Rodney (Balls) Grinter

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 😠

Salem a softy - yeah nah.

I also like Tomo. Real quality of character to keep fronting up and presenting himself to be selected when he's frequently finds himself on the frindge. I wouldn't say he's nessacerilly reliable though. Think he's very much a confidence type player and for a season and a half he's lacked that, but I think it's great now he's found his mojo again and agree that today he was very good.

The win was great, but after having rocked up every week to the low crowd drawing games including Hawthorn, North and Freo I'm so [censored] that I couldn't be there today because of the Fffffed up ticketing arrangements.

Personally I'm really [censored] off about this situation. I'd cut short a trip to Brisbane specifically to go to Kings birthday game for the first time in years on the basis that as a full home and away member (but without a reserve seat) I could reasonably watch the game if I got there early enough to get one of the GA seats allocated for the game. Back in Feb the club sent an email that stated: Your membership will grant you general admission access to all home games at the MCG. You do not need to upgrade to a reserved seat for these games, however it is strongly encouraged for Rounds 1, 6 and 13 due to capacity. The in March (an email I missed in all the spam, it softened that to "(subject to availability)" and then a few weeks ago when I was busy with a whole bunch of life stuff, it's there burried in an email that you do need upgrade to a reserve seat as they have been busy preselling all the tickets. I'd like to know where the buck truely stops with this mess as on the AFL website it states: https://www.afl.com.au/tickets/faq Who sets the ticket prices? The home club sets the prices for all 2023 Toyota AFL Premiership Season matches. I’m a member, will I be forced to upgrade to attend a game? This process may differ from club to club. Please refer to details provided by your club or contact them directly for further information.

At the Freo loss old mate up back of our bay kept yelling that Harmes shouldn't get another game, and that he should go back to the VFL, because that was his standard. Admittedly Harmes did quite a few stinker things that day, but he's got a well earnt premiership medallion and a memory of kicking that brilliant pass to Fritta that turned the game that old mate will never have.

The game after playing Richmond (I think it was North), I could hardly yell out because of the short 5 day break between games and I'd yelled myself horse because of the atrocious umpiring we copped against Richmond that week.

I play up on it too. Was in a pub in Taralgon with my MFC scarf on a few weeks back and joked to my gf that it was a stop off on the way to Baw Baw from her place. Asked the barman if they had any cheese boards i could try. Then on the other hand in a pub in Newbrough wearing the scarf, I was asked what that '[censored]#t' thing I had around my neck was. Classy. Amazing the guy could talk without any teeth. Probably a Collingwood supporter.

Good plan. There are a few little Melksham's running around arn't there? From memory they probaby played with the Viney and/Or Jones kids during 2021 COVID hubs, so should be a few good future MFC stars in the making.

I know what you're saying, but it's a bit like trying to make a smoker quit or a alcoholic stop drinking etc at some point surely it comes down to the individual making decisions about how they want to live and what they consider life is about living for? We let people do all sorts of things involving risk in our society. Riding road bikes is a risk I'd never be comfortable with, yet many keen riders I know have multiple near death accidents and get right back on the saddle - why? Because it's something they love doing in life.