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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...

I would've thought our most important strength should be the ability to kick goals. Maybe my priorities are askew

Huh? You missed the point completely Mind out of the gutter, too

How would any of us know this to be true? The question is, have we gone hard enough for a big, young key forward? I can't see it The $600k we are paying Grundy, plus a bit more would've been tempting to any forward. We've had some 1st and 2nd round picks available Edit. Actually, both McKay and Curnow were available to us in their draft when we were rebuilding. We chose Weid

Whoever is the best kick available. Watson, McKircher, either. We need an elite kick who can make good decisions. Don't think we have anyone like this forward of centre

Was it concussion? Didnt seem to get hit in the head on the replay. I wondered if he was badly winded, heavy body contact. Not sure Edit. just saw Voss confirmed concussion

Good thanks. You?

Because Carlton's tall forwards are comparable to Collingwoods? McKay might still play

No third tall down back?

Definitely need that third tall down back. 100% no brainer. Regardless of McKay playing or not

And we lost ours last night

McKay concussion, Acres done a shoulder, Cripps with dodgey ribs that need a solid bump

#freebruz Maynard's the victim, didn't you know?!

Gee, never heard that line on Land before... On a par with 'if you don't like it, don't read it'