC can't get off the ground, probably due to his injury and he'd be better off rucking against Van Rooyen or whoever Melbourne decide is their back up ruckman.
• There is absolutely no chance that Collingwood goes into a final against Melbourne with one ruckman; Gawn would tear us apart. Cox is safe.

Favourites:

• Look its great to have a lots of guns if you are a tank, but we are a lamborghini built for speed…
• Certainly weakened by the loss of the Steakhouse Puncheur. He was doing plenty for them in the last half of this year.
• 7 days til game time. Going to be a long week.
  • I reckon it might be 8 days
  • He'll be right in a few hours. A man ahead of his time.
• Yeah I wouldn't drop our Ruckman unless we were trying to lose.
• Massive week coming up and i am already on edge Let the bourbon run free :)
• So, what are we going to do for the next 2 weeks. I'm tipping a BF pillow fight at some stage
  • About two weeks of reading posters tell other posters that they are idiots and wrong when it comes to team selection ideas is infinitely more likely.

 

We will win by about 3 goals but always nervous when Elliot plays.  Hoping there are no magpies feasting in my garden next week!!
 

I think the analogy re the exotic car is not accurate for them, Lambos have class.

It would be more fitting to say they are like a Ford UTE (the ones with the V8 engines), made for speed too.

[Supreme_Demon 3,009]

I am sure Collingwood supporters are making fun of us and are supremely confident. They did finish on top of the ladder as minor premiers afterall.

So here's some classic jokes about Collingwood supporters from the comedian Trevor Marmalade back in the "old days" of The Footy Show on TV. 🤣

 

[rpfc 27,453]

Did you go over the Nick’s @Lucifers Hero - that’s where the real nuffies live.

 

[Dee Zephyr 17,461]

45 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I feel like people are putting way too much stock in that King's Birthday game and completely ignoring/forgetting that Melbourne have only beaten us like, twice in 7 or 8 years

Lol, people are completely ignoring/forgetting that Melbourne have only beaten us like twice in 7-8 years. 

It’s like 6 times since 2015. They’ve won 8 in that period but we won’t worry about that.

[jnrmac 18,954]

My favourite was the poster who said we should beat Melbourne easily as they are coming off a 4 day break, playing on a Thursday. 

Someone kindly pointed out the week's holiday!

KB we kicked 6g 10b from set shots including 4 posters.

They kicked 3 in the first 10min dues largely to our turnovers, and they kicked 2 goals in the last 45 seconds. The rest of the game we mauled them

[loges 6,027]

No mention of their scrappy form over the past month I notice, also no Daicos. They've been worked out.

[Wodjathefirst 2,277]

3 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

I think the analogy re the exotic car is not accurate for them, Lambos have class.

It would be more fitting to say they are like a Ford UTE (the ones with the V8 engines), made for speed too.

P76 Targa Florio perhaps? No one really liked them (Also , noisy ugly and relatively useless)

Edited September 2, 2023 by Wodjathefirst

[Lucifers Hero 37,009]

3 hours ago, rpfc said:

Did you go over the Nick’s @Lucifers Hero - that’s where the real nuffies live.

 

I haven't.  Not up to it today...maybe in a few days I'll wade through there.

If anyone would like to take that plunge please go ahead.

[FritschyBusiness 1,455]

3 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Lol, people are completely ignoring/forgetting that Melbourne have only beaten us like twice in 7-8 years. 

It’s like 6 times since 2015. They’ve won 8 in that period but we won’t worry about that.

If you take away the last 4 games 2021-2023 (LLLW)

From 2000 to 2020 we almost had a perfect palindrome of W-L over 20 years, I bolded the outlier

WLLLWWWWLLLLLDLLLLLWWWWLLLLW

[WalkingCivilWar 31,465]

4 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Certainly weakened by the loss of the Steakhouse Puncheur. He was doing plenty for them in the last half of this year.

Ok, now I’m [censored] angry. Was amused up until this comment. And whereas I’ve been hoping we beat them - even just by a point - now I want us to absolutely smash them. A hearty dose of humiliation is what’s on the menu. Then we can laugh at the stupid faces of the uncultured swine that are their supporters while they leave the ‘G nice n early, just as many of them did last night at Ikon.

