Stiff Arm

AFL has just missed the chance to be the clear sport of choice for parents wanting their kids to play team sports

Yeah, Gus should be suspended for 4 weeks for causing that 🙄

Can the AFL appeal? Oh wait, I forgot what I'm saying... what a stupid suggestion

JVR gets a week and Maynard gets off. FMD now I've seen it all

Dropping the shoulder into the opponent's head after a smother attempt is now legal in footy opening the flood gates for others to do it Watch it happen more often in junior ranks Great legacy Gil

If Maynard gets off, he legitimises every player from this week on trying to smother and then dropping the shoulder into the opponent's head. He will have set the precedent for others to follow. AFL need to be very, very careful

Really? I recall Jobe sooking about it and not returning the brownlow... ever. Said he couldn't find it, or something similar Jobe wasn't "screwed", he was banned for drugs not permitted by WADA at the time and therefore could not win the brownlow. Pretty simple

SEN This morning saying Maynard was reluctantly let into the Brayshaw house bringing flowers, chocolate and wine. An unamed Melb player was there with Gus at the time and was so angry at Maynard, he had to leave the room. Fair to say the the Brayshaw and Frawley families are not happy with Maynard. I suspect they will be furious when his hearing is over

Many times this year where we've played daring, skillful footy for a quarter and blown the game apart. Vs Brisbane was a good example. Fast movement i50, players leading to the ball carrier, chaos ball rather than long bombs, more open forward line Certainly there's more to it than this, but one thing we know for sure: bombing it on top of forwards does not work fir us in finals against good teams

Oh, but we had 4 out of bounds in the last!!! 🙄

What waffling rubbish "not as passionate and rusted as we would like to think we are" ??? Seriously, speak for yourself only.

I was being facetious Happy with M50

Got M50, about half way up Was slower for me this time, took 20 min to get through Bloody blues supporters clogging it up...😡

Trac agrees with you, Steve “I feel like the last three or four weeks we probably had a similar forward line and it’s worked really well so us mids need to get better at actually delivering the ball inside 50 better rather than blazing away and putting it on their heads.” He added: “We won the inside-50 count, but I don’t think that was a true reflection on the game, you have probably got to look at quality over quantity and some of our efficiency stuff going in wasn’t great." https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/semi-final-sos-and-a-potential-grundy-return-blues-dees-mull-changes-20230910-p5e3hl.html

Pig retiring at the end of our finals run

This. Exactly this ⬆️

Spoke with a couple of random Collingwood supporters this morning who recited the 'it was a football act' and 'if you've ever played a contact sport you'd know it was ok'. Funnily enough, I played the game in my youth and when questioned, neither if them had! Ha! As an aside, does anyone from MFC attend the tribunal? Maybe our club doctor or someone from the FD? The hearing needs balance

Had we converted more of our i50s into scores we would also have won the game, regardless of the missed shot we had. I believe the 7 on the fulls were for the whole ground, but there were certainly a number in the forward line Thats it from me, good night AF

Can't see Laurie going, unless he gets a big offer elsewhere, which is unlikely. Upgrade Turner and McVee 🤔 Reckon it will be 4 draft picks incl Pup Brown McAdam from Adelaide rumoured to have requested trade to us Any FAs we might be into?

Plenty of excuses could be used for the loss: injuries, poor goal kicking, Gus getting knocked out which prevented Trac spending more time forward, etc. They are simplistic excuses The Pies also missed a number of gettable shots, that works both ways. Yet, with that many forward entries we should've won comfortably I don't think I've ever seen a worse game for ineffective i50s. And this is a pattern years old. Might win us 16 H&A games, but gets found out in finals Our "method" fails to convert a large enough percentage of our i50s. We had 26% conversion into a score from 69 entries, Coll were 41%, and they weren't exactly accurate either With those entry numbers most teams would expect to win by 10 goals, in which case our missed set shots wouldn't be used as an excuse. Collingwood can only dream of stats like that IMO it is our connection forward and predictable forward strategies that will cost us this year's flag. That is where our "method" fails. With that addressed, we crush the Pies BTW, I believe Tmac missed one set shot, not multiple 😉

Better option than the Hawks IMO

Nice response, AF The objective of the game is to kick a winning score. We can talk about our contest and defensive strengths ad nauseum, we know they are our strengths, but we struggle to have a functional forward line and decent delivery i50, and have for years. Locking it i50 isn't good enough. Let's talk more about how we are going to score goals, without using injuries as an excuse Fwiw, if you havent already, might like to read the Roar article which talks about our forward strategies on Thurs night. Their point about our first goal from the Brayshaw hit was spot on. No one was leading towards Gus, despite the leading forward being a weakness of Howe and Moore. Everyone was running back one on one. Trac was Maynard's opponent and was free and 40 out direct in front waving his arms. But Gus has been taught to kick long, just what Coll had hoped for. The better option was to flick a handball to Trac, given no one was leading forward into the open paddock

That article describes our predictable forward strategies to a T. A good read.

Fwiw, I was told after our '21 GF from someone experienced in AFL fitness circles that Goody and Burgo had some differences of opinion in terms of responsibilities, that is, keeping out of club politics. Goody was OK with him returning to SA. Just repeating what I was told. Might explain the recruitment of Griffiths at the end of 2020 as his understudy. I wouldn't discount McAdam based upon his relationship with Burgo

We had the low fruit of Curnow or McKay available for us to pick in their draft year when we were building a list, the perfect time to grab one for ripening in the fruit bowl But alas...