Rodney (Balls) Grinter

I knòw this isn't the 'AFL look a likes' thread, but: Looks scarier than when he was leading towards Peter Craven, elbow aimed.

And lure him back from rugby league - no thanks. I'm happy with him right where he is. Seriously - how does a bloke that made a career out of ducking to get tackled around the neck get employed by a sport that the aim is to takle the opposition in the place where a neck should be, but has is absent in it's players due to an evolutionary process of genetic selection?

The 'hugely popular Gather Round TM" is like the '100% all beef TM' burger at McDonald's just a bunch of marketing BS. I can't stand this concept. The Melbourne Vs Essendon game was hardly attended this year, because all the locals were mostly intered in the Crows game later in the day.

Actually...

Collingwood - what, you expected better?

Arn't AI cars dogs? ...what kind of dog would a Range Rover be?

With recruiting veterans, there is always going to be some element of risk in terms of performance towards the end. At Melbourne, we got great value out of Leiws for most of his contract. Eventually he became pretty marginal as a player, but I'm sure the value he bought to our culture from finals sucess etc was invaluable. Even if he makes no further contribution, I think BBB was an important ingredient to our 2021 premiership. Similarly Brisbane got pretty good value out of Hodge and who knows what mentoring Gunstan might provide off the feild that might help the further development of Brisbane's forwards.

I'm just glad we didn't recruit Gunstan close to the end.

Agree with all that too Jnr. The other that frustrates the heck out of me is players doing cheap push in the back etc of their opponent towards the fence once the ball had crossed the boundary line. I can't think of any particular culprit players or teams who are better or worse than any other and I'm sure we have many that do it repeatedly. Maybe the AFL will just wait for a player to become concussed hitting the fence or the hard astroturf section near the fence and then any player that breaths on a player near the boundary line will get a 2 week suspension. It's really dum if you ask me.

100% this Lucifer. Was watching a game from the 80s a while back and it struck me how much less time/oppertunity players had before it was considered holding the ball. But it didn't result in the game being dominated by umpiring, or players not going in for the ball because players adjust. Don't take on the tackler so readily, not as many rolling mauls, more kick / leading type behaviour players spread over a bigger area of the ground and everyone had more space, because the ball could be moved faster by foot than players able to flood back. I'm not sure if it was a 'no prior' interpretation or if the threshold for holding the ball was just lower, but definitely wouldn't have had players being bought to ground with the ball and it not a free kick, so players a) generally avoided letting that happen as the ball winner and b) knew they didn't need to pile drive players to be awarded the free kick.

I'd go along with that. I seem to recall Salem doing something like this before.

Add Bowey back to that at some stage and our backline including Hibberd, Lever, May, Rivers looks pretty elite at the moment. Tomlinson did a great job there on Monday, I really prefer Petty there and Brayshaw can also be fantastic down there on his day. It's a bit of an embarrassment of riches down back at the moment and would be making life super tuff for the selectors.

Love Judd. He does some great work at half back, but I feel his pin point passing and good option selection is almost wasted there. Wounder if he'll graduate to a wing one day and/or be given a bit more licence to run off his man to get more ball across half forward and deliver the ball inside 50 or take a few shots at goal every now and then as time goes by. Went to a function with Max Gawn the other week and he was a huge rap on Judd. Also pointed out that nearly every week Judd is being assigned one of the opposition's most damaging forwards, such is the coaches faith in him and makes his performances even more impressive. Just as impressive is that he rarely gets beaten one on one.

Fans eating their own and being supercritical of players efforts is the worst. As if these cretins had played at anything like that level.

Actually a better hairstyle for Bailey. Needs more Dragonball if that's what gets him kicking goals. More GF power boost mode!!!

From what I understand, Cox is actually an anti Trump kinda guy. Yeah he has some American traits, but I actually have some respect for this dood. Going a bit against the grain, but I don't actually see anyone here comming up with anything solid on what sparked all this. Yeah Maynard saying to leave it, but I don't take that for anything. Let's face it, if I'm a Collingwood fan, I'm heaping it on Trac for being a big mouth as well. And I love Trac and his extroverted nature, but he is pretty good at getting animated at the best of times and from what I could see from the vision was doing a fairly good job of getting in Cox's face as well. According to the official reports posted here, I honestly think both players have been pretty respectful about it in the aftermath. Yeah, nah. Max will be doing the same as Trac and Cox on this one and playing it with a pretty strait bat, be it with a huge grin and a giggle.

More like flushing it down the toilet.

Love the responses to supporter 1. Supporter 2 - WTF are you serious? BTW, I was there at the Gabba 3 years ago in 2020 when we absolutely belted them, which was soo enjoyable.

So the question is was a Collingwood supporter with this much money: a) A crack dealer? b) A bank robber? c) The collective dole cash for the cheer squad? d) Not actually a Collingwood supporter?

Phew

Agree with pretty much all your points Macca. Sidebottom has been very damaging against us for a long time. It's mostly me hoping that age catches up with him as much as anything.

Love the idea - how did this go?

Sidebottom and particularly Pendelbry have age against them these days and I'd expect them to become more fragile as time goes on. Elliott has always been injury prone, so I don't know if Collingwood can really count on him being there in their best 22. De Goey was cancelled by Oliver.

Great call by the fitness team to manage Hibbo last week. Thought he was great today and keeping his body fresh for the big games and finals will be important to our success in September. Don't really have a replacement for him at this stage, he's just a pig dog beast.

Then there was the time they let Mason Cox stand the mark while we had a shot on goal, when the free clearly wasn't paid against him 😠