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Enjoy the oval. Im heading over for the crows match next month. Fyi tickets are on sale now for that match

Marc should have left 2 years ago if he wanted to go. only desperate team will go from him - St Kilda, north.

Mick is still so bitter about the Buckley succession deal. you signed off on Mick! I think Pert will do very well, he oversaw a period of success on and off the field for Collingwood. they made a mistake with the buckley move but stuff happens. That young 2010 team really should have won 1-2 more flags but Buckley decided a re-build was in order, hilarious! they are only now recovering 6 years later

That’s the bad news. Good news is he sold 10 pairs of shorts today

A troll or a 12 yo. Maybe both

I'm just relieved I don't have to stick up for him anymore. After 9 years I was exhausted!

this is a big blow, even though he is not in the team now. we need his speed and line breaking badly to deal with the high pressure teams. I was hoping he would be back to form soon

I surprised he wasn't dropped a few weeks back. He has been poor. He played a lot better for us over the past 2 years. Hopefully he does well at SANFL and plays against us the next week. Be good to see him play against us

A wise man once said unless you get 9/9 in your footy tips each week, the ladder predictor makes as much sense as cows wearing pants

What do you rate our performance out of 10 to this point? Why? based on preseason expectations Id say 7.5/10. We have improved on last season, developed new players. The thing that has impressed me the most is a new level of consistency (6 in a row) and developing a killer instinct when on top. Losing to the good teams though has been tough to take Which player has impressed you the most? T Mac. he has turned into top 3 forwards in the game! 25 goals in 7 games. he would be on track for 75+ goals over a full season! Which draftee has made the biggest impact? Fritsch What has been our best win to date? no stand out really. the best is yet to come. beating Crows by 91 was good. Which player(s) needs to improve in the second half of the year? Tyson, Hunt and Trac. We need to develop our potential stars further and give them confidence to become game changers. I was disappointed that no-one did anything to change the course of the game yesterday What has been our most disappointing performance? The Hawks game by a mile. 1 goal in the second half. pantsed by an average team and went into our shell. horrible to watch Where do you see us finishing? Give a win/loss and finishing position 7th. 14 wins. I expect a couple of big wins in the run home

my point is that our best players and core group that will eventually be our best chance of success are all around the 50 game mark. Inconsistency is to be expected once we are improving overall. I'm telling myself this so I don't get too angry about yesterday! we are set up for success much more than the pies in my opinion. their defence is poor and they lack tall fwds.

I know it is probably a bit early for this thread so feel free to keep venting, but I thought I would highlight the following for some perspective. Total games played: Oliver - 47 Salem - 56 Petracca - 50 Hogan - 63 Brayshaw - 45 O Mac - 49 Lever - 67 Like it or not, the reality is these guys are inexperienced and will be inconsistent - aside from the freak that is Clarry. We could fluke a flag in the next 2 years but going by past trends, we should be a consistent strong team from around 2 years time when our talented core is around 100 games. Just look at our main consistent performers: Gawn (86 games), Jetta (128) and T Mac (133) Collingwood should be performing better, their best players are all in the sweet spot of experience and that experience showed yesterday. All is not lost, we just need to keep improving. Beat port and get the season on track again.

anyone know why we didn't kick to Hogan yesterday? he took 3 marks, zero contested. well below average. in the first half especially we never went to him. I know Mac is on fire but [censored] me we needed Hogan to get in the game. Not sure when Hogan went on the ball but it should have been half way through the first quarter when it was very clear Pies were on top

what a joke of a thread

Garlett and Stretch both held over for Monday. Wouldn’t be surprised with another change. Hannan is sore

Peedo and Smith the two confirmed ins

So Peedo and j Smith in for lever and T Smith?

I've been wondering what Angus Beef was! Classic ET, keep em coming

I missed the part after you said about the things. The things?

I think it was on 360 where they said the last three WC Home games it was around 95 for and 35 against. Blatant cheating!! people excusing it saying they get intimidated by the crowd? Wtf. Call what you see mate. FFS

Mazor, droppin some stats on our collectives arses!! I like it!

Yeah he’s been playing better the last couple of games. Lots of Assists and involvements. One week he will bob up and dominate. If a defence is getting on top, let Hogan and Mac have a run and play Trac FF

We should move this game to Darwin, that'll teach him!!

Pies unlikely to have Varcoe or Reid which are two big outs Add Elliot, Moore, Goldsack, Fasolo, Aish, Broomhead and Josh Smith Keep someone close to Wells to stop influence and shut down their small forwards and we should win easily

If I was Wines I'd be reconsidering Port based on their form. they should be pushing for a flag and are currently out of the 8. they recruited soft flashy players and their core is getting older. best chance for him to leave is them not making the 8 Anyone saying we don't need a player like Wines, I just don't get. He runs all day, has that mental attitude of Viney that you can't get, and is a beast all over the ground. still only young too. Gus is playing fairly outside and can play half back. Trac up fwd...