Collinwood fans have already exonerated their team from any wrongdoing. 

On Footy Classified last night they said it was broken and some time ago and was being ‘managed’.  
 

 

16 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

I think Edmund inferred on FC that he'd had it prior to the QF but not completely sure.

Hopefully he did, as he would have played one of his best career games while dealing with a broken toe.

I am not sure if anyone noticed but he came out really late onto the ground after half time. Did not run with the team, did not do the warm up.

My guess is that they were assessing it and injected it, and he went on to have a great second half.

 

Did I mention how passionately I would like to punch Cox in his teeny tiny nuts?!  

6 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Glad we're not heading in banged up as compared to last year.

In fairness to the club i think we've handled injury management a lot better then what we did last year.

Can't help when you pick up impact injuries in finals.

The worse part is even our depth is thin as they're also on the injury list.

Someone like a Luke Dunstan would have been handy replacement for Brayshaw and even Ben Brown for JVR.

29 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Good thing we have Grundy.

People are laughing at this but I’m not joking!

How lucky are we to have an All Australian ruck just waiting in the wings.

1 minute ago, Clint Bizkit said:

People are laughing at this but I’m not joking!

How lucky are we to have an All Australian ruck just waiting in the wings.

We are, but nobody is Max Gawn.

We are cactus without him. 

2 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

People are laughing at this but I’m not joking!

How lucky are we to have an All Australian ruck just waiting in the wings.

This… it might go down as a huge master stroke 

4 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

I am not sure if anyone noticed but he came out really late onto the ground after half time. Did not run with the team, did not do the warm up.

My guess is that they were assessing it and injected it, and he went on to have a great second half.

 

Did I mention how passionately I would like to punch Cox in his teeny tiny nuts?!  

I wouldn't mind kneeing him in that region..

1 minute ago, Clint Bizkit said:

People are laughing at this but I’m not joking!

How lucky are we to have an All Australian ruck just waiting in the wings.

I didn't realise we had Tim English to come in. 

Grundy is a former AA ruckman, just like I'm a former 30 year old.

Jeez, anything else?  

Grundy being in our team is amazing, I love it, want him to stay I don't care what anyone says.  Glad he's there.

Those pies hey, that game was a shocker, I have some faith but honestly if we make it past this week it'll be amazing.  Brisbane will be licking their lips at all this.

15 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

I am not sure if anyone noticed but he came out really late onto the ground after half time. Did not run with the team, did not do the warm up.

My guess is that they were assessing it and injected it, and he went on to have a great second half.

 

Did I mention how passionately I would like to punch Cox in his teeny tiny nuts?!  

FMD Jaded - I nearly gave myself a hernia laughing at this !

40 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

I am not sure if anyone noticed but he came out really late onto the ground after half time. Did not run with the team, did not do the warm up.

My guess is that they were assessing it and injected it, and he went on to have a great second half.

 

Did I mention how passionately I would like to punch Cox in his teeny tiny nuts?!  

Aim for his guts Jaded. They haven’t dropped as yet. 👀

1 hour ago, gs77 said:

Put max at full forward as a tall target in place of JVR and bring Grundy in to shoulder the ruck duties. How.much do you want a premiership medallion, Brodie?

The subtext there is that he hasn't been trying.!! FMD!

1 hour ago, IRW said:

 But what about the umpires or the AFL?

They had an opportunity after the first bounce to establish what is acceptable in a ruck contest. They squibbed it.

 

Cox is a dirty dog

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

In fairness to the club i think we've handled injury management a lot better then what we did last year.

Can't help when you pick up impact injuries in finals.

The worse part is even our depth is thin as they're also on the injury list.

Someone like a Luke Dunstan would have been handy replacement for Brayshaw and even Ben Brown for JVR.

I agree we managed players and training loads alot better.look how we run out games this year compared to last. We have had retched luck with injuries. Also our game style is so taxing , our players have more KMs and bumps and bruises than some other teams

2 hours ago, IRW said:

Quick  who can I blame?

Endless really....

The Board, Greg Stafford, Maynard, Burgos replacement, the Home Base committee, whoever recruited the old crock, Grundy, Cox,....

 

if Cox did break Gawns toe

the pies comments are … 

🤣🤣🤣

incidental contact 

a footy act

Gawn should have avoided Cox’s foot 

Gawn should never be playing after a prior foot injury 5 years ago 

Cox will deliver red wine and roses to max at home 

we hate Collingwood ( full stop )

 

Is there a suggestion that the injury to Gawn isn’t new and he has been carrying it for a few weeks? 

Put him at full forward. 

Goodwin said in his presser this morning that both are right to play on friday night.

48 minutes ago, bandicoot said:

Is there a suggestion that the injury to Gawn isn’t new and he has been carrying it for a few weeks? 

I heard that he’s been playing with the broken toe for weeks but it was aggravated when Cox trod on it during Thursday’s match. 

Just now, WalkingCivilWar said:

I heard that he’s been playing with the broken toe for weeks but it was aggravated when Cox trod on it during Thursday’s match. 

Mason Cox needs to take a long walk off a short pier. He has the goggles all ready to go, he can swim back to the USA. 

I give up

Just cannot take a trick

Oh well Grundy must play now

Mason has picked up all the "good" points about AFL fair ruck play/contesting, funnily enough, at, of all Clubs, Collingwood....go figure