And for dessert? Watching them get knocked out the following week. All those H&A wins for nought. 

[ElDiablo14 3,056]

11 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Ok, now I’m [censored] angry. Was amused up until this comment. And whereas I’ve been hoping we beat them - even just by a point - now I want us to absolutely smash them. A hearty dose of humiliation is what’s on the menu. Then we can laugh at the stupid faces of the uncultured swine that are their supporters while they leave the ‘G nice n early, just as many of them did last night at Ikon.

And for dessert? Watching them get knocked out the following week. All those H&A wins for nought. 

I think a nail biting loss would be a better punishment for that mob, specially since they all believe in the BS mantra of 'the comeback kings'.

Kick after the siren from Petraca that touches the post but is not reviewed 🤣🤣🤣

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,582]

1 hour ago, ElDiablo14 said:

I think a nail biting loss would be a better punishment for that mob, specially since they all believe in the BS mantra of 'the comeback kings'.

Kick after the siren from Petraca that touches the post but is not reviewed 🤣🤣🤣

I mostly like your thinking here, but I don't like the pretense of winning a game we technically should have lost - can you imagine how that would be referred to by them in perpetuity (maybe that's the point).

What I'd prefer was an actual goal that was signaled as a behind by the umpire, so they think they've got it initially, but then gets overturned when the video shows a clear goal.   Would be kind of hard on us for a second, but would be well worth it.

Maybe a lesser rated goal kicker like Gawn or Lever kicking the goal would be better than Pertracca too?

[Kozzie4PM 765]

2 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Ok, now I’m [censored] angry. Was amused up until this comment. And whereas I’ve been hoping we beat them - even just by a point - now I want us to absolutely smash them. A hearty dose of humiliation is what’s on the menu. Then we can laugh at the stupid faces of the uncultured swine that are their supporters while they leave the ‘G nice n early, just as many of them did last night at Ikon.

And for dessert? Watching them get knocked out the following week. All those H&A wins for nought. 

Did that comment genuinely annoy you? Actually found it quite funny...

[FritschyBusiness 1,455]

2 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

And for dessert? Watching them get knocked out the following week. All those H&A wins for nought. 

My gut tells me Pies out in straight sets

[Winners at last 4,727]

I hate the filth.

[WalkingCivilWar 31,465]

3 hours ago, Kozzie4PM said:

Did that comment genuinely annoy you? Actually found it quite funny...

Yes, it genuinely annoyed me. Very much, in fact. Even if it wasn’t in reference to the Entrecôte incident, I still wouldn’t find it funny, coz it’s not. 

[Smokey 4,126]

Such an overwhelming lack of intelligent discussion and insight is on offer on the Collingwood boards. I loathe the filth and cannot wait to smash them so hard that they won’t recover mentally and will go out in straight sets. 

[Chook 14,475]

22 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Yes, it genuinely annoyed me. Very much, in fact. Even if it wasn’t in reference to the Entrecôte incident, I still wouldn’t find it funny, coz it’s not. 

I thought it was funny as well. Guess humour is subjective.

[Nicko 1,223]

On 9/2/2023 at 9:50 AM, Lucifers Hero said:

Certainly weakened by the loss of the Steakhouse Puncheur. He was doing plenty for them in the last half of this year.

I did not know Collingwood supporters had this vocabulary in them….I smell an imposter 😂😂

[Salems Lot 2,369]

1 minute ago, Nicko said:

I did not know Collingwood supporters had this vocabulary in them….I smell an imposter 😂😂

A friend of mine is a filth fan and a Supreme Court Judge! They are bloody everywhere I tell you!

[Deefender 205]

Go to Extreme Black n White bulletin board - https://www.magpies.net/forums/hotrod/

One subject is the wet weather. The poster thinks this will be to our advantage. Funny.

At the moment, Sunday evening the forecast is from a computer.

Dare I say it, some of the contributors are knowledgeable.