On 11/04/2025 at 10:50, GS_1905 said:

Sydney playing with 3 rucks

Grundy, Ladhams and who?

  On 11/04/2025 at 10:30, BoBo said:

My elderly dad was paired up with Sidebottom and another Collingwood player (he didn’t know his name) for 18 holes of golf, about 10 years or so ago.

Said he was an excellent guy. Super friendly, genuine and accommodating. My dad was 60ish at the time and they were both pretty good. But at no point did he feel like they were becoming impatient with him.

I love seeing Sidebottom still playing well. I’m a fan.

Me too, and pendles

Legends

What’s your dad playing off at 60?

I remember playing woodlands with my grandfather - would have been 75- one day where he was a member

I was off 7 and shot 74 and came in to 6. Had heaps of stableford points . Thought I’d win gross and net.

He was off 35 and beat me by 1 on net. I holed out from a bunker on the full for par on a par 3, almost had a HIO (inch), won a nearest the pin. Both won a stack of balls. I still have a new Titleist balata I won that day.

He Dined off that forever . [censored] that is a fond memory for me. Golf. Horribly beautiful game.

Man. This game. We’re miles and miles off

  On 11/04/2025 at 11:01, Superunknown said:

Man. This game. We’re miles and miles off

Is it coaching or our playing list?

If Jordon’s tagging Naicos he isn’t doing a great job. Minus 7 in possessions and on track to concede 30.

Edited April 11Apr 11 by Bring-Back-Powell

  On 11/04/2025 at 11:00, Superunknown said:

Me too, and pendles

Legends

What’s your dad playing off at 60?

I remember playing woodlands with my grandfather - would have been 75- one day where he was a member

I was off 7 and shot 74 and came in to 6. Had heaps of stableford points . Thought I’d win gross and net.

He was off 35 and beat me by 1 on net. I holed out from a bunker on the full for par on a par 3, almost had a HIO (inch), won a nearest the pin. Both won a stack of balls. I still have a new Titleist balata I won that day.

He Dined off that forever . [censored] that is a fond memory for me. Golf. Horribly beautiful game.

Chatted to Pendles once or twice outside a cafe near a place I was working… a bloody good bloke. Known quite a few people that have met him and everyone says the same thing about him.

Mmmm, I think at that time he was playing off about 23 or so? He didn’t start playing golf until he was about 50 so pretty good effort.

That’s the beauty of golf! All up probably only a few minutes of actual play a round, but it creates a lifetime of memories.

Playing off 7 is pretty impressive. I never had the patience to keep at golf. Too aggressive, haha

Membery , Mcstay , Schultz, Houston , perryman vs vfl vfl vfl vfl

Edited April 11Apr 11 by Demonsone

300 career goals for membrey. good effort

  On 11/04/2025 at 11:24, BDA said:

300 career goals for membrey. good effort

Slightly surprising we didn’t aggressively pursue him, assuming we didn’t.

If Collingwood knock off Brisbane at the GABBA next week, they go out right premiership favourites in my book.

Watching the game live they have that prefect balance between attack and defence.

How’s Hayden McLean’s availability at the end of the year.

A viable second ruck that nails difficult set shots.

  On 11/04/2025 at 11:13, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Is it coaching or our playing list?

If Jordan’s tagging Naicos he isn’t doing a great job. Minus 7 in possessions and on track to concede 30.

It’s both and more.

Coaching - down the line, create contest. Explicitly no reason to develop pin point skills.

Focus on defense- limit teams scoring over kicking big score ourselves (we’ve scored over 85 points, 3 times in the past 48 games)

Reliance on Max to take marks everywhere. Again, no vision or skills developed. Just find Max forward of the ball. Failing that, kick it to a contest. Hope it’s a ball up and we’ll win it.

Kick it to pockets in our F50 to create a stoppage via the boundary if the forward doesn’t mark it.

Always always always, create a stoppage and limit other teams scoring. No focus on creating chains of free flowing footy.

We have prioritised winning contests and bashing it forward, in the hope that there will be another contest to rinse and repeat the process.

Player list:

Created for defence and stoppage/contest footy.

Look at out mid field alone. Tracc/Clarry/Viney. They’ll win you the ball and do bugger all with it if it’s dependant on skill. No speed at all. Just chaos balls forward. Which teams worked out against us in 2022.

Off field issues are a part of the more. Can’t be stuffed going over it to be honest,

So coaching wise, the game style is completely defunct. The senior and even 100 game players we have are both: conditioned to said defunct game plan and also too many of the wrong kind of player. Very little skill, very little speed. Will crack in though.

Big changes needed both the end of this year and next.

the filth going the boundary route has worked well; limited damage bloods can do on the turnover

  On 11/04/2025 at 10:57, BoBo said:

Grundy, Ladhams and who?

McClean

  On 11/04/2025 at 11:33, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Slightly surprising we didn’t aggressively pursue him, assuming we didn’t.

If Collingwood knock off Brisbane at the GABBA next week, they go out right premiership favourites in my book.

Watching the game live they have that prefect balance between attack and defence.

C/wood are ok but seriously tonight they were playing against Heeney.

The rest of the Swans looked cooked.

Thankfully I found other things to watch rather than have to see Collingwood win

Not Goodwin related.

Why can’t we bring the elite pressure that Collingwood bring most weeks, especially tonight?

  On 11/04/2025 at 12:05, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Not Goodwin related.

Why can’t we bring the elite pressure that Collingwood bring most weeks, especially tonight?

Haven’t since 2021. I gave up on that pressure long ago.

  On 11/04/2025 at 12:03, rjay said:

C/wood are ok but seriously tonight they were playing against Heeney.

The rest of the Swans looked cooked.

Rjay, they’re going better than ok. They’re 4-1 with an absolute stack of MCG games to come. They’ll likely finish top 3 and if they can avoid Brisbane at the GABBA in week one, they probably play in this years GF.

Edited April 11Apr 11 by Bring-Back-Powell

  On 11/04/2025 at 12:05, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Not Goodwin related.

Why can’t we bring the elite pressure that Collingwood bring most weeks, especially tonight?

We’re not playing as a team, some experienced players have seemingly checked out, some players playing for their careers and some just finding their feet.

  On 11/04/2025 at 12:09, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Rjay, they’re going better than ok. They’re 4-1 with an absolute stack of MCG games to come. They’ll likely finish top 3 and if they can avoid Brisbane at the GABBA in week one, they probably play in this years GF.

It's a long season...they've only played one contender and got smashed.

  On 11/04/2025 at 11:33, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Slightly surprising we didn’t aggressively pursue him, assuming we didn’t.

If Collingwood knock off Brisbane at the GABBA next week, they go out right premiership favourites in my book.

Watching the game live they have that prefect balance between attack and defence.

I know it’s a long season but let’s not forget GWS dismantling Collingwood in rd 0.

  On 11/04/2025 at 11:13, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Is it coaching or our playing list?

If Jordon’s tagging Naicos he isn’t doing a great job. Minus 7 in possessions and on track to concede 30.

It’s the coach / ing, watching Collingwood last week against Carlton and tonight, they don’t have elite kicks on every line and many of their fwd 50 entries including that last goal to Hill were scrappy. They have two clutch smalls in Elliot and Hill and three honest battlers in Miohcheck, Membret and McStay, but as Sam Newman said many years ago, “If you don’t have the best tall fwds getting around at least give them a chance by getting it in quickly” and that’s what Collingwood do so well.

  On 11/04/2025 at 11:21, BoBo said:

Chatted to Pendles once or twice outside a cafe near a place I was working… a bloody good bloke. Known quite a few people that have met him and everyone says the same thing about him.

Mmmm, I think at that time he was playing off about 23 or so? He didn’t start playing golf until he was about 50 so pretty good effort.

That’s the beauty of golf! All up probably only a few minutes of actual play a round, but it creates a lifetime of memories.

Playing off 7 is pretty impressive. I never had the patience to keep at golf. Too aggressive, haha

I had a shocking temper as a junior

Same for tennis

High expectations

I remember sending a PW into the dam on the 8th at Gisborne on at Sat comp

Came back later with fins and goggles, rope and my brother to fish it out

I'm not saying the umpiring has been strange at times this round, but I do feel like the officiator's cellar shouldn't be opened until after the game because the 3/4 time tipple is clearly having an impact.

Anyway, nice to see that Maynard will certainly get rubbed out for a few weeks for that completely unwarranted elbow directly to the face of an opponent after the ball had already moved on.

  On 11/04/2025 at 12:19, rjay said:

It's a long season...they've only played one contender and got smashed.

Agreed they lost to GWS badly, but they’re building into their season nicely. And Bulldogs and Sydney are definitely not mug teams who they’ve beaten.

  On 11/04/2025 at 10:37, Bring-Back-Powell said:

We’re unacceptable at the moment GW. Obviously every thread is going to have a negative slant.

No! Not every thread! This is a NON-MFC thread. What part of NON do folks not understand? There’s every single other thread to moan and groan about our club, why can’t this thread be exempt? I mean, your comment had nothing to do with the Pies/Swans match. The point of it was to highlight our dearth of goals kicked so far this season. Fine, point it out, but you could do so in our post-match or our pre-match thread, or any number of other threads. I just think it sucks that the one thread that some of us find is a welcome distraction from the sad plight of our club is being hijacked. I guess I’ll just have to add it to my list of threads to avoid, as unfair as that is.

Umps love ❤️Collingwood

Commentators love ❤️Collingwood

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